Central Denver · City Park, Denver
Viking Appliance Repair in City Park, Denver
The blocks around the park are square brick two-storeys from the first quarter of the last century, and their kitchens have almost all been opened up. What comes in with that is weight: a wide professional range, a stone counter and often refrigeration behind a panel, all landing on a floor that was drawn for a lighter world. Nothing about that is alarming. It is simply a question to ask on paper.
Housing stock
Pre-war floor framing
The floor structure of a Denver house built before the Second World War: joists that usually span to an interior bearing wall over a basement, sized for the loads of their decade rather than for the equipment a modern kitchen puts in one corner of the room.
Weight is a drawing question, not a hunch
The shipping weight of every appliance is printed on its specification sheet, and so is the weight of the counter above it. A structural engineer takes those numbers, the joist size and the span, and either says yes or says what has to be added underneath. In a house with an open basement that is usually a short look and an inexpensive answer. Having it before the order goes in keeps it that way; the same answer costs a great deal more to act on once the stone is set.
Level matters more than it sounds
A heavy range on a floor with any give in it will not sit flat, and an oven that is not flat bakes unevenly along one edge before anybody suspects the building. Check it with a long level across the opening, front to back and side to side, once the unit is in and loaded, and again after any floor work. Where the deflection turns out to be real rather than cosmetic, the fix is under the floor and not in the appliance.
The basement under the kitchen is an asset
One advantage these houses have over newer ones is that the room under the kitchen is usually open and reachable. Water lines to refrigeration, the gas run and any support that has to be added can all be worked from below without lifting a finished floor. If the basement has since been finished, say so while the job is being planned: a ceiling that has to come down changes both the sequence and the length of the work, and it is the sort of thing nobody mentions until the day.
Spec check
Confirm each of these before anything is cut, ordered or delivered.
- The shipping weight of each appliance and of the counter above it, taken off the specification sheets
- The joist size and span under the kitchen, and whether anyone has looked at them since the plan changed
- Whether the ceiling below the kitchen is open or finished, and what has to be opened to reach the services
- The floor checked for level across the opening once the appliance is in and loaded
Questions on site? Viking Appliance Repair Denver, (720) 770-4189.
Reviews
From City Park kitchens
4.9/ 51,351 reviews
Igniter clicked on long after the flame caught, which drove us mad. A cracked ceramic electrode shorting to the burner base. One part, twenty minutes, quiet again.
Jorge M.Highland
The custom panel made the door so heavy that it fell open on its own every time. A stretched spring on one side and a frayed lift cable on the other. Both renewed, tension balanced, and it stays where you leave it.
Sanna K.Capitol Hill
Ran the clean cycle before a dinner party and the door stayed locked afterwards. The latch motor had stalled on its cam. He freed it, fitted a new motor, and showed me how to avoid a repeat.
Fritz B.Washington Park
Viking calls in Cherry Creek, Washington Park, Highland, Capitol Hill.
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