South Metro · Columbine Valley, CO
Viking Appliance Repair in Columbine Valley
Columbine Valley is small enough to know house by house, and the pattern repeats: a house from the first decades of the town, a kitchen rebuilt once since, and professional equipment fitted into a room whose services were run long before anyone chose it. The room is the constant. Everything inside it has been changed at least once.
Housing stock
Second-generation kitchen
A kitchen rebuilt inside the original walls of an older house, so the cabinetry belongs to one decade and the appliances to another, while the gas, water and circuits behind them are usually still where the first builder put them.
The opening is the fixed part now
Once a kitchen has been rebuilt, the joinery is what everything else has to agree with. A replacement appliance is chosen to fit an opening that already exists, which makes the finished width, the depth from the face of the cabinet to the wall behind, and the height under the counter the three numbers that decide what can be ordered. Measure them at the back as well as the front: a run scribed to an old wall is rarely square, and that difference is exactly where a new unit binds.
Old services under new cabinetry
The remodel that produced the kitchen usually reused what was already in the floor and the wall: the gas run, the water feed to refrigeration, the circuits in the panel. That is fine until something is added. A wider range, a second oven or a warming drawer changes what the existing provision has to carry, and the answer comes from the electrician and the plumber rather than from the appliance list. Settle it while the drawings are still on paper, because the cabinetry that went in last is the thing that has to come out first.
Spec check
Confirm each of these before anything is cut, ordered or delivered.
- The finished opening, measured at the back of the run as well as the front
- What the last remodel reused: the gas run, the water feed and the circuits behind the cabinets
- Whether an appliance can be drawn out without the countertop or a panel coming off first
Questions on site? Viking Appliance Repair Denver, (720) 770-4189.
Reviews
From Columbine Valley kitchens
4.9/ 51,489 reviews
The broil element arced, flashed, and left a scorch mark on the liner. Its terminal had burnt back inside the porcelain block. He renewed element and block together in one visit, then vacuumed up.
Bernadette F.Washington Park
Whenever I lit the left burner the right one popped alight too. Spark leads had been crossed and one was chafed against the frame. Rerouted and re-clipped. He charged the $89 call and nothing more.
Lidia S.Capitol Hill
Every load stretched past three hours before it finished. The thermistor was reading low, so the machine kept waiting on water that was already hot. New sensor and cycles run normally again.
Pearl S.Highland
Viking calls in Cherry Creek, Washington Park, Highland, Capitol Hill.
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A question now is cheaper than a change order later
$89 buys the visit and a complete diagnosis, and it comes straight off the bill once you approve a repair. Nothing gets ordered and nothing gets fitted until the number is in front of you.