South Metro · Englewood, CO
Viking Appliance Repair in Englewood
Englewood has no single kind of house. A small pre-war cottage, a low post-war ranch and a rebuild finished last year can stand on one block, and the kitchen inside each belongs to a different era of wiring, gas and drainage. It sits just over the city line, near the middle of the ground covered on this side of the metro. A professional appliance turns up in all three houses; what changes is everything behind it.
Housing stock
Mixed-era block
A street on which houses from three or four building generations stand side by side, because lots were developed, altered and in places rebuilt over a long span. Two neighbours can share a postcode and share almost nothing about how their kitchens were serviced.
The house sets the job, not the appliance
Two identical ranges a hundred metres apart can make for very different mornings. In the rebuild the unit stands in an open plan with room behind it and a panel specified this decade. In the cottage it fills an alcove that used to be a pantry, on a circuit that has been added to three times. Neither is a problem. It does mean the useful thing to describe when you ring is the room and the route into it, not only the make and the model.
A new house on an old lot
A house rebuilt from the foundation up is new above ground, and what feeds it from the street may or may not have been renewed alongside it. That is worth establishing rather than assuming. A professional range, a wide hood and a full run of built-ins together ask more of a gas service and an electrical panel than the house that stood there before them ever did. A gas fitter and an electrician can settle both, and the answer belongs on the drawing rather than in a later fault report.
In the older rooms, watch what the doors do
In the earlier stock the kitchen is a small room with doorways on two sides, and appliances were fitted to whichever wall was left over. An oven door, a dishwasher door and a refrigerator door in a room that size will eventually want the same square of floor, and one of them loses. Before anything is replaced, open every door in the room at once and look at what meets what. It is five minutes on site and an expensive discovery after delivery.
Spec check
Confirm each of these before anything is cut, ordered or delivered.
- Which building generation the house belongs to, and whether its services were renewed when the kitchen was
- Whether the gas service and the electrical panel were sized for the equipment now in the room
- What collides when the oven, dishwasher and refrigerator doors are opened together
- The narrowest doorway between the street and the kitchen, taken with a tape rather than from memory
Questions on site? Viking Appliance Repair Denver, (720) 770-4189.
Reviews
From Englewood kitchens
4.9/ 51,307 reviews
Burners tipped yellow and sooted the copper hood after our remodel. The installer had never fitted the high-altitude orifices. He swapped them, reset the air shutters, and the flames burn blue again.
Brooks V.Cherry Creek
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
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
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.