Foothills · Genesee, CO
Viking Appliance Repair in Genesee
Genesee is built into a wooded slope, and almost nothing about a kitchen up here behaves the way the same kitchen would behave down on the plain. The equipment is ordinary enough. What is different is the air it burns in, the fuel it is fed, and the fact that the entry, the parking and the kitchen are seldom on the same level as one another.
Housing stock
Hillside mountain contemporary
A house set into a wooded slope with the garage and the front door at road level and the living floors stepping away from them. The kitchen is often a storey above or below the entry, and the private drive up to the house is usually steeper than the road it leaves.
Thin air is a setting, not a symptom
A burner that looks lazy and an oven that takes its time are the complaints that come down from this elevation most often, and neither is necessarily a fault. How a gas appliance is meant to be set up depends on where it stands, and an address here stands a long way above the one it was configured for on the assembly line. What settles it is the elevation at the property, read against the installation instructions for that exact model. Have that to hand and a conversation about performance stops being guesswork.
Utility gas or a tank in the garden
A gas appliance leaves the factory set for one fuel. Feeding it the other without the manufacturer's conversion parts and the settings that go with them gives you a flame that looks wrong and behaves worse. Which supply a house actually runs on is not something to infer from the neighbourhood, so check the meter or the tank before you book, and say which it is. Adjusting any of it is a gas fitter's work, never an owner's. Knowing the answer in advance is what keeps a part on the vehicle rather than on order.
Getting something wide up the hill
A sixty-inch range and a pair of panelled columns arrive on a lorry that has to climb a mountain road, turn into a private drive and stop somewhere useful. Delivery is a separate trade from repair, and worth treating as its own problem while there is still time: the turn off the road, the grade of the drive, where a vehicle can stand, and the route from there to a kitchen that is rarely on the entry level.
Spec check
Confirm each of these before anything is cut, ordered or delivered.
- The elevation at the property, and what the installation instructions for that model say about it
- Whether the house runs on utility gas or on a tank, and what the appliance is currently set for
- Whether the conversion parts for that model and that fuel can still be obtained
- The grade of the drive, where a vehicle can stand, and which level the kitchen is on
Questions on site? Viking Appliance Repair Denver, (720) 770-4189.
Reviews
From Genesee kitchens
4.9/ 5733 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
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
Display went dark halfway through a roast and the oven quit with it. A cooked solder joint on the power board, which he showed me under a light. Board swapped, and it has behaved since.
Katya P.Capitol Hill
Viking calls in Cherry Creek, Washington Park, Highland, Capitol Hill.
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$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.