Foothills · Golden, CO
Viking Appliance Repair in Golden
Golden asks a professional kitchen to fit into houses that were finished long before anyone drew one. The blocks near the centre are narrow, close together and modest in plan, and their kitchens began as back rooms with a stove beside the flue. What goes into them now is wider, heavier and far fussier about clearance, and the distance between those two facts is where the planning goes.
Housing stock
Early town cottage
A small house from the town's first decades, built before cars and before fitted kitchens: one or one and a half storeys, rooms arranged in a line, and a kitchen at the back where the flue and the sink had already settled what could go where.
The doorway is the first dimension
A professional range or a built-in refrigerator has to get from the kerb to its opening before any of the rest matters, and in a cottage that route is a front door, a turn and sometimes a threshold that steps. Measure the narrowest point with a tape, and measure the appliance crated as well as bare, because the crate is what arrives. If the only way in is a rear door onto three steps, that belongs at the order stage rather than on a delivery morning.
Old masonry, and anything that reaches the street
Hoods want solid fixing, and solid in these houses means brick, or lath and plaster over it, rather than modern studwork at a predictable spacing. Where the fixings land and what they land in is a question for whoever hangs it. Separately, anything that penetrates a wall facing the street is worth putting to the City of Golden first: parts of the older town carry their own review, and its boundaries follow addresses rather than intuition. Asked beforehand, that is a phone call.
The ground has already started to rise
Golden sits above the city it looks back at, and the addresses up the canyons sit higher again. That matters to cooking equipment, because how a gas appliance is set up depends on where it stands. Take the elevation for the address rather than for the metro, and check it against the installation instructions for the exact model. The same goes for fuel: from here west, whether a house is on the utility or on a tank is a question rather than a safe assumption.
Spec check
Confirm each of these before anything is cut, ordered or delivered.
- The narrowest point on the route from the kerb to the opening, measured with the appliance still crated
- What a hood's fixings will be going into, and who is confirming they will hold
- Whether the address falls inside a reviewed part of town, confirmed with the City of Golden before anything is cut
- The elevation at the address and the fuel the house runs, both read against the model's own instructions
Questions on site? Viking Appliance Repair Denver, (720) 770-4189.
Reviews
From Golden kitchens
5.0/ 51,114 reviews
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
Ice production fell to nothing over two weeks. Denver water had scaled the fill tube solid and the inlet valve barely opened. Both replaced, line flushed.
Torben H.Cherry Creek
Freezer drawer never sat flush, so frost crept over everything inside. A bent glide on one side and a torn drawer gasket. Both sorted and it seals properly. Docked a star for the ten-day wait.
Emmanuel O.Highland
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.