South Metro · Littleton, CO
Viking Appliance Repair in Littleton
Littleton covers two very different kinds of address. One is the original grid around the old commercial street, where rooms are small and every owner has altered something. The other is subdivision laid out long afterwards on open ground, planned in one go and largely unchanged since. A Viking kitchen turns up in both, and almost nothing about working in one of them prepares you for the other.
Housing stock
Town-grid house
A house on the original platted blocks beside an older commercial street, small-roomed and added to more than once. Its kitchen has usually been rebuilt inside walls that never moved, so the room is newer than the structure carrying it.
On the old blocks, nothing lines up with the framing
Houses on the original grid rarely still have the kitchen they were built with. Walls have shifted, a porch has been enclosed, a back door has become a window. What that leaves is a room where nothing agrees with the structure behind it, and where the wall a hood fixes to may be plaster over brick, plaster over lath, or board added last decade. Finding out what the fixings actually go into is the first task on any hood or tall-cabinet work at these addresses.
In the newer tracts, the plan is the specification
Further out the kitchens repeat. Where one house on a street has a wide range under a chimney hood with an island behind it, its neighbours generally do too, and the same install details recur address after address: one duct route, one circuit layout, one clearance to the tall cabinet on the left. That predictability is genuinely useful. The questions worth asking before a replacement are already known, and several of them can be answered off a plan instead of discovered with a tape.
Say which Littleton the address is in
The two halves of this town need different preparation. For an older address the useful information is the route in and what the walls are made of. For a newer one it is the model, the finished opening and the circuit. Naming which of the two you are calling from means the right information is in hand before anyone sets out, and it is the fastest question anyone on the phone can answer.
Spec check
Confirm each of these before anything is cut, ordered or delivered.
- Whether the address sits on the old grid or in a later subdivision, and what that changes about the route in
- What a hood or tall cabinet is anchored into: brick, lath and plaster, or modern board
- The finished opening width and the clearance to whatever stands on each side of it
- Whether the same house plan repeats nearby, and whether anyone still holds its drawings
Questions on site? Viking Appliance Repair Denver, (720) 770-4189.
Reviews
From Littleton kitchens
5.0/ 51,762 reviews
Two back burners had stopped sparking entirely. Not the module another company blamed — the harness plug behind the manifold had backed out and corroded. He reseated and sealed it, then tested every burner twice.
Marla D.Cherry Creek
Door would not stay shut, so the cycle cancelled itself minutes in. The latch strike had worn oval and the catch no longer held. He replaced both and adjusted the panel front to match.
Guillermo T.Capitol Hill
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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