Central Denver · Montclair, Denver
Viking Appliance Repair in Montclair, Denver
Montclair has room to build, and a great many of its kitchens are additions rather than remodels: a new room on the back or the side of an older house, with the appliances a new room invites. The room is new. What feeds it usually is not, and the distance between the old service entry and the new kitchen is the detail that decides how the equipment behaves.
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Kitchen addition
A room added to an existing house to hold a larger kitchen, usually served by extending the gas, waste, ventilation and electrical runs of the original building rather than by bringing new ones to it from the street.
Distance is the quiet variable
An addition puts the kitchen further from the meter, further from the panel and further from wherever waste leaves the house than the old kitchen ever was. Each of those runs is longer, and length has a price in all of them: pressure, voltage drop, fall on a drain, pull in a duct. None of it is a problem when the trades who own those systems calculate it before the appliances are chosen. All of it is a problem when the appliances are chosen first.
Two building eras in one kitchen
An addition is usually built to a much later standard than the house it joins, which is entirely good until something has to be traced. Insulation, framing, the route a cable took through the join: all of it changes at the wall between old and new, and so does the ease of getting at anything buried there. Keeping the addition's drawings and any service diagrams somewhere findable is worth more here than in a house built all at once.
An outside wall the kitchen finally has
One real advantage of building the kitchen new is that it usually gains an exterior wall, which turns ducted ventilation into a short honest run instead of a negotiation. Take it. The shortest way out, with the fewest turns, in the duct the ventilation's own instructions call for, is the single biggest thing separating a hood that works from a hood that is merely loud. Settle the termination point with the builder while that wall is still a drawing.
Spec check
Confirm each of these before anything is cut, ordered or delivered.
- The length of each new run, from meter, panel and drain to the appliance it serves
- Who calculated gas capacity and circuit sizing for the addition, and whether the appliance list changed afterwards
- Where the hood terminates, how many turns are in the run, and what its instructions require
- Where the drawings and the service diagrams for the addition are kept
Questions on site? Viking Appliance Repair Denver, (720) 770-4189.
Reviews
From Montclair kitchens
5.0/ 51,340 reviews
The undercounter unit in our pop-top island quit cooling weeks after the remodel finished. Drywall dust had packed the condenser and choked its fan. Cleaned out, fan freed, and it holds temperature now.
Halina K.Washington Park
A rattle behind the lower grille got loud enough to hear upstairs. One condenser fan blade had cracked, its bearing dry. New fan, dust brushed out, and silence.
Rosalba T.Highland
It filled, hummed, and then sat there without ever washing a thing. A shard of glass had jammed the circulation impeller. He pulled the pump out, cleared it, reassembled, and ran a full cycle before calling the job done.
Lorena F.Washington Park
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