South Metro · Parker, CO
Viking Appliance Repair in Parker
Parker covers two kinds of address under one name. There are the streets around the town centre, served like any suburb, and there is the acreage beyond them, where a property may hold its own fuel supply. Nothing about a Viking appliance changes between the two. What changes is the gas it is being fed, and that single answer decides which parts are correct before anything is ordered.
Housing stock
Acreage property
A house on a large lot outside the built-up streets, where some services arrive from a main and others are held on site. Whether the cooking gas is piped or stored is a property-by-property question, and only the owner's own supply arrangement answers it.
The fuel decides the parts
A gas appliance is built for one fuel and set for it at the factory or at installation: the orifices are sized to that gas and the regulator is set to match. Run it on the other and the flame says so at once, either starved or lazy and yellow. So the first question on a Parker booking is which gas the property actually runs, and the second is what the appliance was last set for. Answer both and the correct parts travel on the first visit.
A stored supply has limits of its own
Where gas is stored on the property rather than piped to it, what the run can deliver is a question about the tank, the regulator and the pipe between them, and it belongs to the gas fitter who put them in. It matters because a professional range asks for a great deal at once, and an appliance that starves with two burners and the oven alight has a supply problem rather than a burner problem. We read the symptom and say which of the two it is.
A range that changes fuel needs its own kit
Moving a range between piped gas and a stored supply is not a setting on a knob. A conversion is a kit of parts specified for the particular model, and whether one is still made for an older appliance is worth establishing before a second-hand range is bought for a property on the other fuel. The same question runs in reverse when a house at the edge of town is connected to a main years after it was built.
Spec check
Confirm each of these before anything is cut, ordered or delivered.
- Which gas the property is actually fed, piped or stored
- What the appliance is currently set for, and whether it was ever converted
- The model and serial number, so a conversion kit can be matched to it
- Gate codes, drive surface and where a vehicle can be left
Questions on site? Viking Appliance Repair Denver, (720) 770-4189.
Reviews
From Parker kitchens
5.0/ 51,492 reviews
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
The broil element arced, flashed, and left a scorch mark on the liner. Its terminal had burnt back inside the porcelain block. He renewed element and block together in one visit, then vacuumed up.
Bernadette F.Washington Park
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.