Sector 03
Viking Repair in the South Metro Suburbs
The biggest kitchens in the metro are down here, and the widest equipment with them.
South of Denver the houses get larger and the appliances get wider. Forty-eight and sixty-inch ranges, refrigeration in panelled columns rather than in one cabinet, a second kitchen in a finished basement, and an outdoor run off the back of the house. Most of it went in during a build rather than a remodel, which means the cabinetry was made to the appliance and the appliance cannot be swapped for something narrower later.
That is an advantage on a service call and a constraint on a design one. Access is usually good, because the installer had room to work. What is tight is everything downstream: the circuit a dual fuel range needs, the gas the house has left after a furnace and a water heater, and the depth a column needs behind a panel. Those are decided once, at the drawing stage, and they are what the pages under this sector keep coming back to.
14 places in this sector
- Aurora The south-east side: newer subdivisions where the pro range arrived with the house.
- Bow Mar Mid-century houses around the lake, where the original kitchen footprint is still the constraint.
- Castle Pines Higher ground than the city, and an outdoor grill on most of the properties we see.
- Castle Rock The far end of the route: the visit window matters more here than anywhere else in the sector.
- Centennial Houses from the 1980s and 1990s reaching their first full kitchen replacement.
- Cherry Hills Village The widest equipment in the metro: sixty-inch ranges, panelled columns, a second kitchen downstairs.
- Columbine Valley A small enclave of golf-course houses, most of them on their second kitchen.
- Englewood Mixed stock close to the middle of the route: the shortest run we make on this side.
- Greenwood Village Custom houses from the 1990s and 2000s whose built-in refrigeration is now the oldest thing in the kitchen.
- Highlands Ranch Repeating floor plans, and a rangetop dropped into an island in most of them.
- Littleton An old town centre and new subdivisions on the same address list, with nothing in common but the postcode.
- Lone Tree Newer houses with an outdoor kitchen off the back, on a separate run from everything indoors.
- Parker Town blocks on natural gas and outlying properties that are not — confirm which before a burner is ordered.
- Southmoor Park 1960s ranch houses opened up around an island, usually keeping the original service run.
Spec check
Confirm each of these before anything is cut, ordered or delivered.
- The finished width of the opening, measured at the back as well as the front
- Whether the range is all-gas or dual fuel, and what circuit the installation instructions call for
- What else the gas meter is already carrying before a wider range is added
- For a basement kitchen: the ceiling height above the unit and the route the vent takes out
Questions on site? Viking Appliance Repair Denver, (720) 770-4189.
The other four sectors, and the whole metro on one page: the atlas.
Reviews
Calls from South Metro
4.9/ 5885 reviews
Every load stretched past three hours before it finished. The thermistor was reading low, so the machine kept waiting on water that was already hot. New sensor and cycles run normally again.
Pearl S.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
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
Viking calls in Cherry Creek, Washington Park, Highland, Capitol Hill.
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