South Metro · Southmoor Park, Denver
Viking Appliance Repair in Southmoor Park, Denver
Southmoor Park is a neighbourhood of single-storey houses that have mostly been opened up inside. Walls between the kitchen, the dining room and the hall came down, an island went in, and the cooking moved to the middle of the room. The plumbing, the gas and the power supplying it generally did not move with it. Almost everything that makes a service call here unusual comes from that gap between a new plan and older services.
Housing stock
Opened-up ranch
A single-storey house whose separate kitchen, dining room and hallway were merged into one room in a later remodel. The plan is new and the island is new; the meter, the panel and the waste stack are usually still where the original builder put them.
An island moves the work to the middle of the room
Once a cooking surface sits in an island, servicing it stops being a matter of drawing a unit out from a wall. It comes up out of the counter instead, and what sits underneath — a cabinet, a bank of drawers, pipework threaded through the toe space — sets how long that takes. None of it is difficult. It is simply worth knowing before a visit whether the cabinet below opens on the cooking side, on the seating side, or not at all, because that answer governs the length of the appointment more than the fault does.
The supply is older than the kitchen it now feeds
Where cooking was moved into the middle of a room, the gas and the electrical supply were usually stretched to reach the new position rather than redrawn for it. That arrangement holds, and goes on holding, until something wider or hungrier is put on the end of it. If a replacement is under discussion, have a gas fitter confirm the pipe still suits the appliance's rated demand over the length it now runs, and have an electrician look at the circuit before a dual fuel model is ordered. Neither job belongs to us, and both spare you a second appointment.
Low ceilings decide how the cooking air leaves
A ranch roofline leaves very little space above a flat ceiling, so extraction over an island here is either a duct taken up through a shallow attic and out, or a downdraft taken below the floor and out through the basement or a side wall. Both are legitimate and they disappoint in different ways. Before a blower is blamed for weak capture, establish which of the two is actually installed, how many turns it makes and where it finishes. That route accounts for more ventilation complaints on these streets than the appliance ever does.
Spec check
Confirm each of these before anything is cut, ordered or delivered.
- Whether the cooking surface sits in an island, and which side the cabinet beneath it opens on
- Where the gas shutoff and the cooking circuit sit now that the kitchen has moved off the wall
- Whether extraction is an overhead duct through the roof or a downdraft below the floor, and where it ends
- The clear width of the hall and the kitchen doorway, taken with the island in place
Questions on site? Viking Appliance Repair Denver, (720) 770-4189.
Reviews
From Southmoor Park kitchens
4.9/ 5784 reviews
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
Beads of water kept forming along the center divider every time the evaporative cooler ran. The mullion heater had failed open. He tested it cold, fitted a new one, and the sweating stopped.
Mireya L.Cherry Creek
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
Viking calls in Cherry Creek, Washington Park, Highland, Capitol Hill.
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