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Series 06

Old House, Pro Kitchen

Putting commercial-weight equipment into a 1920s house, a condominium conversion or a pop-top — and what the building says about it.

Central Denver’s housing stock was finished long before anyone specified a sixty-inch range. Floors were framed for a lighter kitchen, panels were sized for a smaller load, walls are plaster over brick, and a converted mansion shares its risers with the flat upstairs. All of that can take a pro kitchen. None of it takes one by default.

These pages work through the constraints one building type at a time, and say where the answer is not ours to give — a structural question belongs to an engineer, a Landmark question to Denver Landmark Preservation, and a gas question to a gas fitter.

Seven-knob stainless range in dark cabinets under speckled granite seen from above, the front-left burner stripped to its base and orifice with the cap lying flat on the cooktop, and an oven rack resting on the open door with a towel and a wrench
From above: every port, every cap, one burner at a time

9 issues in this series

  1. Can a Denver Square Floor Carry a 48-Inch Range? A 1920s floor, a very heavy range, and the person who should answer this. Viking Appliance Repair Denver — call (720) 770-4189. Defines: Point load
  2. A Bungalow's Electrical Service and a Kitchen Full of Built-Ins A 1920s panel and a kitchen of built-ins is an arithmetic problem first. Viking Appliance Repair Denver — call (720) 770-4189. Defines: Service size
  3. Capitol Hill Condo Conversions: Gas and Venting Limits Shared risers in a converted house set a limit on what one kitchen may add. Viking Appliance Repair Denver — call (720) 770-4189. Defines: Shared riser
  4. Pop-Top Remodels That Move the Kitchen Upstairs A kitchen that moved upstairs usually kept the services it had downstairs. Viking Appliance Repair Denver — call (720) 770-4189. Defines: Pop-top
  5. Vent Terminations on a Landmark Facade A new vent on a street-facing wall may be a review question, not a trade one. Viking Appliance Repair Denver — call (720) 770-4189. Defines: Landmark district
  6. Anchoring a Hood in Plaster Over 1920s Brick Plaster over brick is not a stud wall, and a hood is heavier than it looks. Viking Appliance Repair Denver — call (720) 770-4189. Defines: Masonry anchor
  7. Galley Kitchens: When the Oven Door Meets the Dishwasher Door Two doors, one aisle: the conflict that only shows up in the finished room. Viking Appliance Repair Denver — call (720) 770-4189. Defines: Door swing conflict
  8. Cherry Creek Condo Towers: Service Elevators, HOA Hours and Appliance Work In a tower the building books the visit as much as the owner does. Viking Appliance Repair Denver — call (720) 770-4189. Defines: Service elevator
  9. The Basement Second Kitchen and Undercounter Units The kitchen nobody uses is the one whose leak nobody finds. Viking Appliance Repair Denver — call (720) 770-4189. Defines: Undercounter unit

Spec check

Confirm each of these before anything is cut, ordered or delivered.

  1. What the floor is actually framed with under the range position
  2. The service size at the panel, and what is already on it
  3. Whether the building is in a Landmark district, and what that covers on the elevation you are altering
  4. For a condominium: the HOA rules on hours, lifts and any work on shared risers

Questions on site? Viking Appliance Repair Denver, (720) 770-4189.

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