Where We Run · 60622
Wicker Park
Narrow lots, tall stairs and kitchens carved into the back of a hundred-year-old frame house. Hood ducting and gas runs here are usually the compromise the rest of the kitchen was built around.
What a visit here usually involves
The recurring problem here is not the appliance, it is what the kitchen was allowed to do to it. Hood ducts take more bends than they should to reach an outside wall, and a range set into a tight alcove has nowhere to reject heat. Every hood call on this run gets the door-open test before anything is quoted, and every range gets its clearances measured.
- Appliances on this run
- Ranges and rangetops squeezed into rear kitchens, hoods ducted through masonry
- Access
- Narrow lots, rear stairs — tell dispatch which entrance to use when booking
- Booking
- 8:00 am – 8:00 pm, seven days. Dispatch answered 24/7.
What we are called out for
- Range Repair Dual-fuel and all-gas professional ranges taken as one appliance rather than two: burner and griddle behaviour on the top, ignition and gas pressure underneath, and the oven cavity below it all diagnosed on the same visit.
- Oven Repair Built-in wall ovens and the oven half of a range — calibration drift measured against a probe rather than the display, convection faults, door and hinge work, and control boards that have locked themselves out.
- Cooktop & Rangetop Repair Sealed-burner rangetops, gas cooktops and induction tops — spark modules, burner heads and orifices, valve stems that have gone stiff, and glass tops where a zone has stopped responding.
- Range Hood Repair Professional hoods, liners and inserts — blower motors and speed controls, baffle and duct restriction, lighting circuits, and the make-up air problems that show up in a tight rehabbed kitchen long before the hood itself is at fault.
Also on this loop: Logan Square, North Center, Portage Park.
What people say afterwards
5 out of 5 · 1169 reviews
Flames were tipping yellow and leaving black marks on the copper pans. Orifices had partly clogged in a kitchen that gets heavy use. Cleaned properly, air shutters set, colour is blue again.
Nathaniel P. · Wicker Park
Half the surface had gone dead and I had already been quoted for new glass. It was the board serving that side. He proved it with a meter first, then replaced only what had failed.
Osvaldo M. · Wicker Park
Kept cutting out partway through cooking and throwing an error at me. The cooling fan below was packed with dust in a very tight cabinet. Cleaned, vents opened up, and it runs a full meal now.
Fergus Y. · Wicker Park
Only rattled on the highest speed, which made it hard to describe on the phone. He asked exactly the right questions, arrived expecting it, and found a loose wheel walking on the shaft.
Casper W. · Wicker Park
Door had dropped and would not sit flush, so heat came out along the top edge. Hinges had worn. He fitted new ones, aligned the door square, and the whole front stopped getting hot.
Aurelius F. · Wicker Park
The low setting had disappeared and everything was scorching. He set a manometer on it, found the pressure off after work the gas company had done on the block, and adjusted it back.
Emmett R. · Wicker Park
Booking a visit in Wicker Park
Give dispatch the model off the frame, the fault and the address. You get a window that can be kept, and a firm price once the readings are taken.
$89 service call, credited against the repair · On site 8:00 am – 8:00 pm, seven days
