Viking Appliance Repair in Cambridge, MA

Refrigeration, dishwashers and wine storage under the Viking name are here too, but the range is what brings most owners to the phone. The complaints are mechanical and predictable, which works in the owner's favour.

Open burners that click and will not light

Viking's commercial-style open burners put out serious heat, and the parts that suffer are the spark igniters and the burner ports. Boil-overs clog ports, and a cracked igniter clicks without producing a flame that catches.

Cleaning ports and replacing an igniter are routine. Any work on the gas side is done by the technician with the supply isolated and the joints leak-tested afterwards; owners should limit themselves to checking the burner cap is seated properly.

Heavy doors and drifting temperatures

The professional ovens hold heat with thick insulation and a weighty door. Over time the hinges and springs tire, the door stops sealing evenly, and the oven begins to overshoot and undershoot long before any electronic part fails.

Replacing hinges restores the seal and, with it, the temperature stability that bakers notice first.

Getting a big range out of a small house

A thirty-six or forty-eight inch Viking in a brick row house off Massachusetts Avenue may have been lowered in through a window or a rear door that no longer exists. We ask how it went in before planning how, or whether, it needs to come out.

Most repairs can be carried out with the range pulled just far enough from the wall, which spares the owner a moving crew.