La Cornue Appliance Repair in Boston, MA

In Boston, La Cornue appears in Beacon Hill and Back Bay townhouses and in a handful of renovated houses in Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury, usually as the centrepiece of the kitchen. They are heavy, and once installed they are not leaving.

Deliberately traditional engineering

Heavy cast construction, mechanical controls and serviceable burner assemblies keep these ranges repairable more or less indefinitely. There is little electronics to become obsolete. Controls that turn a valve or a thermostat directly are something a technician can test with ordinary instruments, part by part.

A burner that will not light cleanly, an oven that drifts or a door that no longer closes firmly are all repairable. We diagnose each fault before quoting. Most of these jobs take place with the range exactly where it stands, since moving one through a townhouse is out of the question.

Parts from the maker, not a warehouse

La Cornue parts generally come from the manufacturer rather than a distributor, so lead time is the main constraint. We establish it before quoting.

That lets you plan: whether to keep cooking on the burners that still work, or wait for the part before using the range at all. If a burner has to be left isolated in the meantime, we make that section safe and explain which parts of the range can still be used.

Visiting historic homes

Beacon Hill and Back Bay mean resident permit parking, narrow streets and stairs with a turn in them. We plan the visit around street cleaning and bring floor protection for finished surfaces. On Beacon Hill, the North End and in Back Bay the cleaning season also runs later into the winter, so a morning slot on the wrong side of the street needs checking.

The technician isolates gas before working on burners. One price, agreed after diagnosis, is held.