Coverage · 60622
Wicker Park
Workers' cottages beside new condo conversions over ground-floor retail. Kitchens here are often reached from a rear stair and a wooden back porch rather than through the front of the building.
Conversions here tend to share stacks, and a dishwasher that drains slowly in one unit is often a building problem rather than an appliance one. So the drain side is timed and checked at the air gap before a pump is condemned. Appointments are confirmed with the access route the day before, because the difference between the front entry and the back porch is twenty minutes and a flight of stairs with a machine on it.
- Typical stock
- Slide-in ranges and panel-front dishwashers in condo conversions
- Access
- Rear stair and back porch on most buildings — dispatch confirms which
What we are called out for here
- Range Repair Sealed-burner and open-burner Viking ranges and rangetops: ignition that will not catch, a flame that has changed colour or shape, and the gas-side faults a rebuilt kitchen tends to surface in its first winter.
- Oven Repair Wall ovens and range ovens that have stopped reaching, or stopped holding, the number on the dial — igniters, elements, thermostats, convection and the door latch that ends a self-clean locked shut.
- Refrigerator Repair Built-in columns, French-door cabinets and undercounter units: temperature that has drifted, frost that keeps returning, ice production that has stopped, and door seals that no longer pull shut.
- Dishwasher Repair Panel-front and stainless Viking dishwashers: fill and drain faults, wash pressure that has fallen away, heating and dry problems, and the leaks that show up at the toe kick before anywhere else.
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What people said afterwards
Rated 4.9 from 599 reviews
It would fill, pause and then flash at me instead of washing. Failed circulation pump, which he confirmed with a meter rather than by guesswork, and the replacement went in the same visit.
Imelda C. · Wicker Park
Door sagged and heat poured out along the top, enough to mark the cabinet above. New hinges and a gasket, aligned square, and the fronts have stayed cool since he did the work.
Perdita F. · Wicker Park
Frost building in the drawer while the upper section behaved itself perfectly. Defrost heater had gone open. He replaced it, cleared the drain while it was apart, and it has stayed clean.
Serena Y. · Wicker Park
Booking
Book the visit, or just ask the question
Dispatch is answered around the clock. If the answer is "that is a five-minute check you can do yourself", that is what you will be told on the phone rather than sold a visit for.
