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Eastside and Hollywood Hills · sector 01

Viking Repair in Beachwood Canyon, Los Angeles

Viking repair in Beachwood Canyon, Period Revival houses with tight service doors.

Service doors narrower than the appliance

The door a technician uses here is usually not the front one, and it was sized for somebody carrying shopping. A professional range, a cooling column or a dishwasher wearing a cabinet front is as wide as that opening or wider, and the passage behind it turns within a few feet. So the first question on a job that might need the machine out of the room is not whether it can be lifted but whether it can be turned. Where the answer is no, the work happens in place, and that gets planned for instead of found out halfway through the afternoon.

What comes off before anything moves

Making an appliance narrow enough to pass is mostly a matter of taking the outside off it. An oven door lifts away from its hinges, handles unbolt, plinths and trim panels come free, and on a fitted machine the surround hiding the fixings is first off and last back. All of it is kept in order and refitted before the machine returns to its opening, because a door rehung a hair out of true shows up later as a seal that never closes evenly along its length. Doing this in a hallway that turns is why a visit here carries more time on the diary.

Booking a Beachwood Canyon visit

Two measurements are worth taking before you phone, if they are easy to reach: the width of the door we will be using and the width of the machine itself. Where that is awkward, describe the doorway and the turn beyond it instead and we will work it out between us. Viking Repair HQ Los Angeles takes bookings on (213) 320-7007, and the $89 service call buys the trip out and a complete diagnosis, the same amount being deducted from the repair when you approve it.

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What Los Angeles owners say

Calls in Silver Lake, Los Feliz, Studio City and Sherman Oaks.

4.9 / 5609 reviews

  • Our oven browned one side of a tray and left the other raw, in a 1920s kitchen with barely room to work. The bake element had opened at one end. He showed me the meter, then fitted a new one.

    Roshni P.Los Feliz

  • The door dropped open on its own and landed on my foot more than once. Both lift cables had frayed off their spools and one spring was slack. He rethreaded and replaced them, and it holds at any angle now.

    Katarina M.Studio City

  • The control panel went dark halfway through baking and the buttons stopped answering. A cracked ribbon connector at the board, not the board itself, which is what I had been quoted for. Baking again that afternoon.

    Bijan A.Silver Lake

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Beachwood Canyon is in sector 01, Eastside and Hollywood Hills, and one desk books all six of them — say the street and what the machine is doing and it is in the diary.

Flat $89 to get someone out and the fault found · on site 8:00 am – 8:00 pm, seven days · desk answered 24/7

Screws, hinge brackets, a roller pin and washers heaped on a cloth beside a wire brush, two Phillips drivers and pliers
What a door and latch rebuild looks like laid out