Eastside and Hollywood Hills · sector 01
Viking Repair in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles
Viking repair in Laurel Canyon, canyon parking and canyon dust in the burner ports.
Where the van actually stops
On most of these roads there is no kerb to pull onto and no drive long enough to hold a vehicle clear of the traffic. In practice that means a technician arrives with whatever can be carried in one or two trips, so the more that is known beforehand, the better that first load is chosen. A model and serial number read off the rating plate is worth more here than almost anywhere else on the route: it is the difference between the right part coming up the steps in a bag and a second appointment booked to fit it.
Canyon air, and what you can clear yourself
Between visits there are two things worth doing yourself and neither of them needs a tool. Lift each burner cap while the cooktop is stone cold and look at the ring of holes underneath; where they have gone grey and packed, a soft brush and a wipe restores them, and the cap goes back sitting flat and square in its seat. Then check that the grille at the foot of a refrigerator or an undercounter unit is neither furred with dust nor blocked by anything stored against it. Work calling for a panel off, a fitting loosened or a cover unscrewed is ours rather than yours.
Booking a Laurel Canyon visit
The desk at Viking Repair HQ Los Angeles, on (213) 320-7007, wants to know where a vehicle can stand near the address, whether the kitchen is above or below that point, and how the machine behaves now against how it behaved a month ago. That last answer decides how much comes up the steps on the first trip. A flat $89 covers getting a technician there and working the fault out, and it is set against the repair as soon as you approve it.
Reviews
What Los Angeles owners say
Calls in Silver Lake, Los Feliz, Studio City and Sherman Oaks.
5.0 / 5704 reviews
Half the griddle plate would not come up to heat for our Sunday breakfasts. A broken element leg and a scorched connector at the block, both replaced. It cooks flat now, but the part took nine days.
Emiliano C.Sherman Oaks
It filled and kept filling until water came over the door sill onto the tile. A stuck inlet valve, held open by grit off our old supply line. New valve and screen, then he watched two fills through.
Ainsley Q.Sherman Oaks
The knobs on our range had gone so stiff my wrist ached turning them. He pulled each valve stem, cleaned and regreased it, and left them turning smoothly. A small job he could easily have talked up.
Vartan K.Silver Lake
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Book a visit in Laurel Canyon
Laurel 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
