Island Neighborhoods · 98040
Viking Repair in East Seattle, Mercer Island
The island's oldest neighborhood, on the west shore, where some older houses have been rebuilt around a professional range.
East Seattle holds some of the oldest houses on the island. Where one has been rebuilt around a professional range, the house and the range can be decades apart, and the call covers both.
Decide first
Call or wait in East Seattle
-
If you smell gas, in the kitchen or on the deck — Indoors, touch no knobs or switches and call the gas utility or 911 from outside. On the deck, close the grill’s shutoff if it is safe to reach. Call today
-
If the grill will not light after the winter — Reset the outdoor GFCI outlet, or fit a new battery on an older T-Series. Still nothing: book. Book this week
-
If a range burner is slow to catch but does light — Clean and reseat its cap, then try again. Still lagging: book when it suits you. Safe to wait
Call today: ring Viking Appliance Repair Mercer Island at (206) 208-3377. Book this week: use the booking page. Safe to wait: not urgent, book when it suits you.
Old houses, newer kitchens
An older house may carry wiring and gas piping sized for a smaller kitchen than the one it has now. If a range misbehaves only while everything else is running, say so on the call: the supply is looked at before any part is named.
Kitchens that carry on outside
Where a lot runs down toward the lake, the kitchen may continue outside: a built-in grill on a deck, sometimes a side burner beside it. Those units spend the winter in damp air off the water, and a grill that sat under a cover since October is a typical reason a call is about the deck rather than the kitchen.
Grill and outdoor-kitchen repair covers the deck side.
In their words
Kitchens we have been back to
4.9 / 51,743 reviews
Simmer setting on our older open-burner range kept dying under a covered pan. He reset the air shutters and changed a tired valve. Two visits, because that valve came from a supplier.
Dishwasher left standing water at the end of every cycle. He cleared the check valve, showed me precisely what had caused it, and did not charge for a part I did not need.
Our panel-ready door stopped sealing and the gasket sweated all summer. He fitted a new seal, reindexed the hinge, and lined the custom panel back up with the cabinets. No marks anywhere.
Next step
Say what it is doing, and which series
The model number and the symptom are enough to start. Ring and describe it, or pick a slot on the booking page. Visits run from 8 am to 8 pm each day, and a person answers the phone at any hour.