Island Neighborhoods · 98040
Viking Repair on the South End of Mercer Island
The southern part of the island, which the city itself calls the south end, where the lake is close on three sides and many decks face it.
Decide first
Call or wait in South End
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If you smell gas around the grill on the deck — Turn the grill’s supply valve to closed, put out any flame and move away from the deck. If the smell stays, phone the gas utility or 911. Call today
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If the outdoor refrigerator is running warm — Move the food somewhere cold and clear anything pressed against the grille at the bottom front, where it takes in air. Then call. Call today
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If the grill will not light after a wet spell, and there is no gas smell — Press reset on the outdoor GFCI outlet and try once more. Still no flame: book a visit; nothing about it is urgent. Book this week
Call today: ring Viking Appliance Repair Mercer Island at (206) 208-3377. Book this week: use the booking page.
Water on three sides
South End is the name the city uses for the southern part of the island, and it has no border worth drawing here. What sets it apart for appliance work is the lake: water to the east, the south and the west, and houses built to look at it.
Where the house faces the water, the cooking often moves outside for half the year. That usually means a built-in Viking grill set in a stone or cabinet island, and sometimes a refrigerator or a pair of refrigerated drawers under the counter next to it.
Damp air and deck appliances
Two things decide how a deck appliance fares down here. The first is air. An outdoor Viking refrigerator draws and releases air through the grille at the bottom of its front, and Viking asks for that grille to stay unobstructed and to be brushed or vacuumed once or twice a year. Planters, doormats and stacked cushions end up against it more often than anyone intends.
The second is power. The current 5 Series grills light with igniters that glow, fed from an outdoor GFCI outlet. If the grill and the refrigerator stop on the same evening and share that outlet or its circuit, reset it before suspecting either appliance.
Asked in South End
- Why does the outdoor refrigerator on the deck switch itself off?
- The outlet may be the culprit rather than the refrigerator. Viking notes in the instructions for its outdoor refrigerator that a GFCI can trip without any real fault, and the unit simply loses power. Press the reset button first. If it keeps tripping, never bypass it; call Viking Appliance Repair Mercer Island at (206) 208-3377.
In their words
Kitchens we have been back to
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Broil element in the lower oven stopped glowing and the display threw a code. He read the code properly, tested the relay board as well as the element, and replaced only the element.
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.
Compressor ran without pause and the cabinet still drifted warm by evening. The condenser was furred over and one fan was seizing. Put right in one visit, though the window slipped by two hours.
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.