Lexington, MA
Viking Range Repair
Viking's sealed-burner and open-burner gas ranges and the dual-fuel models share a lot of parts and almost none of their failure modes. We work through ignition modules and spark electrodes, gas valves and orifices, oven igniters and bake elements, and the control boards that tie the two halves of a dual-fuel unit together.
Said on the phone
The complaint, in your words
- Burner clicking without lighting once the cap is seated back down
- Oven side of a dual-fuel range heating unevenly front to back
- Simmer burner going out whenever the door is closed hard
- Flame not tracking the knob — full or nothing, with no middle
On the visit
What gets measured
- Manifold pressure at the regulator, cold and again under load
- Spark output and flame-sense return, burner by burner
- Oven igniter current draw — the number that says whether it can still open the valve
- Low-flame screw and simmer behaviour with the oven door closed
Also carried: Viking Oven RepairViking Refrigerator RepairViking Dishwasher Repair
Money
One fixed figure, then the parts.
The fixed one is the $95 service call: the visit, the readings and the diagnosis, credited in full against the repair once you approve it. Nothing beyond it is quoted down a telephone line, because nothing beyond it honestly can be.
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Gas, electric or both
A dual-fuel range is two appliances sharing a fascia. Which half failed decides whether the visit is a burner job or an oven job, and those are not the same money.
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Board or component
A sensor, an igniter or a switch is a component. A control board is an assembly, and it is the difference most people feel on the estimate.
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Whether it comes forward
Some faults are reachable from the front. Others need the appliance pulled out, and in a narrow galley that is real labour, quoted as labour.
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Van or order
Igniters, sensors and switches are carried. Boards, hinges and cavity parts for older platforms are ordered, which changes the shape of the visit.
Typical range · parts and labour
| Igniter or burner assembly | $280 – $630 |
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| Oven thermostat or heating element | $240 – $800 |
| Control board or touch panel | $380 – $940 |
| Dishwasher pump or control | $270 – $1,300 |
| Refrigeration fan or defrost system | $280 – $680 |
| Compressor or sealed-system repair | $1,100 – $2,450 |
For comparison, replacing the appliance runs $7,030 – $11,360 for the unit alone, before delivery, installation or any gas and electrical work. Worth knowing before agreeing to a large repair.
Where
Viking Range Repair across Lexington.
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Countryside
Countryside covers north Lexington around Lowell and Maple Streets near Whipple Hill, with postwar ranches and colonials on generous, wooded lots. A great many of those kitchens have been rebuilt in the last decade around a pro-style range and a wall oven.
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Lexington Center
The centre holds Colonial and Federal-era houses around the Battle Green with Victorians on the side streets, most of them altered only from the inside. Kitchens sit at the back of deep, narrow floor plans, so a professional range usually comes in through a rear door.
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East Lexington
East Lexington runs along Massachusetts Avenue toward the Arlington line, older two-storey Colonials and bungalows on tighter lots. Renovations here tend to keep the original kitchen footprint, so a wide range or hood is often a close fit between cabinets.
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Peacock Farm
Peacock Farm is a planned mid-century modern enclave of split-level houses in the town's southeast corner, most built to a compact shared plan. Kitchens are small and open straight onto the living space, which puts a premium on quiet, well-ducted ventilation.
Next
Say what it is doing. We will say what that usually is.
A call costs nothing and the visit is a flat $95, credited against the repair once you approve it.
4.9 out of 5, across 1472 reviews
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Split level with the kitchen open to the living room. Flame was full or nothing, no middle at all. A worn valve stem. Replaced, and simmer works again.
Anneli T. · Peacock Farm
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Rebuilt kitchen off Lowell Street with a wide dual fuel range. One burner clicked and clicked without lighting. The spark electrode was cracked at the ceramic and shorting to the cap. New electrode, sorted.
Thaddeus B. · Countryside
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Big range on a wooded lot where the power flickers in every storm. After a nor easter it would not light at all. The ignition module had taken a hit. New module and a fresh set of electrodes with it.
Roscoe K. · Countryside