Repair or replace
Repair or Replace: Viking Hoods, Cooktops and Rangetops
Hoods, cooktops and rangetops fail in ways that look alike from the kitchen. Each page below settles one fault with a measurement first and a verdict second. Much of the plateau was built before Sammamish became a city in 1999, so the counter opening and the duct can decide the answer more than the appliance does.
Viking Repair Sammamish measures before it quotes — (425) 610-8986.
- Existing opening — cut for the unit that came with the house
- Width the new unit needs — read from its installation guide, not the old one
- Depth to the back wall — set by the counter and what sits behind it
- Gas and power below — where the supply and outlet sit in the cabinet
- Hood above — has to cover the top that goes in
Hoods
Blower, controls, a duct too small for the fan, a downdraft that will not lift, and the make-up air question.
- 01 Hood Blower Dead or Grinding: Repair or Replace? Silent or grinding blower: what we test, and when a new ventilator wins.
- 02 Hood Controls or Lights Dead Lamps, switches, knobs or the supply: finding which part of the hood died.
- 03 Loud Hood on a 1990s Duct: New Hood or New Duct? When the roar is the duct: size, elbows, flex runs and the damper.
- 04 Downdraft Won't Rise or Won't Retract Stalled chimney: alignment, the up/down control, the lift, and when to replace.
- 05 Replacing With a Bigger Hood: The Make-Up Air Question Past 400 CFM: when make-up air applies, and what it means for the swap.
Cooktops
Cracked glass, an induction zone that quits, and a gas top that has cooked for two decades.
- 01 Cracked Glass on a Viking Electric Cooktop Stop using it, then decide: new glass top or a new cooktop.
- 02 Induction Zone Dead or Throwing Errors Pan, power sharing, overheating or the board: sorting a dead induction zone.
- 03 A Twenty-Year-Old Viking Gas Cooktop Burners, valves and the cutout: when an old gas cooktop earns another decade.
Rangetops
The mid-90s cutout, burners wearing out together, and what changes when a cooktop becomes a rangetop.
- 01 A Rangetop in a Mid-90s Countertop Cutout Keep the opening you have: when repairing a rangetop beats re-cutting the counter.
- 02 A Rangetop Where Every Burner Is Tired at Once All burners weak at once: supply, regulator, cleaning, or the end of the top.
- 03 Swapping a Cooktop for a Rangetop: What Has to Change Cutout, supply, power and hood: what changes when a cooktop becomes a rangetop.
Hoods · cooktops · rangetops
Describe it, then we measure it
Say what the hood, the cooktop or the rangetop is doing and which model it is. We bring the meters to Sammamish and quote nothing until we have read them. $89 for the visit and diagnosis, taken off the repair if you go ahead.
On site every day of the week, 8 am–8 pm · calls taken 24/7