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Appliance Repair in Laguna Beach

Laguna Beach is the one town where we ask about the driveway before we ask about the fault. Cottages stacked up Bluebird Canyon are reached by stairs, and a hillside house may have its kitchen two levels above the only place a van can reasonably stop.

What is different about Laguna Beach

Much of this housing was built before anyone standardised an appliance opening, and a good share of it has never been gutted. Cabinet runs are shallow, a so-called standard cooktop cutout can be an inch short in either direction, and the gas point often comes up through the back of a cabinet rather than the floor. Old wiring is the other constant: several canyon kitchens still share one circuit between the dishwasher and the disposal, which is why a tripping breaker and a dead appliance arrive as a single call. Replacement is usually possible here. Like-for-like replacement rarely is.

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4.9 from 1,272 reviews

  • Drawer microwave would not start unless you slammed it. The door latch assembly had worn and one interlock switch was intermittent. Both replaced. He also levelled the drawer, which was part of the problem.

    Rosalind C.Laguna Beach★★★★★

  • Undercounter wine storage in a Laguna Beach canyon house sat ten degrees warm. The control had lost the thermistor reading. He fitted a new sensor, verified the set point overnight, and it has been steady.

    Grant P.Laguna Beach★★★★★

  • Wall oven read forty degrees under whatever I set. The temperature sensor had drifted. He swapped it, recalibrated, and checked the door seal, which had also flattened on the hinge side. Roasting is predictable again.

    Bethany J.Laguna Beach★★★★★

Laguna Beach questions

Can a modern cooktop go into an older Laguna Beach cutout?

Sometimes, and sometimes the counter has to be cut. Openings in these houses were made for whatever was sold that year, so a replacement can be short in width or too deep for the cabinet behind it. We measure the cutout, the depth and the gas or power point before anything is ordered.

Access to my house is a long stair run. Is that a problem?

No, but tell us at booking. Stairs change what we bring and how the job is staged, and a wall oven that has to travel forty steps is planned differently from one in a ground-floor kitchen. What we want to avoid is arriving with the wrong kit and having to come back.

Is it worth repairing a twenty-year-old wall oven?

Often it is, if the fault is an element, a thermostat, a hinge or a door seal, because those parts are still made. It stops being worth it when the control board is obsolete and the only ones left are pulled from scrapped units. You are told which of the two you have before anything is ordered.

Booking a visit in Laguna Beach

Say what the appliance is, what it is doing, and roughly when it started. That is usually enough to know what the visit involves before anyone sets off.

(949) 979-4880 Book online

$89 to come out, and nothing extra on top once a repair is agreed.