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Viking repair in Roslindale

Roslindale runs to 1920s Colonials, capes and two-families around the Village and Bellevue Hill. Detached houses with side driveways make access far easier here than in most of Boston.

Getting to the appliance

Side driveways and detached houses — the easiest access on this list, and usually a full-size kitchen to work in.

A stainless range with the oven door fully open on an empty cavity and a chrome rack lying on a towel on the floor

Repairs here

What comes in from Roslindale

The same four machines as everywhere else in the city. The flat $95 service call covers a visit here on the same terms as anywhere.

Process

How a call in Roslindale runs

Always this order. Nothing is opened up before the third stage.

  1. Lineman's pliers, two screwdrivers and a wire brush laid out beside a roller bracket, a steel bracket and loose bolts

    The model plate and the access

    Two things get asked on the phone: what is printed on the plate, and how the appliance is reached. In Boston the second one decides the visit as much as the first — stairs, a freight elevator with booking hours, a building manager, or a driveway.

  2. Pliers, three screwdrivers, a nut driver and a wire brush set out in a row with two steel brackets and small clips

    Readings, taken on site

    Gas pressure at the manifold, spark and flame sense burner by burner, cavity temperature against the set point, sensor and element resistance, drain and fill behaviour on a dishwasher. Numbers off the machine rather than a guess from the doorway.

  3. Pliers, two coloured-handle screwdrivers and a brush laid beside a cast housing, a round ring-shaped part, bolts and a spring

    One figure, before anything opens

    Parts and labour quoted as a single number, with the $95 service call inside it on an approved repair. Where the sensible answer is that the appliance is not worth the parts, that is the answer you get.

Reviews

Left after calls in and around Roslindale

4.9/ 5from 1067 reviews

  • 5 out of 5

    A long preheat that never quite arrived. He found the seal flattened along the bottom and a weak bake element drawing under spec. Both changed and preheat is back to where it used to be.

    Blythe M.Roslindale

  • 5 out of 5

    Water was seeping from the lower edge of the door and warping a floorboard. The seal had shrunk at both corners. New seal, and he checked the levelling feet, which turned out to be part of it.

    Casper I.Roslindale

  • 5 out of 5

    The compartment fan was loud on start up and then settled down. A bearing was going in the fan motor. He replaced it before it seized. Our side driveway made the whole visit easy.

    Cecily A.Roslindale

Talk to someone

An appliance down in Roslindale? Start with the phone call.

The flat $95 service call covers the trip and the diagnosis, and comes off the total on an approved repair.

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