A stove in a Chicago two-flat kitchen with an older white gas stove, linoleum floor and a radiator by the window, seen from the kitchen table.

Chicago, IL

Stove repair in Chicago.

Chicagoland mostly cooks on gas, and its stoves often outlast their owners' stay: two-flats hand a stove from tenant to tenant, bungalows keep one through decades of winters, and basement kitchens hold a second for holidays. Spring storms can flood the basements where those second stoves stand, and from October on every oven in the region is baking.

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What Chicago does
to a stove.

Nights at or below 0 °F average about 5.5 a year at Midway and 8.2 at O'Hare, and up to 10 to 14 in some far western and northern suburbs.

The average last spring freeze comes on April 13 at Midway and about ten days later at O'Hare.

Nicor Gas, the largest natural gas distributor in Illinois, serves about 2.3 million customers across northern Illinois outside Chicago.

North Shore Gas serves about 158,000 customers in 54 north suburban communities in Lake County.

The counties

Older housing stock

In an older house the stove may be the last gas appliance left on a line that once fed a furnace or water heater long since replaced, and a weak flame on every burner at once is traced back along that line before the stove is blamed.

Tower living

A condo stove often came with the unit and may be older than the renovation around it, so an owner weighing repair against a new stove also has to think about the freight elevator, the delivery rules and a gap in the stone that the new one must fit.

Mixed housing

Mixed neighborhoods set rentals beside owner-occupied houses, so a stove repair may be booked by a landlord for a tenant one day and by an owner who has cooked on the same stove for decades the next.

Family houses

Family stoves are often bought with the house and kept through years of daily meals, and when the oven starts baking unevenly or a burner will only simmer, the repair is usually one part and the stove carries on.

The work,
in Chicago.

Ten stove repairs, cheapest first, each with what Chicago changes about it.

What we do

Diagnostic visit

Chicagoland two-flats and bungalows often keep a gas stove older than the current owner's time in the house, and a diagnostic there answers the buyer's real question: does each burner and the oven work safely, and is this stove worth keeping.

Coil burner and socket repair

In Chicagoland rental flats with an electric coil stove, a burner that heats only on high often has a worn switch rather than a bad coil, and each burner is tested on its own so the landlord pays only for what failed.

Stove burner repair

Chicagoland stoves carry a winter of soups, braises and holiday baking, and burner repair there often replaces a cap cracked by a pot boiled dry, or clears a head clogged by a spill, before the holiday cooking begins.

Igniter and spark switch repair

In Chicagoland the oven igniter on a gas stove works hardest through the long baking season, and an oven that is slower to catch every week as Thanksgiving nears usually needs that igniter replaced before the big day.

Stove oven heating repair

Chicagoland stoves bake from October to New Year's, and an oven that burns cookies on the bottom and leaves them pale on top usually has one element or igniter that quit, fixed before the holiday baking starts.

Knob and switch replacement

Chicagoland families moving into older homes often find a stove with mismatched or broken knobs left by past owners, and a full matching set ordered for the model makes every burner's setting clear again.

Stove door and hinge repair

Chicagoland self-cleaning ovens sometimes keep their doors locked after a cycle, and the door and latch repair frees the door without prying it, since forcing a locked door usually breaks the latch.

Gas and power hookup check

Chicagoland stoves in older houses may still hang on rigid pipe or an old brass connector, and the hookup check replaces that connector with a current one and tests the joints before the stove is pushed back.

Glass stovetop repair

Chicagoland condo owners with glass-top stoves often call about a clouded or cracked surface after a winter of heavy cooking, and the new glass is matched to the stove's model so it seats in its frame exactly.

Control board and display repair

In Chicagoland houses where an older panel feeds a newer stove, a display that dims or resets as the oven starts can point to the supply rather than the board, and the visit checks both before ordering a part.

The stoves
we see most here.

Concentrated in Chicago more than elsewhere: gas stove, electric stove.

All stove types

Gas stove

Gas stove repair Chicago

Chicago's bungalows and two-flats burn gas, and a stove there often serves several owners or tenants.

Electric stove

Electric stove repair Chicago

Lakefront condo towers were largely built with electric stoves.

Every kind we service

All stoves, side by side

These are the stove types concentrated in Chicago. The archive puts all 4 against each other: how to tell which you own, and what fails on each.

How to tell yoursWhat fails on eachWho makes them Open the type archive

What a stove visit in
Chicago looks like.

Four steps from the call to a working stove, the same in each of the 45 areas of Chicago.

What repairs cost

01The stove, tried the way you use it
02A number before the work
03Common stove parts already on board
04Put back, then cooked on

When a stove
cannot wait in Chicago.

Across 5 counties of Chicago, the five where the gas supply, an open flame, a red-hot coil or the wiring behind the stove is the thing that could hurt someone.

All 17 problems