South of the boulevard the houses are bigger, the kitchens are usually remodelled, and the summer heat does most of the damage.
Woodland Hills regularly runs ten degrees hotter than the coast, and in a bad week it clears 105. Refrigerator condensers that would live happily in Santa Monica start struggling here, especially built-in units in a cabinet run with no clearance and five years of dust on the coils. Most of our July and August refrigerator calls in this zip code come down to heat load plus a dirty condenser plus a fan that gave up.
A lot of the homes south of Ventura have been through a full kitchen renovation, which means built-in refrigeration, integrated dishwashers and professional ranges. Thermador, Miele and Bosch show up constantly here. Those units are worth repairing rather than replacing, because the replacement has to fit the same cabinet opening and match the same panel, and that gets expensive fast.
North of the boulevard, the 1950s and 1960s tracts still hold a lot of original wall ovens and cooktops. Those are often repairable long past the point people assume, and when they are not, we say so before you have spent anything on them.
No. The service call is free inside our local area, and Woodland Hills is inside it. The price of the repair is agreed with you before any work starts.
We are open Sunday from 7:00 to 19:00 and closed Saturday. Sunday is the day most competitors are shut, and it is one of our busiest.
Usually yes in Woodland Hills. Call early in the day and the odds are much better.