Guides
Repair guides for Mission Hills owners
Written by the people who do the work, for the owner who wants to understand the appliance before deciding anything. No sales pitch in them — the phone number is at the bottom if you want it.
What a retrofit does to a built-in refrigerator
A built-in dropped into a kitchen that already existed fails at the door and the grille long before it fails in the sealed system.
Viking glow-bar igniters: the most predictable failure in the trade
A Viking oven that takes longer to light each month, then glows without lighting at all, has an igniter drawing too little current.
Humidity drawers: what they do and when they stop doing it
A crisper slider does exactly one thing: it opens or closes a small vent between the drawer and the rest of the refrigerator compartment.
Appliance down in Mission Hills?
Tell us the brand and what it is doing — we can usually name the likely repair before we arrive.