Gas or electric, the per-burner suspect list is short and testable. And burners on the same range like to fail in clusters — we check them all.
Move the dead position's element to a working socket. Follows the element: part. Stays with the position: receptacle or switch. The single most useful DIY test in this trade.
A boiled-over sauce clogs ports and electrode alike. With the burner cold, a dry brush, and a toothpick for the ports — solves a share of these for free.
'Front-left only heats on high' is a diagnosis-grade sentence. The switch behind that knob is nearly booked for replacement already.
Per-burner diagnosis runs the chain for the dead position — element, receptacle, switch on electric; electrode, module, valve on gas — then tests every other burner, because the same heat and the same boilovers age them together. One written all-in price from $279 covers the convicted part, the labor and the diagnosis.
Glass-top owners get the honest note: radiant elements replace cleanly from below, but a cracked glass surface is a separate, spendier conversation, and we'll price both paths before anything is committed. Nobody discovers a second repair on the invoice.
Each position runs its own element, switch and wiring, so failures are per-seat rather than system-wide. But shared age and shared boilovers mean the second failure is rarely far behind the first — which is exactly why the visit tests all positions, not just the one you called about.
Classic infinite-switch failure — its contacts weld toward the high position. Same category, same from-price neighborhood, and worth fixing promptly: a burner you can't turn down is a scorched-pan machine and a safety complaint waiting to happen.
No — anything on the house side of the range's plug belongs to an electrician, and we'll say so on sight rather than improvising. The appliance side, from the cord's terminal block inward, is fully ours, including scorched blocks and internal wiring.
Causes ranked, safe checks listed, and the fix priced in one written number.
Open the symptom file →Causes ranked, safe checks listed, and the fix priced in one written number.
Open the symptom file →Causes ranked, safe checks listed, and the fix priced in one written number.
Open the symptom file →Send the symptom or the code exactly as the display shows it. A weekday callback confirms your window, and the van loads for your machine before it leaves Kennewick.
The all-in price covers diagnosis, labor and parts. It doesn't move after work starts.
$95 for the visit and diagnosis is the whole bill — if the fix costs too much or the machine isn't worth it, that's all you owe.
From $279 all-in, most closed the same visit. Call (509) 841-9102 or send the form.