Your stove is a critically important part of your kitchen. You could handwash the dishes if your dishwasher is broken or put your food in a cooler while you wait for refrigerator repair, but what can you do when your stove doesn’t work? You may have to cobble together meals by using the oven and microwave, but frying food is out. When your stove burners won’t light, call Kimball Appliance Parts & Service.

How Stove Burners Work

Years ago, gas stoves had pilot lights that stayed on 24/7. When you turned the stove knob to release the gas, the pilot light would light the burner. Today’s stoves are safer and less wasteful because they use electronic ignition. When you turn your stove knob on, you’ll hear a clicking sound which is the electronic ignition making a spark to light the stove burner.

Troubleshooting Stove Burner

Sometimes, however, the stove clicks and clicks but doesn’t light. The main reason for this a that your burners are clogged with grease or food. You may be able to fix the problem by unbending a paper clip and inserting it into the tiny hole at the back of each burner. Give each a thorough routing and try lighting it again.

If this doesn’t help, it could be a problem with the igniter connection or a faulty switch. These issues are best handled by an experienced repair person, especially because it involves gas.

While you can manually light your stove burners with a match, you don’t want to have to keep doing this for any length of time. When you call Kimball Appliance Parts & Service, we come out to your home as quickly as possible. A burner that isn’t lighting is usually a fairly uninvolved fix, so we should have it taken care of quickly.

Fast, Efficient Appliance Repair

We service all makes and models of stoves, including Viking Ranges. It doesn’t matter if your stove is one year or 30 years old — our trained technicians know what to do to get it working again.

Once you work with Kimball Appliance Parts & Service, you’ll feel less stressed by any appliance breakdowns in your home, because you know that you’ll be able to depend on a repair company you trust. We’re known for being on time, providing repairs that last and charging fair, reasonable prices. Our professionals go the extra mile to locate parts for appliances that aren’t commonly available anymore. We treat every repair like a challenge.

Kimball Appliance Parts & Services provides appliance repairs to residents of Salt Lake City, Utah; Denver, Colorado; and Kansas City, Missouri.

If you live in Salt Lake City, you want to find an appliance repair shop you can rely on. That’s Kimball Appliance Parts & Service. We have many years of experience repairing all makes and models of home appliances, including washers, dryers, stoves, ovens, refrigerators, freezers and more.

As appliance repair techs in Salt Lake City, we tend to see the same types of problems with home appliances. These include:

Washer Won’t Drain

There are a number of reasons your washer won’t drain. It could be a kink in the hose, a clog in the drain or a part on your washer that needs replacing. Call Kimball for appliance repair — we can help.

Dryer Isn’t Spinning

While we get a lot of calls about dryers that won’t heat up, we also get plenty of calls for dryers that won’t tumble the clothes. The problem is usually a broken belt. The belt is what spins the drum inside the dryer, and replacing it is usually an easy fix.

Stove Won’t Light

Sometimes homeowners can solve the problem of the stove not lighting on their own by cleaning the burner area carefully. Grease and grime buildup are the main causes of stoves not lighting. However, if cleaning doesn’t work, call us for appliance repair. Problems with gas stoves are not usually DIY fixes.

Oven Doesn’t Turn On

It’s frustrating when you preheat the oven for dinner only to find that it’s still cold 10 or 15 minutes later. You’re left with no way to cook the dinner you planned. This is often an igniter issue, or some faulty wiring. It’s usually fixable, but it’s definitely a job for a professional appliance repair tech.

Refrigerator Is Leaking

At one time or another, we have all probably lived in an apartment in which we kept a rag under the fridge because it was always leaking. We understand — you hate to pay for a service call if the problem isn’t serious. With a leaking fridge, you may want to try checking your freezer to see if you inadvertently blocked the defrost drain. If moving items around in your freezer doesn’t help, the problem could be your supply lines or defrost drain. Our techs can help.

Freezer Isn’t Cold Enough

Your freezer may feel cold, but your ice cream may be too soft. If your freezer isn’t keeping your food frozen, it could be in danger of spoiling. Check to make sure the gasket around the freezer door is tightly gripping the fridge all the way around. Old gaskets can dry out and crack. Cleaning your coils in back of the fridge also might help. If these fixes don’t do the trick, call Kimball Appliance.

Best Appliance Repair in Salt Lake City

Kimball Appliance Parts & Services serves customers in Salt Lake City, Utah; Kansas City, Missouri; and Denver, Colorado. Trust our technicians with all your appliance repair needs.

It’s so frustrating to open your clothes dryer expecting to take out a warm, dry load of laundry and instead being greeted by a batch of soggy, wet clothes. You end up having to hang them all over the house to dry, and then they’re stiff and wrinkled. How did we ever live without dryers? Don’t even contemplate it — just call Kimball Appliance Parts & Service in Salt Lake City for dryer repair.

Why My Clothes Still Wet?

There are many reasons your clothes may not be dry at the end of a drying cycle, and not all of them are due to a dryer that’s not heating. For instance, your dryer may be heating but not tumbling your clothes. They will never dry that way. Fortunately, that is usually due to a broken belt, which is a quick and easy fix.

Another reason your clothes may not be dry is due to a clogged dryer vent. Each time you run your dryer, small bits of lint come off your laundry. You see this when you empty the lint trap (if you are not doing this every time you run the dryer, it could be why your clothes are not drying).

As useful as the lint trap is, it doesn’t trap all the lint. Much of it escapes into the dryer vent. Because the lint is moist, it tends to stick inside the vent. Convoluted aluminum dryer vents trap much more lint this way than PVC dryer vents.

If your vent is clogged with lint, the moist, warm air has no way to get out of the dryer, so your clothes will take a lot longer to dry — if they dry at all. Worse, a clogged lint trap is a fire hazard. The Federal Emergency Management Agency records almost 3,000 dyer fires a year in the U.S., and most are due to clogged dryer vents. It’s best to schedule professional dryer vent cleaning at least once a year to avoid this risk.

Why Is My Dryer Not Heating?

If your dryer vent or belt is not to blame for your wet laundry, it could be your heating element. Check to see if your dryer is warm by putting your hand on the door. If it doesn’t feel warm after a few minutes of running, your dryer isn’t heating.

The reasons could be a faulty thermostat, fuse, heating element or motor. If it’s a more complicated issue than that, you may want to weigh the cost of getting a new dryer. A simple clothes dryer with no bells and whistles can cost between $200 and $500, while the big new fancy ones can be up to $1,000.

If your dryer is still under warrantee, some of the repairs may be covered. If your dryer is old, it may be time to think about replacement. The team at Kimball Appliance Parts & Service will give you our professional recommendation for repair versus replacement after we determine why your dryer is not heating.

Appliance Repair in Salt Lake City

At Kimball Appliance Parts & Service, we repair washers and dryers, stoves and ovens, and refrigerators and freezers for customers throughout Salt Lake City. We also have appliance repair locations in Denver, CO and Kansas City, MO. Call us for all your appliance repair needs.

Few homeowners today are old enough to remember freezers that needed defrosting. That job is a thing of the past — or at least it should be. If you have frost in your frost-free freezer, you need freezer repair. Kimball Appliance Parts & Service provides freezer repair in Salt Lake City, Denver and Kansas City.

Pre Frost-Free Freezers

The first refrigerators — called “iceboxes” — were literally wooden boxes with a block of ice in the top compartment that kept the food beneath it cold. As you may imagine, this technology was not good for keeping ice cream or popsicles for too long.

Frigidaire was the first company to mass-produce commercial refrigerators for home use. Their name became part of our lexicon the way “Kleenex” and “Band-aid” have, with moms directing kids to put food items “in the Frigidaire.”

Back then, and for many years after, it was necessary to defrost your freezer periodically — about once a month. This is still often necessary with the stand-alone freezer units homeowners keep to store extra food.

Defrosting a Freezer

The reason frost-free freezers caught on so quickly is because defrosting a freezer is a big pain. You have to turn the fridge off, take all the food out of the freezer and leave the door open while you use bowls of hot water and cloths to coax the ice off the walls.

The process is tedious, so understandably, homeowners would get impatient and hack at the frost with a sharp object, all too often breaking a hole in the freezer wall.

Freezer Repair

Today, if your freezer is building up frost quickly, you need freezer repair. However, if you only notice frost occasionally, the issue may be mistakes you’re making with your appliance. Frost accumulates due to moisture, and if you put hot foods or wet foods directly into the freezer, the humidity from these can cause frost to form.

However, if you have never done this or if you see frost buildup regardless, the issue could be a faulty sensor. Today’s freezers are built with sensors that detect frost buildup. When this happens, coils in the fridge heat up briefly to melt the ice. It’s a process that should occur without you even noticing. But if your sensor isn’t working, you will notice frost buildup.

Another culprit causing frost could be the gasket around your freezer door. If your freezer is old and your gasket is cracked, peeling or brittle, this will affect the ability of the seal to keep out moisture and may cause frost buildup. It will also cause your freezer to leak cold air, running up your electric bill.

A frost-free freezer that’s building up frost is not running efficiently. Call the techs at Kimball Appliance Parts & Service, serving Salt Lake City, Denver and Kansas City, for freezer repair. We will diagnose the problem and have your freezer running properly again in no time.

For the best in oven and stove repair, washer and dryer repair, and refrigerator and freezer repair, count on the team at Kimball Appliance Parts & Service. We have many years of experience in appliance repair, and we’re known for our top-notch customer service. Call today.