A kitchen with a built-in microwave in a tall cabinet and navy painted cabinets, seen close and low at the microwave's door.

San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Microwave repair in Contra Costa County.

10 cities and neighborhoods across Contra Costa County, part of San Francisco Bay Area.

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10 places covered
San Francisco Bay Area
10 repairs we do here

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What San Francisco Bay Area does
to a microwave.

Where microwaves sit in Contra Costa County, as across San Francisco Bay Area: apartments and walk-ups, older housing stock, tower living, trim kits and drawers.

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Apartments and walk-ups

Small kitchens have few outlets, and a microwave sharing a power strip with the toaster and the kettle trips breakers and strains its own fuse, so the visit looks at the outlet before the unit.

Older housing stock

Older houses run the kitchen on circuits laid out long before microwaves, and a unit that trips the breaker or dims the lights on start may be healthy on a circuit that is not; the circuit is measured first.

Tower living

A built-in microwave in a condo tower sits in a trim kit cut to one model's size, so it is repaired in place whenever possible, since a replacement has to match that opening or the cabinetry has to change.

Trim kits and drawers

A designed kitchen sets a microwave drawer flush in the island or a speed oven in a column of matched units, and a repair has to leave the trim, the reveals and the panel alignment exactly as they were.

Where we go
in Contra Costa County.

10 cities and neighborhoods across Contra Costa County, part of San Francisco Bay Area. The same visit in each.

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Alamo

Detached houses make up about 93 percent of the housing in Alamo, according to American Community Survey figures for 2020–2024.

Blackhawk

Blackhawk's first homes opened in 1979, and the gated development, its plan cut to 2,400 homes, was finished in the early 1990s.

Concord

Blocks near downtown Concord have been redeveloped with new high-density apartment and condominium projects close to public transit.

Danville

About 85 percent of Danville's housing was built between 1960 and 1999, by Census Bureau estimates for 2020–2024.

Lafayette

Lafayette put up close to half of its housing, about 50 percent, before 1960, per 2020–2024 American Community Survey data.

Moraga

Utility gas heats about 73 percent of Moraga's occupied homes, and electricity about 22 percent, per 2020–2024 American Community Survey data.

Orinda

The Oakland Hills usually shield Orinda from the cool fog of the inner bay, although in summer it can spill over the ridge and cool the city.

Pleasant Hill

Pleasant Hill was developed largely in the years after World War II and had no post office until 1948.

San Ramon

About three-quarters of San Ramon's housing was built in 1980 or later, by Census Bureau estimates for 2020–2024.

Walnut Creek

Just over half of Walnut Creek's housing, about 52 percent, dates from 1960 through 1979, in the Census Bureau's 2020–2024 survey estimates.

A visit in
Contra Costa County.

Four steps from the call to a working microwave, the same in all 10 places of Contra Costa County.

What repairs cost

01A cup of water, timed
02The price before the work
03Usual parts on board
04Heating again before we leave

When a microwave
cannot wait in Contra Costa County.

Across Contra Costa County, the five problems where the microwave sparks, smokes, smells of burning, trips the power or runs with a door that has stopped sealing.

All 17 problems