A kitchen with a microwave hood combination under wall cabinets and navy painted cabinets, seen close and low at the microwave's door.

San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Microwave repair in San Francisco.

10 cities and neighborhoods across San Francisco, part of San Francisco Bay Area — 6 with a page on what that place does to a microwave.

(844) 393-5858

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10 places covered
6 with a page
10 repairs we do here

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What San Francisco does
to a microwave.

Where microwaves sit in San Francisco: apartments and walk-ups, older housing stock, trim kits and drawers.

All of San Francisco Bay Area

Apartments and walk-ups

A countertop microwave in a studio often stands on a shelf with its vents against a wall, and a unit that shuts off partway through a cycle is usually its thermal cutout reacting to heat with nowhere to go.

Older housing stock

Restored kitchens often hide the microwave in a pantry or a cabinet to keep the period look, and a unit boxed in without the trim kit meant for it overheats and stops mid-cycle until it is given room to breathe.

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 San Francisco.

10 cities and neighborhoods across San Francisco, part of San Francisco Bay Area, 6 of them with a page on what that place does to a microwave. The same visit in each.

10places covered 6counties in San Francisco Bay Area 10repairs

All of San Francisco Bay Area

Marina

On the Marina's filled ground a microwave hood combination hangs on a wall plate above the cooking surface, and after a strong shake in this seismic zone its mounting bolts are worth checking before the next meal.

Noe Valley

Young families here warm bottles and leftovers in the microwave all day, and a door pulled open mid-cycle by a small hand is what wears the latch and its interlock switches first.

Pacific Heights

In these Victorian flats a remodeled kitchen often hangs a microwave hood combination over the cooking surface to save counter space, on kitchen wiring older than the cabinets around it and shared with the toaster.

Presidio Heights

Presidio Heights is a small, affluent residential pocket between the Presidio and Laurel Heights, with the Laurel Village shops along California Street at its southern edge.

Russian Hill

Most Russian Hill residents had to rebuild after the 1906 earthquake; the 1853 Atkinson House was one of the few homes on the hill to come through it.

Sea Cliff

Landscape architect Mark Daniels drew the plan for Sea Cliff, which is one of nine master-planned residence parks in the city.

Also covered in San Francisco

Bernal HeightsMany buildings on Bernal Heights rode out the 1906 earthquake on a base of radiolarian chert, and the sparse development of the time spared much of the hill from the fire that followed.
Cole ValleyCole Valley grew up around the streetcar stop at the Sunset Tunnel entrance, where Carl and Cole streets still form its small business center.
St. Francis WoodSt. Francis Wood is on the National Register as a 20th-century residence park, and new projects there must fit a character of two-story single-family houses with spacious yards.
West PortalWest Portal takes its name from the western mouth of the Muni tunnel under Twin Peaks, which opened in 1918.

A visit in
San Francisco.

Four steps from the call to a working microwave, the same in all 10 places of San Francisco.

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 San Francisco.

Across San Francisco, 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