A kitchen island with a microwave drawer and gray slab cabinets, seen close and low at the microwave's door.

San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Microwave repair in Santa Clara County.

15 cities and neighborhoods across Santa Clara County, part of San Francisco Bay Area — 2 with a page on what that place does to a microwave.

(844) 393-5858

Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm

15 places covered
2 with a page
10 repairs we do here

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What Santa Clara County does
to a microwave.

Where microwaves sit in Santa Clara County: trim kits and drawers, family houses, gated communities.

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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.

Family houses

Heavy dishes for family meals crack glass trays and wear turntable couplers, and a plate that stops or grinds is usually a small part under the cavity floor rather than a microwave at the end of its life.

Gated communities

The guardhouse needs the technician's name before the visit, and lowering a microwave hood combination from its wall plate in a finished kitchen takes two people and a covered counter, which is planned in advance.

Where we go
in Santa Clara County.

15 cities and neighborhoods across Santa Clara County, part of San Francisco Bay Area, 2 of them with a page on what that place does to a microwave. The same visit in each.

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Los Altos Hills

Zoning requires at least one acre per lot and allows one primary dwelling on each, which effectively rules out multifamily housing.

Palo Alto

Eichler and ranch-house remodels here set a speed or convection microwave into a tall cabinet or a drawer into the island, and in a house without air conditioning a heat spell is when its cooling fan works hardest.

Almaden Valley

Mercury came out of the New Almaden mines from the Gold Rush until 1975, and many places in Almaden still carry the name Quicksilver.

Campbell

Most Campbell homes are single-family houses of 1,000 to 1,600 square feet on lots of about 6,000 square feet, and the vast majority were built from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Cupertino

Cupertino grew enormously in the postwar housing boom of the 1950s, and Monta Vista, its first housing tract, owed its start to the electric railway.

Evergreen

Evergreen, a large East San Jose district also called Evergreen Valley, still names parks, schools and a road after the Chaboya family, who held the old Rancho Yerba Buena grant.

Los Altos

Southern Pacific executive Paul Shoup and his colleagues formed the Altos Land Company in 1906 and began developing Los Altos.

Los Gatos

Los Gatos runs nearly the same temperatures as San Jose, only slightly warmer, and gets more rain.

Monte Sereno

Virtually all of Monte Sereno's housing, about 99 percent, is detached single-family houses, in the Census Bureau's 2020–2024 survey estimates.

Mountain View

Many of Mountain View's ranch-style houses were built on former orchard land in the 1950s and 1960s.

San Jose

Electricity is the heating fuel in about 37 percent of San Jose's occupied homes, in the Census Bureau's 2020–2024 survey estimates.

Santa Clara

Homes in Santa Clara get their electricity from Silicon Valley Power, a not-for-profit utility the city itself owns and operates.

Saratoga

In Saratoga's Golden Triangle, four-bedroom ranch homes on quarter-acre lots are gradually giving way to Mediterranean custom designs.

Sunnyvale

Sunnyvale's name was chosen to draw new residents from the foggy districts near San Francisco.

Willow Glen

Architect-commissioned houses in Willow Glen run from Victorian and Craftsman to Spanish Eclectic, Tudor and Eichler designs.

A visit in
Santa Clara County.

Four steps from the call to a working microwave, the same in all 15 places of Santa Clara 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 Santa Clara County.

Across Santa Clara 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