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

Lake County, Chicago

Microwave repair in Highland Park.

Along its 6 miles of Lake Michigan shore rises a bluff about 100 feet high, cut by deep wooded ravines.

(844) 393-5858

Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm

Lake County
Three things about Highland Park
10 repairs we do here

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What Highland Park does
to a microwave.

A plat for the town was laid out in 1856, after the Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad placed a depot here.

In 1854 a lighthouse was built at Port Clinton, one of the lakeshore settlements that preceded the city.

Of its roughly 12,500 housing units, 74 percent are detached houses and 45 percent were built before 1960.

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On a lake

Long power lines through the woods to lake houses drop in summer storms and return with a spike, and a microwave that stays dark afterward has most often blown its internal fuse, a part for the technician.

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.

Mixed housing

Where 1990s kitchens sit beside new builds, a dial-timer microwave can outlive a newer touch-panel model, since its mechanical timer is a plain part while a discontinued board may never turn up.

A visit in
Highland Park.

Four steps from the call to a working microwave in Highland Park, Lake 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 Highland Park.

In Highland Park as anywhere, these five mean the microwave stays switched off until a technician has seen it: sparks or a flame inside, smoke behind the window, a burning smell, a breaker that drops, or a door that no longer seals.

All 17 problems