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Brooklyn, New York Metro

Microwave repair in DUMBO.

Dumbo grew around a ferry landing and is lined with 19th- and early-20th-century factory and warehouse buildings on Belgian block streets.

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  • 10 repairs we do here

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What DUMBO does
to a microwave.

By the late 1970s, artists and other young homesteaders were renting big, low-cost loft floors in its empty factories.

Residents coined the name, for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, in 1978, hoping such an odd name would keep developers away.

ZIP code 11201, which takes in Dumbo, has 58 percent of its housing units in buildings of 50 or more apartments.

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Tower living

Tower kitchens are usually all-electric and often cannot duct outside, so the microwave hood combination cleans the air through a charcoal filter, and one left unchanged for years is why the apartment still smells of last week's dinner.

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.

On the water

Salt air off the ocean or a bay corrodes a microwave's latch hooks, lamp sockets and the contacts behind its touchpad, and a unit that starts only after a second close is showing that corrosion at its door interlocks.

A visit in
DUMBO.

Four steps from the call to a working microwave in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

What repairs cost
  1. 01A cup of water, timed
  2. 02The price before the work
  3. 03Usual parts on board
  4. 04Heating again before we leave

When a microwave
cannot wait in DUMBO.

In DUMBO 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
A stainless microwave hood combination mounted under wall cabinets, seen straight on through its closed side-hinged door with a mesh window, one small bright blue spark flashing inside the dim microwave cavity near the side wall beside a plain glass bowl on the glass turntable. Stop using it

Sparks Flashing Inside a Microwave

6 causes, cheapest first

 A built-in stainless microwave set in a tall kitchen cabinet, seen through its closed side-hinged door with a mesh window, grey smoke filling the microwave cavity and a small orange glow on a paper bag on the glass turntable, the door firmly shut. Stop using it

Microwave Fire: Smoke or Flames Behind the Door

6 causes, cheapest first

 A countertop stainless microwave on a kitchen counter, seen through its closed side-hinged door with a mesh window, a thin wisp of haze drifting from the vent slots on its side and a darkened brown patch on the cover panel inside the microwave cavity, a plain glass dish on the glass turntable. Stop using it

Burning Smell From a Microwave

6 causes, cheapest first

 A stainless microwave hood combination under wall cabinets seen through its closed side-hinged door with a mesh window, the microwave cavity dark and the display blank with a plain glass bowl sitting on the still turntable, a kitchen breaker panel with one switch thrown sitting out of focus in a hallway beyond. Stop using it

Microwave Trips the Breaker or Blows a Fuse

6 causes, cheapest first

 A countertop stainless microwave on a kitchen counter with its side-hinged door with a mesh window standing half open, the microwave cavity lit and a plain glass mug on the glass turntable, a visible crack running across the door window glass. Stop using it

Microwave Runs With the Door Open

5 causes, cheapest first

Near DUMBO.

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