Oven runs cool at the back
A failing convection fan or a blocked flue rather than the thermostat. Rotating trays hides it. Fixing the airflow solves it.
Kitchen EquipmentPriced as an emergency callout
Commercial range and oven repair
Ranges, convection ovens, deck ovens and combi units are the rest of the hot line, and they fail in ways that show up on the plate before they show up as a breakdown: an oven running fifty degrees cool, a burner that lights on the third try, a door seal that lets the heat out. Work covers ignition, thermostats and controls, burners and orifices, door hardware and seals, and the gas connection behind the appliance, which is the licensed part.
Enter your ZIP to see the businesses listed for this trade nearest to your site, with their phone numbers.
- Free to searchno account, nothing to submit
- Public registersevery listing names its source
- License numberswhere the state publishes one
- Directyou call the business yourself
- Our estimate
- $190-$3,200
- Time on site
- 1-6 hrs
- Fault patterns covered
- 2
- Businesses listed
- None yet
What commercial range and oven repair costs
Most of these jobs land near $450. The full spread runs $190 to $3,200, and the gap between those two ends is diagnosis against replacement rather than one business being dearer than another.
What moves it: how much of the job is parts, whether the fault is found in the first hour or the third, access to the equipment, and the hour of the day you call. We never speak to the businesses listed here, so there is no rate card behind any of this. It is our own band for the category, and there is no regional index: the figure does not change with your metro.
| How soon you need it | Typical | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled visitBooked in advance, no urgency multiplier applied | $450 | $190 to $3,200 |
| Same dayOur band multiplied by 1.12 | $505 | $215 to $3,585 |
| Emergency calloutOur band multiplied by 1.35 | $610 | $255 to $4,320 |
Our estimate from national cost bands, not a quote from any business. Every row is the same band with the urgency multiplier the site applies everywhere else, so this table can never contradict the headline number. Ask for a written price before the work starts.
Who is licensed to do this work
No California classification covers this work, which is the honest answer rather than a gap in our data. The state licenses the supply behind a machine, the gas line, the exhaust duct, the refrigeration circuit and the electrical feed, and it does not license the machine. So there is no register row to read and no license number to print, and a page that offered you a plumber for it would be inventing the match.
Which trade covers which machineIf it is down right now
Everything below is about our mechanism. We hold no hours for any business on this site, have never contacted one, and cannot tell you who is awake, so none of this is a promise that somebody answers.
- Enter the ZIP of your premises. We measure from that ZIP to the address each business filed with its licensing authority and keep everything inside 25 miles.
- The order is distance, nearest first. Nobody buys a position in it and there is nothing here to sell.
- If fewer than three businesses clear the filters, the ring steps out toward 75 miles and the page tells you it widened. The distances you then see are the real ones.
- Each listing carries the phone number the register publishes. You call it yourself. We have no phone line, take no fee and pass nothing on.
- Our band for an emergency callout is the category band multiplied by 1.35. That multiplier is ours and describes our estimate, not a rate anybody has quoted.
Before you pay for a callout
Two minutes of checks that sometimes end the problem
We would rather you did not need a callout at all. These are the checks that end the most calls for this fault.
Try a quick fix first
Some issues resolve without a truck roll. Two minutes now can save the callout.
- 1
Put an oven thermometer in it before you call. An oven that is simply out of calibration is a thermostat adjustment, and knowing the actual temperature saves a diagnostic visit.
- 2
Check whether one burner or all of them are weak. All of them means gas supply or regulator, and that is licensed plumbing work rather than an appliance repair.
- 3
Look at the door seal and the hinges. Heat escaping past a worn gasket is the commonest reason an oven cannot hold temperature, and it is a cheap part.
- 4
Record any fault code from a combi or programmable oven. Manufacturers publish them and it shortens the visit.
What the visit actually includes
- Ignition and control diagnosis on each affected section
- Thermostat calibration or replacement
- Burner, orifice and pilot cleaning or replacement
- Door seal, hinge and latch work
- Temperature verification across the cavity before sign-off
Diagnosis
How range and oven faults usually present
Written from how these faults actually present on a working premises, not from a manual.
Burners light slowly across the whole range
Gas pressure. Often the regulator, sometimes an undersized line after a kitchen added equipment. The line is C-36 work and it is listed here.
Listed for this trade
Businesses listed for range and oven
Read from public license registers, so there is no ranking here and no distance: this page has no location to measure from. Enter your ZIP to sort by who is nearest to your site.
No listings for range and oven yet
We have not imported a license register that covers this trade yet. When one lands the businesses appear here, and each listing carries the license number, the authority that issued it and a link back to the register entry.
By location
Commercial range and oven repair near you
Local pages show which businesses are listed for that metro, how far out they sit, and the local conditions that drive demand.
Counted from the businesses we have imported for each metro center inside a 25 mile radius, and counting only those whose own license classification names this trade. General contractors licensed widely enough to take it on and subcontract it are excluded here, and still appear in a search. A metro reads “none yet” until we load a register that covers this trade there.
All coverage areasQuestions owners ask
Range and oven FAQs
Short, specific answers. If yours is not here, ask the business you call before you agree to the visit.
Why does this search return no businesses?
There is no California contractor classification for commercial cooking equipment repair, so the license registers this site is built from do not list oven technicians. Look for the manufacturer's authorized service agent for your model. The gas and electrical work behind the appliance is licensed, and those trades are listed here.
Is a deck oven a different trade?
Same answer for the appliance. Deck and brick ovens sometimes also need masonry work on the hearth or the flue, and that is C-29 masonry, which is a licensed trade you can find here.
Should I repair or replace?
Ranges are usually worth repairing well past ten years because the parts are simple. Programmable combi ovens are the opposite: once the control board goes, the repair often approaches the value of the unit.
Related work
Often booked in the same visit
Batching jobs into one mobilization is the cheapest way to buy this kind of work.
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Need range and oven sorted?
Search your ZIP to see the businesses listed for this trade nearest to your site, with the license numbers and phone numbers we hold, then call them yourself.
- Cost to search
- Free
- Account needed
- None
- Who you call
- The business