Districts we cover

Every page below turns on something that is only true in that part of the county: the decade the kitchen was framed, whether the range went into an opening sized for something narrower, how far a hood duct has to travel to reach an exterior wall, and how much tree cover sits between the house and the distribution line. Those are the things that decide what fails, and they are the reason the order we test in is not the same in a 1920s kitchen as it is in one built last decade.

• Deerwood

  Kitchens built with high-end appliances from the start, which means the first generation of built-ins is now old enough to be failing in predictable ways.

  32256

  Common calls: Convection steam ovens , Dual fuel ranges , Wall ovens , Induction cooktops

• San Marco

  A 1920s floor plan, an exterior nobody can cut into casually, and a low riverfront street — three constraints stacked on one appliance.

  32207 · historic kitchens

  Common calls: Convection steam ovens , Dual fuel ranges , All-gas ranges , Ventilation hoods , Wall ovens

• Mandarin

  A deep tree canopy over the power lines, long duct runs on large lots, and two entirely different generations of kitchen inside one ZIP.

  32223 · historic kitchens

  Common calls: Dual fuel ranges , All-gas ranges , Wall ovens , Convection steam ovens , Induction cooktops

• Riverside & Avondale

  One of the largest historic residential districts in the Southeast, and the hardest kitchens in the city to put a modern range into.

  32205 · historic kitchens

  Common calls: All-gas ranges , Dual fuel ranges , Gas rangetops , Ventilation hoods , Wall ovens

• Ortega

  One of the oldest residential areas in the city, where what is behind the cabinetry is a layered record of several decades of work rather than one clean job.

  32210 · historic kitchens

  Common calls: Gas rangetops , All-gas ranges , Dual fuel ranges , Convection steam ovens , Ventilation hoods

About the area

How far do you travel?

Duval County and about 40 miles out from downtown Jacksonville, which reaches the St. Johns and Clay County lines. If you are close to the edge of that, call and ask rather than guessing.

My oven has been odd since the last big storm — is that connected?

Often, yes, and not always the same day. Jacksonville averages around 68 thunderstorm days a year, and what damages appliance electronics is usually not one clean outage but a supply that drops out and comes back several times in a minute. An appliance can come through that night looking fine and develop an intermittent fault weeks later. Before we quote a board we check the supply, because one lost leg of a 240-volt circuit gives you a dark display with burners that still light and costs nothing to put right. Tell us when the trouble started and what happened first; that sequence changes the order we test in.

Every question we get