Cooktop Repair in Colorado Springs

Gas, electric radiant and induction cooktops share little except the counter they sit in, so the first thing our technician asks is which one you have. Best Pro repairs all three in homes across Colorado Springs — from Briargate and Northgate to Old Colorado City and the Broadmoor area — and in Monument and around Fort Carson.

Gas cooktops

• No flame, or clicking that won’t stop. Often just a boil-over: water or food on the burner cap, the base or the igniter. Give a wet burner a few hours to dry before deciding it’s broken. If it still misbehaves, the igniter, the spark module or the switch behind that knob has failed.
• The flame dies as soon as you let go of the knob. Bosch and other European-style cooktops put a flame-failure thermocouple on every burner, and the knob has to be held in for a few seconds while it heats. If it still dies after that, the thermocouple or the safety valve it controls has worn out.
• Yellow tips, lifting flames, soot on the pans. Clogged ports, a cap sitting crooked, or a burner that was never adjusted for the elevation. Gas cooktops are rated at sea level, and at 6,000 feet some models need the orifice or air adjustment described in their installation manual.

Slow cooking isn’t always the burner

Water boils at about 201°F in Colorado Springs, so pasta, rice and beans take longer to cook through even at a rolling boil. That’s the altitude. A burner that heats a pot much more slowly than the one next to it, or whose flame looks different from the others, is a repair.

Electric radiant cooktops

• A zone stays cold, or won’t turn down from high. The element itself, the infinite switch that cycles it, or, if the cooktop has touch controls, a relay on its board.
• The hot-surface light won’t go out although the glass is cool: a limiter stuck inside the element, or a relay.

Induction cooktops

• A zone ignores the pan. Try a fridge magnet on the bottom of the pan: no firm grip, no induction heating. With a pan that passes, the zone’s coil, its sensor or the power board is next.
• It shuts itself off with an error. Induction electronics are cooled by a fan that draws air from below. A failed fan, or a drawer packed so tight underneath that no air gets in, overheats the cooktop. Summer thunderstorms and the surges they bring are hard on induction boards too.
• The touch controls do nothing. Make sure the child lock is off and the glass is dry; if the keys still don’t react, the touch control board is the likely cause.

Cracked glass

A cracked top can be replaced. Until then, don’t cook on it — a spill can run through the crack into the wiring.

You get a firm price after the diagnostic and before any work; typical costs are on our prices page. Brands include Bosch, Miele, KitchenAid, GE, Whirlpool, Samsung, LG, Frigidaire and Electrolux, and the high-end Wolf and Dacor lines have pages of their own. Burners on top of an oven: range and stove repair. Restaurant burners: commercial cooktop repair.