A built-in cooktop in a large Texas suburban kitchen with a 36-inch gas cooktop in an island with a downdraft vent behind it, seen from across the room.

Houston, TX

Cooktop repair in Houston.

Houston is a gas-friendly metro, so a built-in cooktop may be gas, radiant or induction, with a separate rangetop in larger kitchens. Storm outages and the surges when power returns reach spark modules and control boards, and long humid summers work on switches and connectors under the counter.

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What Houston does
to a cooktop.

Hurricane Beryl, which came ashore in Texas early on July 8, 2024, left 2.2 million CenterPoint Energy customers without power, the most in the company's history.

Tropical Storm Allison flooded about 73,000 houses across Harris County in June 2001.

In the city of Houston, about 82 percent of renter households heat mainly with electricity, while about 59 percent of owner households use utility gas.

About 34 percent of the city's renter-occupied homes are in buildings of 50 or more units, against about 2 percent of owner-occupied homes.

The counties

Family houses

Breakfasts, weeknight pasta and weekend pancakes put a family cooktop through many short heat cycles a day, which is hardest on the igniters and on the switches behind the most-used knobs.

Newer developments

Once a subdivision's cooktops reach middle age, any replacement has to fit the opening the builder cut, so the visit measures that cutout and weighs it against the repair before anyone orders a new top.

Cooking for a crowd

Long dinners with every burner lit build heat beneath the counter, where a cooktop's control board, cooling fan and knob switches sit, and those parts fail sooner in houses that entertain often.

A second cooktop

Main and secondary cooktops are often bought years apart, perhaps a gas rangetop in the kitchen and a small induction top in the guest suite, so each is diagnosed and supplied on its own.

The work,
in Houston.

Ten cooktop repairs, cheapest first, each with what Houston changes about it.

What we do

Diagnostic visit

Houston kitchens split between gas cooktops and electric or induction ones, so the diagnostic first settles the fuel and the model, then tests burners, zones and controls, and after a storm outage looks for surge damage on the boards.

Coil element and receptacle repair

Older Houston houses with electric kitchens may still have a coil cooktop, and a burned receptacle there can ruin the coil and drip bowl with it, so all three are replaced when the terminals are pitted.

Burner and igniter repair

On a Houston built-in gas cooktop a burner that lights but burns lazily or lifts off its ports usually needs its ports cleared or its cap reseated, and in homes on propane the technician confirms the burner orifices match that gas.

Spark module and gas valve repair

After a Houston outage, the jolt as the grid comes back can knock out a gas cooktop's spark module, so a top whose burners all stopped sparking after an outage usually needs the module rather than a set of new igniters.

Radiant element repair

In Houston homes that cook on electricity, a radiant zone that heats slowly after a surge or brownout often has a damaged limiter or switch rather than a burned ribbon, and testing separates the two before a part is ordered.

Infinite switch and knob repair

Houston electric cooktops that heat only at full power, or not at all, often have a burned infinite switch, tested at its terminals and replaced with the breaker off.

Cooling fan and downdraft repair

Houston island cooktops with pop-up downdrafts gather heavy grease from daily cooking, and a vent that stalls on its way up or a blower that hums without moving air is the usual repair.

Glass top replacement

Houston glass tops crack from impact or from a cold spill on a hot zone, and until the new glass arrives the breaker stays off, since a crack can let liquid reach the elements and wiring below.

Induction board and coil repair

Houston induction cooktops depend on their cooling fans to protect the power board through the hot months, and a top that cuts out during long cooking often has a failing fan or a board that overheated, tested together.

Touch control repair

Houston storm surges reach the touch boards on electric and induction cooktops, and after an outage the repair first confirms whether a reset at the breaker clears the panel or the board needs replacing.