A technician's hands fitting a new spark electrode beside a burner base on a gas cooktop.

What we do

Cooktop
repair,
job by job.

Ten repairs we take on. Every repair listed below links to a page on that one cooktop job: the work it involves, its place on the cost scale, and the age at which a top is better replaced.

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10 repairs
9 priced jobs
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Independent repair service. Not affiliated with, authorized or endorsed by any manufacturer. Brand names and model numbers are the property of their respective owners and are used here for identification only, to describe the appliances we service.

The work itself

In the order it gets done: the cheapest cause first, and the expensive answer at the bottom where it usually belongs.

A technician kneels at an open base cabinet under a gas cooktop in a US home kitchen, shining a flashlight on the gas shutoff and the flexible connector.

Diagnostic fee

Diagnostic visit

A visit that runs every burner or zone on the cooktop, looks under it from the cabinet below and names the failed part before anything is ordered.

A technician's hand presses a new white ceramic electrode into place beside a bare burner base on a stainless gas cooktop built into a countertop in a US home kitchen.

Cost: low

Burner and igniter repair

Gas cooktop and rangetop burners that will not light, light late or burn with a ragged flame, traced to the electrode, the burner head, the cap or the ports.

A gas cooktop lies upside down on a padded work mat on a kitchen countertop in a US home, its underside open to show the valve manifold and a small black spark module, while a technician's hand holds a meter probe to a wire.

Cost: low to moderate

Spark module and gas valve repair

The parts deeper in a gas cooktop: the spark module that fires the electrodes, the switches on the valve stems, the valves that meter the flame and the regulator.

A black glass electric cooktop lies face down on a padded cloth on a kitchen island in a US home, its underside open, while a technician lifts a round radiant element dish out of the frame.

Cost: low to moderate

Radiant element repair

Zones under a smooth glass cooktop that stay dark, heat weakly or cut out, traced to the ribbon element, its limiter or the relay that feeds it.

Two technicians lower a new black glass cooktop panel into a cutout in a white quartz countertop in a US home kitchen, the cabinet doors below closed.

Cost: moderate to highest

Glass top replacement

A new glass-ceramic surface for a radiant, induction or gas-on-glass cooktop that has cracked, chipped at the edge or been pitted beyond cleaning.

A technician's hand holds a new spiral coil element above a white electric coil cooktop set into a laminate countertop in a US home kitchen, a chrome drip bowl and a burnt receptacle visible at the open position.

Cost: lowest

Coil element and receptacle repair

Coil elements on an electric cooktop that stay cold, spark at the plug or heat unevenly, along with the receptacles, drip bowls and wiring they plug into.

An induction cooktop lies upside down on a padded mat on a kitchen island in a US home, its bottom cover off to show copper coils and a green power board, while a technician's hand holds a meter probe to a terminal.

Cost: moderate to highest

Induction board and coil repair

Induction zones that stop sensing pans, cut out, buzz or show codes, traced to the power boards, the coils, their sensors and the links to the controls.

A technician's fingertip rests on the glass touch keys along the front edge of a black cooktop built into a white countertop in a US home kitchen, a meter and a folded towel on the counter beside it.

Cost: moderate

Touch control repair

Glass touch keys and sliders that ignore a finger, start zones by themselves or stay locked, traced to the keys, the control board or the lock setting.

A technician's hand fits a new control switch behind a row of black knobs on the front edge of an electric coil cooktop built into a countertop in a US home kitchen, the top panel propped open.

Cost: low

Infinite switch and knob repair

Knob-controlled cooktop zones that heat only on high, will not simmer or will not switch off, and the worn knobs and switches behind them.

A stainless downdraft vent panel stands raised behind a black induction cooktop set into a gray quartz island in a US home kitchen, while a technician reaches into the open cabinet below toward the blower housing.

Cost: low to moderate

Cooling fan and downdraft repair

The fan that cools an induction or touch-control cooktop's boards, and the downdraft vent that rises behind the cooking surface or pulls air down between the burners.

Before you book

What each of these usually costs

Bands rather than prices, because nobody can quote a figure before the cooktop has been looked at — and the diagnostic visit that decides it, set against the repair.

10 repairsCheapest firstDiagnostic visit Read the cost guide

What a repair
usually costs.

The fair comparison for a cooktop repair is not a new cooktop's shelf tag but a new one that fits your existing cutout. Counter openings differ between makes by fractions of an inch, a model that needs a larger hole means recutting stone or replacing a section of countertop, and a change of fuel brings a gas fitter or an electrician into the job. That is why electrodes, coils, switches, elements and fans are nearly always worth replacing, and why a new cooktop tends to win only when the glass and a board fail together, a discontinued model has no boards left, or a gas burner box has corroded through.

Diagnostic visit: A cooktop is priced once it has been tested.

Read the full cost guide

Repair	Relative cost	Notes
Burner head, cap or electrode	low	Cleaning and reseating a burner needs no parts at all. An electrode, a burner head or a cap is a small part fitted from above, with no need to lift the cooktop out of the counter.
Spark module, gas valve or regulator	low to moderate	A spark switch or module sits toward the lower end. A valve or a regulator comes out higher, because the cooktop is raised from its cutout and every joint that was opened is leak-tested before it goes back.
Radiant element or limiter	low to moderate	The element itself is a modest part. The time goes into lifting a glass cooktop out of the counter and resealing it, and a dual or triple element sits a little above a single ring.
Glass-ceramic top	moderate to highest	The panel is large and made for one model, and moving the elements, coils and keys across to it takes time. On a premium induction cooktop this is among the costliest jobs the site lists.
Coil element, receptacle or drip bowl	lowest	Coils, receptacles and drip bowls are some of the least costly parts a cooktop uses. Scorched wire behind a receptacle adds a little time and not much more.
Induction power board, coil or sensor	moderate to highest	A coil temperature sensor stays near the middle. A power board, or a pair of boards on a wide induction cooktop, sits at the top of this site's scale.
Touch control board or key panel	moderate	A reseated ribbon cable costs little. A control board lands in the middle, and a key panel bonded to the glass can push the job toward the glass-top row.
Infinite switch or knob	low	A knob is minor, and a switch is a short job reached through the lifted top or the front panel. Burnt terminals on the switch are renewed during the same visit.
Cooling fan, downdraft blower or lift motor	low to moderate	A cooling fan under an induction cooktop sits near the low end. A downdraft blower reached through the cabinet or ducted under the floor, or the lift motor of a rising vent, moves the job toward the middle.

Start from what you noticed

Most people arrive knowing the symptom, not the repair. These are the jobs each one usually turns out to be, cheapest first — and every one of them starts with the diagnostic visit.

All 17 problems