Cooktop
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.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Low cost band
- 5 steps on the visit
- 4 problems it answers
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What the cooktop burner and igniter repair
involves.
Gas cooktop burner repair deals with the parts you can see once the grate is off: the cap, the burner head and its ports, the ceramic electrode beside it and the wire that runs down through the top. Most burners that refuse to light have nothing wrong with the gas at all. The cap sits a few degrees off, a port ring is packed with baked grease, or the electrode is wet or cracked and sends its spark into the burner base instead of across the gas. The repair begins with cleaning, drying and seating, then tests the electrode and its lead, and replaces only the head, cap or electrode that has actually failed. The spark module and the valves have a page of their own, because they sit deeper in the cooktop.
How the visit goesWhat it usually costsLow · Burner head, cap or electrode
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.
Answers 4 problemsCooktop Burner Won't Light
Cooktop Igniter Keeps Clicking · Cooktop Flame Yellow or Uneven · Cooktop Gas Smell
Comes up most onGas cooktop
Rangetop
Codes that lead hereER05
Hestan smart rangetop showing ER05.
Burner and igniter repair,
step by step.
Relight every burner from simmer to high, and hand back a top where each flame is even, blue and quiet.
Light each burner in turn and note how long it takes to catch, where the spark lands and how the flame settles.
Take off the grate, cap and head, clear the ports with a fine wire, and dry the electrode and the well it sits in.
Check the electrode for cracks, carbon tracks and a worn tip, and measure its lead back to the module.
Fit a new electrode, burner head or cap where one has failed, seated square on its base.
Relight every burner from simmer to high, and hand back a top where each flame is even, blue and quiet.
The problems
it answers.
4 of them, from cooktop burner won't light to cooktop gas smell.
All problems
Cooktop Burner Won't Light
6 causes, cheapest first
Before you call
Tell us this when you book
- Whether the burner clicks with no flame, lights slowly or lights and then goes out
- Which burner, or whether all of them act up
- Whether a pot boiled over or the top was cleaned with spray recently
- What the flame looks like when it does light
It also answers
Low,
on the site's scale.
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.
Read the full cost guideWhere it
comes up most.
Most bookings: Gas cooktop, Rangetop.
All cooktop types
The makes
we see it on.
29 makes on this site, and the cooktop burner and igniter repair on any of them. Each mark opens that make's own page.
All 29 brandsBurner and igniter repair,
where we come out.
The kitchen, the climate and the building all change how the cooktop burner and igniter repair goes. These notes are about that, metro by metro.
All service areasTampa BayFL · 31 areas
Tampa Bay gas cooktops, on a utility main or a propane tank, sit through months of humid air that leaves moisture under the burner caps, and an igniter that sparks without lighting is often cured by drying and seating the cap, or by a new electrode.
OrlandoFL · 30 areas
Orlando rental kitchens put gas cooktops in front of guests who move grates and caps around, so burner repair there often starts with a cap on the wrong burner or knocked off its base before any igniter is replaced.
Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas
In South Florida a gas cooktop is almost always a house appliance, not a tower one, and near the bay the burner work includes scraping salt crust from burner heads and electrode tips so the flame catches evenly all the way around.
New York MetroNY · 75 areas
New York gas cooktops cook daily in small kitchens, and boil-overs that run down through the burner heads onto the igniters most often keep a burner from lighting, a repair made from above once the gas valve under the counter is closed.
HoustonTX · 36 areas
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.
ChicagoIL · 50 areas
Chicagoland gas cooktops work hardest through the winter holidays, and a cracked igniter or a burner head warped by a pot boiled dry on high is what the technician most often replaces before the big cooking days.
Los AngelesCA · 95 areas
Los Angeles rangetops run sealed high-output burners and often a dedicated simmer burner, and when one goes dark the repair uses the maker's own igniter and burner parts rather than a generic fit.
San DiegoCA · 31 areas
Beach-side San Diego homes see salt on the ceramic igniters of their gas cooktops, and a burner that needs several tries to catch there usually gets a new igniter along with a cleaned burner base.
San Francisco Bay AreaCA · 74 areas
Bay Area houses that still cook on a gas cooktop are mostly older ones, and burner repair there keeps a well-made top in service, often with new igniters and caps, for owners not yet ready to switch to induction.
Questions about
the cooktop burner and igniter repair.
The burner lit fine yesterday and today it only clicks. What changed?
Can I light a cooktop burner with a match while I wait for the repair?
My enameled burner caps are chipped. Does that matter?
How should I clean burner ports without damaging them?
Back to your everyday
Ready to book the cooktop burner and igniter repair?
Have these to hand: whether the burner clicks with no flame, lights slowly or lights and then goes out, which burner, or whether all of them act up, whether a pot boiled over or the top was cleaned with spray recently, what the flame looks like when it does light.