A covered patio with a built-in grill and dark walnut cabinets, seen close at the grill's knobs.

Cook County, Chicago

Grill repair in Gold Coast.

Gold Coast high-rises limit grilling to building terraces and a few private decks with natural gas, and lake wind at height can snuff a burner set low, so wind guards and a steady gas supply matter more there than anywhere in the city.

(844) 660-6426

Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm

Cook County
Three things about Gold Coast
10 repairs we do here

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What Gold Coast does
to a grill.

Bounded roughly by North Avenue, Oak Street, Clark Street and the lake drive, the district joined the National Register in 1978.

The area became the address of Chicago's richest families after Potter Palmer put up a forty-two-room castle on the lakefront drive in 1885.

Oak Street Beach, at the district's edge, looks out over Lake Michigan with the skyline behind it.

Gas service in the Gold Coast comes from Peoples Gas, which counted 828,000 residential and business customers in the City of Chicago in 2015.

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Tower living

Many fire codes and condo rules keep gas and charcoal grills off apartment balconies, so grilling in a tower usually happens at shared amenity-deck grills piped to natural gas, and with so many users their knobs, igniters and grates wear out on a short cycle.

Older housing stock

Mature trees over older gardens drop leaves and twigs into grill hoods and grease trays, and a tray full of dry debris under a hot firebox is how many grease fires begin, so it is emptied on every visit here.

Premium built-in grill heads

A built-in grill in a custom counter sits in a tight cutout, with an insulated jacket where the maker calls for one, and lifting the head out for valve or manifold work is planned so the stone around it is protected.

A visit in
Gold Coast.

Four steps from the call to a working grill in Gold Coast, Cook County.

What repairs cost

01The gas and the grill, checked first
02What failed, and what it costs
03Parts on the truck
04Lit before we leave

When a grill
cannot wait in Gold Coast.

In Gold Coast as anywhere, these four put the people at the grill in danger and mean the gas stays closed until we come: a gas smell at the grill, the hose or the tank, a grease fire that keeps burning with the knobs down, flame curling out behind the control panel, or a knob that turns to off while the burner stays lit.

All 17 problems