A long stainless built-in grill set into a stone island.

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Grill
types,
told apart.

Four kinds of grill, four ways of making heat. A built-in grill head burns gas in tube or cast burners under the grate and lives in a counter cutout; a cart grill does the same on wheels, usually off a propane tank; an infrared grill heats a ceramic or mesh surface until it glows and cooks with radiant heat; and a pellet or hybrid grill burns wood pellets fed by an auger and a fan, or adds charcoal to gas. Naming yours in the booking tells the technician which burners, which controls and which gas to expect.

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4 types
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What each one costs

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Four types,
each its own job.

Each one is built, reached and repaired differently. Open yours for what fails on it and what the work involves.

Built-in gas grill

A stainless grill head dropped into a masonry or steel island, fed by a tank or the house gas line, with its burners, knobs and lid working in open weather.

Freestanding gas grill

A gas grill on its own cart with wheels, side shelves and a propane tank below, or a hose to a house gas outlet, rolled into place on the patio.

Close view of an open stainless grill with one infrared sear burner glowing bright orange across its honeycombed ceramic face under a heavy stainless grate, blue-flame burners beside it, the grill's hood raised on a patio, background softly blurred, daylight, seasonless.

Infrared grill

Grills that cook with radiant heat: ceramic or mesh infrared burners, sear stations beside the main burners, and radiant glass or emitter plates over a gas flame.

A stainless pellet grill with its side hopper and a plain digital controller with a blank dark display, standing on a stone patio with its lid open, thin blue smoke rising from clean grates, the hopper lid closed, shrubs softly blurred behind, daylight, seasonless.

Pellet and hybrid grill

Pellet grills with a hopper, auger and electric igniter under a digital controller, and hybrids that burn gas, charcoal or wood in the same firebox.

Not sure which you have?

Start from what it is doing

If the grill on your patio does not obviously match one of these, work from the symptom instead. It reaches the same answer from the other end.

17 problemsIn order of costWhat to check first Go to the problems

Which one
is yours?

One look at the grill usually settles it. The first sign of each type is on the right; its page has the rest, and what that type means for a repair.

Built-in or cart

Built-inBuilt-in gas grill

The grill has no cart and no wheels: its firebox sits down in a cutout in a stone, stucco or steel counter, and only the hood and the knob panel stand above it.

CartFreestanding gas grill

The grill rolls: it stands on a cart with casters or wheels, and it can be pushed away from the wall to reach its back.

InfraredInfrared grill

Under the grate you see a flat plate that glows orange across its whole face instead of a row of small blue flames along a tube.

PelletPellet and hybrid grill

A hopper stands on one side of the cooking box with a lid over it, and a small motor housing sits where the hopper meets the box.

What a repair
usually costs.

Weigh the repair against what a new grill of the same class would really cost you, delivered, set in place, connected to its gas and checked, not only its catalog price. A built-in head also brings the question of whether a new one fits the old cutout, which often decides the matter in favor of repair. Burners, igniters, heat shields, a regulator and a cleaning are small next to a new grill, and a valve or a controller is usually still worth it. Where it tips the other way is a firebox or hood rotted through, or a grill so old its parts are no longer made; then the technician writes out both sums and the call is yours.

Grill diagnostic visit: A grill is priced once it has been lit and looked at.

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Repair	Relative cost	Notes
Venturi cleared, burner ports opened, or rusted main burners replaced	low to moderate	Brushing webs out of the venturi necks and opening the ports is the light end. One or two new burners sit in the middle, and a full set of cast or stainless burners for a wide built-in head, fitted and each flame set, is the fuller job.
Spark module, piezo button, electrode, ignition wire or hot-surface igniter	low	A new battery module or a single electrode with its gap set costs little beyond the visit. Several electrodes and wires run behind the panel, or a hot-surface igniter on a premium head, add parts and time.
Burner valve, knob, regulator, hose or orifices for a gas conversion	low to moderate	A new regulator and hose on a cart grill, leak-checked, sits low here. A burner valve replaced behind the panel is a step up, and a full propane-to-natural-gas conversion with every orifice changed is the larger job.
Ceramic infrared tile, mesh or glass emitter, or a complete sear burner	moderate	Correcting a sear burner's ignition and burning off light fouling is the smaller end. A new ceramic tile or screen is a step higher, and a complete infrared burner assembly from the maker is the dearest part of this work.
Rotisserie motor, spit, bushing, or the rear infrared back burner	low to moderate	A bushing or a straight new spit is modest. A replacement rotisserie motor sits in the middle, and a back burner with its igniter and valve, fitted along the rear wall of the hood, is the fuller job.
Flavorizer bars, heat plates, briquettes or radiants, cooking grates and grease tray	low to moderate	A few heat shields on a small grill are the light end. A full set of shields and grates for a wide head, or ceramic radiants with a new grease tray and the ledges they rest on straightened, moves the job up.
Auger clearing, auger motor, hot rod, combustion fan, probe or controller on a pellet grill	moderate	Clearing a jammed auger tube and a new probe or hot rod sit low in this band. An auger motor or a combustion fan is a step higher, and a new controller for a connected pellet grill is the dearest part here.
Hood lights, knob lights, transformer, power supply, switches and harness	low to moderate	A lamp, a lens or a sealed connector is modest. A transformer or a power supply is a step up, and a harness replaced where heat or rodents damaged it along the firebox takes the most time.
Deep cleaning of the firebox, burners and grease path, with a gas and spark safety check	lowest	A full take-down, cleaning and leak check of one grill is the smallest job on this list. Any burner, hose or igniter found failing during it is priced as its own repair, before any work is done.

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Questions about
the types.

Which grills does this site cover?

The grill itself: built-in gas grill heads set into a counter, freestanding gas grills on a cart, infrared and sear grills, and pellet grills and gas-and-charcoal hybrids. The island around a built-in grill, with its cooler, side burner and warming drawer, belongs to our sister outdoor kitchen site, and a pizza oven to its own.

Is an infrared burner fixed the same way as a tube burner?

Not quite. A tube or cast burner mixes gas and air and burns it at a row of ports, so rust, webs and clogged ports are its usual trouble. An infrared burner pushes that mixture through a ceramic tile or a steel mesh that glows, and a tile cracked by grease or water, or a mesh clogged with drippings, calls for a different part and a different fix.

Can a pellet grill be repaired like a gas grill?

Partly. A pellet grill has no gas valve or burner; it has an auger that feeds pellets from the hopper, a hot rod that lights them in the firepot, a combustion fan and a controller reading a probe. Most calls come down to one of those four, or to pellets that swelled with damp and jammed the auger.

What about my grill helps the technician most?

Which kind it is (built-in head, cart grill, infrared or pellet), the make, roughly how old it is, whether it burns propane or natural gas, whether it was ever converted, and how it spent last winter. With that the truck is packed for your grill and the slot is sized for the job.

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Grilltypes,told apart.

Four types, each its own job.