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A backyard patio with a wood-fired pizza oven and navy painted cabinets, seen close at the pizza oven's mouth.

San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area

Pizza oven repair in Russian Hill.

Heading east from the crooked block of Lombard Street and across Columbus Avenue brings you into North Beach, San Francisco's Little Italy.

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  • Three things about Russian Hill
  • 10 repairs we do here

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What Russian Hill does
to a pizza oven.

North Beach's Italian character took shape after the 1906 earthquake, when large numbers of Italian immigrants settled there.

Italian restaurants, cafes and bakeries still line Columbus Avenue and Washington Square, a short walk down from Russian Hill.

The Italian Heritage Parade, the country's longest continuously run Italian heritage celebration, travels Columbus Avenue to Washington Square every year.

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Tower living

A pizzeria at the foot of a tower sends its deck or conveyor oven's exhaust up a long shared duct, and a weak draw there shows as smoke at the oven mouth or heat trapped in the kitchen, so the duct's fan is checked along with the oven.

Tight patios and small shops

On a small patio a countertop pizza oven often stands inches from siding or a fence, and its hot back and chimney need the clearances the maker lists, since scorched wood beside it is the first sign the oven is set too close.

Older housing stock

Houses from another era often carry gas lines that were extended in stages, and a pizza oven added at the end of that chain may not get the pressure its burner needs, so a slow preheat is measured at the oven's inlet before its valve is blamed.

A visit in
Russian Hill.

Four steps from the call to a working pizza oven in Russian Hill, San Francisco.

What repairs cost
  1. 01Gas, power and draft come first
  2. 02The cause, and its cost
  3. 03Parts that ride along
  4. 04Fired up before we go

When a pizza oven
cannot wait in Russian Hill.

In Russian Hill as anywhere, these four put whoever stands at the oven's mouth, and the building around the flue, at risk, and they mean the gas or the power stays off until we arrive: a gas smell at the oven or its supply line, flame escaping the mouth or showing behind the panel or up the chimney, a hot electrical or burning smell, and smoke that fills the room instead of leaving by the flue.

All 17 problems
A stainless outdoor gas pizza oven standing alone on a counter at dusk, its door off and its stone floor cold and dark, the cabinet below open to show a propane tank with its valve closed. Gas, fire or smoke at the oven

Pizza Oven Gas Smell Near the Burner or Supply Line: Act First

6 causes, cheapest first

 A domed wood-fired pizza oven on an empty stone terrace at night, a tall orange flame curling out of its arched mouth and smoke rising toward a wooden pergola beam above, the fire on the pizza oven stone floor behind it. Gas, fire or smoke at the oven

Flames Rolling Out of the Pizza Oven Mouth or Chimney

6 causes, cheapest first

 A stainless electric deck pizza oven in an empty pizzeria kitchen after closing, a thin wisp of gray smoke drifting from the vent slots of its side control box, the pizza oven doors shut with the stone floor dark behind the glass. Gas, fire or smoke at the oven

Burning or Hot Wiring Smell From an Electric Pizza Oven

6 causes, cheapest first

 An empty rustic pizzeria dining room with a domed brick pizza oven at the far wall, a thick gray haze of smoke rolling out of the top of the pizza oven mouth and hanging under the ceiling, a low fire glowing on the stone floor inside, the tables empty and a window standing open. Gas, fire or smoke at the oven

Pizza Oven Smoke Filling the Room Instead of Leaving by the Flue

6 causes, cheapest first

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