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

San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Pizza oven repair in San Francisco.

10 cities and neighborhoods across San Francisco, part of San Francisco Bay Area — 6 with a page on what that place does to a pizza oven.

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10 places covered
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10 repairs we do here

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What San Francisco does
to a pizza oven.

Where pizza ovens sit in San Francisco: tight patios and small shops, older housing stock, custom-built pizza ovens.

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Tight patios and small shops

Small pizzerias squeeze a deck oven and a conveyor into a kitchen barely wider than the ovens, and with no room behind them heat and grease settle on the controls and blower motors, so their cooling paths are cleared on every visit.

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.

Custom-built pizza ovens

A custom pizza oven set into stone often combines a refractory dome, a gas burner under the floor and a separate wood chamber, each with its own controls, so a technician checks the whole oven on a visit rather than the one part that stopped.

Where we go
in San Francisco.

10 cities and neighborhoods across San Francisco, part of San Francisco Bay Area, 6 of them with a page on what that place does to a pizza oven. The same visit in each.

10places covered 6counties in San Francisco Bay Area 10repairs

All of San Francisco Bay Area

Marina

The Marina's homes stand on filled land in a seismic zone, so a heavy masonry pizza oven there needs a stand that cannot rock, and bay fog carrying salt reaches the steel door and the flue collar, which are the first parts to show rust.

Noe Valley

Noe Valley sits in the sunny pocket of the city, which suits a small wood-fired oven on a garden stand, and with neighbors close on three sides the curing fires after a repair are kept small and the flue is swept so the smoke stays light.

Pacific Heights

In Pacific Heights a backyard pizza oven usually lives on a terraced garden below the house, and on that steep ground its chimney top sits close to the windows of the uphill neighbor, so flue height and a clean fire of dry hardwood count for more here than oven size.

Presidio Heights

A new home in Presidio Heights, like any new Bay Area building, may not include a wood-burning device, and the ban covers EPA-certified stoves and pellet units too.

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.

Sea Cliff

Willis Polk designed three Scenic Way houses in Sea Cliff in 1914, and Julia Morgan designed another there in 1921.

Also covered in San Francisco

Bernal HeightsA group of restaurants and cafés sits at the foot of Bernal Heights' northern slope, near its Cesar Chavez Street border.
Cole ValleyCole Valley, which sits between Sutro Forest and Clayton Street, was a favorite of dot-com workers in the late 1990s.
St. Francis WoodWith no visible businesses, St. Francis Wood keeps a lower profile than wealthy neighborhoods such as the Marina District and Pacific Heights.
West PortalMom-and-pop stores, restaurants and saloons crowd the few blocks of West Portal, which is why people so often call it village-like.

A visit in
San Francisco.

Four steps from the call to a working pizza oven, the same in all 10 places of San Francisco.

What repairs cost

01Gas, power and draft come first
02The cause, and its cost
03Parts that ride along
04Fired up before we go

When a pizza oven
cannot wait in San Francisco.

Across San Francisco, the four problems where a pizza oven smells of gas, lets fire out of its mouth or into its chimney, gives off a burning electrical smell, or pushes its smoke back into the room.

All 17 problems