A pizzeria kitchen with a deck oven and white shaker cabinets, seen close at the pizza oven's mouth.

San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Pizza oven repair in San Mateo County.

13 cities and neighborhoods across San Mateo County, part of San Francisco Bay Area — 3 with a page on what that place does to a pizza oven.

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10 repairs we do here

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What San Mateo County does
to a pizza oven.

Where pizza ovens sit in San Mateo County: gated communities, custom-built pizza ovens, backyard pizza nights.

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Gated communities

On large lots behind a gate, a wood-fired oven may stand far from the house beside a pool or a lawn, where embers from the chimney can reach dry plantings, so a visit confirms the spark screen is sound and the ash is removed only when cold.

Custom-built pizza ovens

Designer builds may clad a pizza oven's dome in tile or stucco chosen to match the house, and patching a crack there is planned so the finish is matched and the dome is cured slowly before its surface is restored.

Backyard pizza nights

Where a backyard is built around a pool and a pizza oven, the oven's floor and burner work hardest, and floor tiles loosen and burner ports clog on a weekly cycle while the masonry around them needs little more than cleaning.

Where we go
in San Mateo County.

13 cities and neighborhoods across San Mateo County, part of San Francisco Bay Area, 3 of them with a page on what that place does to a pizza oven. The same visit in each.

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Atherton

Atherton properties tend to set a large wood-fired dome in a pavilion or loggia away from the house, where it may be fired for a crowd, and a dome held at full heat for five hours shows any weak mortar joint by the end of the night.

Hillsborough

The upper watersheds of Hillsborough's three creeks are closed-canopy oak woodland, dominated by coast live oak, Pacific madrone and California bay.

Woodside

English-speaking settlers first came to Woodside in the early 19th century to log its rich stands of redwoods.

Belmont

Belmont probably takes its name from the Italian bel monte, a beautiful mountain, after a rounded hill nearby.

Burlingame

Burlingame has long been home to candy and chocolate makers, among them Guittard Chocolate and the It's-It ice cream factory.

Foster City

Foster City's Hillbarn Theatre, founded in 1940, stages live theatre all year and runs classes and summer camps for young people.

Half Moon Bay

At the Half Moon Bay harbor, fishermen sell crab and fish straight off their boats, and restaurants will fillet the catch for the buyer.

Menlo Park

Menlo Park's wood smoke ordinance called for uncertified fireplaces to come out during a remodel or sale and prohibited converting a gas fireplace to wood.

Millbrae

Small shops and restaurants reflecting Millbrae's diversity line its downtown along El Camino Real and Broadway.

Portola Valley

Portola Valley is known for a wide trail network kept up by the town and by the regional open space district at Windy Hill.

Redwood City

Redwood City's Independence Day parade has been held every year since 1939 and bills itself as the largest in California.

San Carlos

Oak trees gave the first people of the San Carlos area acorns, and mortars and pestles found there show that food was ground on the spot.

San Mateo

Much of the land south of early San Mateo stayed in farms into the 1900s, John Whipple's large horse farm among them.

A visit in
San Mateo County.

Four steps from the call to a working pizza oven, the same in all 13 places of San Mateo County.

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 Mateo County.

Across San Mateo County, 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