A pizzeria with a conveyor oven and gray slab cabinets, seen close at the pizza oven's mouth.

San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Pizza oven repair in Santa Clara County.

15 cities and neighborhoods across Santa Clara County, part of San Francisco Bay Area — 2 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 Santa Clara County does
to a pizza oven.

Where pizza ovens sit in Santa Clara County: custom-built pizza ovens, family houses, gated communities.

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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.

Family houses

Yards that back onto open land invite field mice into a cold pizza oven over winter, and a nest stuffed beneath the floor or a gnawed spark lead can stop the first fire of spring, so that space is opened and cleared on a visit.

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.

Where we go
in Santa Clara County.

15 cities and neighborhoods across Santa Clara County, part of San Francisco Bay Area, 2 of them with a page on what that place does to a pizza oven. The same visit in each.

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Los Altos Hills

Los Altos Hills bans commercial zones outright, a rule California's First District Court of Appeal upheld in 1973.

Palo Alto

Palo Alto families often run a hybrid pizza oven that lights on gas and finishes on wood, and through the long dry season the ash raked from the oven floor is cooled in a metal can before it goes anywhere near mulch or dry leaves.

Almaden Valley

After Prohibition, the Almaden winery found success with its White Grenache Rosé, one of the first popular pink wines in the United States.

Campbell

Campbell's Ainsley House, a 1925 English Tudor home, was moved in the early 1990s from Hamilton and Bascom avenues and now anchors the town's historical museum.

Cupertino

De Anza College in Cupertino occupies a 112-acre site that held a winery called Beaulieu, built around 1900.

Evergreen

Evergreen's Montgomery Hill is a state landmark where John Joseph Montgomery made 55 successful flights in his flying machine.

Los Altos

Los Altos passed its own wood smoke ordinance, requiring any newly installed wood-burning device to be EPA certified.

Los Gatos

Los Gatos is one of a handful of Bay Area towns whose older wood smoke ordinance made the winter Spare the Air burning ban mandatory at the local level.

Monte Sereno

Monte Sereno's local wood smoke ordinance limits which devices can go in during a remodel and forbids burning trash in a fireplace or stove.

Mountain View

Ed LaDou, later credited with inventing California-style pizza, learned the trade as a teenager in the 1970s at a New York–style pizzeria in Mountain View.

San Jose

Under San Jose's local wood smoke ordinance, a gas fireplace may not be converted into a wood-burning one.

Santa Clara

For about a century Santa Clara lived on agriculture, with orchards and vegetables thriving in its fertile soil.

Saratoga

Saratoga's Bellgrove Circle, east of Saratoga Avenue, sits on a former vineyard once owned by the Paul Masson Winery.

Sunnyvale

Sunnyvale's wood smoke ordinance rules out building new masonry fireplaces in the city.

Willow Glen

Lincoln Avenue, the spine of Willow Glen, was called Willow Glen Road until it was renamed in 1865 after President Lincoln's assassination.

A visit in
Santa Clara County.

Four steps from the call to a working pizza oven, the same in all 15 places of Santa Clara 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 Santa Clara County.

Across Santa Clara 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