--- title: "Pizza Oven Repair in Chicago | PizzaOvenRepair.center" description: "Pizza oven repair across Chicago. What the kitchens here do to pizza ovens, the areas we cover, and how to book." url: "https://pizzaovenrepair.center/locations/chicagoland/" --- Chicago, IL # Pizza oven repair in Chicago. Chicagoland bakes pizza two ways: deep dish and thin, square-cut tavern pies in shops whose deck and conveyor ovens run all year, and backyard domes that work from late spring into fall. Freeze-thaw is the main threat to backyard refractory, so domes are covered for winter, and many multi-unit buildings keep open-flame ovens off wooden porches. Spring brings crack checks, slow curing fires and cleared flues. ## What Chicago does to a pizza oven. Several Chicago restaurants claim to have first served tavern-style pizza, a thin, crisp crust cut into squares, between 1946 and 1950. Lou Malnati's, which Lou and Jean Malnati opened in Lincolnwood on March 17, 1971, ran 61 restaurants across the Chicago area as of April 2016. The Chicago Department of Public Health's Food Protection Division inspects about 16,000 licensed food establishments in the city, from restaurants and bakeries to seasonal and temporary food events. Illinois EPA rules make it illegal to burn anything but landscape waste in or within a mile of a town of 1,000 or more people, and food and its packaging may never be burned in the open. The counties ### Older housing stock In historic districts a backyard pizza oven usually stands in a small walled garden, and its smoke rolls along old brick toward the neighbors' windows, so a taller flue, a cap and dry hardwood matter more there than the oven's size. ### Tower living A gas pizza oven on a high terrace catches crosswinds that blow straight into its open mouth and push the flame off the burner, so a visit up there checks the oven's placement, its wind shelter and the gas supply before any part is judged. ### Mixed housing Streets of old and new houses hold pizza ovens of every age, from a mason-built brick dome decades old to a new countertop gas model with a digital thermometer, and the technician carries parts and refractory mortar for both. ### Family houses Weekly family pizza nights wear a home oven's floor tiles and burner steadily, and flour and cheese that fall through gaps into the burner box can smolder, so the box is cleaned and the floor joints checked on every visit. ## The work, in Chicago. Ten pizza oven repairs, cheapest first, each with what Chicago changes about it. [What we do](https://pizzaovenrepair.center/services/) ### Pizza oven diagnostic visit Chicagoland diagnostic visits cover two worlds: the deck ovens behind deep-dish and thin-crust shops that bake all winter, and backyard domes that come out of the freeze in spring with hairline cracks the technician maps before any fire is lit. ### Pizza oven cleaning and safety inspection Chicagoland owners often book a cleaning and safety inspection in spring, after the pizza oven has stood through the snow, and the technician clears nests, checks the gas connection and looks for freeze damage to dome and chimney. ### Pizza oven burner and igniter repair After a Chicagoland winter a backyard gas pizza oven's igniter lead can crack in the cold and its battery module corrode, while shop deck ovens wear their burner orifices through year-round baking, so both kinds of call peak in spring. ### Pizza oven gas valve and thermocouple repair Deep freezes in Chicagoland can leave moisture in a backyard pizza oven's gas line and slow its valve in the first cold weeks of use, while the city's deck ovens need their pilot safety valves tested on a schedule the shop can keep. ### Pizza oven door and chimney repair Chicagoland's winter gusts can push smoke back down a short pizza oven flue, and ice at the chimney's base breaks its seal to the dome, so repairs there reseal that joint and fit a cap built to stand up to the lake wind. ### Pizza oven floor and dome repair Freeze-thaw is the main enemy of Chicagoland pizza domes: water in the refractory expands on every cold night, so a spring visit maps each crack, fills and seals the shell, and advises a snug cover for the following winter. ### Pizza oven thermostat and control repair Chicagoland deep-dish pans need long, steady bakes, and a deck oven thermostat that swings wide lets the crust burn before the center sets, so shops there book calibration as soon as bake times begin to wander. ### Deck oven element and deck repair Chicagoland deck ovens carry heavy deep-dish pans for long stretches, and that weight and heat crack stones and tire the elements beneath them, so repairs there often replace a full deck of stones at once. ### Conveyor oven belt and motor repair Chicagoland tavern-style shops send many thin, square-cut pies through conveyor ovens every night, and a belt that runs unevenly darkens one edge, so belt tension, the drive shaft and the speed setting are checked on one visit. ### Pizza oven blower and fan repair Chicagoland conveyor ovens bake through winters with the kitchen shut tight, and grease builds on the impingement blower wheels until they run out of balance and wear the bearings, so a noisy blower is cleaned and balanced there. ## The pizza ovens we see most here. Concentrated in Chicago more than elsewhere: commercial deck oven, conveyor and rapid-cook pizza oven, wood-fired pizza oven. [All pizza oven types](https://pizzaovenrepair.center/types/) Commercial deck oven ### Deck oven repair Chicago Deep-dish pans bake long on heavy stones. Conveyor and rapid-cook pizza oven ### Conveyor pizza oven repair Chicago Tavern-style shops run their belts late every night. Wood-fired pizza oven ### Pizza oven dome repair Chicago Winter freezes crack backyard refractory. ## What a pizza oven visit in Chicago looks like. Four steps from the call to a working pizza oven, the same in each of the 45 areas of Chicago. [What repairs cost](https://pizzaovenrepair.center/cost/) 1. 01 Gas, power and draft come first 2. 02 The cause, and its cost 3. 03 Parts that ride along 4. 04 Fired up before we go ## When a pizza oven cannot wait in Chicago. Across 5 counties of Chicago, the four 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](https://pizzaovenrepair.center/problems/) Gas, fire or smoke at the oven ### Pizza Oven Gas Smell Near the Burner or Supply Line: Act First 6 causes, cheapest first Gas, fire or smoke at the oven ### Flames Rolling Out of the Pizza Oven Mouth or Chimney 6 causes, cheapest first Gas, fire or smoke at the oven ### Burning or Hot Wiring Smell From an Electric Pizza Oven 6 causes, cheapest first Gas, fire or smoke at the oven ### Pizza Oven Smoke Filling the Room Instead of Leaving by the Flue 6 causes, cheapest first ## The makes we service in Chicago. 16 pizza oven makes, across 5 counties and 45 areas of Chicago. [All 16 brands](https://pizzaovenrepair.center/brands/) ## Where we go in Chicago. Every place where we repair pizza ovens in Chicago sits on one of these 5 counties. Each county page lists its cities and neighborhoods. [All 9 metros](https://pizzaovenrepair.center/locations/) [Chicago Cook County 20 cities and neighborhoods](https://pizzaovenrepair.center/locations/chicagoland/cook-county/) [Chicago DuPage County 10 cities and neighborhoods](https://pizzaovenrepair.center/locations/chicagoland/dupage-county/) [Chicago Lake County 8 cities and neighborhoods](https://pizzaovenrepair.center/locations/chicagoland/lake-county/) [Chicago Will County 4 cities and neighborhoods](https://pizzaovenrepair.center/locations/chicagoland/will-county/) [Chicago Kane County 3 cities and neighborhoods](https://pizzaovenrepair.center/locations/chicagoland/kane-county/) [Not in Chicago? 8 more metros, each with its counties All service areas](https://pizzaovenrepair.center/locations/) --- **[Read on the site: Pizza Oven Repair in Chicago | PizzaOvenRepair.center](https://pizzaovenrepair.center/locations/chicagoland/)** **[Book a visit with PizzaOvenRepair.center](https://pizzaovenrepair.center/schedule/)**