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

Cook County, Chicago

Pizza oven repair in West Loop / Near West Side.

McDonald's corporate headquarters now stands on Randolph Street, where Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios used to be.

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  • Three things about West Loop / Near West Side
  • 10 repairs we do here

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What West Loop / Near West Side does
to a pizza oven.

The area takes in Fulton River, Fulton Market and Greektown, and popular restaurants line Randolph Street.

Many of its former factories and warehouses have become loft condominiums, restaurants, bars and art galleries.

The Fulton River District is home to the Ogilvie Transportation Center, the old Chicago & North Western Station and a major commuter rail terminal.

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Tower living

Most tower rules keep wood fires and open-flame pizza ovens off private balconies, so pizza in a high-rise comes from a shared gas oven on the amenity terrace or the pizzeria at street level, and a shared oven's igniter and door wear out under many hands.

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

Older neighborhoods keep some of the country's longest-running pizzerias, whose deck and brick ovens have been rebuilt around the same flue for decades, and a smoke or draw problem there is traced up the old chimney before anything in the oven is replaced.

A visit in
West Loop / Near West Side.

Four steps from the call to a working pizza oven in West Loop / Near West Side, Cook County.

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 West Loop / Near West Side.

In West Loop / Near West Side 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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