A technician in a plain gray work shirt holds a new stainless tube burner beside an open cold stainless pizza oven on a patio, the pizza oven's stone floor lifted out and resting on the counter, a spark electrode with a white ceramic body visible at the burner end, the gas knob at off, daylight, seasonless.

Pizza Oven Burner and Igniter Repair

Pizza oven burners cleared or replaced and igniters fitted and gapped, so the flame lights first time and burns blue and steady under the stone.

(844) 747-3662

Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm

Low to moderate cost band
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5 problems it answers

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What the pizza oven burner and igniter repair
involves.

The burner is where a gas pizza oven makes its heat, and the igniter is what starts it. In an outdoor oven the burner runs along the back or one side and throws its flame up across the dome; in a deck oven a long burner lies under each deck; in a gas conveyor a burner heats the air the blowers push. Insects nest in the air shutter, crumbs and flour fall through the deck onto the ports, and heat slowly warps and scales the burner, so the flame goes yellow, lifts off the ports or lights with a thump. The igniter is a spark electrode, a hot-surface element or a pilot that lights the main flame, and it fails in its own way: a spark that jumps to the frame instead of the burner, a ceramic that cracks, a hot-surface element that glows too weakly to light the gas. The technician takes out the floor stone or the deck access panel, removes the burner from its orifice, clears its tube and ports, and replaces it if it is split or scaled through. Electrodes are set to the maker's gap, wires routed away from heat, and hot-surface igniters and spark modules tested and changed when weak. Every burner is then lit several times and watched for a quick, quiet light-off and a crisp flame.

How the visit goes

What it usually costsLow to moderate · Pizza oven burner cleared or replaced, spark electrode, hot-surface igniter or spark module

Opening an air shutter and resetting an electrode gap is the small end of this job. A new igniter or spark module is a step up, and a full burner for a deck or an outdoor oven, fitted and its flame set, sits at the top.

Answers 5 problemsGas Pizza Oven Won't Light: Clicks, Gas Hiss, Still No Flame

Pizza Oven Not Getting Hot Enough to Bake a Crisp Crust · Pizza Oven Uneven Bake: Burnt Edge, Raw Middle, Pale Bottom · Black Soot Streaks on the Pizza Oven Arch and Front Face · Flames Rolling Out of the Pizza Oven Mouth or Chimney

Comes up most onOutdoor gas pizza oven

Wood-fired pizza oven · Commercial deck oven · Conveyor and rapid-cook pizza oven

Codes that lead hereNo igniter glow within 5 to 10 seconds · Er2 · Er6 · Er7

Alfresco pizza oven igniter not glowing: power first, then the igniter.

Pizza oven burner and igniter repair,
step by step.

Relight the oven several times and leave it lighting quickly and quietly, with a steady blue flame under the stone.

Watch several light-off attempts and note how long the flame takes, where the spark jumps and how the flame looks.

Lift out the stone or the deck panel, remove the burner and clear its air shutter, tube and ports.

Replace a burner that is split, warped or scaled through, and set its air shutter where the model has one.

Set the electrode gap, change a cracked electrode, weak hot-surface igniter or tired spark module, and reroute wires clear of heat.

Relight the oven several times and leave it lighting quickly and quietly, with a steady blue flame under the stone.

The problems
it answers.

5 of them, from gas pizza oven won't light: clicks, gas hiss, still no flame to flames rolling out of the pizza oven mouth or chimney.

All problems

A stainless outdoor gas pizza oven on a patio counter in plain afternoon light, its door off and the pizza oven stone floor cold and empty, the burner channel along the back dark with no flame, the knob at the front.

Most common

Gas Pizza Oven Won't Light: Clicks, Gas Hiss, Still No Flame

7 causes, cheapest first

Before you call

Tell us this when you book

Whether the oven clicks with no flame, lights late with a thump, or lights and then goes out
The color of the flame and whether soot is building on the dome or above the mouth
How the oven is covered or stored between uses, and whether it sits outdoors year round
The make and model from the rating plate, and whether it runs on propane or natural gas

It also answers

Low to moderate,
on the site's scale.

Read the full cost guide

Repair	Relative cost
Pizza oven burner cleared or replaced, spark electrode, hot-surface igniter or spark module	low to moderate
Thermocouple, pilot assembly, flame rod, gas safety valve or regulator
Hearth bricks reset, floor stone replaced, or dome and arch cracks packed and sealed
Thermostat calibrated or replaced, temperature probe, timer, controller board or display
Deck oven heating element, contactor, terminal block or deck stone
Conveyor belt shortened or replaced, sprockets, chain, drive motor, gearbox or speed control
Impingement blower motor, bearings or wheel, cooling fan, filter or air fingers
Oven door, hinges, springs, gasket, heat shield, chimney cleaning or cap
Full cleaning of burners, floor, fingers and flue, with a gas leak check and a draft test

Where it
comes up most.

Most bookings: Outdoor gas pizza oven, Wood-fired pizza oven, Commercial deck oven, Conveyor and rapid-cook pizza oven.

All pizza oven types

Codes that lead here

All 12 codes that lead here

Often the same visit

Outdoor gas pizza oven

Wood-fired pizza oven

A pizzeria's stainless deck pizza oven with two stacked chambers on steel legs, the lower door open on a stone deck where a pizza is baking, dials beside each door, the deck oven clearly a pizza oven and the subject of the frame, a tiled wall behind, warm indoor light.

Commercial deck oven

The makes
we see it on.

16 makes on this site, and the pizza oven burner and igniter repair on any of them. Each mark opens that make's own page.

All 16 brands

Pizza oven burner and igniter repair,
where we come out.

The kitchen, the climate and the building all change how the pizza oven burner and igniter repair goes. These notes are about that, metro by metro.

All service areas

Tampa BayFL · 31 areas

Gulf humidity leaves a film of moisture on igniter electrodes overnight, so on Tampa Bay patios a gas pizza oven that clicks without catching often needs its electrode cleaned and regapped before a new igniter is ordered.

OrlandoFL · 30 areas

Orlando rental homes with a gas pizza oven see guest after guest pressing the igniter, and a worn button, burner ports clogged with flour and cheese drippings, and a tired spark module are the usual finds there.

Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas

Salt air in South Florida pits the long burner beneath a gas pizza oven's floor, and the technician looks for ports rusted wide before replacing the igniter, since a broken flame line can look exactly like a failed spark.

New York MetroNY · 75 areas

In New York pizzerias the deck oven's burners and pilots run from opening to close six or seven days a week, and a burner that lights late or rolls flame out of its opening is fixed between lunch and dinner whenever the shop allows.

HoustonTX · 36 areas

Houston's warm, wet months invite mud daubers and spiders into the burner tube of a backyard gas pizza oven, and a flame that burns lazy and yellow is cleared of nests before any igniter part is replaced.

ChicagoIL · 50 areas

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.

Los AngelesCA · 95 areas

Los Angeles gas pizza ovens by the pool bake on nearly every weekend of the year, and Santa Ana dust drifts into the burner's air shutter, so each burner repair there ends with the shutter reset and a clean blue flame confirmed.

San DiegoCA · 31 areas

Near the San Diego coast, marine-layer damp settles on a pizza oven igniter's ceramic each night, and a cracked insulator lets the spark jump to the frame instead of the burner, which the technician finds with the oven cold.

San Francisco Bay AreaCA · 74 areas

Bay wind can pull a low burner flame away from a gas pizza oven's flame sensor, so on exposed decks a burner that lights and then drops out is checked for crosswind and sensor position before a new igniter goes in.

A family sliding a pizza into a wood-fired pizza oven on a sunny patio. — For the heart of your home.

Questions about
the pizza oven burner and igniter repair.

Why does my pizza oven click but never light?

The spark is there but it is not reaching the gas: the electrode gap has grown, the tip is dirty, the ceramic has cracked, or the burner ports near the electrode are blocked. Less often the gas itself is not arriving because a valve or tank is closed.

Is a yellow flame in a pizza oven a problem?

Lazy yellow flames usually mean the burner is not getting enough air, most often from a blocked shutter or dirty ports. They soot the dome and the stone and waste gas, so the burner should be cleaned or replaced and the shutter set.

Does a hybrid wood and gas oven need its burner serviced too?

Yes, and more often than a gas-only oven, because ash and embers from wood fires settle on the burner and its igniter. Clearing ash away from the burner tray after wood cooks keeps it lighting well.

Back to your everyday

Ready to book the pizza oven burner and igniter repair?

Have these to hand: whether the oven clicks with no flame, lights late with a thump, or lights and then goes out, the color of the flame and whether soot is building on the dome or above the mouth, how the oven is covered or stored between uses, and whether it sits outdoors year round, the make and model from the rating plate, and whether it runs on propane or natural gas.

Schedule a repair Call (844) 747-3662