--- title: "Appliance Installation in Chicago" description: "Appliance installation across Chicago. What the homes here do to appliances, the areas we cover, and how to book." url: "https://applianceinstallation.center/locations/chicagoland/" --- Chicago, IL # Appliance installation in Chicago. Across Chicagoland, installing an appliance often means basement stairs and old walls. Many laundries sit below grade, so a new pair is carried down a narrow stair and vented through the rim joist, and older houses may have a gas stub set for an appliance decades old. In the city itself wiring runs in metal conduit by local rule, so a new circuit for an induction cooktop or a new laundry is an electrician's job before installation day, and winter deliveries add salt and snow to the path that has to be protected. ## What Chicago does to an appliance. Chicago's natural gas comes largely from Peoples Gas, established in 1849, which delivers gas to about 830,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers over roughly 4,300 miles of gas main in the city and its near northern suburbs. Suburbs across most of the rest of northern Illinois, outside the city of Chicago itself, get their gas from a separate utility, Nicor Gas, founded in 1954 and serving more than two million customers over 34,000 miles of pipeline. More than 80,000 Chicago bungalows, built mostly between 1910 and 1940, make up nearly a third of the city's single-family housing stock, and are typically only about 20 feet wide on a standard 24- or 25-foot city lot. ComEd and Illinois's other major electric utility have installed more than 3 million smart meters at homes and businesses under a smart-grid plan that was also meant to end the need for meter readers. The counties ### Older housing stock An old kitchen's gas stub, water valve and outlet were placed for appliances of another era, and fitting a new unit there often calls for a longer connector or a moved valve, with any new line or circuit left to a licensed plumber or electrician first. ### Tower living Gas is rare in newer towers, so a buyer choosing a cooking appliance for a condo usually picks electric or induction, and the installation checks that the kitchen's circuit and outlet match the new unit's data plate before it is carried up. ### Mixed housing Where a century-old house and last decade's rebuild share a block, installing an appliance can mean a wide garage door on one lot and a narrow back stair on the next, so every delivery path is measured on its own. ### Family houses Where children are in the house, no cooking unit is set in place without its anti-tip bracket, and an installation there fixes the bracket, engages the leg and tests it by tilting the unit gently forward before the crew leaves. ## The work, in Chicago. Ten appliance installations, cheapest first, each with what Chicago changes about it. [What we do](https://applianceinstallation.center/services/) ### Pre-installation site check A Chicagoland pre-installation site check walks the basement stairs with a tape measure, since many laundries sit below grade behind a turn at the landing, and it notes whether the standpipe, the floor drain and the exhaust wall are where the new machines expect them. ### Anti-tip bracket and leveling Chicagoland's older houses often have wood floors that dip near a kitchen's outer wall, and anti-tip bracket and leveling there anchors the bracket to the subfloor and adjusts each leg until the new unit sits square. ### Gas hookup and leak check Chicagoland basement laundries often have a gas line waiting for the dryer, and a gas hookup there fits a new connector to the new machine and leak-checks it, while a pair moving up to a first-floor closet needs a licensed plumber to run the line before it is connected. ### Water supply and shutoff connection A basement laundry in Chicagoland usually has its supply valves on bare pipe above a laundry tub, and a water supply connection there fits new hoses to the new washer, turns the valves slowly and watches every joint through a full fill. ### Drain and air gap connection Chicagoland basement laundries usually empty into a utility sink or a drain in the concrete floor, and a drain connection there hooks the new hose firmly so it cannot jump out during a spin, and confirms that the pump can lift water to the tub's rim. ### Stacking kit and pedestal installation In Chicagoland's courtyard buildings a small in-unit laundry often gets a stacked pair, and stacking kit and pedestal installation there checks the floor's strength and level before the top machine is lifted onto the kit. ### Old appliance disconnect and removal Getting an old washer and dryer up from a Chicagoland basement takes care on narrow stairs, so old appliance disconnect and removal there shuts off the water, caps the gas where the old dryer had it and removes the pair in the same trip. ### Laundry exhaust run installation In a Chicagoland basement a new machine often sits well below the old vent hole in the rim joist, and laundry exhaust run installation there climbs to it in rigid metal with as few elbows as possible, keeping the outside hood above the snow line. ### Hood ducting and fan installation Chicagoland hoods that vent through an outside wall face hard winters, and hood ducting and fan installation there fits a damper that closes firmly and a wall cap that keeps cold air and snow from coming back down the duct. ### Built-in and panel-ready fitting Chicagoland's architect-designed houses often have custom cabinets from another decade, and built-in and panel-ready fitting there checks that the old cutout matches the new unit's spec sheet, since integrated sizes have shifted over the years. ## The appliances we see most here. Concentrated in Chicago more than elsewhere: laundry, cooking appliances, cold storage. [All appliance types](https://applianceinstallation.center/types/) Laundry ### Basement laundry install Chicago Pairs go down stairs and vent through the rim joist. Cooking appliances ### Gas connector hookup Chicago Old stubs were set for older units. Cold storage ### Built-in cutout fit Chicago Custom cabinets outlast the appliances in them. ## What an appliance visit in Chicago looks like. Four steps from the call to a working appliance, the same in each of the 45 areas of Chicago. [What installations cost](https://applianceinstallation.center/cost/) 1. 01 The opening and the hookups, checked first 2. 02 Connected the way the instructions say 3. 03 Set in, leveled and secured 4. 04 A first run with you there ## When an appliance cannot wait in Chicago. Across 5 counties of Chicago, the five that mean a new appliance went in with a connection it cannot safely run on: gas in the air, water on the floor, a burning smell or a tripped breaker on the first run, or a laundry exhaust come loose from its outlet. [All 17 problems](https://applianceinstallation.center/problems/) Hazard after a hookup ### Gas Smell After a Hookup: Leave the House, Then Call 6 causes, cheapest first Hazard after a hookup ### Water Leak After an Install: Close the Supply Valve First 6 causes, cheapest first Hazard after a hookup ### Burning Smell on the First Run: When It Is Normal and When to Stop 6 causes, cheapest first Hazard after a hookup ### Breaker Trips on the First Run: Leave It Off and Find Out Why 6 causes, cheapest first Hazard after a hookup ### Laundry Exhaust Crushed, Loose or Blowing Into the Room 6 causes, cheapest first ## The makes we service in Chicago. 37 appliance makes, across 5 counties and 45 areas of Chicago. [All 37 brands](https://applianceinstallation.center/brands/) ## Where we go in Chicago. Every place where we install appliances in Chicago sits on one of these 5 counties. Each county page lists its cities and neighborhoods. 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