Appliance Installation in Lakewood, CO

The gap between delivered and installed is where this work lives. Range and cooktop swaps involve gas connections retail crews won't touch. Over-the-range microwaves need mounting, venting decisions, and sometimes a new circuit. Wall ovens are a cabinet-fit problem as much as an electrical one. Refrigerator water lines involve a saddle valve someone installed in 1994 that should die. Each of those is routine here — and several of them are two-trades-in-one jobs that are annoying to arrange any other way, which is exactly the point of a licensed contractor doing installs.

Fit is the surprise nobody budgets. New appliances are rarely the same size as what they replace — dishwashers sit taller than the ones installed under old counters, French-door fridges want more width and door swing than 1990s alcoves offer, and slide-in ranges reveal the unfinished wall the old freestanding one hid. Small cabinet and counter adjustments — trimming a toe kick, moving a cleat, adjusting an opening — turn a 'doesn't fit, sending it back' into an installed kitchen, and they're part of the job here.

The safety details are what separate an install from a placement. Anti-tip brackets on ranges — genuinely, children die without them and most metro ranges have never had one. Dryer transitions in proper materials, never plastic flex duct. Dishwasher high loops so drain water can't siphon back. Gas connections leak-tested with more than a sniff. Water lines in braided stainless rather than the gray poly that fails at 2am. None of it adds meaningful time; all of it is the difference between installed and installed correctly.