--- title: "La Cornue service in South Florida, on a range assembled from choices somebody made once." description: "La Cornue service job by job, with a starting figure against each: burners, the French top, vaulted ovens, induction and hoods." url: "https://la-cornuemiami.support/services/" date_modified: "2026-09-03" --- # Services archive ## La Cornue service in South Florida, on a range assembled from choices somebody made once. Half of these jobs exist on no other site in this fleet, and not for marketing reasons. No other make here has a cast-iron plaque heated by one burner underneath it, a lava-rock grill module, a teppanyaki plate, a gas rotisserie, a vaulted oven with no window, or a range that weighs 1,320 lb in its crate. The work follows the appliance. 26 — jobs with a published figure 8 — jobs no sibling site has 5 — appliance types, which is all this make builds from $95 — diagnostic, credited to the repair ## The work in each job, and the floor it starts from Treat each number as a floor rather than a quote. It reflects what this equipment and this labor go for in South Florida, and what moves it is on the job's own cost page. No jobs are published yet. ## A French top is one burner heating a whole plate The plaque coup de feu is a single cast-iron plate with one 7,500 BTU burner under its center, and it is meant to be uneven — hottest above the burner, cooler as you work outwards. So the first question on a French top call is what the owner expects, and a fair share of these visits end in a demonstration rather than a repair. Where there is a real problem it is usually the burner underneath, then the underside of the plate, then the air path, then the seating, and only then the iron itself. ## No refrigeration, because La Cornue builds none There is no refrigerator job, no dishwasher job and no laundry job on this site, and that is not an oversight. La Cornue makes cooking appliances and nothing else — its own catalog has no refrigeration in it at all. Roughly twenty jobs that appear on our full-line sibling sites are therefore absent here, and a repair company offering them under this badge would be telling you something untrue before it arrived. ## Three minutes that change the visit The model code, off the plate or the invoice - Château ranges: on the frame at the side of the oven aperture, or behind the lower door. - CornuFé: on the frame behind the door. - The codes look like G45, T49, F75, C9-I or H17TOM — the letter names the appliance and the number is the width in centimeters. - Photograph it rather than copying it down. The top configuration code, if the paperwork survives - N1 to N9 on a 180, L1 to L9 on a 165, K1 to K6 on a 150, E0 to E5 on a 120, C1 to C5 on a 90, B1 to B3 on a 75. - It says which modules are under the lids, which is what decides the parts. - Two ranges with the same model number can need entirely different things, and this code is what tells them apart. - The original invoice or the dealer's order confirmation carries it, and so does the finish reference. What it is actually doing - Which burner, or which oven door — on a dual-fuel range one side is gas and the other is electric. - Whether anything shows on a display. Only the induction and all-electric models have one. - When it started, and whether anything changed in the kitchen: a breaker replaced, the range moved, a fuel conversion. - Whether anything was cleaned in the last few days, which is the leading cause of burner calls in this climate. ## Or start from the appliance Five cards, and each one says what the repair on that appliance actually involves. ## Several of these end without a part A pan below the minimum base diameter will not couple to an induction zone at all — 4¾ inches at the front left, 5½ at the rear, 8¼ in the center. An H on the display means residual heat, not a problem. A dish of water on an oven shelf is the maker’s own test for whether the range is level, which is behind a good share of uneven-baking complaints. A burner head refitted wet after cleaning clicks and does nothing until it dries. We would rather you found that out here. ## Questions we are asked about the work Do you carry parts for these, or does everything come from France? — Both, and the split matters to your week. Igniters, thermocouples, safety valves, elements, thermostats, door seals, oven lamps and the common hardware are sourced domestically and are same-week jobs. A color-matched enamel panel, a vaulted-cavity component, a plaque or a control specific to one configuration is a made-to-order item from Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, and we quote the lead time before ordering rather than after. Is a La Cornue worth repairing, or is it time to replace it? — On this make the repair-or-replace line falls far later than on anything mass-market, and it is not close. These are hand-built appliances designed to be serviced from the front for decades, the mechanism is largely mechanical, and the expensive part — the enamelled body, the vaulted cavities, the hood canopy — is not what fails. What fails is an igniter, a valve, a thermostat, an element, a blower or a capacitor. We will tell you honestly if a range is genuinely finished, and it very rarely is. Can you service a range that was installed before we bought the house? — Yes, and it is a large share of what we do. What we ask for is whatever paperwork came with the house, because fuel type, altitude setting, configuration and finish are decided at the factory and cannot be read off the appliance afterwards. If none survives, say so — we work it out, it simply takes longer, and it is genuinely useful to know that nobody knows. Are you authorized by La Cornue? — No, and we say so on every page. We are an independent repair company working in South Florida, not affiliated with, authorized by or endorsed by any manufacturer, and we warrant our own workmanship. What we do have is the maker's own documentation, read and archived, and every code and condition page on this site names the guide it came from. ## What is different about servicing this make ### The configuration decides the part, not the model number On most appliances the model number is effectively the part number. Here it is half the question. A Château 150 is a G45, and a G45 can arrive with two gas burners and a large plaque, or with a lava-rock grill and a teppanyaki plate, or as an all-induction top on which both ovens are electric by rule. Nine configurations exist for that size alone. So a booking that carries the configuration code gets the right parts on the first visit, and one that does not sometimes cannot. ### There is almost nothing to read Three problem codes in the whole of the maker’s US documentation, all on the induction hob, and no troubleshooting section at all in the Château guide. That means the diagnostic is not a formality before the work — it is the only source of information there is, and it is done with instruments: gas pressure at the manifold, igniter current in amps rather than brightness, shelf temperature against the dial through a full cycle. ### The finish is part of the job About fifty enamels were available at order time, plus one-of-a-kind at an upcharge, and the trims run from polished brass to matte bronze with some of them clear-coated. A mark made while getting a blower out of a hood is a mark on a canopy that was made to match the range beneath it, and hammered finishes cannot be touched up in a kitchen at all. So the range is covered and supported before anything is undone, and a replacement panel is ordered against a color reference rather than matched by eye. ## The model code, and a sentence about what it is doing. Add the top configuration code and the finish name if you have them. Between them we can usually name a likely part before anybody sets off. --- **[Read full article: Services archive](https://la-cornuemiami.support/services-archive/)**