Wolf Service on Grand Ridge

A hill, not a neighbourhood

You will not find Grand Ridge among the twelve neighbourhoods the City of Issaquah lists. It is the landform. The Highlands development carried the Grand Ridge name until April 1997, when its builder renamed it to tie it more closely to the city, and the ridge still lends its name to a park, a school and a shopping plaza. This page covers the homes on the ridge’s higher streets, which date from the Highlands build-out that began in the late 1990s.

Height does not upset the burners

Owners up here sometimes ask whether altitude explains a flame that looks wrong. It is not in the running. Wolf’s dual fuel installation guide has its natural gas ranges working to 10,250 feet with no adjustment, and LP models to 8,600; the ridge rises to a little over 1,100. The ventilation guide only starts to mark down hood performance above 5,000 feet. A lazy or lifting flame on the ridge has the causes it would have on the valley floor — a cap sitting off-centre, a wet or worn electrode, a supply that cannot keep up — and we trace it the same way.

Cold ducts and snowy streets

What the ridge does bring is cold. A hood duct that climbs through an unheated roof space or an outside chase carries warm, wet air from the pans into metal chilled overnight, and some of that moisture condenses and runs back down. That is how water can end up at the baffles on a winter morning with no roof leak involved. The same cold run can let outside air sink into the kitchen while the blower is off. Every Wolf hood except the low-profile wall models ships with a backdraft damper at the transition, and for cold-climate installations the ventilation guide allows for adding another; a damper that sticks, or a run that never got the second one, is where we start.

If snow is lying on the upper streets, mention it when you call Summit Cooking Appliance Service on (425) 272-6613. We would rather settle the approach and a workable time with you than name a window the roads may not keep, and the $89 visit still buys the full diagnosis once we are standing at the range.