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title: "Appliance Maintenance in Hancock Park"
description: "Appliance maintenance in Hancock Park. Hancock Park was subdivided beginning around 1919-1920 by developer George Allan Hancock, and the traditional core still…"
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# Appliance maintenance in Hancock Park.

Hancock Park was subdivided beginning around 1919-1920 by developer George Allan Hancock, and the traditional core still holds about 1,200 homes from that era.

## What Hancock Park does to a home appliance.

Houses were built in a mix of period revival styles - Tudor, English, Spanish Colonial, Mediterranean, Monterey and American Colonial Revival - giving the neighborhood a varied architectural mix from a single building era.

A Historic Preservation Overlay Zone adopted by the City Council in 2008 now regulates alterations and demolitions across the neighborhood.

Hancock's original development rules required homes to sit back 50 feet from the street with side driveways leading to rear garages, a layout that still defines most of the neighborhood's lots.

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### Older housing stock

Older houses were not built around modern appliances, and a dryer or a hood there may exhaust through an opening cut decades ago in a thick wall, so upkeep traces that path to the outside and cleans it from end to end.

### Built-in and paneled suites

Heavy custom door panels load the hinges of built-in refrigerators and dishwashers over the years, so an upkeep visit checks hinge tension and door alignment, since a door that sags no longer presses its gasket evenly.

### Mixed housing

Where some houses have been rebuilt and others kept, a service log helps a new owner learn how the appliances were cared for, and a maintenance visit starts one when the house has none.

## A visit in Hancock Park.

Four steps from the call to a working home appliance in Hancock Park, Los Angeles County.

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1. 01 A walk around the house first
2. 02 Cleaned, checked and adjusted
3. 03 Wear parts before they fail
4. 04 A service record for the house

## When a home appliance cannot wait in Hancock Park.

In Hancock Park as anywhere, these five signs mean upkeep has waited too long and a hazard has started in the home, so the appliance stays off until it is looked at: a hot or burning-lint smell from the laundry, a gas smell at a cooking appliance, a supply hose leaking or bulging, a burning electrical smell, and a breaker that trips when the appliance runs.

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Fire, gas, water or wiring risk

### Hot or Burning Lint Smell in the Laundry Room: Stop the Cycle

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### Gas Smell Near the Oven or Burners: Get Out, Then Call

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### Supply Hose Leaking or Bulging Behind an Appliance: Shut the Water Off

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Fire, gas, water or wiring risk

### Burning Electrical Smell From an Appliance: Breaker Off First

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Fire, gas, water or wiring risk

### Appliance Tripping the Breaker Every Time It Runs

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