Repair resources
Appliance repair guides
Use these guides to organize symptoms, safety concerns, model details, and provider questions before requesting appliance repair help.
- Guides
- 16
- Focus
- Quote prep
- Appliances
- Kitchen, laundry, built-ins
- Scope
- Informational
Repair or Replace an Appliance?
How to think through appliance age, repair symptoms, parts availability, safety, warranty, and replacement cost.
Refrigerator Not Cooling: What to Check Before Calling
Simple, safe checks for a refrigerator or freezer that is warm, thawing, frosting over, leaking, or running constantly.
Washer Not Draining or Spinning
Common causes and quote-prep details for washers that stop full of water, fail to spin, leak, or leave clothes soaked.
Dryer Not Heating or Taking Too Long
What to know when a gas or electric dryer runs cold, shuts off, squeals, smells hot, or leaves clothes damp.
Dishwasher Standing Water, Leaks, or Poor Cleaning
Quote-prep guidance for dishwashers with drain, leak, pump, spray-arm, detergent, or error-code issues.
What to Tell an Appliance Repair Technician
A quick checklist for brand, model, symptoms, error codes, timing, access, warranty, and safety notes.
Appliance Repair Cost and Diagnostic Fees
What usually affects appliance repair estimates, diagnostic fees, parts, labor, trip charges, and repair-versus-replace decisions.
Refrigerator Leaking Water
What to note when a refrigerator leaks under the unit, inside compartments, from the dispenser, or around the ice maker.
Refrigerator Making Noise
How to describe refrigerator buzzing, clicking, rattling, grinding, fan noise, compressor noise, and vibration before a provider call.
Freezer Not Freezing
Quote-prep details for freezers that are thawing, frosting over, alarming, running constantly, or not holding temperature.
Oven Not Heating
What to know when an oven will not heat, heats unevenly, trips breakers, shows errors, or has gas ignition problems.
Washer Not Spinning
Common quote-prep details for washers that drain but do not spin, leave clothes soaked, stop mid-cycle, or shake hard.
Ice Maker Not Working
What to gather when a refrigerator or standalone ice maker stops making ice, leaks, freezes up, or dispenses poorly.
Microwave Not Heating
Quote-prep guidance for microwaves that run but do not heat, spark, shut off, trip breakers, or have door-switch issues.
Garbage Disposal Will Not Spin
How to describe garbage disposal hums, jams, leaks, drain issues, reset behavior, and appliance-versus-plumbing scope.
Stove Burner Will Not Light
What to note for gas burners, electric elements, induction cooktops, clicking igniters, weak flames, and control problems.