Down Maybank Hwy and over the Stono, fifteen minutes from the shop to the first Johns Island driveway. Six machines, gas, propane and electric, on well water or city water, from the farm roads off River Rd and Bohicket to the new construction along Maybank and the kitchens by the Kiawah River. A meter, one written price, and a repair that usually finishes the same visit.
Tap a machine for symptoms, the procedure and local notes.
Washer Repair$99 diagnostic · up to $20 off online
Dryer Repair$99 diagnostic · up to $20 off online
Refrigerator & Freezer Repair$99 diagnostic · up to $20 off online
Range, Stove & Oven Repair$99 diagnostic · up to $20 off online
Dishwasher Repair$99 diagnostic · up to $20 off onlineIce Maker Repair$99 diagnostic · up to $20 off onlineJohns Island is the biggest island we cover and the most spread out. Maybank Hwy carries us over the Stono and down the spine of it, past the new subdivisions and the Main Rd crossing, then on toward Bohicket Rd and Freshfields. River Rd and Main Rd branch off toward the farms, the marsh and the older houses. Plow Ground and Brownswood cut across the middle. We schedule the island in a line rather than a loop, so a morning call near Maybank and an afternoon one at the far end of Bohicket Rd sit on the same route. Fifteen minutes to the near end, a few more to the Kiawah River. No distance fee anywhere on the island; Kiawah and Seabrook inside the gates have their own page.
The water decides half the repairs here. Houses on the water lines along Maybank Hwy and out toward Freshfields get treated water and their machines fail like machines anywhere. Houses on wells off River Rd, Bohicket Rd, Plow Ground and Main Rd get hard water, sometimes with iron, and it shows up as scale in washer inlet valves, dishwasher fill valves and heaters, and above all in ice maker valves that close a little more every cycle. Septic systems add a second question on every drain complaint. Then the heat: garage refrigerators and second freezers, full of shrimp and farm-stand corn, running in hundred-degree garages from June to September. And the island's rural power, which drops and surges in summer storms and takes control boards with it.
| Appliance | What we see most here |
|---|---|
| Refrigerators | Garage second refrigerators and freezers quitting in the heat, inverter boards taken out by storm surges on rural feeders |
| Dryers | Propane units in detached garages with long improvised vents, rusted rollers, fuses blown by choked airflow |
| Washers | Inlet screens packed with well scale, slow fills, iron stains, septic standpipes backing up and looking like a bad pump |
| Dishwashers | Scaled fill valves and heaters on well water, cloudy glasses that are the water not the machine, surge-damaged boards |
| Ranges & ovens | Propane burners lifting or yellow from regulator and orifice issues, weak oven igniters, dark touch panels after storms |
| Ice makers | Hollow cubes shrinking to none as the fill valve scales shut, filters clogged early, warm freezers in garage units |
A brick ranch on a well off River Rd, ice shrinking for months and now none. Freezer reads two degrees. Fill measured at a fraction of what the mold needs. The coil meters within range, but the screen is packed white and the valve has scaled inside. New valve from the van, filter swapped, three full harvests before we leave.
New construction along Maybank Hwy, French-door refrigerator dark the morning after a squall took the power for two hours. Compressor silent, display flickering. Inverter board shows no output on the meter; compressor windings read fine. Board replaced, temperatures logged, and a refrigerator-rated surge protector recommended before the next storm.
A propane dryer in a detached garage off Bohicket Rd, tumbles cold. Tank gauge checked first: plenty. Igniter glows, but the meter shows it never draws enough to open the valve coils. New igniter, flame confirmed over three cycles, and the vent through the garage wall cleared while the cabinet is open.
Standing water, a spin that never comes, a puddle on the laundry-room floor — front-load, top-load and the stacked pairs in downtown closets.
Details →Cold air, two-cycle loads, a squeal from the drum — gas and electric, plus the vent check the Lowcountry humidity makes essential.
Details →Warm shelves, frost storms, a compressor that clicks and stops. A warm refrigerator in a Charleston July goes to the front of the line.
Details →Burners that won’t light, ovens that never reach temperature, igniters that click all night — gas and electric, wall ovens and pro-style ranges.
Details →Water in the bottom, cloudy glasses, a puddle in front of the door, a latch that won’t register. Built-in and panel-front units included.
Details →The module inside the refrigerator: silent units, hollow cubes, frozen fill lines and the valves that quietly give up.
Details →Home base · ZIP 29407 · 29414
City page →15 min from the shop · ZIP 29412
City page →15 min from the shop · ZIP 29401 · 29403
City page →20 min from the shop · ZIP 29405 · 29406 · 29418 · 29420
City page →25 min from the shop · ZIP 29464 · 29466
City page →25 min from the shop · ZIP 29439
City page →15 minutes from the shop, no distance surcharge. up to $20 off the repair when you book online.