Mount Pleasant is the newest housing east of the harbor and it fails in new ways: control boards, inverter compressors, sensors that report a problem instead of having one. We come over the Ravenel Bridge from West Ashley, meter the machine, put one number in writing and usually fix it the same trip. Washers, dryers, refrigerators, ranges, dishwashers and the ice maker in the door.
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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 onlineFrom the shop on Ashley Gardens Blvd it is US-17 through downtown, over the Ravenel Bridge and onto Coleman Blvd in about 25 minutes. Coleman takes us to the Old Village, Shem Creek and the streets around Snee Farm. Long Point Rd and Mathis Ferry cover I’On and the older subdivisions along the Wando. US-17 north reaches Park West, Carolina Park and, off SC-41, Dunes West. The Isle of Palms Connector carries a string of newer neighborhoods on either side. We run Mount Pleasant as a route rather than a one-off, so a morning call often gets an afternoon window when the van is already across the bridge. There is no bridge fee and no travel line. The invoice reads the same as it does in West Ashley.
Most of Mount Pleasant’s housing was built after 1995, and much of it after 2010. That means the appliances are newer, larger and more electronic than the county average. Refrigerators are inverter-driven French-doors that lose a board when a summer storm blinks the power. Laundry rooms are upstairs with long roof-vented dryer runs that pack with lint in this humidity. Kitchens in the Old Village and I’On are built-in: Sub-Zero columns, Wolf and Thermador ranges, panel-front Miele and Bosch dishwashers. HOA townhomes in Snee Farm and along Coleman Blvd run stacked laundry pairs. The failures are boards, sensors, door locks, igniters and fill valves more than motors and belts, and the diagnosis is a meter reading rather than a look and a guess.
| Appliance | What we see most here |
|---|---|
| Refrigerators | Inverter compressor boards after storm surges, evaporator fans, garage units quitting in July, built-in columns in Old Village and I’On kitchens. |
| Dryers | Long upstairs vent runs packed with felted lint, tripped thermal fuses, weak gas valve coils in Park West and Dunes West. |
| Washers | Front-loader drain pumps with debris, door locks, pressure sensors and motor control boards in Carolina Park; stacked pairs in Snee Farm townhomes. |
| Dishwashers | Quiet wash pumps that weaken unnoticed, door latches the board stops trusting, panel-front units in built-in kitchens. |
| Ranges & ovens | Weak oven igniters on pro-style gas ranges, clicking spark igniters, control boards and bake elements on builder-grade electric slide-ins. |
| Ice makers | Frozen fill tubes from humid air, weak inlet valves making hollow cubes, board-controlled units on inverter refrigerators. |
Second-floor laundry room, dryer venting through the attic to a roof cap. Loads take two cycles and the thermal fuse has tripped once already. We measure back pressure at the exhaust, meter the element, and show the owner the felt packed in the first duct section before quoting the fix in writing.
A Sub-Zero column in a renovated kitchen, freezer side fine, refrigerator side drifting to 45. Panel stays on. We pull the top grille, read the evaporator fan and the damper, run the unit’s diagnostics alongside the meter, and hand over one written number before the fan comes out.
Front-loader stopped mid-cycle, door locked, drum half full, a drain code on the display. We drain it through the service hose, open the pump housing and find a bra wire in the impeller. The pump itself meters fine. The diagnostic covers finding that, and there is no part to approve.
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 29455
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 29439
City page →25 minutes from the shop, no distance surcharge. up to $20 off the repair when you book online.