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Same $99 diagnostic, same written quote, same written warranty on every machine we fix in North Charleston.
July in a North Charleston garage runs well over 100 degrees, and the second refrigerator out there is the first one to quit. Then the kitchen unit follows after a storm knocks the power out on Rivers Avenue. Warm refrigerators go to the front of the board. We meter the compressor, the fans and the board, write one number and repair it that visit whenever the van has the part.
Same $99 diagnostic, same written quote, same written warranty on every machine we fix in North Charleston.
Summer decides our refrigerator schedule up here. From June to September the garages in Oak Terrace Preserve and the townhomes off Dorchester Road hold the second fridge and the deep freezer, and a refrigerator rated for a kitchen does not like moving heat into a room that is already 105. Compressors run without stopping, condensers clog with garage dust, and start relays cook. Then hurricane season stacks on top: outages along Ashley Phosphate and Rivers Avenue, a surge on the restore, and a control board or inverter that never comes back. Twenty minutes from the shop up I-26, we hold same-day windows for warm refrigerators through the whole stretch.
The kitchen units in the older Park Circle houses and the rentals near Remount Road and Montague Avenue are top-freezer and side-by-side Whirlpool, GE, Frigidaire and Kenmore, and they fail on defrost systems, evaporator fans and door gaskets that have dried out. French-door Samsung and LG units in the newer construction toward the airport ice up behind the back panel and stop cooling the fresh food side. A landlord with a duplex off Dorchester Road called about a fridge the tenant said was dead; it was the start relay, it had swollen in the heat, and the compressor windings tested fine. Relay off the van, cold within the hour.
Airflow between sections. The evaporator fan has failed, the damper is stuck or the defrost heater or thermostat quit and the evaporator iced over. We pull the back panel, meter the fan and defrost circuit, clear the ice. In a Samsung or LG French door this is the most common call we take.
The start relay or the inverter board is trying to start the compressor and failing. Swollen relays are a heat-related failure we see all summer in garages. We meter the compressor windings before anything else, because that tells us whether the compressor is good and the repair is worth it.
A condenser choked with dust and pet hair, a slow condenser fan, a gasket letting warm air in or low refrigerant charge. We clean the coil, check the fan, test the gasket and take temperatures at both coils. Garage units in North Charleston need the coil cleaned every year or they run this way.
The defrost heater, its thermostat or the defrost timer or board has quit, or the door gasket has failed and humid air is getting in. We meter the defrost circuit and test the gasket with a light. On top-freezer units in older rentals the gasket alone fixes a lot of frost complaints.
A frozen or clogged defrost drain backing up, a cracked drain pan, or a leaking ice maker fill line. We clear the drain, check the pan and inspect the water line where it enters the cabinet. In a second-floor townhome kitchen this leak reaches the ceiling below, so it gets handled the same visit.
The surge took out the main board, the inverter or the start relay. We check incoming voltage, then meter each in turn. Most post-outage refrigerators are repairable; the compressor itself survives more often than owners fear. The written invoice describes the cause if you are filing for spoiled food.
The diagnosis is thermometers and a meter. We read both compartments, clamp the compressor to see its draw, and put a hand on the condenser and the compressor to know if it is running hot, cold or not at all. Then the condenser coil gets looked at and usually cleaned, because in a North Charleston garage or a kitchen near a busy road that coil is where half the problems begin. The evaporator comes next: back panel off, fan metered, defrost heater and thermistor read. On inverter compressors we read what the board is sending. Only after that do we write a number, and it is the only one you get.
We repair Whirlpool, GE, Samsung, LG, Maytag, Frigidaire, KitchenAid, Bosch, Electrolux and Kenmore refrigerators and freezers, kitchen and garage, plus the built-in lines where they show up in the newer houses near Wescott. For landlords and property managers with doors in Park Circle, along Rivers Avenue and off Ashley Phosphate, a warm fridge is a tenant on the phone, so we schedule with the tenant and text the owner the written number with photos. Same price for everyone in the city: the $99 diagnostic is inside the number you approve, and if you say no, $99 is the entire bill. Book online and up to $20 comes off the repair.
Call (843) 969-4664 with the symptom, or book online and up to $20 comes off the repair. North Charleston, six days a week.
