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Same $99 diagnostic, same written quote, same written warranty on every machine we fix in West Ashley.
When the power comes back after a summer storm and the refrigerator does not, or the garage freezer in Grand Oaks gives up in the August heat, the shop that answers is ten minutes away on Ashley Gardens Blvd. Wappoo repairs refrigerators and freezers across West Ashley, meters the compressor, fans and board, writes one price and gets most of them cold again the same visit.
Same $99 diagnostic, same written quote, same written warranty on every machine we fix in West Ashley.
Every West Ashley homeowner knows the sequence. A tropical system pushes through, the lights flicker along Savannah Hwy and Glenn McConnell Pkwy, the power drops for four hours and comes back with a thump. The next morning the refrigerator hums but the milk is warm. What the surge took is usually the main control board or, on newer LG and Samsung units, the inverter board that drives the compressor. From the shop on Ashley Gardens Blvd those calls are a short drive, and after a storm they are most of the day’s schedule. We stock the common boards and relays for exactly this week of the year.
The rest of the year, West Ashley refrigerator calls split by house. In the 1950s and 60s ranches of Byrnes Downs, Avondale and South Windermere the refrigerator sits in a cabinet cutout with two inches of clearance, and the condenser coil packs with dog hair until the compressor runs all day and never catches up. In Carolina Bay, Bolton’s Landing and Grand Oaks the problem is the second refrigerator or chest freezer in an attached garage that hits 100 degrees in July, well past what a kitchen refrigerator is designed for. The technician knows which story to expect from the address before the van leaves Bees Ferry Rd.
A control board or inverter board that did not survive the surge, or occasionally a compressor start relay. We confirm voltage at the outlet, read what the board is sending to the compressor, and test the relay. Boards are stocked for the common Whirlpool, GE, Samsung and LG models, so most of these are cold again the same day.
The defrost system has stopped, the evaporator coil is a block of ice, and no cold air reaches the top. We thaw the coil and meter the defrost heater, the thermostat and the control. A quiet evaporator fan motor causes the same symptom, and we listen for it before pulling the back panel.
In the older ranches the condenser coil is packed and the fan cannot pull air through a two-inch gap. We clean the coil, test the condenser fan, check the door gaskets and measure temperatures at both coils. If the sealed system is healthy, cleaning and a fan often bring the run time back to normal.
The condenser fan or compressor has been working against 100-degree air and lost. We test the fan, the relay and the compressor windings and give you a written number. We also tell you when a kitchen refrigerator in a West Ashley garage is going to keep failing, so you can weigh a garage-rated unit.
A defrost drain frozen or clogged, a cracked dispenser line, or a leaking inlet valve behind the unit. We pull it out, run water and find the source. In the Avondale and Byrnes Downs ranches the kitchen floors are often original hardwood, so a slow drip matters more than it looks.
Humid air is getting in, from a gasket that no longer seals, a sagging door, or a door left ajar overnight. Less often the defrost cycle has stopped. We test the gasket with a light and a dollar bill, check the hinge, and confirm the defrost circuit before replacing anything.
A warm refrigerator in West Ashley goes to the front of the morning, and the technician is usually there within the hour because the shop is on this side of the Ashley River. Readings first: fresh-food and freezer temperatures, evaporator and condenser coil temperatures, compressor current, voltage at the wall. Then the board, the start relay, the evaporator and condenser fans, the defrost heater and thermostat, the thermistors and door switches, each checked against spec. That sequence tells a fan motor from a dead compressor in about twenty minutes, and it is the $99 diagnostic. The written repair price has the $99 inside it; decline and $99 is the whole bill.
We repair Whirlpool, GE, Samsung, LG, Frigidaire, KitchenAid, Bosch, Kenmore and Electrolux refrigerators, along with the built-in Sub-Zero, Thermador, Viking and JennAir units in the renovated kitchens of Avondale and South Windermere and the newer houses out Ashley River Rd toward Magnolia Plantation. Six days a week, Monday to Saturday, and a West Ashley refrigerator call placed before noon nearly always gets a technician the same day. If the diagnosis says the compressor is gone on a fifteen-year-old unit, you hear it plainly and pay only the $99. 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. West Ashley, six days a week.
