Wappoo Appliance Service is a West Ashley company. The shop is at 1235 Ashley Gardens Blvd, off Bees Ferry Rd, and the vans start every morning inside ZIP 29407 and 29414. Washers, dryers, refrigerators and freezers, ranges and ovens, dishwashers and the ice makers built into refrigerators: metered first, quoted in writing, usually fixed the same visit.
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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 onlineWest Ashley is where the route begins, not a stop on it. From Ashley Gardens Blvd the van reaches Shadowmoss and the Bees Ferry Rd subdivisions in five minutes, Sam Rittenberg Blvd and Citadel Mall in eight, Avondale and Byrnes Downs by the Wappoo Cut in twelve. Savannah Hwy runs the spine of the older neighborhoods; Glenn McConnell Pkwy and Ashley River Rd carry the newer ones out toward Magnolia Plantation and Drayton Hall. Because everything is this close, West Ashley calls fill the gaps between the longer runs, which is why a morning call from South Windermere or Carolina Bay so often lands a technician the same afternoon. If a part has to be ordered, the return trip is a ten-minute loop with no second trip fee.
Two kinds of houses, two kinds of failures. The 1950s to 70s brick ranches of Avondale, Byrnes Downs, South Windermere, Ashley Hall and Shadowmoss have laundry in converted carports, dryer vents that run twenty feet through a damp crawlspace, refrigerators in tight cabinet cutouts and, increasingly, a new gas range on a line added during a remodel. The 2000s and newer houses in Carolina Bay, Grand Oaks and Bolton’s Landing have upstairs laundry closets that leak into the ceiling below, French-door refrigerators with door-mounted ice makers that frost up, and second refrigerators in garages that hit 100 degrees in July. What both share is Charleston Water System water, which is not hard, so scale is rarely the story here; humidity, heat and hurricane-season power surges are.
| Appliance | What we see most here |
|---|---|
| Refrigerators | Control and inverter boards after storm surges; packed condenser coils in the ranch-house alcoves; garage refrigerators and chest freezers in Grand Oaks and Carolina Bay losing to July heat. |
| Dryers | Thermal fuses and elements tripped by long crawlspace vents under Shadowmoss and Byrnes Downs ranches; roof-vent clogs in the two-story newer homes; gas igniters along Savannah Hwy. |
| Washers | Drain pumps jammed with coins and socks; lid locks and couplers on the direct-drive top-loaders in the older neighborhoods; leaks from upstairs laundry closets in Bolton’s Landing. |
| Dishwashers | Film blamed on hard water that is not hard water: weak wash, clogged spray arms, dispensers that fail to open. Leaks into crawlspaces under the raised ranches off Savannah Hwy. |
| Ranges & ovens | Weak gas oven igniters in remodeled Avondale kitchens; bake elements and sensors on the original electric ranges in Ashley Hall; dark displays after a hurricane-season outage. |
| Ice makers | Door-mounted ice makers frosting up in the French-door units common to the newer subdivisions; fill valves and half-closed saddle valves under the sink. Almost never scale. |
The dryer blows cold and the thermal fuse is open, which is not the whole story. Airflow at the exhaust is almost nothing. The technician traces the vent into the crawlspace, finds twenty feet of sagging foil flex, replaces the fuse and the element and clears what can be reached, then explains what the rest of the run needs.
Power came back at two in the morning and the refrigerator did not. The garage freezer is fine; the kitchen French-door hums and stays warm. Voltage at the outlet is right; the inverter board is not talking to the compressor. The board is on the van, and the unit is pulling down cold before the technician leaves.
A top-loader in a converted carport agitates but will not spin. The lid switch reads closed to the eye and open to the meter. It is replaced, the drain hose is reset in a standpipe sized for 1965, and the machine spins out a test load. One written number, twenty-five minutes, and the technician is back on Savannah Hwy.
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 →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 29464 · 29466
City page →25 min from the shop · ZIP 29439
City page →Home base — the van is already here. up to $20 off the repair when you book online.