19 jobs, each with a starting figure and what moves it
Every figure here is a starting point, not a quote — an exact price is confirmed on site after the diagnostic, because a published number that turns out to be wrong on the doorstep is worse than no number at all. This make spans a sealed refrigeration system and a hood capacitor, so the range on this page is genuinely wide, and the small figures are what make the large one believable.
The figures
Each page says what the number covers, what raises it, and where the cheapest outcome is common enough to be worth mentioning.
What one visit costs, and why it comes off the bill. This is the company rate rather than anything to do with the badge, and it is the same across every appliance in the kitchen.
What it costs to put an open burner right — and how often it costs the visit and nothing else, because this design is the one where the working parts come off in your hand.
Igniters, electrodes, spark modules and burner valves on the sealed gas equipment. The appliance publishes nothing about any of it, which makes the phone conversation longer and the price no higher.
Two appliances on one chassis, and the figure depends entirely on which half. The gas side is the cheaper half of this range and the electric side is where the parts are.
A generator per zone, which is a power supply in its own right — and the reason this row is higher than radiant. It is also the row where the cheapest outcome is genuinely common.
A cracked ceramic surface. The glass itself is the largest part of this figure and it is model-specific, which is why availability is confirmed before anything is booked.
What it costs when an oven will not heat or will not hold its temperature. On this make the display often names the part in words, which removes the most expensive hour of the diagnosis.
A door locked shut after a self-clean. The figure depends on whether the latch motor or its switch has gone, and on whether the oven has to come out of its housing.
The most expensive single part in most of this equipment, and the one most often blamed for something else. The figure varies more than any other row on this site.
Priced as maintenance on purpose, because it is the row that prevents the expensive one. In this water, descaling on time is the difference between a cycle and a boiler.
Built-in microwaves, drawer microwaves and combi-speed ovens. Which of the three you have changes the parts, the access and the figure considerably.
The cheap end of this site, and it should read that way. A hood motor is a hood motor whatever badge is on the front, and a humming fan is usually the least expensive repair we do.
The largest figure on this site, and the one where an honest answer about whether it is worth doing matters most. Everything cheaper is eliminated before it is reached.
The affordable half of the cold half — fans, defrost, dampers and condensers. Most refrigeration complaints land here rather than in the row above, and that is worth knowing before you brace yourself.
Undercounter clear-ice and nugget machines. A large share of these end in the drain or the water supply rather than in the machine, which keeps the figure lower than people expect.
Single-zone and dual-zone cabinets. Zone count and whether the cabinet is integrated into cabinetry move this figure more than anything mechanical does.
Water that will not go out or will not come in. A large share of this is plumbing rather than appliance, which puts it at the bottom of this site rather than the middle.
Built-in gas grills in a masonry island. Ignition hardware and burner tubes are wear parts on this coast, and the figures below are for a built-in rather than a cart.
Built-in equipment set into cabinetry, connected and proved. It is also where a meaningful share of the repairs on this site are prevented or created.
Why the range on this page is so wide
Most makes are one half of a kitchen. This one is both, so the cheapest repair here and the most expensive one differ by a factor of five. A capacitor in a hood, a rinse aid dispenser, a drain hose loop and a burner cap are at one end; a compressor inside a paneled refrigeration column is at the other.
Publishing the small figures honestly is what makes the large one credible. If every row on a site is expensive, none of them is informative.
Want a narrower number?
On this make “what it is doing” can be a token on a display, a message in words, a count of flashes on two lights, or a knob ring gone red — and eighty-four published conditions are decoded on this site. Any of those, with the model number, is usually enough for us to name the job and the likely band before anybody drives anywhere. Call (305) 697-3843.
The $95 comes off the bill when you go ahead with the work.
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