Fridge and refrigerator repair in Carleton Place

Carleton Place has grown quickly along Highway 7. Whole streets of new-build kitchens are now aging into their first out-of-warranty failures together, while the mill-town century homes downtown keep older machines working in tighter spaces. Across town that means everything from a brand-new counter-depth French-door to a thirty-year-old top-mount, a beer fridge in the garage or a chest freezer in the basement.

Town lots run municipal water, but Beckwith and the concession roads run wells, many of them with hard water. On a fridge with a dispenser, hard-water scale can build up in the filter cartridge and the inlet valve, so replace the filter on the schedule your manual gives.

Builder-grade and mid-range fridges installed five to ten years ago tend to need the same handful of repairs. The parts we look at first on a newer Carleton Place fridge:

• Ice makers and water inlet valves, especially on French-door models with the ice maker in the door.
• Evaporator and condenser fan motors, which start to buzz or tick before they stop.
• Defrost heaters and sensors: frost on the back wall of the freezer, then a warm fresh-food side.
• Control and display boards, which can show error codes or leave the fridge running with no cooling.
• Door gaskets that tear or flatten where the doors meet.

Lights on, no cold. Usually the evaporator fan, the start relay on the compressor or a coil that has iced over completely. A full fridge spoils within hours, so book this one first.

Freezer fine, fridge warm. Defrost-system failure is the classic cause; a stuck damper between the compartments gives the same result.

Water on the floor. Usually ice in the defrost drain, a cracked fitting on the water line or a sweating gasket. See fridge leaking water.

Loud or never stopping. A clicking relay, a growling fan or a fridge that never cycles off can wear out the compressor if it is left too long.

A cold-garage fridge that stops cooling. In winter this is sometimes the location rather than a broken part, and the technician will say so before you pay for parts.

1. Tell us the fridge’s make, model and symptoms through the online form or by phone.
2. We call or text to confirm a time window of about three hours. Until then, the request isn’t an appointment. Same-day visits happen when the schedule allows.
3. On site, cooling, defrost and water components are tested, from the compressor and relay to the damper and gaskets, and you receive a written quote. The $89 + tax diagnostic is applied toward the repair if you approve it.
4. The repair is done on the spot when the part is on hand, or on a return visit once it arrives. You keep a written diagnostic report, and the repair is warranted for 3 months on parts and labour.

Compressor and refrigerant faults are handled separately: a $159 + tax sealed-system diagnostic, with the repair quoted by phone.

We serve the Bridge Street core, the Mississippi riverfront streets, the new subdivisions and Beckwith township, plus nearby Almonte, Smiths Falls and Lanark. We can look at other appliances on the same trip: Carleton Place pages cover washing machines, clothes dryers, dishwashers and ranges and ovens, all listed under Carleton Place appliance repair.

We repair LG, Samsung, Whirlpool, Frigidaire, GE and Maytag fridges as well as Bosch, KitchenAid, Kenmore, Electrolux and Danby, in every style from top-mount to French-door, plus upright and chest freezers. For Ottawa, see Ottawa refrigerator repair.