How quickly can you get to a refrigerator that has stopped cooling?

Often the same day, depending on where the day’s jobs already are. Tell us the model number and what the two compartments are reading and we will bring the parts that fault usually needs.

My freezer is cold but the fridge is warm. What does that mean?

That points at airflow rather than the cooling system — usually the evaporator fan, the damper, or a coil frosted over. It is one of the more affordable refrigerator repairs.

Do you repair built-in and commercial refrigerators?

Yes. Built-in units take longer because they have to be pulled and reseated before the repair starts, and we allow for that when scheduling. We also service commercial refrigeration for restaurants and shops.

Is a ten-year-old refrigerator worth repairing?

For a fan, thermostat, defrost heater or door gasket, almost always. For a failed compressor, usually not. We will tell you which you have on site rather than after the part is ordered.

What does a refrigerator repair cost?

We charge a diagnostic fee for the visit, which is credited toward the repair if you go ahead. The repair price is the part plus labour, quoted in writing before anything is ordered.

Refrigerator Repair Services

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Refrigerator Repair Across Houston and Texas

Refrigerators are the appliance we are called to most often. Of the 25,671 repairs we have completed, 7,304 were refrigerators — around a third of everything we do. That volume is the reason our vans carry the parts these units fail on rather than ordering them after the visit.

We service top-freezer, bottom-freezer, side-by-side and French-door units, built-in and freestanding, along with the ice makers and water dispensers built into them. Domestic and light commercial both. For walk-in coolers, reach-ins and refrigerated prep tables we have a separate commercial refrigeration repair service.

How a call works: the technician diagnoses the fault on site, then tells you the part and the price before anything is ordered. Nothing goes on order without your approval, and every repair carries a written warranty on parts and labour.

Diagnosis

What We Check When a Refrigerator Stops Cooling

Most "it stopped cooling" calls are not what people expect. The compressor gets blamed, but it is one of the last things we condemn — airflow and defrost faults produce the same symptom far more often, and both cost considerably less to put right.

One observation narrows it down before we arrive, and it takes a moment: is the freezer still cold while the fridge is warm? That pattern points at airflow — the evaporator fan, the damper, or a coil frosted over. Both compartments warm points at the cooling system itself.

On site we work through it in order: actual compartment temperatures against setpoint, the evaporator coil behind the freezer panel, fan operation, condenser condition, the defrost circuit, then door seals. The sealed system is the last conclusion, not the first — it is the expensive one and the easiest to blame wrongly.

Common faults

What Usually Turns Out to Be Wrong

Symptom	Usual cause
Freezer cold, fridge warm	Evaporator fan, damper, or a frosted coil
Running constantly, never quite cold	Condenser coils packed with dust, condenser fan, or a failed door seal
Water pooling under the crisper	Blocked defrost drain — meltwater freezes then leaks forward
Ice maker producing nothing or hollow cubes	Fill valve, inlet screen, or a frozen fill tube — usually flow, not freezing
Fresh food freezing	Damper stuck open or a drifted thermistor
Repeated clicking with no hum	Compressor start relay — inexpensive, but do not leave it running

A refrigerator that runs constantly while still holding temperature is a warning rather than a failure. Something is making it work harder than it should, and left alone that becomes a summer breakdown.

Straight answers

Is an Older Refrigerator Worth Repairing?

It depends on the part, not just the age. A fan, thermostat, defrost heater, control board or door gasket is worth fixing on almost any unit — the component is modest and the repair lasts. A failed compressor on a refrigerator past ten years usually is not, because the rest of the sealed system is the same age.

We tell you which one you have before you commit to anything. Turning down a job we could technically sell is cheaper for us than the review that follows a bad recommendation.

Timing

Why Refrigerators Fail in Summer

Our own dispatch records show refrigerator calls rising from 363 in January to 1,085 in June — close to a threefold swing. Heat is the reason. A refrigerator rejects heat into the room it stands in, so a kitchen at 82°F forces the compressor to run far longer than the same unit would at 68°F. A sealed system that was quietly marginal all winter finally cannot keep up.

Ten minutes with a vacuum on the condenser coils in spring prevents a real share of those calls. If your unit lives in a garage, the margin is thinner still — a Texas garage can pass 100°F, which is outside the design range of most refrigerators.

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