Ice Maker and Freezer Repair Cumming GA
We do not publish a Cumming median for ice makers or freezers, and this page starts by showing you why rather than by printing a number. Sixteen jobs in the three Cumming ZIP codes carry a freezer or ice maker tag. Ten of them were paid.
Five of those ten cleared the line for a part having been fitted — and not one of the sixteen records what was actually replaced. Worse for anyone hoping to average them: the sixteen are not sixteen of the same thing. They include a walk-in freezer, a Manitowoc commercial cuber, a countertop Vevor ice machine, an EdgeStar undercounter unit, and household Samsung, KitchenAid, GE and Frigidaire machines.
A median across those would describe nothing. So the figures on this page are company-wide, from 2,091 completed ice maker jobs and 2,269 completed freezer jobs: $415 with a part on an ice maker, $375 on a freezer. The whole local file is listed below, and the Cumming ice-maker work that is properly documented turns out to sit on a different page, which we will point you to.
Ice Maker and Freezer Repair in Cumming, GA
No ice, slow ice, hollow or small cubes, ice fused into one block, water leaking into the bin, freezer running without freezing, frost building on the back wall, a chest or garage freezer that has stopped. All three Cumming ZIP codes, total confirmed before the work starts.
The Sixteen Cumming Jobs, and What Kind of Machine Each One Was
This is the whole local file, because with a sample this size you should be able to check every claim on the page against it.
Five paid visits above $200: an ice maker at $465, a Samsung ice maker at $443, a KitchenAid ice maker at $431, a freezer at $380 and an EdgeStar ice maker at $250 — every one of them described only as service call or diagnose a problem, with no component named.
Five paid visits at or under $200: a Vevor countertop ice machine at $150, a Manitowoc commercial ice maker at $150, a walk-in freezer at $150, a freezer at $120 and a GE freezer at $75. Six more bookings that never became a visit: a GE freezer left unscheduled and five cancelled before we arrived, four of those in 30028.
Read that list again and the problem with averaging it is obvious. A walk-in freezer and a countertop Vevor are not the same trade, let alone the same price. A Manitowoc commercial cuber runs a sealed system many times the size of a domestic ice maker.
Take the five rows above $200 in isolation and you get a median of $431, and it would be a number built entirely out of generic invoices covering four different classes of machine.
We would rather publish no local figure than that one. Company-wide, from 4,360 completed jobs across the two appliances, the medians are $415 with a part on an ice maker and $375 on a freezer, and the component tables below are where the useful detail lives.
What an Ice Maker Repair Costs, by the Part That Failed
From 2,091 completed ice maker jobs across our whole service area. Every figure is the full ticket: the part, the labor and the service call added together.
| What failed | Median total | Jobs (n) |
|---|---|---|
| Frozen fill tube cleared | $393 | 40 |
| Defrost heater or timer | $415 | 70 |
| Water inlet valve | $428 | 69 |
| Evaporator or condenser fan | $432 | 60 |
| Water filter changed on the visit | $440 | 79 |
| Ice maker module or assembly | $449 | 57 |
| Thermostat or sensor | $449 | 18 |
| Control board | $488 | 32 |
| Door gasket | $570 | 17 |
What a Freezer Repair Costs, by the Part That Failed
From 2,269 completed freezer jobs. Same basis: part, labor and service call in one number.
| What failed | Median total | Jobs (n) |
|---|---|---|
| Defrost heater or timer | $364 | 203 |
| Door gasket | $389 | 77 |
| Thermostat or sensor | $390 | 81 |
| Evaporator or condenser fan | $396 | 135 |
| Control board | $494 | 51 |
| Compressor replacement | $700 | 107 |
By symptom rather than component, company-wide medians run: freezer not freezing $377 across 488 jobs, ice maker leaking $380 across 515, no ice at all $420 across 348.
The decision goes the other way from the prices: 37.0 percent of quoted ice maker repairs are not taken up and 43.9 percent of freezer repairs, the highest of any appliance we service — which is what happens when a machine most people think of as a spare gets an unexpected quote.
In Cumming, half of the ten paid visits on this page ended with a part fitted, which is the same story locally. Full figures on appliance repair approval rate.
The Documented Cumming Ice Maker Work Is Filed Under Refrigerator
Here is the part that makes this page useful rather than just honest. The Cumming invoices that do say what was wrong with an ice maker are all on refrigerators, because in these houses the ice maker is inside the fridge door rather than a separate machine.
An LG at $431 where the diagnosis reads: the ice maker auger motor, the motor responsible for pushing ice through the dispenser, has been tested and found faulty. A Samsung at $495 where the ice maker valve and its board were replaced together. A Samsung French-door at $237 where the ice maker was completely frozen over because its own internal heater had failed. And one invoice whose entire description is: Ice is not being produced, at $501.
Those four are the real Cumming ice-maker record, and three of them name a component. Two things follow.
If your ice maker is in the door of a refrigerator — which in a house built between 1995 and 2015 it almost certainly is — the Cumming refrigerator page is the one with the local numbers on it, and the fault is very often a heater or a motor rather than the ice maker as a unit.
And if you have a standalone machine — a chest freezer, an undercounter ice maker, a commercial cuber — then this page and its company-wide tables are yours, and the sixteen-job list above is an honest picture of how rarely we are called to them here.
Why Cumming Freezers and Ice Makers Fail the Way They Do
Lake Lanier, and where the second freezer actually lives 8.8 SQ MI OF WATER
ZIP 30041 contains 8.835 square miles of water, which is Lake Lanier inside the ZIP boundary, and the lake as a whole covers 37,000 acres along the county’s eastern edge. That geography puts a specific machine in a specific place.
A lakeside or lake-access house very often has a second refrigerator or a chest freezer in a boathouse, an unconditioned basement or a garage, holding drinks and fish and frozen food, running all summer with nobody looking at it.
Company-wide, June is the worst month of the year for freezers, 12.5 percent of the year’s freezer calls against 5.0 percent in January — a 2.5-fold swing and the sharpest seasonal curve of any appliance we service.
The mechanism is simple: a freezer in an unconditioned space is asked to hold 0 °F while the air around its condenser sits above 100 °F, and a machine that coped for eight summers fails in the ninth.
Two things buy you years. Pull it away from the wall so the condenser can breathe and vacuum the coils before the summer rather than after. And do not wall it in behind boxes. If yours is a garage or boathouse unit, say so when you book, because it changes what the technician expects to find. Frost patterns are decoded in freezer frost buildup.
The fill tube, and the cheapest real repair on this page $393
The commonest ice maker fault is not the ice maker. It is the fill tube: the short plastic pipe carrying water from the inlet valve at the back of the cabinet to the ice mould at the front.
If it dribbles instead of pulsing, the last drops freeze inside the tube, the next fill freezes on top of them, and within a fortnight the tube is a solid rod of ice.
The mould never fills, the machine keeps cycling, and what reaches us is the ice maker is broken when the ice maker is fine. Clearing it is $393 company-wide, the bottom line of the ice maker table, and the cause behind it is usually the inlet valve at $428 or a filter past its flow.
Here is the two-hour test that tells you which conversation you are having: empty the bin completely, note the time, and look again two hours later. A healthy household machine drops one harvest of eight to ten cubes in that window. Nothing at all points at the fill tube or the valve.
A partial harvest of hollow or undersized cubes points at water pressure, which is the filter. Background in ice maker not making ice.
Commercial machines are a different market, and this file has three of them MANITOWOC · WALK-IN · VEVOR
Three of the sixteen jobs here are not household appliances at all: a Manitowoc commercial ice maker, a walk-in freezer and a Vevor countertop ice machine — plus, on a separate untagged invoice, a commercial unit written up as unit was not cooling, water condensation is too much to handle at $442.
We do attend commercial refrigeration, and those visits are real work. What we will not do is average them into a domestic page, because the arithmetic is different by an order of magnitude: a commercial cuber’s compressor and condensing unit are priced against a household ice maker module at $449, not against each other.
If you have a machine in a restaurant, a bar, a break room or a walk-in box in Cumming, call us and you will get a commercial quote for a commercial machine. If you have an ice maker in a kitchen refrigerator, the tables on this page are yours and the commercial figures are not.
One water source, so a scale or filter problem is the machine LAKE LANIER · 24 MGD
An ice maker is the appliance most exposed to the water supply, because unlike a dispenser it runs unattended and freezes whatever arrives. Cumming’s supply is unusually simple to describe.
Every drop in these three ZIP codes comes from Lake Lanier, pumped and treated by the City of Cumming at its own 24 million gallon per day Potable Water Production Facility at 935 Dahlonega Highway, and the city is the sole provider of raw water to the entire county — Forsyth County built its own treatment plant in 1998 but buys the raw water through the city’s single intake.
There are no private wells and no second utility, so every ice maker on this route is fed water of exactly the same character. The 2026 water quality report, from tests run in 2025 on system GA1170000, records sodium at 7.9 ppm, turbidity at 0.09 NTU and total organic carbon at 1.3 ppm with no violations.
It does not report hardness, and neither do we. The practical rule instead: change the filter when the cubes shrink or the harvest slows, not when the calendar says six months. Guidance is on refrigerator water filter replacement.
Half of these visits end with a part fitted, and the freezer is why 5 OF 10 · 56.1 PERCENT
Five of our ten paid Cumming ice and freezer visits ended with a part fitted, and company-wide the freezer carries the closest call of any appliance we service, 43.9 percent. There is a straightforward reason and it is about arithmetic rather than about anybody’s attitude.
A new chest freezer is among the cheapest major appliances there is, so a $700 sealed-system quote on a fifteen-year-old garage unit is close to the replacement price — and in a county with a median household income of $112,834 and 82 percent home ownership, that decision gets made in about ten seconds.
We think most of those households are right, and on a machine that old with a sealed-system fault we will usually say so before the quote lands.
Below the sealed system the picture reverses completely: a defrost heater at $364, a fan at $396 or a gasket at $389 on a freezer that is otherwise sound is worth doing every time, and a leaking gasket is often the reason the machine has been running constantly in the first place.
Not freezing: two patterns, two very different bills $364 VS $700
A freezer that is not freezing has two families of cause and telling them apart is the whole visit.
If the cabinet is cold but not cold enough, or if frost is building on the back wall while the food softens, the defrost system has failed and the evaporator coil is packed in ice: $364 for the heater or timer, $396 if the fan blade was frozen into that ice and has to be replaced with it.
If the cabinet is at room temperature and either silent or clicking every few minutes, that is the sealed system, and it is a $700 compressor before the conversation about the age of the machine even starts.
What we will not do is condemn a compressor without testing the cheap thing that imitates it, because a start relay produces exactly the same symptom — a quiet cabinet that clicks every few minutes — and only a meter separates them.
On a chest freezer, one more free check first: lift the lid, look at the gasket all the way round, and see whether it is holding. See signs of a bad compressor.
🚚 Freezer calls go to the front of the schedule alongside refrigerators, because a thawing load is on a clock. 142 Cumming jobs in the last twelve months means the van is on the GA-400 corridor most weeks.
Match Your Symptom to the Likely Cause
- No ice at all, machine silent — check the bail arm or the switch first, then the fill tube at $393, then the inlet valve at $428. $420 by symptom company-wide across 348 jobs. Do the two-hour bin test when you book so you can tell the technician what happened.
- Cubes small, hollow or crescent-shaped — water pressure rather than mechanism: the filter first, then the inlet valve at $428. On a single-source surface-water supply, a filter past its flow is the likeliest and cheapest answer.
- Ice in the bin has fused into one solid block — either a valve that keeps trickling or, on a French-door refrigerator, the ice maker’s own internal heater. One Cumming invoice names exactly that: the ice maker completely frozen over because the internal heater had failed, at $237. Two different repairs from one complaint.
- Ice comes out crushed, jammed or not at all from the dispenser — the auger motor, the part that pushes ice through the chute. One Cumming diagnosis is precisely this, an LG auger motor tested and found faulty, at $431.
- Freezer running constantly but the food is soft — frost on the back wall means the defrost heater or timer at $364; clear coils and a warm cabinet mean the fan at $396; a garage or boathouse unit in June means the condenser first, which is free. $377 by symptom across 488 jobs.
- Freezer at room temperature, quiet or clicking every few minutes — the sealed system. A start relay imitates a dead compressor exactly, and only a meter separates them. The compressor is $700 company-wide, and on a fifteen-year-old chest freezer that is a replacement conversation rather than a repair one.
- A commercial cuber, a walk-in box or an undercounter machine — different machine, different arithmetic. We attend them in this city and our own record includes a Manitowoc, a walk-in freezer and a Vevor countertop unit. The domestic figures on this page do not apply to those, and you will get a commercial quote instead.
Why We Would Rather Publish No Number Than a Bad One
There is a mechanical way to build a local median that would have let us print a figure at the top of this page. Take every completed job above $200, call it a repair, take the middle.
On this file that produces $431 from five invoices, and every one of those five says only service call or diagnose a problem while covering four different classes of machine — a household Samsung, a KitchenAid, an unbranded ice maker, an unbranded freezer and an EdgeStar.
Reading the invoices one at a time is the only way to catch that, and on this appliance it is the fifth city in a row where the shortcut would have been wrong.
The same discipline changed two other pages in this cluster. On the Cumming oven page we removed a commercial oven and an invoice tagged as a stove whose description was entirely about a dishwasher. On the dishwasher page we removed two commercial dishwashers. So the rule we work to is simple: if the local file can carry a number, we publish it with the sample size next to it.
If it cannot, we say so, publish the company-wide figure, and show you what the local file actually contains — which is what this page does, and you can check every claim on it against the sixteen jobs listed above.
Repair or Replace, on the Cumming Numbers
On a built-in ice maker inside a working refrigerator, repair wins almost always: the machine you would be replacing is a $2,000-plus refrigerator, and the fault is a $393 fill tube, a $428 valve, a $449 module or — as three Cumming invoices show — an auger motor, an internal heater or a valve and board.
On a standalone freezer the arithmetic is genuinely different, and this is the one appliance where we regularly tell people not to spend the money. A new chest freezer is among the cheapest major appliances there is, so a $700 sealed-system repair on a fifteen-year-old garage unit is close to the replacement price, and the freezer is the appliance where that decision splits closest to even.
Below the sealed system the picture reverses: a defrost heater at $364, a fan at $396 or a gasket at $389 on a freezer that is otherwise sound is worth doing every time. Service lives are in how long freezers last and the arithmetic in the repair versus replacement guide.
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Ice Maker and Freezer Repair in Cumming — Questions We Get
Why does this page not have a Cumming price like your other pages?
Because the local file cannot carry one and we would rather say so. Sixteen Cumming jobs carry a freezer or ice maker tag, ten of them were paid, and not one of the sixteen records what was actually replaced.
The sixteen are also not sixteen of the same thing: they include a walk-in freezer, a Manitowoc commercial cuber, a countertop Vevor ice machine, an EdgeStar undercounter unit and household Samsung, KitchenAid, GE and Frigidaire machines.
Taking the five paid visits above $200 would give a median of $431 built entirely from generic invoices across four classes of machine, which would describe nothing. So the figures here are company-wide, from 2,091 ice maker jobs and 2,269 freezer jobs: $415 with a part on an ice maker and $375 on a freezer.
How much does ice maker repair cost?
Company-wide the median is $415 with a part replaced, and the middle half runs $340 to $512.
By component, including the part, the labor and the service call together: clearing a frozen fill tube $393, defrost heater or timer $415, water inlet valve $428, evaporator or condenser fan $432, water filter changed on the visit $440, ice maker module or assembly $449, thermostat or sensor $449, control board $488, door gasket $570.
By symptom, no ice at all is $420 across 348 jobs and an ice maker leaking is $380 across 515. Those are domestic figures and they do not apply to a commercial cuber or a walk-in box.
My ice maker is in the refrigerator door. Is this the right page?
Probably not — the refrigerator page is. In a house built between 1995 and 2015, which is most of Cumming, the ice maker is inside the fridge door and we log the visit as refrigerator work, which is why the Cumming invoices that actually name an ice maker fault are all on that file.
Three of them name a component: an LG auger motor, the part that pushes ice through the dispenser, tested and found faulty at $431; a Samsung where the ice maker valve and its board were replaced together at $495; and a Samsung French-door where the ice maker had frozen solid because its own internal heater had failed, at $237.
A fourth reads simply: ice is not being produced, at $501. The local numbers are on the Cumming refrigerator page.
My ice maker has stopped. What should I check first?
Two things, and both are free. Find the wire bail arm or the on-off switch on the ice maker itself and make sure it has not been knocked to the off position, because that is the single commonest reason we arrive and confirm the machine is sound wrong.
Then empty the bin completely, note the time and look again two hours later: a healthy household machine drops one harvest of eight to ten cubes in that window. Nothing at all points at a frozen fill tube at $393 or a failed inlet valve at $428.
A partial harvest of small or hollow cubes points at water pressure, which usually means the filter rather than a repair. Tell us which of the three you saw when you book and the technician arrives expecting the right fault.
Do you repair commercial ice machines and walk-in freezers in Cumming?
Yes, and our own local record shows it: a Manitowoc commercial ice maker, a walk-in freezer, a Vevor countertop machine and a separate commercial unit written up as not cooling with water condensation too heavy to handle. What we will not do is price them off this page.
A commercial cuber runs a sealed system many times the size of a domestic ice maker and its parts are priced accordingly, so a domestic figure would be wrong in both directions. If you have a machine in a restaurant, a bar, a break room or a walk-in box, call and you will get a commercial quote for a commercial machine.
My garage freezer stopped in the middle of summer. Is that a coincidence?
No. Company-wide, June is the worst month of the year for freezers, 12.5 percent of the year’s freezer calls against 5.0 percent in January — a 2.5-fold swing and the sharpest seasonal curve of any appliance we service.
A chest or upright freezer in an unconditioned garage, basement or boathouse is asked to hold 0 °F while the air around its condenser sits above 100 °F, and a machine that managed eight summers will fail in the ninth.
This matters more here than in most places because ZIP 30041 contains 8.835 square miles of Lake Lanier and lake-access houses very often have a second freezer out of the way. Before you call, pull it away from the wall and vacuum the condenser coils, because a smothered coil produces every symptom a failing compressor does and is free to fix.
How long do I have before the food in a broken freezer is unsafe?
USDA guidance is that a full freezer holds a safe temperature for about 48 hours with the door kept shut, and a half-full one for about 24, so the first instruction is to stop opening it. Food that still has ice crystals or is at 40 °F or below can be refrozen; anything held above 40 °F for more than four hours should be discarded.
Tell us how long it has been and whether the freezer is full when you book, because those two answers decide how far up the schedule you go. Freezer and refrigerator calls get priority over every other appliance for exactly this reason.
More Appliance Repair in Cumming, GA
Each page is built on the jobs we have actually run in this city, with the local price band and the failure patterns for that appliance.
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Company-wide pricing on this page because the local file is sixteen jobs across seven kinds of machine, and we would rather tell you that than print a number we cannot stand behind. $99 diagnostic applied to the repair, 90-day parts and labor warranty, all three Cumming ZIP codes.