Ice Maker and Freezer Repair Lawrenceville GA
Ice maker and freezer repair in Lawrenceville, GA runs $417 with a part on an ice maker and $385 on a freezer, and those two figures are company-wide medians from 2,191 Bozmanfix ice maker and 2,406 freezer jobs.
We repair ice makers, freezers and ice machines across the four Lawrenceville ZIP codes, for households and businesses alike, from a refrigerator ice maker to a Scotsman commercial ice machine.
This page gives you the household prices from our full record, and what the local record shows – which machines are in these houses, what actually fails in them, and the two details worth mentioning on an ice maker call.
Ice Maker and Freezer Repair in Lawrenceville, GA
No ice, small or hollow cubes, ice fused into a block, water under the bin, freezer running without freezing, frost sheet on the back wall, chest freezer in the garage that has stopped. All four ZIP codes.
What an Ice Maker or Freezer Repair Costs, by the Part That Failed
Both tables are full-ticket figures – the part plus the labor plus the service call – from our whole service area: 2,191 completed ice maker jobs and 2,406 completed freezer jobs.
| Ice maker: what failed | Median total | Jobs (n) | What you notice |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frozen fill tube cleared | $432 | 40 | No ice, a plug of ice in the chute |
| Defrost heater or timer | $419 | 70 | Ice slows, frost builds behind the bin |
| Water inlet valve | $429 | 69 | Slow fill, no fill, or water leaking in |
| Evaporator or condenser fan | $438 | 60 | Small hollow cubes, compartment too warm |
| Water filter changed on the visit | $451 | 79 | Shrinking cubes, slow dispenser |
| Ice maker module or assembly | $451 | 57 | Motor stalls, ejector arm stops |
| Thermostat or sensor | $470 | 18 | Cycles at the wrong temperature |
| Control board | $488 | 32 | Dead ice maker, everything else working |
| Freezer: what failed | Median total | Jobs (n) | What you notice |
|---|---|---|---|
| Defrost heater or timer | $370 | 203 | Frost sheet on the back wall, then warming |
| Door gasket | $397 | 77 | Frost at the door line, motor never stops |
| Thermostat or sensor | $390 | 81 | Too cold, not cold enough, or swinging |
| Evaporator or condenser fan | $396 | 135 | Running loudly, not holding temperature |
| Control board | $500 | 51 | Dead cabinet with a live outlet |
| Compressor | $700 | 107 | Silence, or a click every few minutes |
What the Bozmanfix Lawrenceville file does show clearly is which repairs actually happen in these houses. A Frigidaire Gallery freezer where the defrost sensor was replaced and the drain line cleaned, at $380. An ice maker visit that came down to the water filter alone, at $590.
A Frigidaire freezer repair at $441. A Whirlpool freezer at $537 and another freezer at $577. Two of those four numbers are above the Bozmanfix company-wide freezer median, which is what happens when a machine is left running with a frost problem rather than booked early – the subject of the next section.
Refrigerator-side ice work is on the Lawrenceville refrigerator page, and the whole-city price list on the city hub.
Why Lawrenceville Ice Makers and Freezers Fail the Way They Do
The defrost circuit is the whole freezer story, and it gets dearer the longer you wait $370 EARLY
A freezer keeps working by melting off its own frost. Every few hours a heater or a timed cycle clears the evaporator coil behind the rear panel and the water runs down a drain tube.
When the heater, the timer or the sensor fails, the coil ices into a solid block, the fan that moves air over it gets buried, and the cabinet slowly stops holding temperature while the compressor runs continuously.
Our clearest local example is a Frigidaire Gallery where the defrost sensor was replaced and the drain line cleaned for $380. Across all Bozmanfix jobs, the defrost heater or timer is the cheapest repair on either table at $370.
Left alone it becomes an excavation: the cabinet has to be emptied, the panel pulled and the coil thawed under control before any part can be tested, and that is how two other local Bozmanfix freezer jobs reached $537 and $577.
The tell is visible weeks in advance – a growing frost sheet on the back wall, or a freezer that suddenly never seems to switch off. Book it while it is still a sensor.
How fast the bin refills tells the story 8 TO 10 CUBES
A bin half full of old ice hides the measurement that matters most: how fast the machine makes ice now. A household ice maker in good order produces a batch of eight to ten cubes every ninety minutes to two hours, roughly two to three pounds a day.
The technician empties the bin and times a harvest. One thin batch or none points at a fault in the machine; eight solid cubes point at a door left ajar or an arm switched off, which the technician checks on the same visit.
That same test separates the two commonest faults in the category. Small, hollow or crescent-shaped cubes mean the machine is short of water – filter, fill tube or inlet valve, $429 to $451 – and one of the Bozmanfix visits in Lawrenceville came down to the filter alone at $590.
Full-size cubes fused into a block mean they are melting and refreezing, which is a door seal or a defrost fault, not a water problem. Tell us which of those you have on the call and the technician arrives with the right part on the van.
Lake Lanier water, one filter, and the $590 lesson 200 MGD
All four Lawrenceville ZIP codes are supplied from Lake Sidney Lanier and treated by Gwinnett County Water Resources at two plants, the Lanier Filter Plant and Shoal Creek, which together produce more than 200 million gallons a day using ozone biofiltration; the Lanier plant was named Georgia Association of Water Professionals Plant of the Year in 2021, and the county maintains more than 7,000 miles of water and sewer pipe.
What the supply means is that an ice maker here rarely fails because of what is in the water; it fails because of what is in the filter.
A refrigerator filter is a consumable with a six-month life and the machine will not warn you when it is choking – it will simply make smaller cubes, then fewer, then none.
Filter timing is on refrigerator water filter replacement.
The chest freezer in a Georgia garage, and why July ends it 1990s HOUSES
Gwinnett went from 166,903 people in 1980 to 588,448 in 2000, and the subdivision houses from that boom very often have a chest freezer in the garage or a spare upright in the basement holding a side of beef and a season of vegetables. Our file has them: a Whirlpool freezer, a Frigidaire, a Kenmore.
Here is the physics people miss. A freezer works by rejecting heat into the room it stands in, and it is designed for ordinary indoor temperature. An uninsulated Georgia garage in July is far above that, so the compressor runs almost continuously, the condenser sits in air that is already hot, and a machine with years left in it fails in one season.
Four habits genuinely extend its life: leave a hand’s width of clearance behind and above the cabinet, vacuum the condenser coils twice a year, keep it at least two-thirds full because frozen mass holds temperature far better than air, and do not turn it colder in August, which only loads the compressor further.
If it is already struggling, the technician checks airflow and the defrost circuit before anyone quotes a $700 compressor.
Four power utilities, a June storm, and 48 hours of food 6,229 OUTAGES
Gwinnett gets its electricity from four different suppliers depending on the address: the City of Lawrenceville’s own Electric Department inside the city limits, and Georgia Power, Jackson EMC, Walton EMC or Sawnee EMC outside.
After severe storms on the weekend of 7 June 2025, Jackson EMC alone still had 6,229 customers without power in Gwinnett County on the evening of 9 June, with 7,536 out in Hall and 4,746 in Jackson, and the cooperative could not give restoration estimates because of the extent of the damage.
For a full freezer that is not an inconvenience, it is a clock. USDA guidance is that a full freezer holds a safe temperature for about 48 hours if the door stays shut, and a half-full one for about 24. So keep it closed rather than checking it, and if the outage is going to run long, moving the contents to a neighbor’s working freezer beats opening yours to look.
What we see afterwards is the restart damage rather than the outage damage: control boards at $500 and compressors that came back on a hot start and did not survive it. A whole-house surge protector costs less than one board, and a freezer thermometer with a memory function tells you in the morning whether the contents actually went above safe temperature overnight, which beats guessing about a month of food.
Commercial ice machines, and what we do with those calls SCOTSMAN
Our Lawrenceville record includes a Scotsman ice machine logged alongside a Summit unit, at $1,026, which is commercial equipment rather than a kitchen ice maker.
A four-figure visit to a commercial machine has nothing to do with the ice maker in your refrigerator door, which is why the household prices on this page come from household jobs.
If you run a business in Lawrenceville with a Scotsman, a Hoshizaki, a Manitowoc or a walk-in, the right move is to call rather than book online, so the dispatcher can take the make and model and match the visit to the machine.
🚚 Freezer calls get the same priority as refrigerators, because a freezer full of food is on a clock. If the cabinet is silent rather than merely warm, say so when you book: it changes the parts the technician loads.
Match Your Symptom to the Likely Cause
- No ice at all, everything else working – the shut-off arm and the supply valve first, then a frozen fill tube at $432, the inlet valve at $429 or the module at $451. Company-wide the no-ice complaint runs $419 across 359 Bozmanfix jobs.
- Small, hollow or crescent-shaped cubes – the machine is short of water: filter at $451, fill tube, or inlet valve. One local Lawrenceville job was resolved by the filter alone.
- Cubes fused into a block, or ice tasting of the freezer – melting and refreezing, so a door gasket or a defrost fault, not a water fault. Ice also absorbs odors from open food, which no repair fixes.
- Water pooling under the bin or running inside the door – the fill tube overshooting or the line at the valve. Company-wide, ice maker leaking is $392 across 248 Bozmanfix jobs, one of the biggest single symptom groups we track.
- Freezer running constantly but not holding temperature – the defrost heater or timer at $370, the evaporator fan at $396, or a door seal. One local Frigidaire Gallery needed the defrost sensor replaced and the drain line cleaned, at $380.
- Frost sheet on the back wall that keeps coming back – the defrost circuit, and the cheapest repair on this page at $370 if you catch it early. Two local Bozmanfix freezer jobs reached $537 and $577 because the coil had iced solid first.
- Cabinet silent, or clicking every few minutes – the start relay or the compressor at $700. This gets tested rather than assumed.
- Commercial ice machine or walk-in – call rather than book online. Our local file includes a Scotsman, and the dispatcher takes the make and model on the phone.
What Our Lawrenceville Ice and Freezer Jobs Contain
By ZIP code: 8 jobs in 30043, 7 in 30044, 4 in 30045 and 1 in 30046, across 20 separate households and businesses. By type: one commercial ice machine, as described above, and nineteen household machines – chest freezers, uprights and refrigerator ice makers.
Household repairs in the file include a defrost sensor and drain line at $380, a filter-only ice maker visit at $590, a Frigidaire freezer at $441, freezers at $537 and $577 and a Whirlpool at $109, among others.
The prices to plan around are the Bozmanfix company-wide $415 and $385 – with the same $99 diagnostic and the same 90-day parts and labor warranty in all four ZIP codes.
Repair or Replace, and the Honest Version for Ice Makers
Freezers first, because the arithmetic is clean. At $370 for a defrost heater, $397 for a gasket, $390 for a thermostat and $396 for a fan, repair beats replacement comfortably on any freezer under about twelve years old, and a chest freezer in particular is a simple machine that repays fixing: no ice maker, no electronics to speak of, a compressor and a thermostat.
The line is that compressor at $700, which on a fifteen-year-old garage freezer is where we give you the repair price and the replacement comparison side by side. Ice makers need a different conversation and it is the one most companies avoid.
A modern in-door ice maker is often a sealed assembly rather than a set of serviceable parts, which is why the module line is $451 – you are buying the whole mechanism, not a component inside it. That has a consequence worth knowing.
If the fault is on the water side, filter, fill tube or valve, you are in $429 to $451 territory and the machine will work like new.
If the assembly itself has failed on a refrigerator already past ten years, the technician sets the $451 part against the age of the cabinet so you can decide with both in front of you.
Work through the numbers with the repair versus replacement guide, service lives in how long freezers last, and approval data in appliance repair approval rate.
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Ice Maker and Freezer Repair in Lawrenceville – Questions We Get
How much does ice maker or freezer repair cost in Lawrenceville, GA?
Plan on Bozmanfix’s company-wide figures: $417 with a part on an ice maker and $385 on a freezer, from 2,191 and 2,406 completed jobs.
By component, including the part, the labor and the service call: frozen fill tube $432, defrost heater $419, inlet valve $429, evaporator fan $438, filter $451, ice maker module $451, control board $488; on freezers, defrost heater $370, gasket $397, thermostat $390, fan $396, board $500, compressor $700.
My ice maker stopped. What should I tell you when I book?
Four things are worth telling us. Whether the shut-off arm is down and the water supply valve behind the unit is open, because both get knocked during cleaning.
How old the water filter is, since one over six months old matters – the machine will not warn you that the filter is starving it, and one Lawrenceville visit ended as a filter job at $590 once the service call and the technician’s time were in it.
Then how fast an emptied bin refills: a healthy household ice maker makes eight to ten cubes every ninety minutes to two hours, so one thin batch or none means a real fault.
Finally the shape of the cubes: small or hollow cubes mean too little water, at $429 to $451, while full-size cubes fused into a block mean melting and refreezing, which is a door seal or a defrost fault.
There is a frost sheet building up on my freezer wall. Is that urgent?
It is worth booking now, because this is the repair that gets dramatically more expensive if you wait. The freezer melts its own frost every few hours; when the defrost heater, timer or sensor fails, the coil behind the rear panel ices into a solid block, the fan gets buried and the cabinet stops holding temperature.
Caught early it is the cheapest repair on either of the Bozmanfix tables at $365, and one local Frigidaire Gallery was resolved with a defrost sensor and a drain line cleaning for $380. Caught late, the cabinet has to be emptied and the coil thawed under control before anything can even be tested, which is how two of our local freezer jobs reached $537 and $577.
If the freezer also seems never to switch off, that is the same fault from the other side.
Does Gwinnett water cause ice maker problems?
The supply itself rarely does. All four Lawrenceville ZIP codes drink from Lake Sidney Lanier, treated by Gwinnett County Water Resources at the Lanier Filter Plant and Shoal Creek, which together produce more than 200 million gallons a day using ozone biofiltration; the Lanier plant was Georgia Association of Water Professionals Plant of the Year in 2021.
What does cause ice maker problems here is the filter: it is a consumable with roughly a six-month life, and a choked filter produces smaller cubes, then fewer, then none, with no warning light.
Changed on schedule, it keeps the ice maker on a full harvest. If your street has had water main work, run a tap for a minute before using the dispenser.
My chest freezer is in the garage and struggling in summer. Is that normal?
Common, and largely fixable. A freezer rejects its heat into the room it stands in and is designed for ordinary indoor temperature; an uninsulated Georgia garage in July is well above that, so the compressor runs almost continuously and a machine with years left can fail in a single season.
Four habits change the outcome: leave a hand’s width of clearance behind and above the cabinet, vacuum the condenser coils twice a year, keep it at least two-thirds full because frozen mass holds temperature much better than air, and do not set it colder in August, which only loads the compressor further.
If it has already stopped holding temperature, the technician checks airflow and the defrost circuit before anyone quotes a $700 compressor.
The power was out for a day. Is the food safe, and is the freezer damaged?
USDA guidance is that a full freezer holds a safe temperature for about 48 hours with the door closed and a half-full one for about 24, so the first rule is not to open it. Food that has been above 40 °F for more than two hours should not be refrozen.
Outages are a real factor here: Gwinnett is served by four different electricity utilities and after the storms of early June 2025 Jackson EMC alone still had 6,229 customers without power in the county on the evening of 9 June, with no restoration estimates available.
What we see afterwards is restart damage rather than outage damage – control boards at $500 and compressors that came back on a hot start – so if the cabinet is silent or clicking once power returns, unplug it and call rather than resetting it repeatedly. A whole-house surge protector costs less than one board.
Do you repair commercial ice machines in Lawrenceville?
Yes. Call rather than booking online, so the dispatcher can take the make and model. Our local file includes a Scotsman ice machine logged alongside a Summit unit at $1,026, which is commercial equipment rather than a household ice maker.
Commercial visits are priced separately from the household figures on this page.
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