Ice Maker Repair McDonough GA
This page does not carry a McDonough price for ice maker and freezer work, and that is deliberate. We have 14 ice maker and freezer calls on record in this city, 12 of which finished as paid work and only 9 of which involved replacing a part. Nine jobs is an anecdote, not a statistic, and we do not print anecdote as data. What we can tell you is what this work actually costs across our full book: $415 median on a completed ice maker repair from 2,153 jobs, and $364 to $494 on the common freezer repairs from 2,272. Both figures include the part, the labor and the service call. Diagnostic is $99 and it comes off the repair when you approve it.
Ice Maker and Freezer Repair in McDonough, GA
No ice, hollow cubes, a freezer running warm, frost on the back wall, a chest freezer that quit in the heat? We cover both ZIPs with no travel surcharge.
Why There Is No McDonough Number On This Page
Every other page in this cluster leads with a local median, because the sample supports it: 132 refrigerator calls, 117 washers, 67 dryers, 64 ovens. Ice makers and freezers are the exception. Combined, they account for 14 of our 746 McDonough jobs — under two percent. Twelve of those were paid visits and nine involved a part. Our rule across this whole cluster is ten or more or no number, so instead of dressing nine jobs up as a price, here is exactly what the local file holds and where the real pricing comes from.
| McDonough ice maker and freezer work | Figure |
|---|---|
| Calls on record | 14, across 14 households |
| Paid completed visits | 12 |
| Jobs where a part was replaced | 9 — too few to publish a local median |
| Median across all paid visits | $352 (12 jobs, treat as indicative) |
| Visits that ended at the $99 diagnostic | 2 of 12 |
| By ZIP | 30253 — 6 · 30252 — 8 |
| In the last twelve months | 6 |
| Where the pricing below comes from | 2,153 ice maker and 2,272 freezer repairs, company wide |
Freezer repairs by part, company wide
From our full completed freezer work — 2,272 jobs where a part was actually replaced. Median totals: part, labor and the service call together.
| Repair | Median total | Middle half | Jobs (n) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Defrost heater or timer | $364 | $300 to $448 | 203 |
| Thermostat or temperature sensor | $381 | $349 to $470 | 56 |
| Start relay or overload | $382 | $300 to $440 | 26 |
| Evaporator fan motor | $386 | $337 to $458 | 67 |
| Door gasket or seal | $389 | $312 to $580 | 77 |
| Control board | $494 | $400 to $584 | 49 |
| Compressor replacement | $750 | $330 to $1,232 | 108 |
Ice maker repairs, company wide
From 2,153 completed ice maker repairs, median $415 overall. Ice maker work sits a little above most other appliance repairs for one structural reason: the module arrives as a sealed assembly rather than as a single replaceable component. Full national detail lives on our ice maker repair page.
| Repair | Median total | Middle half | Jobs (n) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frozen fill tube or water line | $393 | $312 to $530 | 42 |
| No ice at all, all causes | $415 | $355 to $540 | 239 |
| Water inlet valve | $417 | $357 to $535 | 71 |
| Ice maker module or assembly | $432 | $389 to $505 | 200 |
| Water filter related | $439 | $320 to $641 | 82 |
And by brand
| Brand | Median ice maker repair | Jobs (n) |
|---|---|---|
| Whirlpool | $385 | 288 |
| Frigidaire | $391 | 159 |
| Maytag | $398 | 24 |
| GE | $422 | 171 |
| Samsung | $448 | 351 |
| LG | $450 | 97 |
| KitchenAid | $461 | 60 |
Freezers by symptom, company wide
| What the freezer is doing | Median total | Jobs (n) |
|---|---|---|
| Frost building up inside | $369 | 280 |
| Not freezing, running warm | $375 | 423 |
| Noisy, buzzing or rattling | $396 | 138 |
Those three tables are labelled company wide because they are. There is no McDonough-only symptom breakdown anywhere on this page and there will not be one until the local file supports it — the job notes on our local calls are mostly booking text, and a sentence beginning “the most common freezer complaint in McDonough is” would be invented. The pricing holds here because the same technicians, the same trucks and the same parts costs cover Henry County as cover the rest of our territory.
The McDonough Pattern: Plumbed Ice in Newer Kitchens
There is a reason this category looks so small in a city where we have run 746 jobs, and it is not that McDonough freezers never fail. It is where the work gets counted, what kind of ice these kitchens make, and what we refuse to blame it on.
Most McDonough ice work arrives as a refrigerator call 132 FRIDGE CALLS
Almost every kitchen built in the 2000s subdivisions here has a plumbed through-the-door dispenser rather than a standalone ice machine, so when the ice stops the customer books a refrigerator repair and the job is filed as one. Company wide, “ice maker makes no ice” is a refrigerator symptom on 1,295 completed jobs with a $418 median — larger than our entire standalone ice maker file for some cities. That is why McDonough shows 132 refrigerator calls and only 14 in this category. If your ice maker is inside your fridge, either page books the same visit with the same technician; nothing changes except which page you happened to land on.
We will not tell you it is hard water NO PPM PUBLISHED
Henry County Water Authority treats surface water — Indian Creek, the Towaliga River and Long Branch Creek feeding five reservoirs and two treatment plants, serving roughly 218,000 people across McDonough, Hampton, Locust Grove, Stockbridge and unincorporated Henry County. The Tussahaw reservoir alone runs to about 1,466 acres and close to 9.8 billion gallons at full pool, and it was renamed the Lindy D. Farmer Jr. Reservoir in 2025. What we could not find is a verifiable hardness figure for this supply, so we are not going to quote one, and we are not going to pin your ice maker on mineral content the way half the internet will. What actually blocks ice makers, in the order we find them: a water filter years past its date, low pressure at the saddle valve, a pinched supply line behind the unit, then a frozen fill tube at $393.
Frost on the back wall is defrost, not a bad seal $364 · 203 JOBS
A freezer is supposed to build a thin layer of frost on the evaporator coil and melt it off several times a day. When the defrost heater, timer or sensor fails, that frost never clears, packs solid around the coil and blocks the airflow — so the freezer runs constantly and gets warmer at the same time. Customers usually describe it as a bad door seal, and the seal is usually fine. Defrost repairs run a $364 median across 203 jobs. Frost only around the door frame is the other story, and that one really is the gasket at $389.
The garage freezer and a Georgia August $382 START RELAY
The standalone freezer in this city normally lives in the garage of a two-car 2000s house, which means it spends July and August in a space that can sit thirty degrees above the room it was designed for. A freezer built for a 70°F room runs close to continuously at 95°F, the compressor works beyond its design envelope, and the first thing to give is usually the start relay at $382 rather than the compressor itself at $750. A garage unit that quit in the heat is often not dead. Before you book, pull it out and look at the condenser coils — dust and lint there are the cheapest cause of the same symptom, and clearing them is free.
Brands here are too thin to rank 9 TAGGED JOBS
Across our McDonough ice maker and freezer calls the tagged brands are Frigidaire 5, Whirlpool 2, and one each of Samsung, KitchenAid and GE. We are not going to publish that as a brand ranking, because on nine tagged jobs it is not one. The city-wide picture is real: Samsung 86, Whirlpool 77, Frigidaire 61 and GE 58 across all 746 McDonough jobs, with Frigidaire taking 32 of 132 refrigerator calls, which is what a 2000s builder package looks like two decades on. For what a badge actually costs you on this repair, use the company-wide brand table above — that one rests on hundreds of jobs per row.
Commercial ice machines are a different appliance 183 JOBS · $430
Scotsman, Hoshizaki, Manitowoc and Ice-O-Matic units are not oversized domestic ice makers. They have their own water treatment, their own cleaning cycle and their own failure modes, and we run them as separate work: 183 completed jobs at a $430 median with a part. If you run a restaurant on the square, a convenience store on the Interstate 75 corridor, or a bar out toward Locust Grove, say it is a commercial machine when you book so the right technician and the right parts come out the first time.
🧊 Defrost heaters, evaporator fans, gaskets, inlet valves and Whirlpool-family ice maker modules ride on the truck. Samsung, LG and KitchenAid assemblies are the parts most likely to need ordering, which is the usual reason one of these jobs takes a second visit.
Match Your Symptom to the Likely Cause
- No ice at all — check the shut-off arm has not been knocked up by a stacked box, then a frozen fill tube ($393), the inlet valve ($417) or the module assembly ($432).
- Cubes small, hollow or slow to drop — flow, not a failed part. An overdue filter, a saddle valve only partly open, or a supply line crushed behind the unit when it was last pushed back.
- Ice tastes stale or smells of the freezer — filter past its date, or old ice sitting in a bin nobody has emptied. Dump the bin and give it a day before you book.
- Tray overfills and floods the bin — inlet valve stuck open ($417). Shut the water off at the supply valve until the visit.
- Freezer running warm, ice cream soft — defrost system ($364), evaporator fan ($386) or coils blocked with dust. Symptom group median $375.
- Heavy frost across the back wall — defrost heater, timer or sensor. Packed frost blocks the airflow, which is why the freezer gets warmer while running non-stop.
- Frost only around the door frame — door gasket ($389). A seal that leaks keeps the compressor running permanently.
- Chest freezer in the garage stopped during a heatwave — start relay ($382) or a compressor pushed past its design temperature. Clean the coils before you assume the worst.
- Clicks every few minutes and never cools — start relay or overload. Cut the power rather than leaving it clicking; that noise is the compressor failing to start.
- Loud buzz or rattle — evaporator fan blade catching frost, or compressor mounts. Noise jobs run a $396 median.
- Dead, no light and no hum — control board ($494) or the supply itself. Check the breaker first; three utilities serve Henry County kitchens and storm outages produce this call every summer.
Repair or Replace, and the Food Question
A freezer carries a third term the rest of the house does not: the contents. A full chest freezer in a McDonough garage can easily hold several hundred dollars of meat, and the USDA clock gives you about 48 hours from the moment it stops. That changes the arithmetic. A repair at $364 to $494 that saves the load pays for itself before you get to whether the appliance was worth keeping, which is why we tell people to book first and think second on this one appliance.
After the food is safe, the fork is the same as on a refrigerator: sealed system or not. Defrost heater, thermostat, evaporator fan, gasket, start relay and board all sit between $364 and $494 — well under the price of a new unit, and worth doing on almost any freezer that is not visibly rusted through. A compressor at $750, with a middle half stretching from $330 to $1,232, is the other conversation. On a fifteen-year-old chest freezer that number is close to replacement and we will say so; on a large upright or a built-in it usually still favours the repair. The wider version of this arithmetic is in our repair or replace guide, and expected service life is covered in how long freezers last.
An ice maker is its own decision and a simpler one. A module assembly at $432 against a refrigerator worth well over a thousand dollars is never the moment to replace the fridge — and it is worth knowing that a large share of no-ice calls turn out to be water supply rather than the module at all, which is the cheaper end of the same visit. If yours is a Samsung, the specific failure pattern is documented in our write-up on Samsung refrigerator ice maker problems, and the general triage lives in ice maker not making ice.
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Ice Maker and Freezer Repair in McDonough — Questions We Get
Why do you not publish a McDonough ice maker and freezer price?
Because we have only 14 ice maker and freezer calls on record in McDonough, 12 of them paid and 9 involving a replaced part. Our rule across this city cluster is ten jobs or more or no number, and nine is under it. Publishing a median off nine jobs would give you a figure that moves by fifty dollars if one job had gone differently. The company-wide pricing on this page rests on 2,153 completed ice maker repairs and 2,272 freezer repairs, and it is the honest answer to the same question.
What does an ice maker repair cost then?
A median of $415 across 2,153 completed ice maker repairs, parts and labor and the service call included. By cause: frozen fill tube or water line $393, water inlet valve $417, module or assembly $432, filter-related work $439. By brand the median runs Whirlpool $385, Frigidaire $391, Maytag $398, GE $422, Samsung $448, LG $450, KitchenAid $461 — that spread is parts cost, not reliability.
And a freezer repair?
The common freezer repairs sit between $364 and $494 with everything included: defrost heater or timer $364, thermostat or sensor $381, start relay $382, evaporator fan $386, door gasket $389, control board $494. A compressor replacement is the outlier at $750, with the middle half of those jobs running $330 to $1,232. By symptom, frost buildup runs $369, a freezer not freezing $375 and a noisy freezer $396.
My ice maker stopped making ice. What is the usual cause?
In order of how often we find it: the shut-off arm or switch knocked off by something stacked in the freezer, a water filter years past its date, low supply pressure or a pinched line behind the unit, then a frozen fill tube at $393, an inlet valve at $417 and finally the module assembly at $432. The first three cost nothing to check and we check them before we quote anything.
Why are my ice cubes small and hollow?
Almost always water flow rather than a failed component. A filter well past its replacement date is the first suspect, then a saddle valve that is only partly open, then a supply line crushed behind the refrigerator when it was last moved. The mould fills for a fixed time regardless of how much water arrives, so less water means a thin, hollow cube rather than no cube at all.
My freezer has heavy frost on the back wall. What does that mean?
The defrost system has failed. A freezer builds thin frost on the evaporator coil by design and melts it off several times a day; when the heater, timer or sensor stops working, the frost packs solid, blocks the airflow and the freezer runs constantly while getting warmer. Defrost repairs run a $364 median across 203 jobs. Frost only around the door frame is a different fault, usually the gasket at $389.
My garage freezer stopped working in the heat. Is it dead?
Not necessarily. A freezer built for a 70°F room runs close to continuously in a Georgia garage in August, and the part that usually gives out first is the start relay at $382 rather than the compressor at $750. Clean the condenser coils before you book — dust and lint produce exactly the same symptom and cost nothing to clear.
How long is the food safe if the freezer fails?
USDA guidance is about 48 hours in a full freezer and about 24 hours in a half-full one, provided the door stays closed. Food still holding ice crystals or sitting at 40°F or below can be refrozen. Anything that has been above 40°F for more than two hours should be discarded. Book the visit before you start moving food around.
Do you repair commercial ice machines in McDonough?
Yes. Scotsman, Hoshizaki, Manitowoc and Ice-O-Matic units are a separate class of appliance with their own water treatment and cleaning cycles, and we have 183 completed commercial ice machine jobs at a $430 median with a part. Mention that it is a commercial machine when you book so the right technician and parts are dispatched.
Which ZIP codes in McDonough do you cover?
Both 30253 and 30252, with no travel surcharge between them. Of the 14 ice maker and freezer calls on record here, 6 sit in 30253 and 8 in 30252, but on a sample that small we would not read anything into the split. The same routes cover Kelleytown, Flippen and Ola.
No Ice or a Warm Freezer in McDonough?
Defrost $364, evaporator fan $386, gasket $389, ice maker module $432 — company-wide medians from 4,425 completed freezer and ice maker repairs, because 14 local jobs is not enough to price from and we will not pretend otherwise. $99 diagnostic applied to the repair, 90-day parts and labor warranty, both ZIPs covered.