Ice Maker and Freezer Repair Newnan GA
Ice maker repair runs a median of $415 and freezer repair $385, once a part is actually replaced. Those come from 2,091 ice maker jobs and 2,269 freezer jobs across our whole service area. We are quoting company-wide rather than local here on purpose: we have 13 freezer and ice maker jobs in Newnan and only 8 of them involved replacing a part, which is not a large enough sample to publish a local median honestly. Everything else on this page — how these two fail, what water does to them, when it is worth fixing — applies directly to Newnan, and the local figures we do have are further down.
Ice Maker and Freezer Repair in Newnan, GA
No ice, hollow or small cubes, ice maker leaking, standalone freezer not holding temperature, heavy frost. Both Newnan ZIPs.
What an Ice Maker Repair Costs, by What Actually Failed
From 2,091 completed ice maker jobs where a part was replaced. Every price is the full ticket — part, labour and the service call together.
| What failed | Median total | Middle half | Jobs (n) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frozen fill tube or water line | $393 | $317 to $512 | 40 |
| Defrost heater or timer | $415 | $285 to $547 | 70 |
| Water inlet valve | $428 | $356 to $536 | 69 |
| Evaporator or condenser fan | $432 | $380 to $500 | 60 |
| Water filter, replaced on a service visit | $440 | $324 to $641 | 79 |
| Ice maker module or assembly | $449 | $411 to $532 | 57 |
| Thermostat or temperature sensor | $449 | $381 to $635 | 18 |
| Control board | $488 | $395 to $720 | 32 |
| Door gasket or seal | $570 | $352 to $788 | 17 |
| All ice maker work | $415 | $340 to $512 | 2,091 |
What a Freezer Repair Costs
From 2,269 completed freezer jobs where a part was replaced. Standalone chest and upright freezers plus the freezer side of combination units.
| What failed | Median total | Middle half | Jobs (n) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Defrost heater or timer | $364 | $300 to $448 | 203 |
| Door gasket or seal | $389 | $306 to $585 | 77 |
| Thermostat or temperature sensor | $390 | $341 to $465 | 81 |
| Evaporator or condenser fan | $396 | $342 to $470 | 135 |
| Control board | $494 | $400 to $623 | 51 |
| Compressor | $700 | $320 to $1,224 | 107 |
| All freezer work | $385 | $302 to $500 | 2,269 |
Read the two tables side by side and the difference is clear. A freezer is a simple cold box — defrost, fan, thermostat, and the prices sit in a tight band from $364 to $396, with only the compressor breaking out at $700. An ice maker costs more on average, $415 against $385, despite being a far smaller device, because it combines refrigeration with a water supply and a mechanical harvest cycle. More devices to go wrong, and the water side is where most of them do. Company-wide symptom medians tell the same story: a freezer not freezing is $377 across 488 jobs, an ice maker leaking is $380 across 515, and no ice at all is $420 across 348.
Why Newnan Freezers and Ice Makers Fail the Way They Do
Our Newnan sample here is small, and we are saying so 13 JOBS, 8 WITH A PART
13 freezer and ice maker jobs across 13 Newnan households, 11 of them paid, 6 in the last twelve months and 5 in 2026. The median across those is $364, and $394 on the eight where a part was replaced. Eight jobs is below the threshold at which we are willing to publish a local figure as though it means something, so treat those two numbers as indicative and the company-wide tables above as the real answer. For comparison, our Newnan refrigerator page is built on 119 jobs and the washer page on 95, which is why those carry local pricing and this one does not.
Treated surface water, and an appliance made of water WATER SIDE
Inside the city, Newnan Utilities draws from White Oak Creek, Line Creek and Sandy Brown Creek into a reservoir system of about 1.8 billion gallons, treated at the Hershall Norred plant at 14 million gallons a day. Outside the city limits the Coweta County Water and Sewerage Authority runs its own surface supply from the B. T. Brown Reservoir and buys additional water from Atlanta, Griffin and Newnan Utilities. Surface water carries more seasonal sediment than a deep well, and sediment is what blocks a fill tube, silts up an inlet valve screen and shortens filter life. On an appliance where four of the nine common faults are water faults, that is not a detail.
Georgia garages and the second freezer SUMMER LOAD
Standalone freezers in this part of the state mostly live in garages and utility rooms rather than air-conditioned space, and Newnan summers average around 79 °F with garage temperatures running well above that. A freezer built to hold 0 °F in a 70 °F room has to run far harder in a 95 °F garage, which is why compressors and condenser fans show up disproportionately on standalone units. Keeping the condenser coils clean matters more here than it does on a kitchen appliance — it is the cheapest thing you can do for a garage freezer and it costs nothing.
Frost is a symptom, not the disease DEFROST 203 JOBS
Heavy frost on the back wall or the ceiling of a freezer is the single most common thing people describe when they call, and the underlying cause is almost always the defrost system — heater, timer or the control that runs them, at $364 — or a door seal letting humid Georgia air in at $389. Chipping the ice out clears it for a fortnight and then it comes back, because nothing was fixed. Detail in freezer frost buildup.
Brand mix here is too thin to rank, and we will not pretend otherwise 13 JOBS
Across our Newnan freezer and ice maker work we have seen Frigidaire, Electrolux, Kenmore, KitchenAid and one Sub-Zero, in ones and twos. That is not a ranking, it is a list, and anyone publishing “the most common freezer brand in Newnan” off thirteen jobs is making it up. Company-wide, where the sample is real, ice maker repair medians by brand run LG $456, Samsung $441, KitchenAid $432, GE $415, Frigidaire $392 and Whirlpool $384 — those figures are on the national ice maker repair page.
🚚 Freezer calls get priority on the schedule because a full freezer is a lot of food on a clock. We run Newnan routes most days, with 267 jobs in this city over the last twelve months across all appliances.
Match Your Symptom to the Likely Cause
- No ice at all, freezer otherwise fine — fill arm switched off, a frozen fill tube at $393, the inlet valve at $428, or the ice maker module itself at $449. Median across 348 no-ice jobs is $420. Walkthrough in ice maker not making ice.
- Small, hollow or misshapen cubes — water supply rather than the ice maker: a clogged filter, a partially blocked line, or an inlet valve not opening fully. Start with the water filter.
- Water pooling under the ice maker or freezing into a sheet — leaking inlet valve or a fill tube that thaws and refreezes. Median across 515 leak jobs is $380.
- Ice tastes or smells wrong — an overdue filter, or ice that has been sitting long enough to absorb freezer odours. Usually not a repair at all.
- Freezer not holding temperature — condenser or evaporator fan at $396, thermostat at $390, or a door seal at $389. Median across 488 jobs is $377. On a standalone garage unit, check the coils are not caked in dust first.
- Heavy frost on the back wall or ceiling — defrost heater, timer or control at $364, or humid air getting past a failing gasket.
- Running constantly and never quite cold — dirty condenser coils, a failing fan, or a compressor starting to labour. The compressor is the $700 line and the only genuinely expensive freezer fault.
- Freezer fine but the fridge above it is warm — that is an airflow fault on the refrigerator side, covered on the Newnan refrigerator page rather than here.
Repair or Replace
For an ice maker, repair, essentially always — it is a component of a refrigerator you are not going to replace over it, and at $415 median against a French-door unit costing several thousand, the arithmetic is not close. For a freezer it depends on which of the two tables you are in. Defrost, fan, thermostat and gasket work sits between $364 and $396, which is comfortably worth doing on any freezer under about fifteen years old, and freezers last longer than most kitchen appliances because they run in a stable state. The compressor at $700, with a middle half reaching $1,224, is the one to think about — on a fifteen-year-old chest freezer that is usually replacement territory, and we will say so. Service life figures in how long freezers last, and the wider arithmetic in the repair versus replacement guide.
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Ice Maker and Freezer Repair in Newnan — Questions We Get
How much does ice maker repair cost?
The median is $415 once a part is replaced, with the middle half between $340 and $512, from 2,091 completed ice maker jobs. By component: frozen fill tube or water line $393, defrost heater or timer $415, water inlet valve $428, evaporator or condenser fan $432, water filter fitted on a service visit $440, ice maker module or assembly $449, thermostat or sensor $449, control board $488, door gasket $570. Each figure includes the part, the labour and the service call.
How much does freezer repair cost?
The median is $385 once a part is replaced, middle half $302 to $500, from 2,269 completed freezer jobs. By component: defrost heater or timer $364, door gasket $389, thermostat or sensor $390, evaporator or condenser fan $396, control board $494, compressor $700. Everything except the compressor sits in a narrow band between $364 and $396, so unless it is the compressor, a freezer is a predictable repair.
Why are you quoting company-wide prices instead of Newnan prices?
Because we only have 13 freezer and ice maker jobs in Newnan and only 8 of them involved replacing a part. Eight jobs is not enough to publish a local median that means anything, so we use the 2,091 ice maker and 2,269 freezer jobs from across our service area instead. Our Newnan figures, for what they are worth: median $364 across all completed jobs and $394 on the eight with a part. Where our local sample is genuinely large, we say so and publish it, as on the Newnan refrigerator page built on 119 jobs.
My ice maker stopped making ice. What should I check first?
Three things, and two are free. Check the fill arm or on-off switch inside the compartment, which gets knocked off by a frozen package more often than you would think. Check the freezer is genuinely at 0 °F, because an ice maker will not cycle reliably above about 10 °F and a freezer running warm looks like a broken ice maker. And if it is making small or hollow cubes rather than none, that is water supply, so change the filter yourself first. If all three are fine, the likely faults are a frozen fill tube at $393, the inlet valve at $428 or the module at $449.
Why does an ice maker cost more to fix than the whole freezer around it?
Because it is two systems in one small space. A freezer is refrigeration only. An ice maker adds a water supply, a fill valve, a fill tube, a filter and a mechanical harvest cycle, all of which can fail independently, and four of the nine most common ice maker repairs are water faults rather than cooling faults. That is why the ice maker median is $415 against $385 for a freezer despite being a fraction of the size.
Do you repair standalone garage freezers?
Yes, chest and upright both. They are also where we see a different failure pattern, because a freezer built to hold 0 °F in a 70 °F room has to work far harder in a Georgia garage in July. That loads the compressor and the condenser fan, which is why those show up more often on standalone units than on the freezer side of a kitchen refrigerator. Keeping the condenser coils clean is the single most useful thing an owner can do, and it costs nothing.
How long will the food last if the freezer has failed?
The USDA guidance is about 48 hours for a full freezer with the door kept shut, and about 24 hours for a half-full one. Food still holding ice crystals and at or below 40 °F can generally be refrozen, and anything above 40 °F for more than two hours should be discarded. Keep the door closed while you wait rather than checking on it, because every opening costs you hours. Freezer calls get priority on our schedule for exactly this reason.
Do you cover both 30263 and 30265?
Both, with no travel surcharge between them. Our Newnan freezer and ice maker work is 9 jobs in 30263, which also takes in Raymond and reaches into Heard County, and 4 in 30265. Same $99 diagnostic and the same 90-day parts and labor warranty on either side.
More Appliance Repair in Newnan, GA
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Appliance Repair in Newnan GA — all services and city pricingBook Ice Maker or Freezer Repair in Newnan
Prices from 2,091 ice maker and 2,269 freezer jobs. $99 diagnostic applied to the repair, 90-day parts and labor warranty, both Newnan ZIPs.