Refrigerator Repair Cumming GA
Refrigerator repair in Cumming, GA has a median cost of $384 once a part is replaced, and $280 across every completed visit. Those come from 117 refrigerator jobs we have run inside the three Cumming ZIP codes for 109 households, 89 of which closed as paid work.
The refrigerator is the one appliance in this city that breaks out of an otherwise flat price list: its middle half with a part runs $320 to $544 while the whole city’s runs $295 to $450, 15 of those 89 paid visits closed above $500, and above that line the record turns into sealed systems — compressors replaced at $1,000 and $872, a Kenmore at $1,247, a Samsung freezer evaporator job at $1,188.
On the other side of the same coin, 56 of those 89 paid visits, 63 percent, finished with a part fitted and the machine cooling again.
Refrigerator Repair in Cumming, GA
Not cooling, fresh food warm with a working freezer, frost sheet on the freezer back wall, water on the floor, dispenser dead, ice maker frozen solid, cabinet silent. All three Cumming ZIP codes, total confirmed before the work starts.
What a Refrigerator Repair Costs, by the Part That Failed
The city median tells you where Cumming sits. It cannot tell you why one household here paid $237 and another $1,247 after describing something similar on the phone, and that is the question you actually have.
The answer is the component, so the table below is built from 4,182 completed refrigerator and freezer jobs across our whole service area, because 52 local repairs cannot honestly price eight separate components. Every figure is the full ticket: the part, the labor and the service call added together.
| What failed | Median total | Middle half | Jobs (n) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thermostat or temperature sensor | $386 | $340 to $470 | 65 |
| Start relay or overload | $389 | $335 to $460 | 24 |
| Defrost heater or defrost timer | $395 | $350 to $530 | 58 |
| Water inlet valve | $401 | $345 to $510 | 54 |
| Evaporator or condenser fan motor | $422 | $365 to $510 | 130 |
| Door gasket or seal | $484 | $375 to $710 | 49 |
| Control board | $564 | $430 to $700 | 78 |
| Compressor replacement | $956 | $670 to $1,330 | 80 |
Our local invoices track the table closely, and they are unusually specific about what was done.
Water is where the money goes at the top of the non-sealed range: a Frigidaire inlet water valve at $792, a Whirlpool water valve at $509, a Samsung ice maker valve and board together at $495, an LG ice maker auger motor at $431. Electronics come next: control boards replaced at $560 and $558, a condenser fan at $556, and on one GE job a temperature sensor, a main control board and both the fresh-food and freezer defrost heater assemblies on the same invoice at $540.
Then the ordinary and cheap end: a Frigidaire drain and coil cleaned at $358, a Samsung not-cooling call at $381, a Frigidaire fresh-food section at $280, and a Samsung French-door where the ice maker had frozen solid because its internal heater had failed, at $237.
One line deserves reading in full because it is what an honest sealed-system call looks like: Not cooling. The compressor is down. Needs a strong start relay — a hard-start kit fitted at $350 instead of a $956 compressor. Another reads Costumer complained about refrigerator not cooling. Found that coolant level was minus 15 psi. Added 1 can of coolant, at $650.
And a caveat we owe you: 26 of the 49 Cumming jobs above $500 sit on invoices where nobody recorded which appliance it was at all, and three of those name refrigerator work outright — a compressor at $1,000, an LG compressor at $872 and a Kenmore refrigerator at $1,247.
The money is real, the appliance is obvious from the description, but they are not inside the 117-job tagged file, so we tell you rather than fold them in silently.
Two Invoices, Two Days Apart, One Complaint
On 6 July 2026 and 8 July 2026 we went to two different Cumming households, both with a Samsung refrigerator, and both diagnostic reports open with the same two lines: Customer Complaint: freezer not cooling properly, fresh food section operating normally. Inspection performed: technician accessed freezer evaporator and inspected frost pattern. One of those visits cost $99. The other cost $1,188.
That is not inconsistency, it is the whole reason this trade needs a diagnostic step. A freezer that will not hold temperature while the fresh food side is fine narrows to a small set of causes — a failed defrost heater icing the evaporator, a dead evaporator fan, a sensor lying to the board, a leak in the sealed system — and those causes span $386 to well over $1,000.
Nothing you can see from the kitchen tells them apart, and nothing anyone can tell you over the phone does either. What the technician does is exactly what those two reports say: get behind the freezer panel and read the frost pattern on the evaporator coil, because frost tells you which failure you have.
Even frost across the whole coil means the system is charged and the defrost cycle has failed. Frost on the first few passes only, with the rest of the coil clear and warm, means the charge is low and you are in sealed-system territory. No frost at all with a running compressor means something else again.
You get the total before anything is opened up, and if the answer is the expensive one you are free to stop at the $99.
Why Cumming Refrigerators Fail the Way They Do
A county built in one go, and its refrigerators are aging in one go 44,083 → 251,283
Forsyth County went from 44,083 people in 1990 to 98,407 in 2000, 175,511 in 2010 and 251,283 in 2020, making it the fastest-growing county in Georgia and the fifteenth fastest-growing in the United States between 2010 and 2019. Almost everything we work on here was built between 1995 and 2015.
That matters for refrigerators specifically because of what went into those kitchens: a very large cohort of side-by-side and French-door units installed within a few years of each other, plus a real number of counter-depth and built-in machines in the higher-end 2000s houses. Two consequences.
The first is that the failures arrive in waves rather than spread out — defrost heaters, evaporator fans and control boards on machines of the same generation, which is exactly what our named invoices are full of. The second is that a built-in or counter-depth refrigerator changes the repair-or-replace maths completely, because replacing one means a cabinet fitter as well as a delivery.
Our four KitchenAid refrigerator jobs here have the highest with-a-part median of any brand in the city, $662 on two repairs, and that is the built-in premium rather than a KitchenAid problem.
Water is the single biggest theme in this file $792 · $509 · $495 · $431
Line up the named Cumming refrigerator repairs by what actually broke and the water side dominates the top of the list: two inlet water valves at $792 and $509, an ice maker valve replaced together with its board at $495, an ice maker auger motor at $431, a Samsung French-door ice maker frozen solid at $237, and two more invoices reading Ice is not being produced at $501 and Customer complains that the water is leaking on the floor at $500.
Company-wide an inlet valve is a $401 repair, so several of these ran well above the norm, which is what happens when a valve fails on a machine that also needs the ice maker assembly behind it.
A refrigerator meets the water supply in exactly three places — the filter, the inlet valve and the ice maker — and in this city all three are fed from one source with no variation, so when a valve or a filter is the problem it is the machine rather than the street.
Filter guidance is on refrigerator water filter replacement, and the ice side has its own Cumming page: ice maker and freezer repair.
One lake, one intake, and no wells to argue about LAKE LANIER · 24 MGD
Every drop of water in these three ZIP codes starts in Lake Lanier, a 37,000-acre reservoir forming the county’s eastern edge, and 8.8 of the square miles inside ZIP 30041 are the lake itself.
The City of Cumming pumps the raw water and treats it at its own 24 million gallon per day plant at 935 Dahlonega Highway, and it 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.
Unlike Fayette or Forsyth’s own rural neighbours, there is no well-versus-city split here, so two houses on the same street cannot scale a valve at different speeds. 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 — you will find sites that will quote you a Cumming hardness figure, and none of them are the utility. The practical rule instead: change the filter when the flow drops or the cubes shrink, not when the calendar says six months.
Frigidaire always needs something, LG usually does not 11 OF 11 · 3 OF 4
The brand tags on our Cumming refrigerator file run Whirlpool 20, GE 20, Samsung 18, Frigidaire 12, LG 8, KitchenAid 4, then Maytag, Amana, Thermador, Kenmore and a Haier. Two of those point hard in opposite directions, on samples we are showing you rather than dressing up as rules.
Ten of our eleven paid Frigidaire refrigerator visits fitted a part, and ten of them replaced a part at a $329 median — the cheapest brand median in the city. Of eight LG refrigerator jobs only four became paid work, and one of those four ended with a part fitted.
GE sits in the middle at a $420 median across nine repairs and is where our most detailed invoice belongs, the $540 job that took a sensor, a main board and two defrost heater assemblies at once. The useful version for you: if you have a Frigidaire and it is misbehaving, it usually is broken; if you have an LG, the checks below are worth ten minutes first.
Whirlpool, GE, Frigidaire and Amana parts ride on the van, Samsung and LG components and anything built in are normally ordered, and you get the lead time before you approve the work. What brand counts do and do not say about reliability is on the most-serviced appliance brands.
The co-op grid, the restart, and the board that pays for it 11,982 MILES
A refrigerator is the only appliance in the house drawing power twenty-four hours a day, so it is the one that is always connected when a surge arrives or when power comes back with a jolt.
Most of Forsyth County is served by Sawnee EMC, incorporated on 16 July 1938 as the Forsyth County Electric Membership Corporation and still headquartered at 543 Atlanta Road in Cumming; as of 2022 it carried 193,491 member accounts across seven counties over 11,982 miles of line, the third-largest electric cooperative in Georgia.
A network of that shape is mostly overhead line through wooded, hilly country, and every restoration is a surge event for whatever stayed plugged in.
Our Cumming refrigerator record carries the electronic aftermath: control boards at $560 and $558, a condenser fan at $556, that $540 GE combination, against a company-wide board median of $564 — and two diagnostics that stopped at the board, one quoted at $635 that lost to a new machine, one reading simply Needs a new or rebuilt board.
A whole-house surge protector costs less than any one of them. More in control board and smart appliance repair.
When we say compressor, this county mostly buys a refrigerator 13 YEARS · 3 YEARS
Above $500 the Cumming record is sealed systems, and the outcomes split cleanly. Replaced: a compressor at $1,000, an LG compressor at $872, a Kenmore refrigerator at $1,247, and one job that avoided the whole conversation with a hard-start relay at $350 on a compressor that was still alive.
Not taken up, with the fault written down and no repair: Compressor is broken, 13 years old unit, at $99.
And one that we are proud of rather than sorry about: Compressor is broken, customer make a decision fix it by LG warranty, refrigerator 3 years old — the machine was three years in, so the right answer was the manufacturer’s warranty and not our invoice, and that is what the household was told.
Company-wide that quote splits close to even, and past about twelve years on a standard unit that is usually the right call. What we will not do is condemn a compressor without testing the cheap thing that imitates it: a start relay at $389 produces exactly the same symptom as a dead compressor at $956, a silent cabinet that clicks every few minutes, and only a meter separates them.
Read signs of a bad refrigerator compressor, and for an LG with a linear compressor, the LG linear compressor write-up.
🚚 Refrigerator calls go to the front of the schedule because food loss is on a clock. 32 Cumming refrigerator jobs in the last twelve months, and Whirlpool, GE and Frigidaire parts ride on the van, so same-day is realistic if you call before noon.
Match Your Symptom to the Likely Cause
- Freezer not holding temperature while the fresh food side is fine — this is the exact complaint on the two July 2026 invoices above, and it is read off the frost pattern on the evaporator coil: even frost means a failed defrost heater at $395, patchy frost on the first passes only means the sealed system. Company-wide $395 to $422 for the first, well past $900 for the second.
- Fresh food section warm, freezer still freezing — cold air is made in the freezer and moved by the evaporator fan, so a dead fan or a coil iced over leaves the freezer working while the fridge climbs. One Cumming diagnostic names it precisely: evaporator fan motor broken and the drain line clogged by ice, quoted at $550. Walkthrough in refrigerator not cooling.
- Nothing cold anywhere, cabinet silent or clicking every few minutes — a start relay at $389 or the compressor at $956. One local job fitted a hard-start relay at $350 and the machine ran; on two others the compressor was condemned and the visit was the $99 diagnostic. Only a meter tells you which you have. See signs of a bad compressor.
- Water on the kitchen floor — the inlet valve, replaced at $792 and $509 on Cumming jobs and quoted at $433 on a third that was not taken up, or the defrost drain backing up under the bottom drawer. One local invoice is literally that complaint at $500. Say where the water first appears when you book, because front-left and centre are different repairs.
- Dispenser slow or dead, cubes small or hollow — pull the filter and fit the bypass plug first, then the inlet valve at $401, then the dispenser hardware: one Cumming job replaced the ice maker auger motor at $431, another the ice maker valve and its board together at $495.
- Ice maker frozen into one solid block — on a Samsung French-door this is usually the ice maker’s own internal heater, and one local invoice says exactly that at $237. It presents as a broken ice maker and it is a heater. Also ice maker not making ice.
- Cooling fading over weeks with the compressor running constantly — a refrigerant leak. One Cumming invoice reads coolant level was minus 15 psi, recharged at $650, and a recharge on a leaking system buys time rather than fixing it, which we say before rather than after. Frost patterns are decoded in freezer frost buildup.
The Three Cumming ZIP Codes
We cover 30028, 30040 and 30041 at one price list and no travel surcharge, and the refrigerator work splits with the housing.
30041 along the Lake Lanier shoreline gives us 46 refrigerator jobs, 23 of them repairs at a $432 median with a middle half of $310 to $573. 30040 on the GA-400 corridor gives us 49 jobs, 20 repairs at a $368 median but the widest range in the city, $320 to $650. 30028 out in west Forsyth gives us 22 jobs, 9 repairs at a $360 median and the tightest range, $349 to $420.
A $72 spread between medians on samples of 9, 20 and 23 jobs is not a story and we are not going to build one, especially when the 30040 upper quartile alone reaches $650. What is worth knowing is geographic rather than statistical.
30041 contains 8.835 square miles of Lake Lanier, and lakeside houses bring a specific kind of refrigerator work: a second unit or a chest freezer in a boathouse, a garage or an unconditioned basement, running against a Georgia summer with nobody watching it.
If yours is one of those, say so when you book, because a smothered condenser in a hot garage produces every symptom a failing sealed system does and is free to fix. And 30028 on the west side reaches into Cherokee and Dawson counties, so a Cumming mailing address there can sit outside Forsyth entirely — it changes nothing about our scheduling or the price.
Repair or Replace, on the Cumming Numbers
Set the local with-a-part median, $384, against a comparable new refrigerator plus delivery, haul-away and installation, and repair wins comfortably on anything under about eight years old — and it wins on most of what we actually do here, because the bulk of our Cumming repairs are fans, drains, valves, sensors and boards on machines with most of their life ahead of them.
The decision lives above $500. Fifteen of 89 paid visits crossed it, and the top of that record is sealed-system work at $872 to $1,247, where that quote splits close to even company-wide. In a county with a median household income of $112,834 and 82 percent home ownership that decision gets made quickly and rationally, and we would rather hand over an accurate number than talk anyone past it.
Two exceptions run the other way. A built-in or counter-depth unit — common in the 2000s houses on this route — means a cabinet fitter as well as a delivery if you replace it, so even a $900 repair usually wins; our KitchenAid jobs here average the highest of any brand for that reason.
And a machine still inside the manufacturer’s warranty should go to the manufacturer, which is what we told the household with the three-year-old LG. Work through your own numbers with the repair versus replacement guide, the approval data on appliance repair approval rate, and the service-life tables in how long refrigerators last.
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Refrigerator Repair in Cumming — Questions We Get
How much does refrigerator repair cost in Cumming, GA?
The median is $384 once a part is replaced, and $280 across all completed visits, from 89 paid refrigerator jobs inside the three Cumming ZIP codes. The middle half of with-a-part jobs runs $320 to $544, and 15 of the 89 closed above $500.
By component, company-wide and including the part, the labor and the service call: thermostat or sensor $386, start relay $389, defrost heater $395, water inlet valve $401, evaporator or condenser fan $422, door gasket $484, control board $564, compressor replacement $956.
How can two visits for the same complaint cost $99 and $1,188?
Because the complaint is not the fault. On 6 July and 8 July 2026 we attended two different Cumming households with Samsung refrigerators, and both reports open with the same words: freezer not cooling properly, fresh food section operating normally, technician accessed the freezer evaporator and inspected the frost pattern.
That symptom covers a failed defrost heater at $395, a dead evaporator fan at $422, a lying sensor, or a leak in the sealed system well past $900. The frost pattern on the coil is what separates them: even frost across the whole coil means the charge is fine and the defrost cycle failed, frost on the first passes only with the rest clear means the charge is low.
One household got the cheap answer and stopped at $99; the other got the expensive one and approved it. You always get the total before anything is opened up.
Which refrigerator brands do you see most in Cumming?
Whirlpool 20 and GE 20 are level, then Samsung 18, Frigidaire 12, LG 8 and KitchenAid 4, with Maytag, Amana, Thermador, Kenmore and a Haier in ones and twos. Two patterns are worth knowing on small samples. Ten of our eleven paid Frigidaire refrigerator visits replaced a part, at a $329 median, the cheapest brand median in the city.
Of eight LG jobs only four became paid work. Whirlpool, GE, Frigidaire and Amana parts ride on the van so those repairs usually finish on the first visit; Samsung, LG and built-in components are normally ordered, and you get the lead time before you approve anything.
My fridge is warm but the freezer works. Is that the compressor?
Almost never. If the freezer is still freezing, the compressor is doing its job. Cold air is made in the freezer and moved into the fresh food section by the evaporator fan, so a dead fan motor, or a coil iced over because the defrost heater failed, leaves the freezer cold while the fridge slowly warms.
Company-wide that is a $395 to $422 repair, and one of our Cumming diagnostics names it exactly: evaporator fan motor broken with the drain line clogged by ice, quoted at $550.
When you book, open the freezer, take out the bottom basket and look at the back wall — a solid sheet of ice there is the defrost system, and telling us that on the phone changes how much time the technician allows.
Is Cumming water hard enough to wreck a refrigerator valve?
We do not publish a hardness figure for Cumming, because the utility does not publish one and we will not repeat a number we cannot stand behind.
What we can tell you is that the supply is unusually uniform: 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 plant on Dahlonega Highway, with the city acting as sole provider of raw water to the whole county.
There are no wells and no second utility, so no two houses on a street get different water. The 2026 water quality report from 2025 testing records sodium at 7.9 ppm, turbidity at 0.09 NTU and total organic carbon at 1.3 ppm with no violations.
What our own invoices show is that the water side is the most expensive non-sealed part of this file: inlet valves replaced at $792 and $509, an ice maker valve and board at $495, an auger motor at $431.
What does the $99 diagnostic include?
A meter on the machine and a firm total before any work starts. The technician tests the actual fault rather than guessing from the symptom, so the part that goes in is the part that failed. The diagnostic is $99 and it is applied to the repair the moment you approve the work, which means an approved job never pays it twice.
You also get the lead time up front on any part that has to be ordered, and every completed repair carries a 90-day parts and labor warranty. In Cumming the median repair once a part is replaced is $384, so you have a good idea of the number before anyone arrives.
When does it stop making sense to repair a refrigerator?
Ten to fifteen years is the normal service life of a standard unit, longer for a built-in. At the Cumming median of $384, repair is the clear answer under about eight years, and most of what we do here sits below $500.
Past twelve years with a sealed-system fault it becomes a real decision: our local record has compressors replaced at $1,000 and $872 and a Kenmore at $1,247, against two diagnostics that stopped at $99 with the compressor condemned, one on a thirteen-year-old machine.
Company-wide that quote splits close to even. Two exceptions run the other way: a built-in or counter-depth unit, where replacement means cabinetry work and even a $900 repair usually wins, and a machine still inside its manufacturer warranty, which should go to the manufacturer — we sent a three-year-old LG to its warranty rather than quoting it.
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117 refrigerator jobs on record in this city, 32 in the last twelve months. $99 diagnostic applied to the repair, 90-day parts and labor warranty, all three Cumming ZIP codes.