Dishwasher Repair in Winston-Salem, NC
Bozmanfix’s Winston-Salem dishwasher book holds 14 jobs in 14 separate households. Our local component invoices were $289, $329 and $339.
Two of the three name the part, and both are on the electrical side – a user interface board at $329 and a heating element at $339.
That is worth knowing, because company-wide the part we replace most in a dishwasher is the drain pump, 297 of 2,846 repairs. A machine that will not start or will not dry is a different problem, and a different price, from one that will not drain.
Dishwasher Repair in Winston-Salem – Built-In and Portable
Mobile service across every Winston-Salem ZIP code with no travel charge inside the city. The $99 diagnostic is applied to the repair once you approve it, and the price for the whole job is fixed before any work starts.
What Dishwasher Repair Costs – Company Figures, With Our Three Local Jobs Marked
The table below is our whole book: 2,846 dishwasher repairs where a component was replaced. Each figure is the part, the labor and the service call together. The right-hand column marks the Winston-Salem jobs behind each line.
| Repair | Company median | Company n | Winston-Salem |
|---|---|---|---|
| Door gasket | $330 | 42 | not yet |
| Water inlet valve | $340 | 37 | not yet |
| Drain pump – most replaced part in our book | $358 | 273 | not yet |
| Heating element | $360 | 42 | one job, $339 |
| Circulation motor | $377 | 122 | not yet |
| Control or user interface board | $410 | 36 | one job, $329 |
| Detergent dispenser | $423 | 27 | not yet |
| Part not named on the work order | – | – | one job, $289 |
| All dishwasher repairs with a part | $340 | 2,846 | $329 median, 3 jobs |
| Diagnostic visit | $99 | – | $99 |
Why Winston-Salem Dishwasher Work Looks the Way It Does
Controls and heat, not water BOARD $329 · ELEMENT $339
Across our whole book, dishwasher work is dominated by the water path: the drain pump is 297 replacements, the circulation motor 122, valves and gaskets and spray arms behind them. In this city the two identifiable repairs are on the other side of the machine – the board that runs it and the element that dries.
The distinction is genuinely useful to a household: if your dishwasher fills, washes and drains but leaves everything wet, or if it simply will not respond, you are looking at a control board ($410 company-wide median) or a heating element ($360 company-wide median) rather than a plumbing problem, and the technician will bring different parts.
Not every machine has a heating element to fail WHY WET DISHES ARE TWO DIFFERENT FAULTS
Our one local element job was a Whirlpool at $339, against a company median of $362 over 40 Bozmanfix repairs. But a good share of newer dishwashers are condensing dryers with no element at all – they use residual heat and a cooled wall to shed moisture.
On those, wet dishes point at the rinse-aid dispenser at $423, at the cycle selected, or at loading that traps water in upturned bowls, and there is no heater to replace. The technician establishes which kind of machine you have first, because the answer decides whether there is a part in the conversation.
GE and Whirlpool are two thirds of the local book 6 OF 9 BRANDED
Nine of the fourteen work orders name a brand: GE three, Whirlpool three, then one each of KitchenAid, Frigidaire and Bosch. Company-wide our dishwasher work runs GE 24.3 percent, Whirlpool 20.8, Frigidaire 13.8, Samsung 12.5 and Bosch 11.7 across 3,098 jobs – so the two local leaders are the two company leaders, and Samsung is absent from this city’s dishwasher book entirely.
As on every page, read it as what is installed in Winston-Salem kitchens and who gets called to it, not as a ranking of which brand lasts. Where it matters practically is parts: GE and Whirlpool boards, pumps and elements are commonly on the van or next-day, while Bosch parts are more often ordered in.
Half the dishwasher book sits in one ZIP 7 OF 14 IN 27106
Northwest Winston-Salem, 27106, holds seven of the fourteen jobs and two of the three component repairs. After that it thins immediately: 27127 and 27103 two each, then one apiece in 27104, 27101 and 27105. Every Winston-Salem work order dates from March 2026, when this route opened.
Across all our dishwasher requests since January 2023, calls peak in August, at 9.5 percent of the total, and are lowest in February.
Three details are worth telling us at booking, because each one changes what the technician checks first: whether the machine drains, whether it dries, and whether any plumbing or a garbage disposal has been changed recently. Those three answers separate a water-path fault from a controls fault before anyone opens the door.
Match Your Symptom to the Likely Cause
- Will not start, no lights, or unresponsive buttons – the control or user interface board, and this city has one at $329 against a company median of $410 across 36 Bozmanfix repairs. The latch is both cheaper and commoner, so it gets checked first.
- Dishes come out wet – on a machine with a heating element, that element, one local job at $339 against a company $362. On a condensing machine there is no element: the candidates are the rinse-aid dispenser at $423, the cycle, or loading. Company median for the symptom is $375 across 43 Bozmanfix jobs.
- Water sitting in the base, will not drain – the most common dishwasher call we take anywhere, at a company median of $327 across 475 Bozmanfix jobs. Usually the drain pump at $358, our most-replaced dishwasher part, but the filter, the drain hose and a garbage disposal knockout plug left in after new plumbing all produce the same symptom and get checked first.
- Leaking onto the floor – the door gasket at a company $330 most often, then the inlet valve at $340. Company median for a leak call is $341 across 352 Bozmanfix jobs. Worth saying at booking whether the water appears at the door or from under the cabinet, because those are different repairs.
- Dishes gritty or still dirty – the spray arm, a blocked wash port, or the circulation motor at $377. Company median $360 across 97 Bozmanfix jobs. Mineral scale can contribute, and it blocks the small spray ports first.
- Grinding, humming or a loud drone through the wash – the circulation motor at $377 or debris in the pump housing. Company median $381 across 106 Bozmanfix jobs, the dearest of the six main symptoms.
- Standing water with a stale smell – the filter and sump come first, and the technician clears them before any part is quoted. What the scale actually does to ports and elements is set out on hard water and dishwashers.
Winston-Salem Dishwasher Work by ZIP Code
| ZIP | Area | Jobs | Paid visits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27106 | Northwest Winston-Salem | 7 | 5 |
| 27127 | South Winston-Salem | 2 | 1 |
| 27103 | Southwest Winston-Salem | 2 | 2 |
| 27104 | West Winston-Salem | 1 | 1 |
| 27101 | Downtown and central | 1 | 1 |
| 27105 | Northeast Winston-Salem | 1 | 0 |
Winston-Salem is the county seat of Forsyth County and the second city of the Piedmont Triad. Six ZIP codes appear in our dishwasher book and every Winston-Salem ZIP is covered at the same rate with no travel charge inside the city. A built-in dishwasher is worked on in place, because pulling it out from under the counter is most of the labor.
Dishwasher Brands We Are Called To in Winston-Salem
| Brand | Winston-Salem dishwasher jobs | Company share of dishwasher work |
|---|---|---|
| GE | 3 | 24.3 percent |
| Whirlpool | 3 | 20.8 percent |
| KitchenAid | 1 | – |
| Frigidaire | 1 | 13.8 percent |
| Bosch | 1 | 11.7 percent |
| Samsung | none in the local book | 12.5 percent |
| Branded jobs | 9 of 14 | 3,098 company dishwasher jobs |
We also service Samsung, Maytag, LG, Electrolux, Amana and Asko dishwashers in this city, built-in and portable. On Bosch and Asko the parts are more often ordered in than carried, which can add a day or two, and we tell you that at booking rather than on the doorstep.
Repair or Replace, in Winston-Salem Numbers
Dishwashers sit at the favorable end of this arithmetic and the company numbers make it plain. A new mid-range built-in is $500 to $900 fitted and a premium unit $1,000 to $1,800, plus the plumbing and electrical work to fit it into an existing cabinet opening.
Against that, the entire Bozmanfix component list runs from $330 for a door gasket to $423 for a detergent dispenser, with the most common repair – the drain pump – at $358. Every one of those is between a third and a half of a replacement, and none of them touches the tub, which is what actually determines how long the machine lasts.
The one genuine decision is a board on a machine already past ten years. Our local job came in at $329 and the Bozmanfix company-wide median is $410, and on a ten-year-old builder-grade unit that is worth weighing against a replacement – while on a premium machine it rarely is.
We put the repair figure next to a realistic replacement figure at the assessment rather than after anything is dismantled. Typical service lives are on how long dishwashers last, and the break-even arithmetic is in the repair versus replacement guide.
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Dishwasher Repair in Winston-Salem – Questions We Get
How much does dishwasher repair cost in Winston-Salem?
Bozmanfix’s local book holds three dishwasher repairs where a component was replaced – $289, $329 and $339 – and the figure to plan against is the company median of $340 across 2,846 repairs, with the middle half between $275 and $420.
By part, Bozmanfix company-wide: door gasket $330, water inlet valve $340, drain pump $358, heating element $360, circulation motor $377, control board $410, detergent dispenser $423. Each includes the part, the labor and the service call. The diagnostic itself is $99.
My dishwasher will not start at all. What is that likely to be?
Either the door latch or the control board, and the board is a Bozmanfix company median of $410. Our one Winston-Salem board job came in at $329.
The technician checks the latch, the door switch and the supply first, because a machine that thinks its door is open behaves exactly like one with a dead board. Company median for a will-not-start call overall is $357 across 77 Bozmanfix jobs.
Everything comes out wet. Is the heater gone?
Only if your machine has one. Our local element job was a Whirlpool at $339 against a company median of $360 across 42 Bozmanfix repairs – but a good share of newer dishwashers are condensing dryers with no heating element at all, and on those the candidates are the rinse-aid dispenser at $423, the cycle selected, or loading that traps water in upturned bowls.
The technician establishes which kind of machine you have before quoting, because on a condensing unit there is no heater in the conversation.
Water will not drain out of the base. Is that expensive?
It sits mid-range, and it is the most common dishwasher call Bozmanfix takes anywhere, at a company median of $327 across 475 jobs. The part behind it is normally the drain pump at $358, which is our most-replaced dishwasher component with 297 repairs.
Before the pump, the technician checks the filter, the drain hose and the garbage disposal connection, because a knockout plug left in place after a disposal was fitted produces exactly this symptom. Mention at booking if any plumbing has been changed recently.
Why does this page use company prices instead of local ones?
Because company prices are built on far more repairs, which makes them the steadier figure to plan against. Every figure on this page carries the number of repairs behind it, and where that number is company-wide rather than local, the table says so.
Our route here opened in March 2026, when the first local work order was written.
Which dishwasher brands do you service here?
The local Bozmanfix book names GE and Whirlpool three times each, and one each of KitchenAid, Frigidaire and Bosch, out of nine branded jobs in 14. We also service Samsung, Maytag, LG, Electrolux, Amana and Asko in this city. GE and Whirlpool lead locally and they lead company-wide too, at 24.3 and 20.8 percent of 3,098 dishwasher jobs.
Where it matters to you is parts: GE and Whirlpool boards, pumps and elements are commonly on the van or next-day, while Bosch and Asko parts are more often ordered in.
Is it worth repairing a ten-year-old dishwasher?
Usually yes, and more clearly than with most appliances. The whole Bozmanfix company-wide component list runs from a $283 median for a spray arm to a $423 median for a detergent dispenser, against $500 to $900 to replace a mid-range built-in, plus the plumbing and electrical work to fit a new unit into an existing opening. None of the parts we replace is the tub, which is what determines the machine’s life.
The one repair worth pausing over is a board on a machine already well past ten years, and we will set that figure beside a replacement quote before anything is taken apart.
How long has Bozmanfix been working in Winston-Salem?
Since March 2026. All 146 Winston-Salem work orders on our books, including these 14 dishwasher jobs, date from then.
The company medians come from 53,695 completed jobs across eight metro areas.
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Fourteen dishwasher jobs on record since March 2026 in 14 separate households, with component repairs at $289, $329 and $339. Built-in and portable, every ZIP code covered, no travel charge inside the city. $99 diagnostic applied to the repair, 90-day parts and labor warranty.