Dishwasher Repair in the UNF Area, Jacksonville FL 32224
One local dishwasher ticket reads cleaning the contact group of the control board and sealing the control board, at $339.25 — a board repaired rather than replaced. Our company median for replacing a dishwasher control board is $387, so this was the cheaper outcome, and it is the one we look for first.
We hold 7 dishwasher jobs inside ZIP 32224, of which only 3 finished as paid work and 2 involved fitting a component. Two invoices cannot set a price, so budget $338, our company median across 2,684 dishwasher repairs, with a middle half of $275 to $419.
The other detail worth carrying into a booking: four of our seven local dishwasher visits ended without a paid repair at all, so the checks below are worth twenty minutes.
Dishwasher Repair in the UNF Area, Jacksonville FL 32224
Not draining, not cleaning, leaking, dead at the panel, or needing installation. Across the whole of 32224, with the $99 diagnostic coming off the bill when you approve the repair.
Repairing a Control Board Instead of Replacing It
The contact group on a dishwasher control board is the set of connections that carry current to the pumps, the heater and the valve. In a warm, humid climate those connections corrode, and corrosion produces exactly the symptoms of a dead board: the machine does nothing, or starts and stops, or runs a cycle with one function missing.
Cleaning the contacts and sealing the board addresses the corrosion without buying new electronics, and one local ticket did precisely that at $339.25 against a $387 company median for a replacement board.
We flag it for two reasons. It is the cheaper answer when it works, and it is the honest one — a board that has corroded once in a humid kitchen can corrode again, so sealing it is the durable version of the fix rather than a bodge.
If a technician quotes you a control board on a dishwasher, it is a fair question to ask whether the board itself has failed or whether its contacts have corroded, because those are different problems with different prices.
What Dishwasher Repair Costs, by Component
Two local component jobs cannot price nine parts, so the rows below are company-wide. Each figure is the part, the labor and the service call together — not the price of the component on a parts website, which is where most published repair prices go wrong by a factor of two or three. A spray arm is a plastic object worth very little and a $283 job.
| Repair | Median, full ticket | Source | Jobs (n) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spray arm | $283 | Company-wide | 12 |
| Door latch or switch | $312 | Company-wide | 28 |
| Door gasket | $330 | Company-wide | 42 |
| Water inlet valve | $340 | Company-wide | 37 |
| Drain pump | $350 | Company-wide | 273 |
| Heating element | $362 | Company-wide | 40 |
| Circulation motor | $374 | Company-wide | 122 |
| Control board | $387 | Company-wide | 93 |
| Detergent dispenser | $423 | Company-wide | 27 |
| All dishwasher jobs with a part replaced | $338 · middle half $275 to $419 | Company-wide — use this | 2,684 |
| All local dishwasher jobs with a part | two jobs · no honest local median | ZIP 32224 | 2 |
Why Dishwashers Here Fail the Way They Do
JEA supplies every address in this ZIP from the Floridan aquifer about a thousand feet down, aerates it to strip the sulphur odour groundwater carries, then chlorinates it. There is no softening step. JEA publishes hardness by ZIP and 32224 comes back at 297 parts per million or 17 grains per gallon, classified Very Hard.
The dishwasher is the appliance that meets that water most aggressively because it heats it, and dissolved calcium and magnesium come out of solution as the water warms. That is what produces the white film on glassware, the scale on the heating element and the deposits that block spray arm jets — which is exactly the fault the $283 wash arm ticket addressed.
Wash arms replaced as a pair, not one at a time $283 FOR BOTTOM AND MIDDLE
One local ticket replaced the bottom and middle wash arms together. That is deliberate: the arms share one water circuit, so a lower arm clogged with scale starves the upper one, and replacing only the obviously blocked arm leaves the machine still under-performing.
At $283 the pair sits exactly on our company spray arm median — which tells you how much of a spray arm job is access and labor rather than the plastic itself.
Before booking, take the lower arm off and hold it up to the light: blocked jets produce exactly the symptoms of a failing circulation pump, and clearing them costs nothing.
A small and ageing dishwasher sample ONLY ONE JOB IN THE LAST YEAR
Only three of our seven local dishwasher jobs finished as paid work with a component fitted or a repair performed; four ended without one, two of them at $78.
That is The usual findings are a filter packed with debris, blocked spray arm jets, a drain hose without a high loop so the sink drains back into the machine, and an empty rinse-aid reservoir. All four are free to check and all four are in the box below.
We install dishwashers as well as repair them $245
One local ticket is a dishwasher installation at $245 — fitting work rather than a component failure.
It is worth mentioning because in a ZIP with a published median home value of $458,100, kitchens get remodelled and appliances get specified, and a machine sitting in an opening it was not quite designed for is a fitting problem with fitting symptoms: rocking, leaking at the connection, or a door that no longer closes square.
If that is your complaint rather than a fault in the machine, say so at booking so we schedule the right visit with the right time.
A thin and ageing sample, stated plainly ONLY 1 OF 7 JOBS IN THE LAST YEAR
Our volume in 32224 ran 6 jobs across all appliances in late 2023, 51 in 2024, 28 in 2025 and 12 through August 2026 — the lowest recency of any district we cover. Only one of the seven local dishwasher jobs falls inside the last twelve months.
Add that 54 of our 97 local tickets never record which appliance was involved, and seven becomes a floor rather than a total. That is why every priced row on this page is company-wide, resting on 2,684 completed dishwasher repairs. Coverage is unchanged: same price across all 20.86 square miles, no travel surcharge.
Told you need a control board? Ask whether the board failed or its contacts corroded — those are different prices. Book online or call (954) 902-6229.
Match Your Symptom to the Likely Cause
- Dead at the panel, or starting and stopping — the control board at $387, or its contact group corroded, which one local ticket cleaned and sealed for $339.25. Worth asking which before approving a replacement.
- Runs a full cycle and the dishes come out dirty — blocked spray arm jets, which cost nothing to clear, or the arms themselves at $283 for the pair. Then the circulation motor at $374.
- Water standing in the bottom after the cycle — drain pump at $350, a blocked filter, or a drain hose without a high loop. Our largest dishwasher category company-wide at 416 repairs and a $325 median.
- Leaking from under the door or under the machine — door gasket at $330, or the sump. Company-wide 331 repairs at a $340 median. See dishwasher leaking from the bottom.
- Rocking, or pulled away from the counter — fitting rather than a fault. One local ticket is a dishwasher installation at $245.
- White film on glasses that will not wash off — scale, not a fault. It is what 297 ppm water does when heated. Rinse aid and a periodic descale handle it. See why a dishwasher stops cleaning.
Where in 32224 We See This Work
All seven dishwasher jobs are inside ZIP 32224, which covers 20.86 square miles from the Kernan Boulevard spine out toward the Intracoastal, taking in the University of North Florida campus, Deerwood and Glen Kernan. Only one falls inside the last twelve months. Of the branded machines: GE 1, with the rest unbranded on our paperwork.
Company-wide our dishwasher order runs GE 24.3 percent, Whirlpool 20.8, Frigidaire 13.8, Samsung 12.5 and Bosch 11.7. On the name: the Postal Service lists 32224 as Jacksonville and nothing else, with Jax as a name to avoid — UNF, Deerwood and Kernan are a university, two subdivisions and a road rather than postal cities.
| What we cover | Detail | Source |
|---|---|---|
| ZIP | 32224, Jacksonville, Duval County · 20.86 square miles | USPS via zip-codes.com |
| Median home value | $458,100 — fitted kitchens and built-in machines are common | ACS 2024 |
| Dishwasher jobs | 7 tagged, 3 paid, only 2 with a part · plus a wash arm job and an installation in untagged tickets | Bozmanfix invoices |
| Water hardness | 297 ppm or 17 grains per gallon, classified Very Hard. No softening step | JEA published hardness table by ZIP |
| Water source | Floridan aquifer, about 1,000 feet down, aerated to remove sulphur odour then chlorinated | JEA Water Quality Report |
Around the UNF Area
Dishwasher work in the neighbouring districts is on its own pages. West along Butler Boulevard is Southside, where the dishwasher is only 12.5 percent of the book, and down the river San Marco and San Jose, where two of eleven calls were reinstalls, and Mandarin.
North is Arlington, where the circulation pump rather than the drain pump dominates, and beyond it Atlantic Beach and Neptune Beach. South-east across the county line is Nocatee. West across the river are Riverside, Avondale and Springfield, where the dishwasher is the largest appliance on the book, and Northwest Jacksonville, where it is almost absent.
The 32224 set starts at the UNF area appliance repair hub. Dishwasher repair across the whole Jacksonville metro is covered on dishwasher repair in Jacksonville.
Repair or Replace a Dishwasher Here
Compare the repair against replacing your machine, not against the cheapest one in the shop. A repair runs $338 company-wide against roughly $600 to $1,100 for a mid-market replacement installed — and because a dishwasher is built into cabinetry the replacement also carries disconnection, refit and the requirement that the new unit fits the existing opening.
In a ZIP with a median home value of $458,100 that last point matters more than usual, because a specified or panel-ready machine is a different purchase from a standard one. Under about eight years old the repair is comfortably ahead.
The board case is the clearest example on this page: a corroded contact group cleaned and sealed at $339.25 beat a $387 replacement board, and both beat a new machine by a wide margin.
This is the appliance where the two numbers sit closest together, so we give you the total before we start. Framework: repair or replace guide and how long dishwashers last.
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Dishwasher Repair in the UNF Area — Questions We Get
How much does dishwasher repair cost in 32224, Jacksonville?
Budget $338, our company median across 2,684 dishwasher repairs, with a middle half of $275 to $419 — parts, labor and the service call together. We will not publish a local median because only two of our seven local dishwasher jobs fitted a component.
By component expect roughly $283 for a spray arm, $312 for a door latch, $330 for a door gasket, $350 for a drain pump, $374 for a circulation motor and $387 for a control board.
Two local tickets are useful reference points: a board cleaned and sealed at $339.25, and both wash arms replaced at $283.
Can a control board really be cleaned instead of replaced?
Sometimes, and it is worth asking about. The contact group on a dishwasher board is the set of connections carrying current to the pumps, heater and valve, and in a warm humid climate those connections corrode — which produces exactly the symptoms of a dead board: the machine does nothing, or starts and stops, or runs with one function missing.
One local ticket cleaned the contact group and sealed the board at $339.25, against a company median of $387 for a replacement board. Sealing it is the durable version of that fix rather than a bodge. If you are quoted a board, ask whether the board failed or its contacts corroded.
Why were both wash arms replaced rather than just the blocked one?
Because they share one water circuit. A lower arm clogged with scale starves the upper one, so replacing only the obviously blocked arm leaves the machine still under-performing and you back on the phone.
One local ticket replaced the bottom and middle arms together at $283, which sits exactly on our company spray arm median — telling you how much of that job is access and labor rather than the plastic itself.
Before booking, take the lower arm off and hold it up to the light; clearing blocked jets yourself costs nothing.
Why is there a white film on my glasses?
That is scale rather than a fault, and it is what your water does when heated. JEA publishes hardness by ZIP and 32224 comes back at 297 parts per million or 17 grains per gallon, classified Very Hard, with no softening step anywhere in JEA treatment — the aquifer water is aerated to remove sulphur odour and then chlorinated.
Dissolved calcium and magnesium come out of solution as the water warms, which is precisely what a dishwasher does to it. Rinse aid makes a much larger difference here than the manual implies, and a periodic descale handles the rest. There is nothing in this for us to replace.
Do you install dishwashers, not just repair them?
Yes — one of our local tickets is a dishwasher installation at $245. It matters in this ZIP because with a published median home value of $458,100, kitchens get remodelled and appliances get specified, and a machine sitting in an opening it was not quite designed for produces fitting symptoms rather than mechanical ones: rocking, leaking at the connection, or a door that no longer closes square.
If that is your complaint rather than a fault inside the machine, say so at booking so we schedule the right visit with enough time.
What does the $99 diagnostic buy me?
You pay the $99 diagnostic and nothing else. In this ZIP four of our seven local dishwasher visits ended without a paid repair, two of them at $78 — The usual findings are a filter packed with debris, blocked spray arm jets, a drain hose that was never looped high under the counter, and an empty rinse-aid reservoir.
All four are free for you to check first and they are listed in the checks box on this page.
Is seven jobs enough to know anything about dishwashers here?
It is enough to describe and not enough to price, which is why the component table on this page is company-wide. Two things make it thinner than it looks. Only one of the seven falls inside the last twelve months, because this is a fading route — our volume across all appliances ran 51 jobs in 2024, 28 in 2025 and 12 through August 2026.
And 54 of our 97 local tickets never record which appliance was involved, so seven is a floor rather than a total; the wash arm job and the installation described on this page are both examples sitting outside that count.
Other Appliance Repairs in the UNF Area, Jacksonville FL
Each page is built on its own local invoices and says where the sample runs out.
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Repairs, board work and installation across the whole of 32224. $99 diagnostic applied to the repair, 90-day parts and labor warranty, and company figures used openly because our local sample is two jobs deep.