Ice Maker and Freezer Repair in Nocatee, FL 32081 and 32092
Of all seven pages in this set, this is the one where the local water matters most — and Nocatee sits on the hardest water JEA publishes anywhere. JEA prints hardness by ZIP and 32081 reads 372 parts per million, 22 grains per gallon, the highest figure on its entire table, with 32092 at 307.
An ice maker handles the largest volume of that water through the narrowest passages in the house: a fill tube a few millimetres across, a solenoid valve cycling many times a day, and a mould that freezes and thaws continuously.
We hold one tagged ice or freezer call here and it did not become a paid repair, so there is no local price on this page — everything below comes from our company book of 2,091 ice maker and 2,269 freezer repairs. One untagged ticket does carry real ice work: a Dacor ice maker replacement at $617.
Ice Maker and Freezer Repair in Nocatee, FL 32081 and 32092
No ice, low ice, hollow or cloudy cubes, ice maker leaking, or a freezer that has stopped freezing. Priority scheduling on anything holding food, across Nocatee, the 32081 corridor and the 32092 Saint Augustine ZIP.
What We Actually Hold Here
One ticket in this area carries an ice or freezer tag and it did not become a paid repair. Reading the written descriptions on the untagged invoices turns up one more piece of ice work, and it is a substantial one.
| Ticket | What the paperwork records | How we treat it |
|---|---|---|
| $617.00 | Dacor ice maker replacement, 32092 · never tagged as ice work | A premium built-in unit — real work, but one invoice cannot make a median |
| Unpaid | One tagged ice or freezer call in 32092 that did not become a paid repair | No figure to publish |
| $415 | Median with a part replaced, middle half $340 to $512 | Company-wide, 2,091 ice maker repairs — use this |
| $385 | Median with a part replaced, middle half $302 to $500 | Company-wide, 2,269 freezer repairs |
What Ice Maker and Freezer Repair Costs
Company-wide rows throughout, for the reason above. Each figure is the part, the labor and the service call together. Ice maker work carries the highest median of any appliance category we run, at $415, largely because so much of it is water-line work reached from inside and behind a cabinet rather than a straightforward component swap.
| Repair | Median, full ticket | Source | Jobs (n) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frozen fill tube cleared | $393 | Company-wide | 40 |
| Defrost heater or timer | $415 | Company-wide | 70 |
| Water inlet valve | $428 | Company-wide | 69 |
| Evaporator or condenser fan | $432 | Company-wide | 60 |
| Water filter replaced on the visit | $440 | Company-wide | 79 |
| Ice maker module | $449 | Company-wide | 57 |
| Control board | $488 | Company-wide | 32 |
| All ice maker jobs with a part replaced | $415 · middle half $340 to $512 | Company-wide | 2,091 |
| Freezer, defrost heater or timer | $364 | Company-wide | 203 |
| Freezer, door gasket | $389 | Company-wide | 77 |
| Freezer, thermostat or sensor | $390 | Company-wide | 81 |
| Freezer, evaporator or condenser fan | $396 | Company-wide | 135 |
| Freezer, compressor | $700 | Company-wide | 107 |
| All freezer jobs with a part replaced | $385 · middle half $302 to $500 | Company-wide | 2,269 |
Why This Is the Page Where the Water Matters Most
JEA draws from the Floridan aquifer about a thousand feet down, aerates the water to strip the sulphur odour that groundwater carries, then chlorinates it. There is no softening step anywhere in that process, and JEA publishes the resulting hardness by ZIP code.
32081 comes back at 372 parts per million, 22 grains per gallon — the highest reading on the entire JEA table, ahead of Ponte Vedra Beach at 346, St. Johns at 305 and every ZIP in Duval County. Neighbouring 32092 reads 307 ppm. Both are classified Very Hard.
Of every appliance in a house, the ice maker handles the largest volume of that water through the narrowest passages. A fill tube is a few millimetres across. A solenoid inlet valve opens and shuts many times a day. A mould freezes and thaws continuously, concentrating whatever is dissolved in the water each time.
At 22 grains per gallon — the highest figure JEA publishes anywhere — those three parts scale up faster here than the manuals assume for anywhere else in the region.
The filter is the first thing to check and the cheapest outcome SIXTY SECONDS
At 22 grains per gallon a refrigerator water filter has a harder life than the manual assumes, and a filter that is merely tight rather than fully seated behaves exactly like a blockage — reduced flow first, then small or hollow cubes, then no ice at all.
Push it in until it clicks and turns to its stop, then run several litres through the dispenser to purge the air out of the line. If the ice returns, that is the whole fix. Company-wide we hold 79 jobs where replacing the water filter on the visit was part of the work, at a $440 median. See when to change the water filter.
Small or hollow cubes are a flow problem, not an ice maker problem MOST OF THE TIME
This is the single most common complaint people bring us on this appliance, and it almost always means the mould is not filling completely before the harvest cycle runs.
Four things restrict that flow, in rough order of likelihood: a filter that needs reseating or changing, a shut-off valve on the supply line that is only partly open, a freezer running above about 10°F so the cycle slows, and a fill tube starting to ice up.
Clearing a frozen fill tube is $393 company-wide — the cheapest line on the ice table — and a failing inlet valve is $428. In this water the first and last of those come round sooner than elsewhere.
A Dacor ice maker replacement, and what premium changes $617
A 32092 untagged ticket reads Dacor ice maker replacement at $617, well above our company module median of $449. Dacor is a premium built-in line we are called to very rarely anywhere in Florida, and the difference is parts and access rather than difficulty — premium components more often need ordering, and a built-in unit takes longer to get into.
The wider Nocatee book carries a second Dacor and three KitchenAid appliances, which tracks published median household incomes of about $131,000 in both ZIPs. Tell us the make and model at booking and we can frequently carry the likely part.
A standalone freezer is the clearest repair-or-replace line we have $700 AGAINST $400 TO $900
A chest or upright freezer costs roughly $400 to $900 new, and our company median for a freezer compressor is $700 across 107 jobs — close enough that on a unit over about ten years old we will usually say replace before you have to ask.
Everything below the sealed system runs the other way and is comfortably worth doing: a defrost heater at $364, a door gasket at $389, a thermostat or sensor at $390, an evaporator or condenser fan at $396. Freezer calls take priority in our schedule wherever they are, because food loss runs on a clock and nothing else in a kitchen does.
Anything holding food jumps the queue. Freezer calls take priority across both ZIPs. Book online or call (954) 902-6229.
Match Your Symptom to the Likely Cause
- No ice at all, water dispenser still works — the ice maker module at $449, or the arm switched off. If the water side works, the supply is fine and the fault is in the maker itself. Company-wide, no ice at all is 348 repairs at a $420 median.
- No ice and no water — filter first, then the inlet valve at $428, then the supply line. See ice maker not making ice.
- Small, hollow or cloudy cubes — restricted flow. Filter, a partly closed shut-off valve, freezer temperature, or a fill tube starting to ice up at $393. In 22-grain water this is the commonest complaint here.
- Ice maker leaking, or a sheet of ice under the bin — usually the inlet valve failing to close fully at $428, or the fill tube misaligned. Company-wide, ice maker leaking is 515 repairs at a $380 median.
- Freezer not freezing but the fridge is fine — defrost heater or timer at $364, evaporator fan at $396, or the thermostat at $390. Company-wide 488 repairs at a $377 median. See freezer frost buildup.
- Standalone freezer warm, compressor running constantly — the sealed system at a $700 company median. On a unit over about ten years old replacement becomes the honest answer. See how long freezers last.
Where in Nocatee We Cover This
Both ZIPs, at the same price, with no travel surcharge, and with priority scheduling on anything holding food. Our one tagged call and the untagged Dacor job are both in 32092 — 32081 has nothing on this page at all, which is a gap in our record rather than a claim about the neighbourhood, and it is also the ZIP with the harder water of the two.
One caution on the count: 39 of our 91 local tickets never record which appliance was involved, so the tagged total is a floor, and the Dacor ticket is exactly the kind of work that sits outside it.
On the name: the Postal Service lists the primary city for 32081 as Ponte Vedra, with Ponte Vedra Beach and Town of Nocatee both as acceptable alternates, and for 32092 as Saint Augustine. Both sit in St. Johns County rather than Duval. Our own tickets split the same way: in 32081, 31 are written Nocatee and 25 Ponte Vedra Beach.
We named these pages Nocatee because it is a USPS-acceptable name for 32081 and because a separate page covers Ponte Vedra Beach in 32082, a different ZIP with a different hardness reading.
| ZIP | Ice and freezer work on record | Water hardness | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32081 Nocatee / Ponte Vedra | None on record | 372 ppm · 22 grains — highest on the JEA table | Very Hard |
| 32092 Saint Augustine | 1 tagged call, unpaid · 1 untagged Dacor ice maker replacement at $617 | 307 ppm · 18 grains | Very Hard |
| Water source | Floridan aquifer, about 1,000 feet down, aerated to remove sulphur odour then chlorinated. No softening step | JEA | |
| Priced from | Company book: 2,091 ice maker repairs, 2,269 freezer repairs | Bozmanfix | |
Around Nocatee
Ice and freezer work in the neighbouring areas is on its own pages, and several carry the same caution as this one. East on the coast is Ponte Vedra Beach in 32082, on 346 ppm water. North-west is St. Johns and Fruit Cove at 305 ppm and beyond it Mandarin.
North into Duval are Southside and the University of North Florida area, where a single ice ticket ran to $931. Then San Marco and San Jose and Arlington, where three ice maker replacements were hiding inside untagged tickets. Across the river, Riverside, Avondale and Springfield holds the only countertop ice machine in our Jacksonville book.
Up the coast are Atlantic Beach and Neptune Beach. The Nocatee set starts at the Nocatee appliance repair hub.
Repair or Replace
These two appliances pull in opposite directions. An ice maker inside a refrigerator at a $449 company median is money spent on a machine that otherwise works perfectly, and unlike a failed compressor there is a workable alternative — a bag of ice.
That is a legitimate choice and we will not push against it; what we will do is check the filter, the shut-off valve, the freezer temperature and the fill tube first, because in this water those account for a large share of no-ice complaints and cost far less.
A standalone freezer is the clearest line we have anywhere: at $400 to $900 new, the $700 company median for a compressor is close enough that on a unit over about ten years old we will say replace, while a defrost heater at $364, a gasket at $389, a thermostat at $390 or a fan at $396 are all comfortably worth doing.
And on a built-in or premium refrigerator — this area gives us Dacor and KitchenAid — almost any ice repair is worth doing, because replacing the host machine means matching a cabinet opening. Framework: repair or replace guide.
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What Jacksonville Area Customers Say About Bozmanfix
“Great service. Was here a short time and replaced our ice maker. Very friendly.”
“Knowledgeable, timely, and fixed the ice maker issue. Would call again.”
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“Did a great job. Prompt, courteous.”
Ice Maker and Freezer Repair in Nocatee — Questions We Get
How much does ice maker repair cost in Nocatee, FL?
We will not quote a local median, because we hold one tagged ice or freezer call here and it did not become a paid repair. Budget from our company figures instead: $415 for ice maker work with a part replaced across 2,091 repairs, with a middle half of $340 to $512, and $385 for freezers across 2,269 repairs.
By component: clearing a frozen fill tube $393, defrost heater or timer $415, water inlet valve $428, ice maker module $449, control board $488. One untagged local ticket is a Dacor ice maker replacement at $617, which reflects a premium built-in unit rather than a local price.
Is the water here really the hardest around?
On JEA published figures, yes, and by a clear margin. JEA prints a hardness table by ZIP code and 32081 comes back at 372 parts per million, or 22 grains per gallon — the highest reading anywhere on that table. It is above Ponte Vedra Beach at 346, above St. Johns at 305, above every ZIP in Duval County, and well above Riverside in Jacksonville at 226.
Neighbouring 32092 reads 307 ppm. Both are classified Very Hard. JEA draws from the Floridan aquifer, aerates the water to strip sulphur odour and chlorinates it, with no softening step anywhere in the process.
Why does that matter so much for an ice maker specifically?
Because of every appliance in a house, the ice maker handles the largest volume of water through the narrowest passages. A fill tube is a few millimetres across, a solenoid inlet valve opens and shuts many times a day, and a mould freezes and thaws continuously, concentrating whatever is dissolved in the water each time.
At 22 grains per gallon those three parts scale up faster here than the manuals assume for anywhere else in the region. Practically that means filters and fill tubes need attention sooner, and inlet valves are a wear part rather than a lifetime one.
My ice cubes are small and hollow. What causes that?
Restricted water flow, almost every time — the mould is not filling completely before the harvest cycle runs. Four things cause it, in rough order of likelihood: a filter that needs reseating or changing, a shut-off valve on the supply line that is only partly open, a freezer running above about 10°F so the cycle slows, and a fill tube starting to ice up.
The first three cost nothing to check and are worth mentioning at booking. Clearing a frozen fill tube is $393 company-wide, the cheapest line on the ice table, and a failing inlet valve is $428.
Do you work on Dacor and other built-in ice makers?
Yes — one untagged local ticket is a Dacor ice maker replacement at $617, and the wider Nocatee book carries a second Dacor and three KitchenAid appliances. Dacor is a premium built-in line we are called to very rarely anywhere in Florida.
The $617 sits above our company module median of $449, and the difference is parts and access rather than difficulty: premium components more often need ordering, and a built-in unit takes longer to get into.
Tell us the make and model at booking and we can frequently carry the likely part and finish in one visit.
My standalone freezer has stopped freezing. Repair or replace?
It depends entirely on whether the sealed system is involved, and this is the clearest line on any appliance we service. If it is the defrost heater at $364, the door gasket at $389, the thermostat at $390 or the evaporator fan at $396, repair wins comfortably against a replacement chest or upright at roughly $400 to $900.
If it is the compressor, our company median is $700 across 107 jobs — close enough to a new freezer that on a unit over about ten years old we will usually say replace before you have to ask. Either way we diagnose first and give you the total before anything is ordered.
How fast can you get to a failing freezer?
Freezer calls take priority over everything else we do, because food loss runs on a clock and nothing else in a kitchen does. Both ZIPs are covered at the same price with no travel surcharge.
It is worth knowing the geography though: 32092 alone covers 124.057 square miles and 32081 a further 35.272, so if you are toward the western end, book early in the day so the van can route to you rather than fit you in around Nocatee addresses.
If a full freezer is at risk, say so when you book and move what you can in the meantime.
Other Appliance Repairs in Nocatee, FL
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Priority scheduling on anything holding food across both ZIPs. $99 diagnostic applied to the repair, 90-day parts and labor warranty, and company figures used openly because our local sample has no paid ice job in it.