Ice Maker and Freezer Repair in the UNF Area, Jacksonville FL 32224
A single ticket in ZIP 32224 came to $931 for ice maker work — more than double our company median of $415 and the largest invoice of its kind anywhere in our Jacksonville book. The paperwork records it only as diagnose a problem, with no component named.
We are showing it to you and then setting it aside, because a number that large and that unexplained would put a local median wherever it liked. We hold three ice-related jobs in this ZIP: that $931, a KitchenAid ice maker settled for the $99 diagnostic, and an untagged ticket reading ice maker and temperature sensor replacement at $517.
Three jobs, one of them an outlier of the first order. Budget from the company figures — $415 across 2,091 ice maker repairs and $385 across 2,269 freezer repairs.
Ice Maker and Freezer Repair in the UNF Area, FL 32224
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 the whole of 32224.
All Three Local Tickets, Including the One We Exclude
Three is small enough to list, and listing them is more honest than a median calculated from them.
| Ticket | What the paperwork records | How we treat it |
|---|---|---|
| $931.00 | Tagged ice maker · logged only as diagnose a problem, no component named | Excluded. More than double the company median and unexplained |
| $517.00 | Ice maker and temperature sensor replacement · never tagged as ice work | Two components on one visit — explains its own price |
| $99.00 | KitchenAid ice maker · Diagnostic only | A quote the household chose to wait on |
| $415 | Median with a part replaced, middle half $340 to $512 | Company-wide, 2,091 repairs — use this |
| $385 | Freezer, median with a part replaced, middle half $302 to $500 | Company-wide, 2,269 repairs |
What Ice Maker and Freezer Repair Costs
Company-wide rows throughout. 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 |
| Thermostat or sensor | $449 | Company-wide | 18 |
| 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, 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 Ice Makers Here Fail the Way They Do
This is the appliance where water chemistry matters most, and here we can hand you a figure from your own utility rather than an estimate. JEA draws 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 anywhere in that process. JEA publishes the resulting hardness by ZIP and 32224 comes back at 297 parts per million or 17 grains per gallon, classified Very Hard.
An ice maker handles the largest volume of that water through the narrowest passages in any household appliance — a fill tube a few millimetres across, a solenoid valve cycling many times a day, and a mould that freezes and thaws continuously.
The filter is the first check and the most common thing we find FREE · SIXTY SECONDS
At 17 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 comes back, 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, and a share of those could have been a free reseat. See when to change the water filter.
One household was quoted and walked away at $99, and that was reasonable KITCHENAID
A local KitchenAid ice maker visit was settled for the $99 diagnostic. We publish that rather than hide it, because an ice maker module at a $449 company median is real money against a refrigerator that otherwise works perfectly, and plenty of households decide a bag of ice is cheaper.
Company-wide What we will not do is let anyone approve that spend without seeing the number first — which is exactly what the diagnostic is for.
All the ice work here sits inside refrigerators NO STANDALONE MACHINE, NO CHEST FREEZER
We have not been called to a dedicated under-counter or standalone ice machine anywhere in 32224, nor to a chest or upright freezer. Every water-side fault we have touched in this ZIP has been inside a refrigerator — the module, the fill tube, the sensor.
That shapes what to expect from a visit: the technician is working inside a refrigerator cabinet, which is part of why the company ice maker median of $415 sits above the general refrigerator median of $394. The rest of that book is on the refrigerator page, where three separate untagged tickets name an evaporator fan.
No compressor has ever been fitted in this ZIP ZERO IN 97 JOBS
Across all 97 jobs in 32224, on any appliance, we have never completed a compressor replacement. That matters most on this page, because the compressor is where a freezer repair stops making sense: at a company median of $700 against a chest or upright freezer costing roughly $400 to $900 new, it is the clearest repair-or-replace line we have anywhere.
Company-wide the freezer is where the repair total comes closest to the price of a new machine, and the compressor is the reason. Nothing in this ZIP has reached that conversation yet.
Anything holding food jumps the queue. Freezer calls take priority across the whole of 32224. 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. Reseat and flush the filter before anything else; it is free. See ice maker not making ice.
- Small, hollow or cloudy cubes — restricted flow. Filter, a partly closed shut-off valve, or a fill tube starting to ice up. Clearing a frozen fill tube is $393 company-wide, the cheapest thing on the ice table.
- Ice maker leaking, or a sheet of ice under the bin — usually the inlet valve failing to close fully, or the fill tube misaligned. Company-wide ice maker leaking is 515 repairs at a $380 median.
- Ice maker running but the freezer temperature is wrong — a temperature sensor, at a $449 company median. One local untagged ticket replaced an ice maker and a temperature sensor together at $517.
- 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.
Where in 32224 We Cover This
The whole ZIP, at the same price, with no travel surcharge, and with priority scheduling on anything holding food. All three ice-related jobs are inside 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.
One caution on the count: 54 of our 97 local tickets never record which appliance was involved, so the tagged total is a floor — the $517 ice maker and temperature sensor job is an example of ice work sitting outside it, found by reading the descriptions.
On the name: the Postal Service lists 32224 as Jacksonville and nothing else, with Jax as a name to avoid.
| What we cover | Detail | Source |
|---|---|---|
| ZIP | 32224, Jacksonville, Duval County · 20.86 square miles | USPS via zip-codes.com |
| 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 |
| Ice and freezer jobs | 2 tagged plus 1 found in untagged tickets · the $931 excluded from all figures | Bozmanfix invoices |
| Compressor replacements | None, on any appliance, in 97 jobs | Bozmanfix invoices |
| Priced from | Company book: 2,091 ice maker repairs, 2,269 freezer repairs | Bozmanfix |
Around the UNF Area
Ice and freezer work in the neighbouring districts is on its own pages, and several carry the same caution as this one. West along Butler Boulevard is Southside, and down the river San Marco and San Jose, where we have never completed a paid ice job at all, and Mandarin.
North is Arlington, where three ice maker replacements were hiding inside untagged tickets and one tagged job was a commercial freezer, and beyond it Atlantic Beach and Neptune Beach. South-east across the county line is Nocatee, which sits on the hardest water JEA publishes anywhere at 372 parts per million.
West across the river are Riverside, Avondale and Springfield, where the only countertop ice machine in our book turned up, and Northwest Jacksonville. The 32224 set starts at the UNF area appliance repair hub.
Repair or Replace
Ice makers and freezers 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 the honest alternative is not a new refrigerator but simply buying ice — which is what 37 percent of households quoted this work choose, including one household in this ZIP.
That is a legitimate decision and we will not push against it; what we will do is check the filter, the fill tube and the freezer temperature first, because those are cheaper or free.
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 ZIP gave us a Thermador — almost any ice repair is worth doing, because replacing the host machine means matching a cabinet opening. Framework: repair or replace guide and how long freezers last.
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Ice Maker and Freezer Repair in the UNF Area — Questions We Get
How much does ice maker repair cost in 32224, Jacksonville?
Budget from our company figures: $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, thermostat or sensor $449, control board $488.
We will not quote a local median because we hold three ice-related jobs here and one of them, at $931, is an unexplained outlier we have excluded.
What was the $931 invoice?
A single 32224 ticket tagged ice maker, logged only as diagnose a problem with no component named. At $931 it is more than double our company ice maker median of $415 and the largest invoice of its kind anywhere in our Jacksonville book.
Because the paperwork does not say what was in it, we cannot explain it and we are not letting it set a local price — it is excluded from every figure we quote and shown to you instead.
Quietly dropping an inconvenient number is exactly how a local price page stops being trustworthy, so we would rather name it.
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. Work through it in this order and the first three are free. Reseat the water filter until it clicks and turns to its stop, then run several litres through.
Check the shut-off valve on the supply line under the sink or behind the machine is fully open. Put a thermometer in the freezer, because below about 10°F the cycle slows. If all three are right, the fill tube is starting to ice up, which we clear at a company median of $393, or the inlet valve is failing, at $428.
Why does hard water matter so much for an ice maker?
Because the ice maker handles the largest volume of water through the narrowest passages in the appliance: a fill tube a few millimetres across, a solenoid valve cycling many times a day, and a mould that freezes and thaws continuously.
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.
Practically that means filters and fill tubes need attention sooner than the manual suggests, and inlet valves are a wear part rather than a lifetime one.
Is it worth replacing an ice maker module?
That is genuinely your call and we will not lean on it. At a company median of $449 you are spending real money on a refrigerator that otherwise works, and the alternative is not a new refrigerator — it is a bag of ice. One household in this ZIP took a KitchenAid ice maker quote and chose to wait, which is a perfectly reasonable call.
What we will not do is let anyone approve it without seeing the number first. If the fault turns out to be the filter, the fill tube or the freezer temperature instead, those are much cheaper or free, which is why the checks on this page come before the booking button.
Why did one job replace an ice maker and a sensor together?
Because doing them on one visit is cheaper than doing them on two. An untagged local ticket reads ice maker and temperature sensor replacement at $517.
Company-wide those are $449 and $449 as separate jobs, so $517 for both together is materially less than two separate visits would cost — a large share of any service call is getting a technician to the machine and inside the cabinet, and that part is paid once.
If a technician finds a second fault while they are in there, having it done on the same visit is normally the cheaper path, and we will show you the total before you decide.
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 tell you to replace it before you have to ask.
Company-wide the freezer is where the repair total comes closest to the price of a new machine, and the compressor is why. We have never fitted one in this ZIP.
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Priority scheduling on anything holding food across the whole of 32224. $99 diagnostic applied to the repair, 90-day parts and labor warranty, and company figures used openly because our largest local invoice cannot be explained.