Ice Maker and Freezer Repair Hollywood FL
Ice maker and freezer repair in Hollywood runs a median of $411 once a part is replaced, with the middle half of jobs between $362 and $476. These are 29 of our 521 Hollywood jobs, 8 of them in the last twelve months.
What sets this city apart is how consistent the ice side is: of our ten local ice maker repairs, seven were a straight ice maker or ice maker assembly replacement, landing between $361 and $574 with most of them clustered in the $390s and $420s. In other cities the ice maker usually turns up on an invoice alongside something else.
Here, far more often than anywhere, the answer really is just the ice maker.
Ice Maker and Freezer Repair in Hollywood
Built-in ice makers, in-door dispensers, upright and chest freezers, from the beach to the west side. Food-loss calls go first.
What Ice Maker and Freezer Repairs Cost, by Part
These are two related machines with two different component lists, so they are given separately. Each row is a median across our completed repairs where that part was the one replaced, with the part, the labour and the service call added together as a single number.
| Ice maker component | Median | Jobs (n) | Freezer component | Median | Jobs (n) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frozen fill tube cleared | $393 | 40 | Defrost heater or timer | $364 | 203 |
| Defrost heater or timer | $415 | 70 | Door gasket | $389 | 77 |
| Water inlet valve | $428 | 69 | Thermostat or sensor | $390 | 81 |
| Evaporator or condenser fan | $432 | 60 | Evaporator or condenser fan | $396 | 135 |
| Water filter changed on the visit | $440 | 79 | Control board | $494 | 51 |
| Ice maker module | $449 | 57 | Compressor | $700 | 107 |
| Thermostat or sensor | $449 | 18 | All freezer work | $385 | 2,269 |
| Control board | $488 | 32 | South Florida base for both: $417 across 308 repairs | ||
| All ice maker work | $415 | 2,091 | Local Hollywood median with a part: $411 | ||
Our local invoices bear that out. On the ice side: replacements at $361, $373, $392, $395, $429, $430 and $574, an ice maker assembly at $411, a Thermador ice maker visit at $432, and one job at $476 that replaced the ice maker along with a glass shelf and a door bin.
On the freezer side the range runs $300 to $590, with the top of it being a door gasket and a refrigerant refill together. The full city price map is on appliance repair in Hollywood.
Hollywood Ice Maker and Freezer Repair, in Figures
- 29 ice maker and freezer jobs on record at Hollywood addresses, 8 of them in the last twelve months.
- 15 involved a part being replaced, ten of them on the ice side and five on the freezer side.
- Median with a part replaced: $411, middle half $362 to $476.
- Seven of the ten local ice repairs were a straight ice maker or assembly replacement, from $361 to $574.
- South Florida base: 308 completed repairs at a $417 median, middle half $361 to $497.
- Company-wide bases: 2,091 ice maker repairs at $415 and 2,269 freezer repairs at $385.
- The defrost heater or timer is the most replaced component on both machines, 203 freezer jobs and 70 ice maker jobs.
- A freezer compressor runs $700 across 107 jobs, the top of the range on this page.
- Named local jobs include a Thermador ice maker visit at $432 and an ice maker with a glass shelf and door bin at $476.
- City water is drawn from the Biscayne Aquifer at 100 to 200 feet and the Floridan at around 900 feet, treated with reverse osmosis and lime softening together.
When the Answer Really Is Just the Ice Maker
Ice production is the most demanding thing a domestic cold appliance does, which is why an ice complaint is so often the earliest visible symptom of something else. A freezer losing capability stops making ice before it stops keeping food frozen, so in a great many cities our ice invoices come with a second component attached: a defrost system, a door gasket, a fan.
We say so plainly on those cities’ pages, because a technician who replaces the module and leaves is likely to be back.
Hollywood is the clearest exception we have. Seven of our ten local ice repairs were a straight ice maker or ice maker assembly replacement, with no second component and no cooling work attached. That is a genuinely different pattern and it is worth understanding, because it changes what you should expect when you call.
The most likely explanation is the age profile of the machines. In a city substantially built before 1960 the kitchens have been through several sets of appliances, and what stands there now was mostly bought in the last ten to fifteen years.
An ice maker module is a self-contained assembly with a small motor, a mould, a heater to release the cubes and its own thermostat, and it wears out on its own schedule regardless of how well the rest of the refrigerator is doing.
On a machine that is otherwise mid-life and healthy, the module simply reaches the end of its own life first, the cabinet is still perfectly capable, and the correct repair is exactly the one part.
What that means for you is straightforward and unusually good news. If your refrigerator is holding temperature properly, the freezer is at or near zero degrees Fahrenheit and there is no frost sheet on the back wall, then an ice failure in this city has a good chance of being a single-part job at somewhere between $390 and $450.
The checks below are how you establish that yourself before booking, and they take four hours of waiting and about ten minutes of work.
It does not mean we skip the cooling checks. A technician still measures the freezer temperature and looks at the evaporator before touching the ice system, because the cases where ice is a symptom rather than a cause are exactly the ones that produce a repeat visit. It means that in this city, more often than in most, that check comes back clean.
What Makes This Repair Its Own Market in Hollywood
Seven of ten were the ice maker alone THE PATTERN
Across our local ice repairs, seven were a straight module or assembly replacement with nothing else attached, clustered between $361 and $574. That is the most consistent ice file we hold in any city, and it is the opposite of what we see in some neighbouring markets where the ice maker routinely arrives on an invoice next to a defrost system or a gasket.
For a homeowner it means the range of likely outcomes here is narrow, which is worth more than a low median: you can plan around a number rather than brace for one.
Blended water at two depths THE WATER SIDE
The City of Hollywood states that its water comes primarily from the Biscayne Aquifer around 100 to 200 feet underground, with additional wells into the Floridan at approximately 900 feet, treated with a combination of reverse osmosis filtration and lime softening.
For an ice system, which is the part of a refrigerator that drinks, that puts the city in the middle of the range: a scaled inlet valve or a narrowed fill tube is a realistic diagnosis, unlike in the membrane-only parts of northwest Broward, but it is not the aggressive scaling of untreated hard water.
Keeping the water filter current is the cheapest thing you can do for the whole subsystem and the first item to rule out on any ice complaint.
Premium units in an old city THERMADOR
Our local file carries a Thermador ice maker visit at $432 alongside the volume machines, which is what an old, repeatedly renovated city produces: a 1950s house with a 2018 kitchen.
Premium and built-in refrigeration changes two things. The machine compartment is worked from the front through a fixed grille rather than by rolling the unit out, and the module or valve is more often a specific order than a van part.
Say at booking whether the appliance is built in and send the model number, because those two details decide whether the job finishes today.
The parts around the ice maker that also break $476 LOCALLY
One of our local jobs replaced an ice maker together with a glass shelf and a door bin, which is a reminder that the inside of a refrigerator is full of parts that are neither electrical nor mechanical and still fail. Glass shelves crack, door bins split at the mounting tabs, and both usually happen quietly over years.
They are inexpensive individually and they are the kind of thing worth mentioning when a technician is already in your kitchen for something else, because the marginal cost of dealing with them during an existing visit is far lower than a call-out of their own.
Salt air on the beach side 33019
Hollywood holds five to six miles of Atlantic beachfront, and the condenser coil is the one part of a cold appliance deliberately open to room air. Its fins are shaped to catch as much airflow as possible, and salt is hygroscopic, so it holds moisture against aluminium and copper and corrodes them steadily for years.
Freezers and ice makers feel that first, because they run at a higher duty cycle than anything else in the kitchen. The unit never fails suddenly from it: it gradually loses the ability to shed heat, runs longer and wears out fans and compressors early.
A coil vacuumed twice a year is worth more on this side of the city than anywhere inland.
After an outage, judge food by time and temperature STORM SEASON
The question after a long power cut is usually about the contents rather than the machine, and the safe rule is straightforward: a full freezer holds temperature for roughly two days unopened, a half-full one for about a day, and food that still carries ice crystals and is at or below 40 degrees Fahrenheit can be refrozen.
Do not judge by smell. On the appliance side, if the unit does not restart properly when power returns, unplug it for five full minutes before booking, because a control board holding a bad state produces symptoms identical to a failed one. If it trips its breaker each time it is reset, stop resetting it.
No Ice, or Freezer Warming Up?
Food-loss calls are triaged first across the whole city.
How a Refrigerator Ice Maker Actually Makes Ice
Understanding the sequence explains almost every ice complaint without tools, because the machine does five things in a fixed order. A solenoid inlet valve at the back opens for a measured number of seconds and sends water up a small fill tube into a moulded tray inside the freezer.
The tray sits while the freezer does its ordinary job of being cold, and a thermostat or sensor watches the mould until it reaches a harvest temperature. A small heater briefly warms the mould to release the cubes, and a motor in the module turns a set of ejector fingers that sweep them into the bin, or twists the tray to crack them free.
As the cubes leave, a feeler arm or an optical sensor checks whether the bin is full, and if it is not, the cycle restarts at the valve.
Almost all of that lives inside one replaceable assembly: the module contains the motor, the ejector mechanism, the mould heater and the thermostat, which is precisely why a straight module replacement is such a common and clean repair. Only the valve, the fill tube, the supply line and the filter sit outside it.
Every common fault maps onto a step. No water at all is the valve or the supply. Water that arrives and freezes on the way is the fill tube, and clearing it restores a machine that looked dead. A mould that fills but never harvests is the module motor or the thermostat that triggers it, which is inside the assembly.
Cubes that harvest but production that stops after a batch or two is usually the feeler arm knocked into the off position or a bin sensor blocked by a bag of frozen food.
And a machine producing slowly rather than not at all is nearly always the freezer failing to reach a low enough temperature, which is a cooling fault wearing an ice maker costume, and it is the one case where the module is not the answer.
The Freezer Side, Which Behaves Differently
Five of our fifteen local repairs with a part were on the freezer rather than the ice system, and they run from $300 to $590, so the freezer half of this page deserves its own explanation.
A freezer has to reach and hold zero degrees Fahrenheit against a South Florida summer, which is a harder job than a fresh food compartment ever does, and it does it through a small number of components that each fail in a recognisable way.
The defrost circuit is the busiest of them and the most replaced part on this page across our whole book, at 203 freezer jobs. Every time a door opens, humid air enters and its moisture freezes onto the evaporator coil, so the machine runs a heater on a schedule to melt it off.
When the heater or its timer weakens, frost builds faster than it clears, the coil ices into a block, airflow stops and the cabinet goes warm while the compressor runs flat out. The giveaway is a machine that is obviously working hard and obviously not cold.
The door gasket at $389 is the component that quietly makes everything else worse. A seal that no longer grips lets warm humid air in continuously, so the defrost circuit has far more work to do than it was designed for and the compressor never gets ahead.
Our local file has one at the top of the freezer range, replaced together with a refrigerant refill at $590, which is what happens when a leaking seal has been loading the system for a long time. The banknote test in the checks below finds it in a minute.
And the compressor at $700 is the outlier that decides whether you are repairing or replacing. On an upright or chest freezer past twelve years, that is a genuine decision and one we will name plainly rather than quote quietly, particularly if the cabinet is holding food you would rather not lose while it is thought about.
Four Checks the Technician Runs First
- Put a thermometer in the freezer and give it four hours. This is the first check for a reason. A freezer should hold at or near 0 degrees Fahrenheit, and if it does, your ice problem is almost certainly the ice system itself rather than the cooling, which in this city means a good chance of a single-part repair. If it reads well above, the cooling comes first.
- Look at the back wall of the freezer for frost. A frost-free appliance runs a defrost cycle so that a solid sheet does not build. If there is one, the defrost circuit is the fault and the ice maker is a symptom. If the back wall is clean, that supports the single-part reading.
- Lift the feeler arm and look at the fill tube. Confirm the arm or the on switch has not been knocked into the off position, which is easy to do while unloading. Then look at the small fill tube that delivers water to the mould, because a plug of ice in there is a common cause of no ice at all and one of the cheaper outcomes at a $393 median.
- Change the water filter if it is past its date. On this blended supply the filter is the first thing to rule out on any ice or water complaint, and it is the cheapest part in the whole path. If the ice tastes wrong, the cubes are hollow or the dispenser has slowed, change it and give the machine a day before booking anything.
Match Your Symptom to the Likely Cause
- No ice at all, freezer at temperature, water dispenser fine. The ice maker module. In this city that is the single most likely outcome and usually a one-part repair.
- No ice and no water from the dispenser. Water inlet valve or the supply line, which sits upstream of both.
- Mould fills with water but the cubes never come out. The module motor or the mould thermostat, both inside the assembly.
- No water reaches the mould at all. Frozen fill tube or the inlet valve. Clearing the tube is one of the cheaper outcomes.
- Ice production has slowed rather than stopped. The freezer is not reaching a low enough temperature. Check the thermometer and the back wall before touching the ice system.
- Cubes are small or hollow. Restricted water flow, usually a filter past its date or a partially frozen fill tube.
- Ice tastes or smells wrong. Filter first, then old ice absorbing odours. Empty the bin and discard the first two batches after a filter change.
- Production stops after a batch or two. Feeler arm knocked off, or the bin sensor blocked by a bag of frozen food.
- Thick sheet of frost on the freezer back wall. Defrost heater, defrost thermostat or timer. The most replaced part on this page and a cooling fault rather than an ice one.
- Freezer running but not cold enough. Defrost circuit, evaporator fan, or a door gasket letting warm air in.
- Freezer completely warm and the cabinet is silent. Start relay or compressor. The top of the range and the one fault we will not price over the phone.
- Cracked glass shelf or a split door bin. Inexpensive parts worth mentioning while a technician is already there for something else.
Repair or Replace a Freezer or Ice Maker in Hollywood
On the ice side this is barely a decision. Almost nobody replaces a refrigerator because the ice maker failed, and in this city the most likely repair is a single module or assembly somewhere between $390 and $450 that restores a function the household uses every day.
Our local file shows seven of those in a row, which is about as clear a case as the data ever makes.
On the freezer side the everyday faults, a defrost heater at $364, a gasket at $389, a thermostat at $390 or a fan at $396, come in comfortably below a comparable new unit with delivery and haul-away, and on a chest freezer holding a real quantity of food the repair also protects the contents, which people routinely leave out of the sum.
The number that changes the conversation is the compressor at $700, and on an upright or chest freezer past twelve years that is a genuine decision we will name rather than quote quietly. Our local $590 job, a door gasket with a refrigerant refill, sits just below that line and is the sort of case where we give you the arithmetic on both paths before starting.
The general framework is on the repair versus replacement guide and typical service lives on how long freezers last.
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Ice Maker and Freezer Repair in Hollywood — Questions We Get
How much does ice maker or freezer repair cost in Hollywood?
The median is $411 once a part is replaced, with the middle half of local jobs between $362 and $476.
On the ice maker side the component medians run $393 to clear a frozen fill tube, $415 on a defrost heater or timer, $428 on a water inlet valve, $432 on a fan, $440 where the water filter is changed on the visit, $449 on an ice maker module and $488 on a control board.
On the freezer side they run $364 on a defrost heater or timer, $389 on a door gasket, $390 on a thermostat or sensor, $396 on a fan, $494 on a control board and $700 on a compressor.
My ice stopped but the fridge is cold. Is it just the ice maker?
In this city there is a good chance that it is, which is unusual and worth knowing.
Of our ten local ice repairs, seven were a straight ice maker or assembly replacement with nothing else attached, landing between $361 and $574 and mostly clustered in the $390s and $420s. Almost the whole mechanism lives inside one replaceable assembly, containing the motor, the ejector, the mould heater and the thermostat, so when it reaches the end of its own life on an otherwise healthy refrigerator, the correct repair is exactly that one part.
Confirm the freezer is at or near 0 degrees Fahrenheit and the back wall is free of frost, and the single-part reading becomes very likely.
How do I tell whether my ice problem is really a cooling problem?
Two checks, and they cost nothing. Put a thermometer in the freezer and give it four hours: it should hold at or near 0 degrees Fahrenheit. Then look at the back wall of the freezer compartment for a sheet of frost, because a frost-free machine runs a defrost cycle precisely so that does not build up.
If the temperature is right and the back wall is clean, the cooling side is doing its job and the fault is in the ice system. If the temperature is high or there is a solid frost sheet, the ice maker is a symptom and the defrost circuit or the fan is the actual repair, which is a different number.
There is no water reaching the ice mould at all. What is that?
Either the water inlet valve or a frozen fill tube, and the two are told apart easily. The fill tube is the small tube that carries water from the valve up into the mould, and when a plug of ice forms in it the machine calls for water that never arrives.
Clearing it runs a $393 median and is one of the cheaper outcomes on this page. If the water dispenser in the door has also stopped, the fault is further upstream at the inlet valve, at $428, because that valve feeds both. Before booking, check the feeler arm or on switch has not been knocked into the off position, which takes a second to put back.
Does the water in Hollywood block up ice makers?
It sits in the middle of the range. The City of Hollywood states that its water comes primarily from the Biscayne Aquifer around 100 to 200 feet underground, with additional wells into the Floridan Aquifer at approximately 900 feet, and that it is treated with a combination of reverse osmosis filtration and lime softening.
That blended, doubly treated supply means a scaled inlet valve or a narrowed fill tube is a realistic diagnosis here, unlike in the membrane-only parts of northwest Broward, but it is not aggressive scaling. Keeping the refrigerator water filter current is the cheapest maintenance in the whole subsystem and the first thing to rule out on any ice complaint.
Can you replace a cracked shelf or a broken door bin at the same time?
Yes, and it is worth asking. One of our local jobs replaced an ice maker together with a glass shelf and a door bin at $476. Shelves crack and bins split at the mounting tabs quietly over years, and they are inexpensive parts individually.
The marginal cost of dealing with them while a technician is already in your kitchen for something else is far lower than a call-out of their own, so mention them when you book and we will bring what is needed rather than seeing them for the first time on the day.
My power was out for a day. Is the food in my freezer safe?
The guidance is based on time and temperature rather than smell, which is not a reliable test. A full freezer holds temperature for roughly two days if the door stays shut, and a half-full one for about a day.
Food that still has ice crystals in it and is at or below 40 degrees Fahrenheit can be refrozen safely, and anything that has been above 40 degrees for more than two hours should be discarded.
On the appliance itself, if it does not restart properly when power returns, unplug it for five full minutes before booking, because a control board holding a bad state after an outage produces symptoms identical to a failed one.
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