Appliance Repair in Tampa Bay, FL

This page is the coverage index for Tampa Bay, and it is built on our own service record here: 11,580 service calls across 203 ZIP codes and 124 communities between January 2023 and August 2026, 4,955 of them in the last twelve months. Below are the numbers behind that record, then every city and appliance page we have written for this metro. Read what customers say about these visits in our customer reviews, and see how Bozmanfix compares as an appliance repair company in Tampa Bay.

Pricing, warranty terms and booking for the metro as a whole are set out further down this page.

What 11,580 Tampa Bay service calls look like

Across the metro, the median repair that included a replacement part is 358 dollars, parts, labor and the service call together. That is the number to hold in your head, not the price of the part alone. A quarter of those repairs came in under 291 dollars and a quarter ran above 450.

Behind that median sit 5,924 Tampa Bay repairs with a replacement part and the appliance running again. Every one of them started the same way: a technician on site, a tested diagnosis, and a firm number quoted before any work began.

Where you live in Tampa Bay moves the bill about 19 percent

We charge one diagnostic fee and one labor rate across the entire metro. Your address does not change our price list. What it changes is what breaks, and how often the broken thing turns out to be an expensive part. Grouped by county band, the pattern is consistent enough to be useful:

Top band to bottom band is 61 dollars, or about 19 percent. Go one level finer and the spread widens: among the 84 Tampa Bay ZIP codes where we have at least 30 measured repairs, the median runs from 310 dollars in 33570 (Ruskin) to 454 dollars in 34293 (Venice), a factor of 1.46 between two addresses on the same coast.

The practical read: the ZIP code moves your likely bill more than the county name does. A quote that swings by nearly half across one metro is not a pricing policy, it is a housing stock difference. Fast-growing districts on the eastern edge and in Polk County run newer, simpler machines that fail in cheaper ways.

The coastal and retirement communities run a mix of aging premium units and long-serving basic ones, and both of those tails cost more to fix than the middle.

Urgency, not price, is what moves a household

Here is the finding that surprised us most in the Tampa Bay data. Sort our paid visits by appliance and the machines that get repaired fastest are not the cheap ones:

Each of these machines has its own Tampa page, with the component prices, the faults we see most and the questions people ask about that appliance: refrigerator repair in Tampa, washer repair in Tampa, dryer repair in Tampa, dishwasher repair in Tampa, oven and range repair in Tampa, cooktop repair in Tampa, ice maker and freezer repair in Tampa. This page is the overview for Tampa Bay; the appliance pages carry the detail.

Dryers are the machine Tampa Bay households need back fastest. A dryer repair here costs 35 dollars more than a dishwasher repair, so price is plainly not what drives that.

What separates them is what the appliance does for the household. A dead dryer in a Florida summer stops the laundry that day, and there is no substitute in the house, so it gets fixed.

When a household genuinely needs the machine back, the number on the quote turns out to matter far less than how fast we can get there.

What actually gets replaced, and what it costs

Nine components account for most of the parts we fit in Tampa Bay. Read this table bottom to top and the useful pattern shows up: the cheap failures and the expensive ones are separated by about 125 dollars, and everything except the control board sits inside one narrow band.

The reason those eight non-board repairs cluster between 326 and 395 dollars is that the part is rarely the expensive half of the job. The service call and the labor make the bill. A twelve dollar lid switch and a ninety dollar fan motor land within seventy dollars of each other on the invoice, because both take a technician the same trip and roughly the same hour to reach.

How we quote it. Our technician names the failed component and the total before any work starts, so you are looking at one number rather than an estimate that grows.

When a job sits above that 320 to 400 dollar band there is a concrete reason behind it, most often a built-in unit that has to be unfastened and drawn out before the part can be reached, and you hear that reason at the same time as the price.

Brands in Tampa Bay are a three-way tie

Nationally our refrigerator work leans Samsung. In Tampa Bay the top three brands are within 1.4 percentage points of one another: Whirlpool 22.4 percent, Samsung 22.0 percent, GE 21.0 percent, then Frigidaire 9.8, LG 8.4, Maytag 7.2, Kenmore 2.6 and KitchenAid 1.8.

Read this correctly. These are shares of the repairs we are called out on, which reflect how many of each brand are installed in Tampa Bay homes, not how reliable the brands are. A brand that sells more units will generate more service calls even if it fails less often. We do not publish reliability rankings from our own call volume, and neither should anyone quoting this table.

The practical version: Kenmore at 2.6 percent is now an age marker rather than a brand. Sears stopped selling them, so a Kenmore in a Tampa Bay kitchen almost always means the kitchen has not been touched since the early 2010s, and the rest of that kitchen is usually the same vintage.

Where our coverage goes deep

Several Tampa Bay cities have a full seven-page set on this site, each written on that city’s own numbers rather than on a template: a city hub plus refrigerator, washer, dryer, dishwasher, oven and range, and ice maker and freezer.

Everything else we cover in Tampa Bay is listed below, city by city.

Tampa Bay appliance repair questions, answered with our own numbers