Appliance Repair in Longboat Key, FL

Bozmanfix’s median appliance repair on Longboat Key is $420 with a part replaced, from 22 Bozmanfix repairs between March 2025 and August 2026. The $420 covers the part, the labor and the trip over the bridge, all in one figure. Company-wide prices by part, built from Bozmanfix invoices, are on our appliance repair parts cost page.

Appliance Repair on Longboat Key

Longboat Key is a town that straddles two counties. It was incorporated on November 13, 1955, and it is split almost equally between Manatee County to the north and Sarasota County to the south. The census counted 6,888 residents in 2010 and 7,505 in 2020, on about 4.1 square miles of land and nearly 12 square miles of water.

Our Longboat Key files begin in January 2025. They now hold 46 jobs at Longboat Key addresses in ZIP 34228, for 43 households, and 34 of those jobs were booked in the twelve months to October 2026. This page brings the six Longboat Key appliance pages together with the prices, the housing and the utilities behind them.

Longboat Key Appliance Repair Prices

The all-appliance row uses local invoices. The individual appliances each have too few local repairs with a part for their own median, so their rows show our Florida median for that appliance, measured the same way.

The local sample is 22 repairs, enough for a median we publish but small enough that a few bills could move it. Treat it as a guide; the price for your machine is set after the technician has found the fault.

Longboat Key Against Manatee, Sarasota and Tampa Bay

Our Tampa Bay page groups the metro into county bands, and Longboat Key falls in the Manatee and Sarasota band, which covers 920 Bozmanfix repairs with a part at a $365 median. The key’s own median runs $55 above that band, $61 above the Tampa Bay median of $359 and $45 above the Florida median. The lower end of the local band, $280, sits close to the regional figures; the gap opens at the top, where the local band reaches $532.

The mainland cities nearby have their own pages: Sarasota, Bradenton and Palmetto.

Longboat Key Homes in Census Figures

The American Community Survey for 2020 to 2024 counts 7,539 people in the town, with a median age of 71.2, and 68.4 percent of residents are 65 or older. The town has 9,935 housing units. The median home was built in 1980, owners occupy 93.6 percent of the occupied homes, and the median owner-occupied home is valued at $1,022,100.

The figure that stands out is vacancy. The survey counts 5,713 vacant units, and 4,927 of them, 49.6 percent of all housing on the key, are held for seasonal, recreational or occasional use. That is about half the housing on the island. For an owner who is away, the booking needs keys, a condo office or a property manager, and the technician needs to know how long the refrigerator or ice maker sat idle.

Heating is mostly electric: 90.9 percent of occupied homes heat with electricity, 7.1 percent with utility gas and 0.3 percent with bottled gas. Tell us at booking whether your range, cooktop or dryer is gas.

Utilities on Longboat Key

Florida Power and Light lists both the Manatee and the Sarasota parts of Longboat Key among the communities in its electric tariff. The Peoples Gas tariff names Longboat Key under both counties; whether a gas main reaches a given street is not something we have confirmed.

For water, a 2005 release from the Southwest Florida Water Management District described the town as drawing its supply from Manatee County. Manatee County’s 2025 water quality report gives no hardness number, and we could not open the town’s own report, so we quote no hardness figure for the key.

Refrigerators and Ice Makers on Longboat Key

Refrigerators use the $390 Florida median. GE leads the brand tags in the Bozmanfix Longboat Key files with 11, well ahead of Whirlpool, Samsung and KitchenAid at 3 each, with Maytag, LG and Frigidaire at 2 and Thermador, Electrolux, Miele and Kenmore once each. That is a picture of ownership on the key, not of reliability.

The Longboat Key refrigerator page covers the cooling faults. For ice makers and freezers we quote the Florida figure of $385. After a season away, an ice maker that sat dry is worth mentioning on the Longboat Key ice maker page booking.

Washers and Dryers on Longboat Key

The Florida medians are $381 for a washer repair with a part and $370 for a dryer.

A stacked washer-dryer carries a $150 diagnostic instead of $99. The washer page and the dryer page for Longboat Key go into each repair.

Kitchen Repairs on Longboat Key

An oven or range repair carries a $396 Florida median. Thermador and Miele both appear in local files, and the oven page and the cooktop page cover premium and standard equipment.

Longboat Key has no dishwasher page yet, so the Tampa dishwasher repair page covers it. The Florida dishwasher median is $344.

Finding the Right Longboat Key Page

• Refrigerator warm after the home sat empty: the relay or a fan motor, and at the top end the compressor.
• Ice maker silent after a season away: a frozen fill tube or an inlet valve.
• Washer leaking at the front door: the boot seal on a front loader.
• Dryer running but clothes still damp: the vent may be blocked or the element weak.
• Touchpad not responding on the oven: a switch, knob or touchpad, or the control board.
• Cooktop burner or zone dead: we test the element or burner, its switch and the board.
• Detergent cup not opening: the dispenser.

Booking for a Seasonal Home on the Key

• Building and unit. Condo name, unit number and what the front desk or association needs from the technician.
• Keys. Who will let us in, or the lockbox details.
• Approval. If you are up north, give us a phone number that answers during the visit, or name the manager who approves the price.
• History. How long the home was closed and whether the power or water was shut off.

After Helene and Milton

The National Hurricane Center’s reports on the 2024 season record what reached the key. For Hurricane Helene, a USGS sensor on Longboat Key measured a storm tide of 6.68 feet above mean higher high water. In October 2024 Hurricane Milton made landfall on Siesta Key, and the center reports 4 to 6 feet of inundation from Longboat Key to Venice, with the Longboat Key sensor at 5.04 feet above mean higher high water.

If salt water reached an appliance, leave it unplugged and let us inspect it before it runs again. USDA food safety advice for outages: keep the refrigerator closed and count on roughly 4 hours, a packed freezer roughly 48 and a half-packed one roughly 24, and discard perishables that sat above 40°F for 2 hours or longer.

How We Count the Longboat Key Figures

The local median counts completed repairs at Longboat Key addresses in ZIP 34228 that included a part and were billed above $200, with commercial accounts removed, and takes the middle bill. The Manatee and Sarasota band and the Tampa Bay figure come from our Tampa Bay page, the Florida rows apply the same method statewide. A median ignores the size of the biggest bill, which keeps one compressor job from tilting it.

Repair or Replace on Longboat Key?

Put the repair price next to a new appliance with delivery, installation and removal of the old one, and for a condo, any building rules about deliveries. A single-part repair at these medians is a fraction of most new units. Once the diagnosis prices the repair, the choice is yours; the repair versus replacement guide covers the trade-offs.

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