Appliance Repair Sun City Center FL
Appliance repair in Sun City Center, FL runs a median of $329 once a part is replaced, with the middle half of paid work between $275 and $382. That comes from 188 jobs in this community across 170 separate households, 78 of them in the last twelve months.
It is the tightest pricing band of any town we cover in Tampa Bay, and there is a plain reason for it. Sun City Center was built by one developer to one specification, and our service book still shows it sixty years later: GE equipment accounts for 42 of the 106 branded jobs here, roughly twice the share that brand holds across the rest of our work. One community, one appliance package, one set of familiar failures.
Appliance Repair in Sun City Center, FL
Refrigerator, washer, dryer, dishwasher, oven, freezer and ice maker, across the original Del Webb sections, the newer villa neighbourhoods and Kings Point.
One Builder, One Appliance Package
Sun City Center opened in 1961 as a Del Webb community in southern Hillsborough County and grew into one of the largest age-restricted places in Florida. The 2020 census counted 30,952 residents in 18,111 housing units, with a median age of 70.4 and 63.8 percent of residents aged sixty-five or older. Kings Point sits beside it as its own community of villas and condominiums, and golf carts are legal on the streets in daylight.
Most towns we serve were assembled over decades by dozens of builders, so the kitchens inside them are a lottery. This one was not. Homes went up in planned sections, each section fitted out to the package of its day, and when an appliance finally died the replacement was usually bought locally and usually of the same make. A service book following that housing looks different from every neighbouring town:
| Measure | Sun City Center | Apollo Beach | Palm Harbor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median with a part | $329 | $340 | $383 |
| Middle half | $275 to $382 | $285 to $412 | $300 to $479 |
| Paid repairs past $500 | 7 of 143 | 10 of 135 | 24 of 101 |
| Leading brand in our book | GE, 42 jobs | Samsung | Samsung and GE level |
What Appliance Repair Costs in Sun City Center
| Appliance | Median with a part | Middle half | Repairs measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Refrigerator | $346 | $275 to $380 | 40 local |
| Washer | $341 | $280 to $427 | 16 local |
| Dryer | $287 | $265 to $437 | 8 local, small sample |
| Oven and range | company-wide $375 | $300 to $482 | 1,858 company-wide |
| Dishwasher | company-wide $330 | $274 to $400 | 2,160 company-wide |
| Ice maker and freezer | company-wide $425 and $375 | $332 to $624 | 181 and 263 |
Three of those lines are company-wide on purpose. Ovens, dishwashers and standalone ice and freezer units are the thin part of our local book here — eight, twelve and eight jobs respectively — and a median built on two or three component repairs describes an accident rather than a price. Where we have the local numbers we print the local numbers, and where we do not we say so and give you the figure from the full book instead.
The two lines that are properly measured tell the real story of this community. The refrigerator sits at $346 across forty local repairs and the washer at $341 across sixteen, and both are within a few dollars of each other. In most towns the refrigerator runs sixty to a hundred dollars clear of the laundry. Here the appliances behave alike because they were installed alike.
Why Sun City Center Behaves This Way
Our book is a GE book 42 OF 106 BRANDED JOBS
Across branded work in this community the order runs GE 42 jobs, Samsung 25, Whirlpool 13, LG 12, Frigidaire 6, Maytag 5, with Amana and Bosch behind them. Nowhere else in Tampa Bay does one brand hold that much of a town. In Apollo Beach and Largo the leader is Samsung, and across our company-wide refrigerator work GE holds under a fifth of jobs.
The laundry room is the sharpest example: of twenty-seven branded washer jobs here, fourteen were GE machines. That is better than half a room in a community where the company-wide share is roughly one in five.
What it means for you is boring in the best way. The technician who covers this route sees the same control boards, the same fill valves and the same drive systems week after week, and the common parts for them travel on the van rather than being ordered. Tell us the brand at booking and the odds are good the part is already with the vehicle.
The refrigerator carries the community 59 JOBS, 34 IN THE LAST YEAR
Fifty-nine of our 188 jobs in Sun City Center were refrigerators, and thirty-four of those came in the last twelve months — the appliance is not just the biggest category, it is the one accelerating. The median with a part is $346 with the middle half at $275 to $380.
The mix behind that number is ordinary sealed-system-adjacent work rather than sealed systems themselves: evaporator and condenser fan motors, defrost heaters and controls, water inlet valves and dispenser faults. Our largest job in this community was a GE refrigerator that had lost both water and ice at $672, and the second was a maintenance and repair visit on an LG at $488.
If the fresh food side is warm and the freezer is still cold, that is the affordable half of the appliance and it is worth a call the same week rather than the same month, because a failed defrost circuit ices up progressively and the repair does not get cheaper by waiting. Background reading is refrigerator not cooling.
Stacked and combination laundry pairs turn up here DIAGNOSTIC IS $150 ON THOSE
Three of the visits in our Sun City Center book were booked on stacked washer and dryer combination units rather than a side-by-side pair. That is a small count and we are not going to build a theory on it, but it is worth flagging because it changes one number on your invoice before anything is diagnosed.
A stacked laundry pair and a double or built-in wall oven carry a $150 diagnostic instead of the standard $99, because the unit has to come out of its housing before the fault can be reached. Every other appliance is $99, and on any of them the diagnostic comes off the total once you approve the repair.
Say at booking whether the laundry is stacked, side by side, or in a closet. It decides what the technician brings up the driveway and it stops a surprise on the paperwork.
The price band is the narrowest we publish 7 OF 143 PAID REPAIRS PAST $500
Of 143 paid jobs here, seven finished above $500. The middle half of repairs with a part sits between $275 and $382, which is a spread of just over a hundred dollars from the cheap quarter to the expensive quarter.
That is the practical value of a single-builder community. There is no built-in refrigeration set into custom cabinetry, no professional-grade range, no counter-depth column that costs three hundred dollars to reach before anyone diagnoses it. There are mainstream machines in accessible positions, and mainstream machines in accessible positions are what a fixed quote is easy to give on.
It also means the quote you get over this page is close to the quote you will get on the invoice. We will still diagnose before committing to a figure, but the range we are working inside here is genuinely tight.
The senior discount applies to nearly every household here $30 OFF EVERY REPAIR
This is an age-restricted community where the census puts 63.8 percent of residents at sixty-five or older, so the $30 senior discount is not a rare case on this route — it is the normal one. It comes off every repair, it stacks with nothing you have to argue about, and the office applies it without being asked.
Veterans get the same $30, and a first-time customer gets $20 off the first repair. If more than one applies to your household, ask at booking and we will tell you which one lands best on your job rather than leaving you to work it out.
For a household that expects two or three service visits a year across a full kitchen and laundry, the Priority Membership at $179 covers five diagnostics and takes another $30 off labour on top, which is usually the cheaper arrangement over a year.
78 of our 188 Sun City Center jobs are from the last twelve months, and the count has held steady year on year: 47 in 2024, 51 in 2025 and 53 already in 2026. A technician is in this part of south Hillsborough most working days, which is why early calls here often get seen the same afternoon. Book online or call (863) 663-2086.
Do We Cover Your Address?
Sun City Center is a single postal area, 33573, and we cover all of it at one price with no travel surcharge between sections. That includes the original Del Webb neighbourhoods around the community association buildings, the newer villa streets on the eastern side, and the gated villas and condominiums of Kings Point.
Against 18,111 housing units in the census count, our 188 jobs work out at roughly ten repairs per thousand homes — an ordinary rate for a community this size, and one that has been climbing gently rather than spiking.
| Nearby | Relationship | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Apollo Beach | North west, on the water | 188 jobs, median $340 |
| Riverview | North, along the corridor | Covered, own page |
| Ruskin and Wimauma | Immediately west and east | Same route, same pricing |
Ruskin sits directly west of here and shares this route, but it is a separate town with its own housing and its own numbers — the figures on this page describe Sun City Center only. Full metro structure is on appliance repair in Tampa Bay, and the full town list is on the Tampa locations hub.
Match the Symptom to the Likely Cause
- Fridge section drifting warm while the freezer holds — air is not moving between the two, which points at the evaporator fan or the defrost circuit rather than the compressor. This is the single most common call we take in this community, and it is the affordable half of the appliance. See refrigerator not cooling.
- No water and no ice from the door — the fill path: inlet valve, filter housing or dispenser switch. Our largest local job started exactly this way. Background: ice maker not making ice.
- Washer banging, leaking or refusing to spin — suspension, drain pump or door lock, and on the GE machines that dominate here a well-known set of parts. See washing machine out of balance.
- An error code on the display that stops the cycle — most often a supply, drain or door-lock fault the machine has detected rather than a failed control board. Read the code to us at booking.
- Dryer running but leaving clothes damp — element, thermostat or a restricted duct, and on a stacked pair the duct is the first thing we check. See dryer not heating.
- Water sitting in the bottom of the dishwasher — the filter and drain path first, the drain pump second. Background: dishwasher not draining.
- Oven that will not heat or runs to the wrong temperature — element, igniter, sensor or control board. The widest price range of anything we fix, which is why we diagnose before quoting it.
Repair or Replace, on the Sun City Center Numbers
Set $329 — the typical repair here once a component is fitted — beside what a replacement actually costs. Replacing the laundry pair alone means roughly $700 for a washer and $650 for a dryer, a mid-market refrigerator opens around $1,100, and a range runs $700 to $1,300 — before anyone delivers it, installs it or takes the old unit out of the house.
For the ordinary work in this community — fans, pumps, elements, valves, suspension, door and dispenser parts — the arithmetic is not close and the repair wins comfortably. That covers the large majority of what we do here, which is exactly why the price band on this page is so narrow.
The genuine question only arrives on a sealed-system failure in an ageing refrigerator, and it arrives rarely in this community: seven of 143 paid repairs reached $500. When it does happen we put both totals in front of you, the repair and what a replacement of like quality costs, before anything is ordered. Our framework is the repair or replace guide, and expected service life by appliance is in how long refrigerators last.
Discounts Applied Automatically
Priority Membership
$179 a year — five diagnostics, priority slots
- Five free diagnostic visits a year, a $495 value
- Priority scheduling with 24 to 48 hour response
- $30 off labor on every repair
- Extended warranty on all Bozmanfix work
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Appliance Repair in Sun City Center — Questions We Get
How much does appliance repair cost in Sun City Center, FL?
The median is $329 once a part is replaced, with the middle half of paid work between $275 and $382. That is the full ticket: the component, the labour and the service call as one number, not a parts price. It comes from 188 jobs across this community in 170 households, 78 of them in the last twelve months. By appliance the local median with a part is $346 on refrigerators across forty repairs and $341 on washers across sixteen. Approve the work and the $99 diagnostic comes off the total, and the finished job carries 90 days of cover on parts and labour.
Why are repairs here cheaper than in other Tampa Bay towns?
Because of the equipment, not the rates, which are identical everywhere we work. Sun City Center was built by a single developer to a single specification, so the kitchens and laundry rooms hold mainstream machines in accessible positions. There is very little built-in refrigeration set into custom cabinetry and almost no professional-grade cooking equipment, and those are the appliances that produce four-figure invoices elsewhere. Seven of our 143 paid repairs here passed $500, about one in twenty. In Palm Harbor the same figure is one in four.
Do you carry parts for GE appliances?
Yes, and this is the community where that matters most. GE accounts for 42 of the 106 branded jobs in our Sun City Center book, and fourteen of the twenty-seven branded washer jobs, which is roughly double the share that brand holds across our work generally. The technician on this route sees the same control boards, fill valves and drive components week after week, so the common parts for them travel on the van rather than being ordered. Give us the brand and the model number at booking and we will tell you before the visit whether the likely part is in stock.
Is the diagnostic really $99, and does it come off the repair?
The diagnostic is $99 on a standard appliance and it comes off the total the moment you approve the repair, so on any job that goes ahead you are not paying for it twice. There are two exceptions and both are about access rather than difficulty: a stacked washer and dryer combination unit and a double or built-in wall oven carry a $150 diagnostic, because the unit has to be brought out of its housing before the fault can be reached. Tell us which you have when you book and the figure is settled before the technician arrives.
Do you cover Kings Point as well as Sun City Center?
Yes. The whole community sits in a single postal area and we service all of it at one price with no travel surcharge between sections — the original Del Webb neighbourhoods, the newer villa streets on the eastern side, and the gated villas and condominiums of Kings Point. If your unit is a condominium with the laundry in a closet or a stacked pair in a utility cupboard, say so at booking, since that decides what the technician brings and which diagnostic figure applies.
Is there a discount for residents here?
Yes, and in this community it applies to most households. Residents aged sixty-five and over get $30 off every repair, and the census records 63.8 percent of people here in that group. Veterans receive the same $30, and a first-time customer receives $20 off their first repair. The office applies whichever fits without you having to ask twice. If your household expects several visits across a year, the Priority Membership at $179 includes five diagnostics and takes a further $30 off labour on every repair, which usually works out cheaper than paying visit by visit.
Can you come the same day?
Usually, if you book early in the day. Our work here has been steady rather than seasonal — 47 jobs in 2024, 51 in 2025 and 53 already in 2026 — so this is a regular route rather than a trip made when enough work stacks up. Three details at booking decide whether the repair finishes in one visit: the appliance, the symptom, and the brand with the model number if you can reach it. Those three tell the technician what to load before leaving the shop.
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Book Appliance Repair in Sun City Center
Tell the office what the machine is doing and which make it is. On this route the odds are unusually good that the part is already on the van, so most calls here finish in a single visit. You approve the total before any work starts, and everything we fit is covered for 90 days.