Ice Maker and Freezer Repair in Clearwater, FL
We have run six paid freezer and ice maker jobs in Clearwater, four of which involved a replaced part. That is not enough to publish a local price and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
What follows is the honest version: our company-wide data from 2,091 completed ice maker repairs and 2,269 completed freezer repairs for the numbers, the four checks that resolve a large share of these calls, and what we cover here. Where a Clearwater figure exists it appears with its count attached so you can weigh it yourself.
Freezer and Ice Maker Repair in Clearwater, FL
Built-in ice makers, standalone chest and upright freezers, all nine Clearwater ZIP codes in Pinellas County at one price. Freezer calls get priority scheduling because food loss is on the clock.
A Worked Example of Why Small Samples Cannot Be Read
This page is the smallest data set on our site, so rather than dress six jobs up as local expertise, here is something more useful: what five cities’ worth of small samples on the same appliance actually look like side by side.
| Freezer and ice maker, by city | Paid jobs | Part fitted | As a percentage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clearwater | 6 | 6 | 100 percent |
| Bradenton | 7 | 6 | 86 percent |
| Lakeland | 5 | 3 | 60 percent |
| Riverview | 7 | 3 | 43 percent |
| St. Petersburg | 23 | 13 | 57 percent |
The only figure in that table with enough behind it to mean anything is St. Petersburg’s 23 jobs, and it lands at 43 percent — which is close to our company-wide picture across thousands of repairs.
So the honest reading for Clearwater is not “every call here turns into a repair”; it is “we have six jobs, and on this appliance the four checks below are worth more of your time than on any other.” That is precisely why they lead this page.
What the Repairs Actually Cost
Medians from completed repairs across our whole service area, parts and labour and the service call together. The ice maker and the freezer are listed separately because they are genuinely different machines with different failure economics — an ice maker is a water-delivery device attached to a cooling appliance, and most of what goes wrong with it is on the water side.
| Repair | Median, full ticket | Company jobs (n) |
|---|---|---|
| Defrost heater or timer, freezer | $364 | 203 |
| Door gasket, freezer | $389 | 77 |
| Thermostat or sensor, freezer | $390 | 81 |
| Frozen fill tube cleared | $393 | 40 |
| Evaporator or condenser fan | $396 | 135 |
| Defrost heater or timer, ice maker side | $415 | 70 |
| Water inlet valve | $428 | 69 |
| Water filter changed on the visit | $440 | 79 |
| Ice maker module | $449 | 57 |
| Control board | $488 | 51 |
| Door gasket, ice maker side | $570 | 17 |
| Compressor, freezer | $700 | 107 |
The compressor at $700 is the outcome that decides whether a standalone freezer is worth keeping, and it is why we will not quote a freezer repair over the phone. Everything else sits between $364 and $488, a band you can plan around.
By symptom across the same repairs: a freezer that will not freeze closes at $377 over 488 jobs, an ice maker leaking at $380 over 515, and no ice at all at $420 over 348. The full component picture is in appliance repair cost by component across 29,315 repairs.
What We Have Seen Locally, With the Counts Attached
Our four Clearwater repairs landed at a $400 median 4 JOBS
Of our six paid Clearwater visits, four involved a replaced part and those four have a median of $400 with a middle half from $318 to $539. Four jobs.
We are publishing it because you asked what it costs here and hiding the number would be worse than showing it with its count, but do not plan around it — plan around the company figures of $385 for a freezer and $415 for an ice maker, which rest on 2,269 and 2,091 completed repairs.
What the local number does not contradict is the shape: $400 sits comfortably inside the company band, so nothing about Clearwater looks unusual for this appliance. That is genuinely all we can say.
All five branded jobs were the same brand, which means nothing FRIGIDAIRE 5 OF 5
Every one of our five branded Clearwater freezer and ice maker jobs is a Frigidaire. On five jobs that is a coin landing the same way five times, not a pattern, and we are not going to build a claim on it.
The only thing worth connecting is that Frigidaire is genuinely strong in this city generally — 24 percent of our Clearwater refrigerators and 21 percent of the dishwashers, both above what we see in Riverview or Lakeland.
So five Frigidaires is consistent with the wider Clearwater equipment population rather than surprising. It is still five jobs.
Ice makers fail on the water side, not the cold side
Look at the ordering in the company table: frozen fill tube $393, water inlet valve $428, water filter $440, ice maker module $449. That pattern holds across 2,091 company repairs — most of what stops ice production is water delivery rather than ice making, and the module itself is the last thing to suspect rather than the first.
It is why the checks start with the fill tube and the filter. A refrigerator that has stopped producing ice is far more often starved of water than broken. Read when to change the water filter first, and if the ice maker is inside a refrigerator rather than a standalone unit, our Clearwater refrigerator page has 86 paid local jobs behind it and is the better read.
Salt air is a condenser problem on this coast
This is mechanism rather than local statistics, and it applies with particular force on the Pinellas peninsula and the barrier island. A standalone freezer in a Clearwater garage, utility room or lanai runs against ambient heat its kitchen equivalent never sees, and coastal air carries salt and fine particulate that settles on a condenser coil meant to shed heat.
The compressor then works longer cycles at higher head pressure to hold the same cabinet temperature, which is exactly the load that finds a marginal start relay, a tired fan motor or an ageing compressor.
Humidity does the rest: every door opening admits moist air that condenses on the evaporator and freezes, so a marginal defrost circuit fails faster here, and a door gasket that has lost its seal produces visible frost within weeks. Those two components, defrost at $364 and gasket at $389, are the cheap half of the table.
Match Your Symptom to the Likely Cause
- No ice at all — frozen fill tube at $393, water inlet valve at $428, a saturated filter, or the ice maker module at $449. Company-wide this symptom closes at $420 across 348 jobs. Start with the fill tube and the filter, both free to check.
- Ice arrives slowly, or the cubes are hollow and small — restricted water supply rather than a broken ice maker. Valve, filter or supply line before anything else.
- Freezer not holding temperature, food softening — evaporator or condenser fan at $396, the defrost circuit at $364, or the sealed system. Closes at $377 across 488 company jobs. This is the symptom that occasionally lands at the $700 compressor.
- Heavy frost on the walls or the back panel — door gasket at $389 or the defrost circuit. In Gulf-coast humidity a poor seal produces frost quickly, so do the paper test before booking.
- Water pooling under or in front of the unit — blocked defrost drain, a split water line, or the inlet valve. Closes at $380 across 515 company jobs.
- Ice tastes or smells wrong — the filter, or a bin that has been sitting unused. Almost never a component failure, and one of the causes a technician rules out first — particularly in a property that sits empty part of the year.
Where in Clearwater We Cover
All nine Clearwater ZIP codes at one price with no travel surcharge between them, all in Pinellas County: 33755, 33756 which also carries the Belleair name, 33759, 33760, 33761, 33763, 33764, 33765 and 33767 which is Clearwater Beach.
Freezer calls get the same priority scheduling as refrigerator calls, because spoiled food is a clock rather than an inconvenience — and in a beachfront property that is only occupied part of the year, a freezer that fails quietly is worth catching on your next visit rather than the one after.
The full ZIP table and the city-wide figures are on the Clearwater hub page. Metro context is on ice maker repair in Tampa FL, and we have deeper local data on the St. Petersburg freezer and ice maker page, which rests on 23 paid jobs.
Repair or Replace
This splits cleanly by what you own. A built-in ice maker, or the ice maker inside a refrigerator, is almost always worth repairing — the module at $449 is a fraction of the machine it sits in, and replacing a refrigerator to fix an ice maker makes no sense.
A standalone chest or upright freezer is the opposite case: a mid-market replacement is roughly $500 to $900, so a $700 compressor is not a repair we would push, and we will say so on the visit rather than after you have committed.
The middle ground is a fan, a gasket, a thermostat or a defrost circuit, all between $364 and $396, which is worth doing on anything under about ten years old.
Expected service life is in how long freezers last, and the framework is the repair or replace guide.
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
What Customers Say
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Freezer and Ice Maker Repair in Clearwater — Questions We Get
How much does freezer or ice maker repair cost in Clearwater, FL?
Plan around $385 for a freezer and $415 for an ice maker, which are our company-wide medians across 2,269 and 2,091 completed repairs. We have only six paid freezer and ice maker jobs in Clearwater, four of which involved a replaced part, and those four have a median of $400 — a number we publish with its count rather than hide, but not one to plan around.
By repair: defrost heater or timer $364, freezer door gasket $389, thermostat or sensor $390, frozen fill tube cleared $393, evaporator or condenser fan $396, water inlet valve $428, water filter $440, ice maker module $449, control board $488, compressor $700.
All six of your Clearwater visits ended with a part fitted. Does that mean a call here always finds a fault?
No, and we would rather say so plainly. On six jobs a 100 percent part-fitted share is noise. Look across our other cities on the same appliance: Bradenton 1 of 7, Lakeland 2 of 5, Riverview 4 of 7, St. Petersburg 10 of 23. Five cities, five different answers from 0 to 57 percent.
The only figure with enough behind it is St. Petersburg’s 43 percent on 23 jobs, which is close to our company-wide picture. Treat this as the appliance where telling us the answers to the four checks below gets the right part on the truck.
My refrigerator has stopped making ice. What should I check first?
Four things, all free. Pull the ice bin and look at the fill tube at the back for a plug of ice, which thaws with warm water. Check the metal shut-off arm or sensor eye is not blocked by a bag of frozen food. Change the water filter if it is over six months old, because a saturated filter starves the inlet valve.
Close the door on a sheet of paper and pull — if it slides out freely, the gasket has lost its seal. Across 2,091 company ice maker repairs the ordering is clear: fill tube $393, valve $428, filter $440, module $449. Most of what stops ice production is water delivery, not ice making.
All five of your branded jobs here were Frigidaire. Is that meaningful?
No. On five jobs that is a coin landing the same way five times, not a pattern.
The only thing worth connecting is that Frigidaire is genuinely strong in Clearwater generally — 24 percent of our refrigerators here and 21 percent of the dishwashers, both above Riverview and Lakeland — so five Frigidaires is consistent with the wider equipment population rather than surprising. We are not going to build a reliability claim on it either way.
Is a standalone freezer worth repairing?
It depends on the part. A fan, gasket, thermostat or defrost circuit runs $364 to $396 company-wide and is worth doing on anything under about ten years old. A compressor at $700 against a $500 to $900 mid-market replacement freezer is not a repair we would push, and we will tell you that on the visit rather than after you have committed.
A built-in ice maker is the opposite case and is almost always worth repairing, because the module is a fraction of the machine it sits in.
Do freezer calls get priority?
Yes. Freezer and refrigerator calls are scheduled ahead of other appliances because food loss is on a clock rather than an inconvenience. Clearwater is a standing route for us with 153 jobs in the last twelve months across all appliances, so same-day is realistic when you book early in the day. The diagnostic is $99 and it is credited against the repair when you approve the work.
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