Guides
Repair guides for Orange County owners
Written by the people who do the work, for the owner who wants to understand the appliance before deciding anything. No sales pitch in them — the phone number is at the bottom if you want it.
The defrost circuit: heater, thermistor, and why frost returns
Frost that regrows on a coil somebody has already cleared is a defrost cycle being started and not finished, which puts the fault in one of four places: the heater…
Moving a built-in: what breaks when it is pulled out
Almost nothing that goes wrong when a built-in comes out of its opening happens to the refrigeration.
When the ice tastes wrong, the fault is upstream
An ice maker does not flavor anything.
Appliance down in Orange County?
Tell us the brand and what it is doing — we can usually name the likely repair before we arrive.