Whirlpool Refrigerator Repair in Northern Virginia, DC & Maryland

Whirlpool also makes Maytag, KitchenAid, Amana and JennAir, and many refrigerator parts are shared across those badges, KitchenAid refrigerators included, so they stay in stock. The parts we replace most, the defrost heater and bimetal thermostat, the evaporator and condenser fan motors, the damper, the water inlet valve, the start relay and overload, and the ice maker, are common stock, and the everyday ones ride on the truck. Control boards, inverter boards, in-door ice assemblies and door parts are ordered by model number and usually arrive in a few days; our technician comes back to fit them, and the $89 from the first visit still counts toward the repair.

Tap water across our area is hard, which is why mineral scale is a regular part of refrigerator repair in Alexandria and the other towns we cover. It builds up in the small parts of a Whirlpool's water path: the screen in the inlet valve, the fill tube, the ice mold and the dispenser tube. It shows up as cloudy or small cubes, a slow dispenser, or an ice maker that quits; our ice maker repair page covers the other causes.

The everydrop filter is a carbon filter. It takes out chlorine taste and a long list of contaminants, but it does not soften water, so it cannot stop scale. What helps is changing the filter on schedule, six months or 200 gallons, and replacing the fill valve rather than cleaning it once scale has closed it down. When we replace an ice maker in a hard-water home we check the valve at the same time, because a weak valve will starve the new ice maker too.

You get a 2-hour window and a call about 15 minutes before our technician arrives. Shoe covers go on at the door and floor protection goes down before the fridge is pulled out.

Before anything is touched you get the problem explained in plain English, and the full repair price. The $89 visit fee is collected either way and counts toward the repair if you go ahead. Common parts are on the truck, so a defrost heater, fan motor, relay or inlet valve is usually fitted on the first visit. Every repair carries a 90-day parts-and-labor warranty, you pay when the work is done, and the invoice comes by email or text. We are insured and Google Guaranteed, with a 5.0 on Google from over 100 reviews. Our technicians have five to ten years of experience in appliance repair.

A Whirlpool with a mechanical fault, meaning defrost parts, a fan, the damper, the relay, an inlet valve or the ice maker, is nearly always worth repairing, whatever its age. Those are the common failures and the parts are easy to get. The harder call is a sealed-system fault, a refrigerant leak or a blocked line, on a fridge that is past its first decade; our refrigerator repair page lists when replacing makes more sense.

We will not quote that or anything else before the visit, because the price depends on what our technician actually finds. What we will do is tell you at your home what the repair costs, and say plainly if we think the money is better spent on a new fridge. You pay the $89 visit fee either way, and it counts toward the repair if you go ahead.