Lubbock has hard water. This is not a secret to anyone who has lived here for more than a month — you can see it on your showerhead, your faucets, and the white film on your dishes. But what most people do not realize is how much damage that hard water is doing inside their...
This is the question I get on almost every service call. The dishwasher quit, the dryer is making a noise, the fridge is not cooling — and the homeowner wants to know: should I fix this thing or just buy a new one? There is no single right answer. But after years of repairing appliances...
What’s Being Recalled On March 19, 2026, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Electrolux Group issued an official voluntary recall covering certain Frigidaire, Frigidaire Gallery, and Frigidaire Professional gas ranges. Approximately 174,800 units were sold in the US, with an additional 5,300 sold in Canada. The defect involves delayed ignition of the oven’s bake...
Today I worked on a Vent-A-Hood range hood. The customer’s complaint was simple: the lights were flickering. I take a look, and the only thing controlling power to these lights is a 3-way light switch — low, off, high. That’s a common failure point, and I happened to have one on the truck. I explained...
If your clothes are coming out damp after a full cycle — or you've started running the dryer twice just to get a dry load — something is wrong. This is one of the most common service calls we handle in Lubbock, and the good news is that the cause is almost always one of...
Every week we diagnose an appliance and hear the same question: "Is it worth fixing?" It's a fair question, and there's no single right answer. But there's a framework for thinking through it — and we'll give you the same advice we'd give a family member standing in their kitchen deciding whether to fix or...
We get some version of this question on nearly every service call: "How much is it going to cost?" The honest answer is that it depends — but "it depends" isn't very useful when you're trying to decide whether to call a repair company at all. So here's a detailed breakdown of how appliance repair...
If you have bought a refrigerator in the last few years, there is a good chance it uses R-600a (isobutane) instead of the R-134a refrigerant that has been standard in household refrigerators for decades. This matters because R-600a is flammable — and that changes how the appliance should be serviced. What Is R-600a? R-600a is...
Walk into any well-run laundromat in America and you will see the same brands: Speed Queen, Maytag Commercial, maybe Dexter or Wascomat. You will not see Samsung. You will not see LG. You will not see Whirlpool's consumer line, GE, or Frigidaire. There is a reason for that, and it has nothing to do with...
When an appliance control board fails, the standard industry approach is to replace the entire board. Order a new one for $200–$600+, swap it out, move on. It works, but it is expensive — and in many cases, unnecessary. Board-level repair means diagnosing and replacing the individual component that actually failed — a relay, capacitor,...
