Ice maker stopped.

No bang, no puddle, no code — the bin just stops refilling somewhere between one cookout and the next. The ice maker fails quietly because it's a chain of small dependencies, and any idle link stops the whole line without ceremony.

from $252 exam + labor · parts separate · $90 if you stop at the diagnosis
Dx+laborOne published figure for the exam and the repair work.
$90The whole bill when you stop at the diagnosis.
PartsItemized on their own line, signed before fitting.
Mon–FriHouse calls across South Kitsap.
WABased on Wendell Ave, Port Orchard.

The encouraging statistics: this complaint produces more no-parts discharges than any other in the practice. Bumped shut-off arms, geriatric filters and warm-running freezers resolve for the $90 finding — which is why the free checks below are genuinely worth your two minutes.

DIFFERENTIAL, IN ORDER

What usually did it.

01

Shut-off arm or paddle

Nudged into the OFF position by a milk jug with ambitions. The most dignified $0 diagnosis in appliance medicine.
02

Frozen fill tube

A weeping valve's trickle freezing into a plug — the relapsing patient that 'heals' after every defrost and fails again by Friday.
03

Inlet valve or water path

Scale-narrowed screens and tired solenoids starving the mold, worst in the well country toward Olalla.
04

Harvest module or assembly

The organ itself — motor, thermostat, heater. Often prescribed as a complete assembly, one line, one warranty.
BEFORE YOU BOOK

Safe to try before we arrive.

SAFE CHECKLook at the arm

Confirm the wire arm is down or the paddle unblocked. Ten seconds; a startling share of cases end right here.

SAFE CHECKDate your filter

Past six months, swap it and give the machine two days. Starved flow mimics deeper disease.

SAFE CHECKCheck the freezer's temperature

Ice production needs roughly 0–5°F. A freezer running warm for gasket reasons idles the maker with nothing broken inside it.

THE TREATMENT

How the visit runs.

The exam sits through one full harvest with the covers off — fill volume, mold temperature behavior, ejection motion, bin sensing — because ten patient minutes of observation outdiagnose an hour of parts-swapping. The water path gets pressure and screen checks calibrated to your water source, well or municipal.

Treatment from $252. Valves and arms prescribe at the light end; a failing module usually prescribes as a complete assembly — the surgery you won't repeat next season — as one clean written line. First harvest drops before the van leaves.

ASKED OFTEN

On this complaint specifically.

Fridge and freezer work fine — how is the ice maker dead?

It runs its own water line and electrics, so it retires independently. Routine admission; no omen about the rest of the machine.

Why does defrosting fix it for a week?

Because defrosting melts the plug a weeping valve keeps rebuilding. The relapse cycle is the diagnosis — the valve is the cure.

Is cloudy ice part of the same problem?

Usually a parallel one: mineral content, worst on wells. The exam checks the screen either way, and the chart tells you whether it's disease or just your aquifer's handwriting.

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THE DOCTOR ON ROUNDS

House calls, as they actually look.

No stock heroics — panels off, meter out, the day's patients on the bench. This is the work the from-price buys.

Technician checking an ice maker bin on a side-by-side refrigerator during a house call
Technician removing the door of a white dryer in a South Kitsap laundry room
Technician lifting the grates of a gas range during an examination
Technician servicing the freezer drawer of a French-door refrigerator
Technician examining the spray arm and sump of an open dishwasher
Technician holding a washer drain pump at a stacked laundry pair
BOOK A HOUSE CALL

Describe it once. We arrive prepared.

The intake is the first half of the diagnosis — the machine, the complaint and your ZIP decide what rides on the van. A weekday callback confirms your window.

One figure for exam + labor

The from-price covers the visit, the diagnosis and every hour of repair work. It's published before you call.

Parts on their own line

A needed part is written up separately and signed before it's fitted. Stop at the diagnosis instead and $90 is the whole bill.

Describe the patient.

The machine, what it's doing, and how long it's been doing it.

The from-price covers the examination and the repair labor. A needed part is written as its own line for your approval. Stop at the diagnosis: $90 total.

This complaint won't cure itself.

From $252 for the exam and labor. Call (360) 717-8956 or send the intake form.