Appliance repair in Tampa Bay, all of it on one page
Perfect Appliance Repair Tampa is a local Tampa company, owner-operated, licensed, insured and EPA-certified — and Tampa Bay appliance repair is what we do all day, kitchen appliances and laundry alike. The technician who repairs refrigerators is the same one who fixes your dryer, so the truck that handles a Whirlpool washing machine in Zephyrhills handles a Sub-Zero column in Hyde Park, and one visit can cover two machines on a single diagnostic. The failures repeat, whatever the badge: heating elements, drain pumps, control boards, door seals — parts, not mysteries.
Below: what we repair in every home appliance family, the commercial refrigeration side, the brands we service, and the actual streets and ZIP codes we drive every week across the greater Tampa Bay area. If you would rather diagnose the issue yourself first, our troubleshooting guides are written from real service calls — and our recent repairs page shows the work, photographed.
Every major appliance: refrigerator, washer, dryer, dishwasher, oven & stove
Seven repair families, one truck, one diagnostic. Pick the type of appliance that is giving you trouble and you get the honest version — what usually fails, what it costs to ignore, and where to read more. Each family has its own full page, and our appliance repair technicians handle all of them on the same visit.
Refrigerator & freezer
Not cooling · ice maker · leaks · built-ins
The call that cannot wait, and the one we schedule first. A cold freezer with a warm fresh-food side is airflow or defrost, not the compressor everyone fears; dirty condenser coils are the failure we find most often when a good refrigerator slowly gives up, and worn door seals let Florida humidity undo the rest. We handle everything from the garage freezer to Sub-Zero and premium built-ins, with dedicated pages for not cooling, ice makers, freezers, LG compressors and same-day emergencies.
Washer
Will not drain · will not spin · leaking · error codes
A washing machine that stops mid-cycle usually fails on a cheap part: a drain pump jammed by a coin, a faulty lid switch, a worn belt, a door gasket that no longer seals. Tampa's hard water speeds all of it up — scale builds on pump impellers and inlet-valve screens faster than the manufacturer planned for. Front-load, top-load, stacked pairs and all-in-one units; we carry pumps, switches and gaskets for Whirlpool, LG, Samsung, GE and Maytag on the truck.
Dryer
No heat · takes two cycles · loud thump · burning smell
Gas and electric dryers fail differently: electric loses a heating element or a thermal fuse, gas loses an igniter — all same-visit repairs. But a fuse that blew once will blow again if nobody looks at the vent, so a vent inspection rides along with every dryer call we run. A load that takes two cycles is almost never the machine alone — it is the machine telling you the airflow is gone. The loud thump is usually a worn drum roller or belt, and the burning smell is the reason not to put that call off.
Dishwasher
Not draining · not cleaning · leaking · error codes
Water at the bottom is nearly always a clogged filter, a clogged drain hose or a food-jammed pump — cheap to fix and easy to misdiagnose as a dead motor. Cloudy glasses and a top rack that stays dirty are scale narrowing the spray-arm holes: hard water again. A leaking dishwasher earns a same-day look before it earns a floor repair. Bosch, Miele, KitchenAid and every Whirlpool-family badge.
Range, oven, stove & cooktop
Will not heat · burner will not light · uneven baking
Gas and electric, slide-in and wall oven, radiant and induction cooktops. Stove repair is mostly igniters, spark modules, bake elements, thermostat issues and control boards — parts, not mysteries. Uneven baking is usually a failed convection fan or a drifted sensor, not "an old oven." And on the professional ranges in Wolf, Viking and Thermador kitchens, repair nearly always beats replacing a built-in that the cabinetry was cut around.
Microwave
No heat · sparking · door latch · over-the-range
We repair over-the-range and built-in microwaves — door switches, magnetrons, control boards — because replacing one means matching a cabinet cutout and a ventilation path that were sized when the kitchen was built. A countertop unit is the one appliance we will usually tell you not to pay to fix: the visit costs more than the machine is worth, and we would rather say that on the phone than at your kitchen counter.
Wine coolers & ice makers
Warm zone · slush cubes · under-counter units
Tampa Bay keeps a lot of wine at temperature, and both machines fail quietly. Dual-zone wine coolers drift one zone at a time; under-counter beverage centers choke on airflow inside tight cabinetry; ice makers freeze their own fill tubes solid and hand you slush. Most of these units are integrated, which makes repair the cheap option. See wine cooler repair and ice maker repair.
The work, photographed on real jobs
Our own photos from Tampa Bay service calls — no stock imagery. This is what a repair actually looks like from the first panel off to the final meter reading; there are dozens more on the recent repairs page.
The old washer control board out, the new one still in its box beside it. We test before we replace — boards are expensive and often innocent.
A range pulled and opened from the back — where the elements, thermostats and boards actually live. The floor is protected before the machine moves an inch.
How every visit ends: meter on the unit, real temperatures read, cycling watched. A repair is finished when the numbers are right, not when the part is in.
Commercial refrigeration and restaurant equipment
Cafés, restaurants, bars, convenience stores and offices across Tampa Bay run on cold storage, and when it warms up the product pays first. The commercial visit is $129, applied to the repair, with the same no-fix-no-pay promise as the residential side. Service and repair for businesses comes with the documentation an insurance claim or a landlord asks for: written findings, itemized estimates, photos on the invoice.
Walk-ins, glass-door merchandisers, prep tables, under-counter refrigeration, bar equipment and ice machines — start at the commercial refrigeration hub.
A reach-in on a working line does not get to take a day off. Commercial calls are scheduled around your prep hours whenever the day allows, and the truck carries gaskets, thermostats and controls for the common platforms.
Major brands, premium and everyday
We are an independent local company, not a factory service center — we say that plainly, because it is why one visit can cover a Whirlpool washer and a Sub-Zero column. Every brand below links to its own page with the failure patterns we actually see in Tampa Bay kitchens.
Premium & built-in
Sealed-system work done by EPA-certified technicians, cabinetry-integrated units, OEM parts — and a 12-month parts and labor warranty on premium built-in refrigeration: Sub-Zero, Wolf, Viking, Thermador, GE Monogram, Miele and Bertazzoni.
Everyday workhorses
The brands in most Tampa Bay homes, repaired with common parts stocked on the truck — and a 90-day labor warranty on every standard repair.
The full list, including the badges that hide other manufacturers underneath, is on the brands we repair page.
Streets and ZIP codes we drive every week across Tampa Bay
Not a marketing radius — the actual corridors on the route sheet, from the shop in Zephyrhills across Pasco and Hillsborough and over the bridges into Pinellas. Pick your area; the same pricing applies in every one of them.
South Tampa — 33606 · 33609 · 33611 · 33616 · 33629
Bayshore Blvd · S Howard Ave · W Bay to Bay Blvd · S MacDill Ave · W Gandy Blvd · S Dale Mabry Hwy · S West Shore Blvd · W Kennedy Blvd
The Interbay Peninsula from Kennedy Boulevard down to MacDill — Hyde Park, SoHo, Davis Islands, Palma Ceia, Ballast Point, Port Tampa. The densest premium built-in territory we cover, and the salt air along the bay is a real factor in what fails there.
Tampa — 33602 · 33603 · 33604 · 33607 · 33610 · 33612 · 33613 · 33614 · 33617 · 33618 · 33647
N Dale Mabry Hwy · N Florida Ave · N Nebraska Ave · E Hillsborough Ave · E Fowler Ave · E Busch Blvd · Bruce B Downs Blvd · N 56th St
The city grid from downtown up through Seminole Heights, the Busch Blvd and Fowler Ave corridors and the USF belt to New Tampa. Rental workhorses near the university, family kitchens in Carrollwood and Temple Terrace, and everything on the Dale Mabry spine.
Wesley Chapel — 33543 · 33544 · 33545
Bruce B Downs Blvd · SR 54 · SR 56 · Wiregrass Ranch Blvd · Meadow Pointe Blvd · Mansfield Blvd · Chancey Rd · Overpass Rd
New-construction country. Builder-grade appliance packages in Meadow Pointe, Wiregrass Ranch and the Overpass Rd corridor come off warranty on the same schedule they were installed on, and the calls arrive in waves.
Zephyrhills — 33540 · 33541 · 33542
Gall Blvd (US 301) · Eiland Blvd · SR 54 · 5th Ave · Chancey Rd · Dean Dairy Rd · Morris Bridge Rd · Wire Rd
Home base — the shop sits on Barakat Rd, so Zephyrhills calls are often the fastest on the board. A lot of garage refrigerators and hard-working laundry pairs out here, and we know both well.
Dade City — 33523 · 33525
Meridian Ave (SR 52) · US 301 · 7th St · Clinton Ave · Morningside Dr · Old Lakeland Hwy · Fort King Rd · 21st St
Historic houses with appliances that have earned their keep. The shop is just down US 301 in Zephyrhills, so Dade City is home territory for us — same price as everywhere else, no zone fees, no trip charges.
MORE CITIES WE COVER
How an appliance repair service call goes
Call, text or book online. You reach the person who does the work, and a clear description of the appliance issue often gets the diagnosis started over the phone.
A two-hour arrival window, a text when we are 15 minutes out, and a truck stocked with the common parts for the major brands.
The $69 diagnostic — $129 for commercial equipment — with a written estimate before anything is opened, and the fee applied in full to the repair you approve.
The repair, verified: temperatures, cycles and airflow checked before we leave, the warranty in writing, and 30 days of free text support after.
What appliance repair costs in Tampa — and the warranty behind it
Repair or replace? The honest arithmetic
The rule of thumb the industry uses is the 50% rule: if the repair costs more than half of a comparable new unit and the appliance is past half its expected life, replacement usually wins. It is a decent starting point and a terrible law. A ten-year-old washing machine with a worn drain pump is worth fixing. A builder-grade refrigerator with a failed sealed system usually is not. A premium built-in flips the math entirely, because replacing it means opening cabinetry that was cut around it — which is why a repair on a Sub-Zero that would total a Frigidaire is still the right call.
What you get from us is the real version of that arithmetic, on site, in writing: what failed, what the repair costs with parts and labor itemized, what a comparable new unit runs, and which way we would go if it were our kitchen. Decline the repair and you pay only the diagnostic. If the unit cannot reasonably be repaired at all, you pay nothing — and you still leave knowing what to buy, because we see which brands come back on the truck and which do not.
Tampa appliance repair questions, answered honestly
How much does appliance repair cost in Tampa?
The visit is $69 for a residential appliance and $129 for commercial equipment, and that amount comes off the repair when you approve it. The repair itself is quoted in writing on site, after the diagnostic, with parts listed separately from labor. Appliance repair companies that quote the average cost of appliance repair over the phone are guessing — the same symptom can be a small part or a sealed-system job, and nobody knows which until the machine is open.
Do appliance repair technicians charge per hour?
Many do; we do not. You get one written number for the whole job — parts and labor itemized — before the work starts. An hourly rate rewards slow work, and a flat written quote rewards doing the repair right the first time, which is the arrangement we prefer to be held to.
Is it worth getting an appliance repaired, or should I replace it?
Usually repaired — most failures are one worn part in a machine with years left in it. But not always, and we say so on site: if the arithmetic favors replacement, you pay only the diagnostic and you get told what to buy and what to avoid, because we see which brands come back on the truck.
What is the 50% rule for appliance repair?
A common rule of thumb: if a repair costs more than half the price of a comparable new unit AND the appliance is past half its expected lifespan, replacement usually wins. It is a starting point, not a law — a premium built-in fails the math in the other direction, because replacing it means cabinetry work on top of the appliance. We run this arithmetic with you on site, with the real numbers in writing.
What types of appliances do you fix?
Refrigerators and freezers, washing machines, gas and electric dryers, dishwashers, ranges, ovens, stoves and cooktops, over-the-range and built-in microwaves, wine coolers, ice makers — plus commercial refrigeration: walk-ins, glass-door merchandisers, prep tables, under-counter units and ice machines.
What brands of appliances can be repaired?
All the major brands: Whirlpool, GE, LG, Samsung, KitchenAid, Maytag, Bosch, Frigidaire, Electrolux, Amana and Kenmore on the everyday side; Sub-Zero, Wolf, Viking, Thermador, Miele, Bertazzoni and Jenn-Air on the premium side. We are independent, which is exactly why one truck can see a Whirlpool washer and a Sub-Zero column in the same afternoon.
Do you offer same-day or emergency appliance repair in Tampa?
Call before 2 PM and it is same-day service in Tampa Bay for most of our coverage area, with urgent refrigeration prioritized — warm food has a clock on it. After 2 PM you get a next-day appointment plus your choice of bonus: $30 off the repair or a free refrigerator-rated surge protector installed with it.
What warranty comes with a repair?
90 days on labor for a standard repair — that covers the great majority of what we do. 12 months on parts and labor applies only to premium built-in refrigeration: Sub-Zero, Wolf, Viking, Thermador, GE Monogram, Miele and Bertazzoni. Parts also carry their own manufacturer warranty on top. The exact terms are on our warranty page, in writing.
What areas do you cover in Tampa Bay?
Tampa and South Tampa, Carrollwood, Temple Terrace and New Tampa; Wesley Chapel, Lutz, Land O' Lakes, Zephyrhills and Dade City in Pasco; Brandon, Riverview and the east side of Hillsborough; and across the bay into Pinellas — Clearwater, Largo, St. Petersburg. Same price everywhere. No zone fees.
Do you work with landlords and property managers?
Yes — photo documentation on every invoice, written diagnostics, direct tenant coordination and master-account billing for portfolios. A tenant with a dead refrigerator is an emergency for three people at once; we treat it that way.
Do you repair gas appliances?
Yes — gas ranges, cooktops and gas dryers: igniters, spark modules, gas valves and safety checks. If we ever find a condition that is not safe to run, you hear it before anything else, in plain words.
Is there anything you do not repair?
Countertop microwaves, toasters and other small plug-in appliances — a service visit costs more than they are worth, and we tell you that on the phone instead of charging you to hear it in person. We also do not do HVAC or plumbing beyond the appliance connections themselves.
We're in this business to help our neighbors
That's the whole plan. A careful, correct diagnosis. A repair done right the first time. No sales pitch, no hourly meter running, and no different price because of your address — Hyde Park pays exactly what Dade City pays. Everything in writing, from the estimate to the warranty. Your appliances are in good hands.
— we'll confirm within the hour.