Viking · Los Angeles, CA
Refrigerator Repair
Built-in and panel-ready Viking refrigeration: warm compartments, frost build-up, loud fans and doors that have stopped sealing.
- Call-out$89, then credited
- Hours we work8:00 am – 8:00 pm, seven days
- Who picks up24/7
- EquipmentViking only
01Said on the phone
How this one usually arrives
- Fridge section sits in the fifties while the freezer stays fine
- Frost sheeting across the back wall of the freezer
- Unit runs without pause and the kitchen feels warm beside it
- Ice maker fills with water but never drops a batch
02On the visit
What gets checked before anything is quoted
A warm fridge with a cold freezer is nearly always air, not gas: an evaporator fan iced in, a blocked drain, a defrost heater that gave up. A unit that never stops running in a Valley summer is usually a condenser matted with dust or a seized condenser fan. Sealed-system work is a real possibility but it is the last thing to conclude, not the first.
- 01 Compartment temperatures against the display, both sides
- 02 Evaporator for ice sheeting, the drain at its base, and the defrost heater
- 03 Evaporator and condenser fans running, and what they sound like
- 04 Condenser coil condition — Woodland Hills dust is a genuine failure cause
- 05 Door gasket bite and door alignment, top hinge included
03 What it costs
Priced as a range, before anything comes apart
Parts and labour on Viking equipment, band by band. Two things decide where inside a band you land: which part turned out to be at fault, and how much joinery has to come off before anyone can reach it.
The visit One flat $89 gets a technician to the kitchen and the fault found. Approve the repair and that $89 comes straight off it.
- Refrigeration fan or defrost system
- $290–$660
- Control board or touch panel
- $420–$700
- Compressor or sealed-system repair
- $1,420–$3,060
The band comes first, over the phone. The firm figure comes second, in your kitchen, once the fault has actually been found. Between those two moments nothing is taken apart and no part is ordered, and once you say yes the $89 already paid for the visit is deducted in full.
Worth knowing Buying your way out of the problem instead means $7,360–$15,710 for a comparable Viking replacement, before installation — so on a cabinet that is otherwise sound, almost anything in the table above is the cheaper side of the arithmetic. When it genuinely is not, you are told so in the kitchen and not on the invoice.
Reviews
What Los Angeles kitchens said afterwards
5.0/ 51,735 reviews
Ice maker quit and the bin smelled of stale water. He found the fill valve barely opening and the line kinked behind the cabinet. Ice again by evening. Took two visits to get there.
Yamila C.Venice
Ours quit during that 108-degree week and the garage unit was already full. The condenser fan had seized under a mat of dust. Running cold again before dinner.
Rogelio A.Woodland Hills
Milk turned early although the freezer was fine. He found the evaporator fan jammed in ice and the drain plugged at its base. Cleared it, fitted a new motor, then waited out a defrost.
Mitra K.Westwood
24/7 · Los Angeles, CA
Tell us what the oven is doing. We will tell you what that usually is.
$89 pays for the visit and the fault-finding, then comes off the repair. On site 8:00 am – 8:00 pm, seven days.