Freezer and Refrigerator Repair in Edgewood

In Edgewood, freezer and refrigerator repair calls often come from outside the kitchen. This small Pierce County city sits on the plateau between Puyallup, Milton and Federal Way, and much of it is semi-rural, with larger lots, outbuildings and homes set back from the road. That means more chest freezers, shop fridges and garage units than in a typical suburb.

Freezers and second refrigerators

On larger properties, the kitchen refrigerator is often only one of several appliances keeping food cold. Edgewood homes frequently have a chest freezer in the garage, an upright in a shop, or an older refrigerator kept for overflow and drinks.

Those units live harder lives than the one in the kitchen. Garages and shops swing between cold winter nights and warm summer afternoons, collect dust and sawdust on condenser coils, and sometimes share a circuit with power tools. The result is a familiar list of problems:

• Frost building up because a lid or door gasket has torn or hardened
• Long run times from a dirty condenser
• A freezer that stops cooling after the circuit trips and nobody notices for a day

If your freezer is running but not cold, read our guide to a freezer that isn’t freezing before calling. Some causes are simple to check yourself. For anything beyond that, our freezer repair page explains how we diagnose it.

Outages and generators

Semi-rural streets with overhead lines lose power in winter storms like anywhere else in the county, and a freezer full of food is usually the first thing people worry about. A few points that save trouble:

• A full, closed freezer stays cold far longer than a half-empty one. Don’t open it to check.
• If you run a refrigerator or freezer from a portable generator, keep the generator outdoors and use a heavy-duty cord rated for the load.
• When power returns, give the unit several hours to recover before deciding something is broken.

A freezer that hums but never gets back below freezing, or one that won’t start at all after an outage, is worth a call. Tell us how long the power was out and whether the unit was on a generator.

Kitchen refrigerators on larger lots

Edgewood’s housing ranges from older homes on acreage to newer subdivisions off Meridian. The kitchen units follow suit: plenty of ice-and-water refrigerators in both side-by-side and French-door styles, and in some custom homes a built-in. Our refrigerator repair page covers the most common faults.

Getting to your property

Some Edgewood homes sit at the end of long or gravel driveways. Let us know if a work van can turn around, if there’s a gate, and which building the appliance is in. A note about dogs on the property helps too.

Other cities near the plateau

Down off the plateau, we also serve Fife, Auburn and Federal Way.