Fisher & Paykel repair in Miami, named for the work rather than the appliance.

Diagnostic visit

We read what the appliance is reporting, then measure before saying anything about the repair. On this equipment that also means working out how the machine leaves its opening before anybody touches it. The fee is credited toward the work when you go ahead.

• The code or the light pattern read on site, before anything is cleared
• Measured rather than guessed
• Credited toward the repair

DishDrawer lid & seal repair

The repair that exists only on this maker. A DishDrawer has no door and no door gasket: a lid motor drives a seal down onto the top of the drawer and holds it there for the whole cycle. When that mechanism stops sealing you get water on the floor, a drawer that will not start, or a drawer that will not open at the end.

• Lid motor and lid seal checked as one mechanism
• Which drawer, on a double — they fail independently
• The drawer runs a full cycle under watch before we leave

Dishwasher drain & filter repair

Water standing in the tub at the end of a cycle, or a machine that stops part-way and beeps. On this maker the code for it is published — A3 on a drawer, A20 or E3 on a drop-door — and the maker's own first instruction is the filter, not the pump.

• Filter, filter plate and drain path checked before anything is opened
• The drain hose run and its connection at the sink
• Drain pump tested under load rather than by continuity

Dishwasher leak repair

Water on the floor with an interior that looks fine. On a DishDrawer that pattern is normal for a leak, because the seal is at the top of the drawer and what escapes it runs down the outside. On a drop-door machine F30 means the flood switch has already fired, and that one is not a wait-and-see.

• Traced to the source, not mopped and guessed at
• Lid seal, drawer seal and the connections behind, in that order
• Flood detection understood before the board is blamed

Dishwasher wash performance repair

Dishes coming out dirty, detergent still sitting in the dispenser, white film on glass, or a load that will not dry. These are the four things owners of this equipment write to the maker about most, and a good share of them are not repairs at all — which is exactly why the visit starts with what does not cost anything.

• The maker's own four causes for a full dispenser, checked first
• Spray arm, filter plate and water temperature measured
• What is a repair separated from what is a habit, plainly

Dishwasher control & motor repair

The end of the list rather than the beginning: a wash controller, a motor controller, a rotor or a communication error between two drawers. On this maker these are the conditions that report as an F — a flashing pattern on a drawer, an F30 to F90 on a drop-door — and the maker says outright that most of them need somebody.

• F conditions read properly before a board is quoted
• Rotor and lid motor checked before either controller
• On a double, which controller — they are separate

Refrigerator cooling & defrost repair

A fresh-food side drifting warm while the freezer stays cold, food softening in a freezer that still makes ice, or frost building on a back wall. Airflow and defrost long before refrigerant — and on an integrated column, most of the appointment is reaching the part rather than replacing it.

• Airflow, damper and defrost circuit before anything is opened
• Condenser read for salt and dust, which is a local cause
• Integrated access planned at the diagnostic, not discovered later

Refrigerator sealed system repair

The compressor, the evaporator, the condenser and the tubing between them. The highest figure on this site, quoted last and only after everything cheaper has been ruled out — and on a cabinet worth less than the repair, we say so instead of quoting.

• Quoted only after airflow, defrost and controls are excluded
• EPA-certified refrigerant handling
• An honest view on whether the cabinet is worth it

Ice maker repair

No ice, slow ice, cubes the wrong size, or ice that tastes of the refrigerator. Four complaints, four different repairs, and the first two things to check are the filter and the water pressure reaching the machine rather than the ice maker itself.

• Filter age and water pressure before the ice maker
• Fill valve and module tested separately
• Taste and odor traced to the supply, not deodorized

Refrigerator door, seal & panel repair

A door that will not close, one that has started to sit crooked, or a seal that has stopped sealing. On this maker a large share of these are the cabinet panel and its hardware rather than the appliance — which is a much smaller job than the one people brace for, and it is why this row is priced where it is.

• Panel hardware checked before the appliance is blamed
• Seals read for hardening, set and debris
• Alignment on a door your cabinetmaker built

Refrigerator control & sensor repair

A cabinet that reports an error, holds the wrong temperature while insisting it is right, or will not respond to its controls at all. On this maker the reporting is beeps and flashing LEDs rather than a number on a screen, and reading it correctly is a real part of the job.

• The beep count or LED pattern read before anything is cleared
• Sensors measured against temperature, not swapped on suspicion
• Board quoted last, and only when the sensor side is proved good

Wine cabinet & beverage center repair

A zone sitting two or three degrees off and staying there, a cabinet that runs constantly without arriving, or a heavy glass door that no longer seals. For wine, two degrees is a symptom rather than a rounding error, and this page treats it that way.

• Which zone, on a dual-zone cabinet — it separates two diagnoses
• Condenser airflow in an island or a bar run
• Glass door hardware before the door itself

Oven heating & sensor repair

A display that is on while nothing heats, an oven that runs hot or cold while looking perfectly healthy, or baking that has gone uneven. Element, temperature sensor, relay and — on a machine that has recently run a clean cycle — a thermal cut-out that did its job and has not reset.

• Element and sensor measured, not swapped on suspicion
• The thermal cut-out checked on any oven that has self-cleaned
• Convection fan looked at whenever "uneven" is the word

Oven door & self-clean lock repair

A door locked after a clean cycle and staying locked, a door that will not lock so the cycle will not start, hinges that have carried a heavy door for years, or cracked door glass. On this maker the first two have their own codes — A2 and A3 — and they mean opposite things.

• A2 and A3 told apart before anything is dismantled
• The interlock given time before it is called broken
• Hinges and glass as separate jobs from the latch

Steam oven repair

Thirty-eight of the hundred and ten ovens this maker lists here cook with steam, and a steam oven is a plumbed appliance rather than a hot box: a water tank or a supply, a boiler, a pump, a level sensor and a drain. It has its own failures, its own maintenance, and in South Florida its own standing enemy, which is scale.

• Fill side and drain side diagnosed separately
• Descale history asked about before parts are discussed
• Excessive moisture treated as a real symptom, not a quirk

Speed & convection microwave oven repair

Twenty-eight of this maker's ovens are compact convection-speed machines — an oven with a microwave system inside it — plus a pair of over-the-range combinations. When one of these fails to heat, the first question is which of its two heating systems, because they are separate and only one of them is safe to work on.

• Convection side and microwave side diagnosed separately
• A5 read as the microwave system overheating, not the oven
• High-voltage components named as not an owner repair, at any price

Oven control & display repair

A display that will not light, controls that do not respond, a clock that will not hold, or an F number the maker prints without an explanation. This is where the oven F codes live, and this page says exactly what is knowable about them and no more.

• F numbers placed in the family the maker publishes, and no further
• Power-event recovery tried before a board is quoted
• Display, control and touch panel as separate parts

Range burner & ignition repair

A burner that clicks and will not light, lights and drops out, or holds on high and dies at simmer. Three complaints, three different answers — and on this maker the low-setting one is the article its own owners link most, which tells you where these machines actually fail.

• Spark, gas and flame sensing told apart before anything is ordered
• Caps and ports checked first — the commonest cause by a distance
• Thermocouples tested at a low flame, where they actually fail

Induction cooktop repair

Seventeen induction cooktops and seven induction ranges, and one complaint above all others: a zone that cuts out under load while the rest carry on. That is usually heat and installation rather than the coil — which is why this visit starts by looking under the counter.

• Cabinet ventilation checked before a board is quoted
• The same zone tested with a different pan
• Er and E codes placed in the family the maker publishes

Cooktop control & dial repair

Dials that have become hard to turn, touch controls that stop responding, or a cooktop that will not switch on at all. The first of those is the maker's own most-linked cooktop article by a distance, and it is a maintenance repair rather than a breakdown — which is why this row is priced where it is.

• Stiff dials treated as valve-stem service, not a replacement
• Touch controls: wet hands, lock and sleep mode ruled out first
• A cooktop that will not start checked at the supply before the board

Cooktop glass replacement

A cracked or shattered induction or radiant surface. This one is a replacement rather than a repair and the page says so plainly, along with the part people least want to hear: stop using it and switch it off at the wall until it is done.

• A safety matter, not a cosmetic one
• Part availability confirmed before anything is committed
• The frame, seal and cabinet cutout checked with it

Washer drain & pump repair

A machine that fills and washes and then sits full of water. Ordinary laundry work on machines this maker no longer sells in the United States — which changes nothing about the diagnosis and quite a lot about the parts conversation, so we have that one first.

• Pump, filter and drain hose in that order
• Parts availability confirmed before anything is ordered
• The honest answer when a machine is not worth the repair

Washer spin, balance & lock repair

A load that will not spin out, a cabinet that walks across the laundry floor, or a lid that stays locked on a finished cycle. Three complaints that usually turn out to be two parts — the suspension and the lock — on machines that have been doing full loads for a decade or more.

• Balance treated as suspension, not as a user error
• Lid and door locks, which look far worse than they are
• Leveling and the floor checked before anything is replaced

Dryer heating repair

A drum that turns with no heat in it, or heat that cuts out part-way through a cycle. What is behind it depends entirely on which kind of dryer you have — vented, condenser or heat pump — because only one of the three has a heating element in the ordinary sense.

• Which kind of dryer, established before anything else
• Airflow checked before the element is condemned
• Heat pump circuits diagnosed rather than quoted blind

Dryer airflow & moisture sensing repair

Long cycles, clothes still damp when the machine says it has finished, or a dryer that has quietly got slower over a couple of years. Two causes behind almost all of it — the air cannot get out, or the machine cannot tell whether the load is dry — and a real share of both is outside the appliance.

• The whole duct run, not just the filter
• Sensor bars cleaned and tested rather than replaced on sight
• The lowest figure on this site, because most of it is not a part

Appliance maintenance visit

The things this maker's own guides ask an owner to do, done properly and all at once: condensers, filters, seals, descaling, spray arms, ducts. Priced per visit rather than per appliance, which is what makes it worth doing on a kitchen where most of the machines come from one maker.

• Condenser and seals, which are the local weak points
• Steam ovens descaled, which nothing else here does
• One visit, several appliances, one travel charge

Appliance installation & re-fit

Putting a built-in machine back into the opening it came out of, aligning a cabinet panel so the kitchen looks right again, and connecting water where there is water. Not a delivery service — this is the re-install after a repair, a kitchen change, or a machine that was never fitted the way its own instructions asked.

• Fitted to the maker's own instructions, and we tell you what they said
• Cabinet panel alignment as a job in its own right
• Ventilation and clearance checked, because it causes later repairs

Cooktops and rangetops

Forty-six machines and four different technologies under one word: seventeen induction cooktops, thirteen sealed gas, eleven professional rangetops, three electric and two teppanyaki plates. A rangetop is the top half of a professional range with nothing underneath it — the same grates, the same burners, the same repair — which is why it is on this page rather than a page of its own.

Dishwashers and DishDrawers

Fifty-one machines, and forty of them are drawers. The DishDrawer is this maker's own invention and nothing else in a South Florida kitchen works the way it does: a lid that seals under motor pressure instead of a door, a wash system per drawer, and on a double, two machines that can run — and misbehave — independently of each other.

Dryers

The same situation as the washers: Fisher & Paykel lists no dryer for the United States today, and the ones in South Florida laundry rooms are still working and still repairable. What is worth knowing before you call is which kind you have — vented, condenser or heat pump — because the three fail in completely different places, and only one of them is about a duct.

Freezers

Eight machines, and every one of them is an Integrated column meant to stand beside a refrigerator column behind matching cabinet fronts. Seven of the eight carry an ice maker, and one is a triple-zone machine with three independently controlled compartments. That is the whole row, and this card would rather say so than pad it.

Ranges

Forty-one freestanding ranges, and the split tells you what this maker is: sixteen dual fuel, fifteen gas, seven induction and one electric. Twenty-seven of them are Professional — heavy grates, dual-flow burners, four to eight of them, and on the larger machines a griddle let into the top. On a 48-inch range, "the oven is not heating" means one of two ovens, and which one narrows the part before anybody drives anywhere.

Refrigerators

Fifty-one machines in the current line, and twenty-four of them are Integrated — built into the cabinetry behind your own door panels rather than standing in an opening. Columns that pair a refrigerator with a freezer beside it, French door and quad door machines that stand on the floor, and the CoolDrawer, a drawer that can be run as anything from a freezer to a chiller.

Wall ovens

The largest row on this site: a hundred and ten wall ovens, and a third of them cook with steam. Forty-five are self-cleaning ovens, thirty-eight are combi-steam machines, twenty-eight are compact convection-speed ovens with a microwave system inside them, and six are doubles. A steam oven is a plumbed appliance with a boiler in it, and it does not fail the way an oven fails.

Washing machines

Read this first: Fisher & Paykel no longer lists a washing machine for the United States. Its US support site has a laundry section with nothing in it, and the Products menu has no fabric care in it at all. The machines are still here — South Florida laundry rooms are full of them — and the maker still sells laundry parts and stacking kits. We repair the ones that are here, and we would rather tell you where the line falls than let you find out at the parts stage.

Wine cabinets and beverage centers

Five machines: integrated wine cabinets, a full-height column wine cabinet, and two beverage centers. They are on one page because they are one repair — the same compressor, the same door seal, the same sensors and the same electronics, in a cabinet that happens to be holding bottles rather than cans.