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What your Fisher & Paykel is doing, and what it usually turns out to be.

Most of this equipment tells you something is wrong without giving you a number to look up. Find what yours is doing below. Each page starts with what is worth ten minutes of your own time, then what it usually is, then what the repair costs — in that order, because a good share of these never need a visit.

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  • 28 symptoms with a page of their own
  • 150 articles the maker wrote about these machines
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By symptom

Find what yours is doing

Named the way people describe them rather than the way a parts catalog would. If two of these sound like your machine, start with the one that mentions the noise, the light or the water — those narrow fastest.

  • Looking straight down into the bottom of an open dish drawer tub half full of dirty gray water that covers the flat filter plate completely, food debris floating on the surface, the wire basket lifted out and standing on the counter behind.
    Water standing in the drawer

    DishDrawer will not drain

    A drawer that finishes — or stops and beeps — with water still in it. The maker publishes a code for this and publishes the causes with it, and both of them are things you can look at yourself before anybody is called.

    • Water above the filter at the end of a cycle
    • The drawer beeps and the modifier lights flash
    • It drains if you run it again
    What it usually means
  • An open detergent dispenser cup in a dishwasher door with a caked block of powder still sitting in it after a cycle, the door held horizontal, close focus.
    The tablet did not go in

    Detergent still in the dispenser after a cycle

    The most-linked article this maker publishes about its dishwashers — it appears on thirty-three of its models — and three of its four causes cost nothing to fix. Worth ten minutes before it is worth a visit.

    • A tablet or powder still sitting in the cup
    • Dishes washed but not properly clean
    • It happens on some loads and not others
    What it usually means
  • A wide puddle of water spread across pale timber flooring at the base of a kitchen cabinet run below a stainless drawer front, the water clearly catching the light and reflecting the cabinets, one corner of a folded towel already dark with it.
    Water on the floor, drawer looks dry

    DishDrawer is leaking water

    Water appearing at the front of the machine while the inside looks perfectly normal. On a drawer that is the expected shape of a leak, because the seal is at the top and whatever escapes it runs down the outside.

    • A puddle at the front or under the cabinet
    • The drawer interior looks completely normal
    • The machine has stopped and will not restart
    What it usually means
  • A close raking view along the top edge of a dish drawer front where a row of small round indicator lamps sits, two of them lit and no digits or text anywhere.
    The pattern is the code

    DishDrawer flashing and beeping with no number

    These machines have no numeric display, so they report by flashing. Which lights are flashing is the diagnosis, and it is the one piece of evidence that vanishes the moment somebody switches the machine off.

    • Continuous beeping and flashing indicators
    • No number anywhere on the panel
    • Different patterns on the two drawers of a double
    What it usually means
  • An open dishwasher basket of plates with dried food still stuck to them, one plate lifted slightly to show the soiled face, flat kitchen daylight.
    It runs, they are not clean

    Dishes coming out dirty

    A cycle that completes normally and leaves food on the plates. Almost always water — how much arrives, how hot it is, and whether the spray arm can move it around — rather than anything electronic.

    • Food left on plates after a full cycle
    • The top rack cleans and the bottom does not, or the reverse
    • It got gradually worse rather than failing suddenly
    What it usually means
  • A fingertip resting on a blank brushed control fascia at the top edge of a dish drawer front, nothing lit, no characters anywhere, shallow focus.
    Panel lit, nothing happens

    DishDrawer will not start

    A drawer that lights up and refuses to run, or one that does not light at all. Four free causes before any part, and one of them — the machine having shut itself down on purpose — is the one people never guess.

    • The panel responds but the cycle never begins
    • It stopped mid-cycle earlier and has not run since
    • The controls do not respond at all
    What it usually means
  • A hand pulling firmly on the long bar handle of a stainless dish drawer that has not moved, the drawer front flush with the pale cabinet run either side.
    Shut at the end of a cycle

    DishDrawer will not open

    A drawer that stays closed after a cycle has finished. This is the one symptom on this site where the wrong ten seconds turns a small repair into a large one, so the first instruction is: do not pull on it.

    • The cycle has ended and the drawer will not slide out
    • It opens sometimes and not others
    • There was a beep or a flashing pattern first
    What it usually means
  • Looking down into an open dishwasher basket at upturned glasses and plates still beaded with water at the end of a cycle, steam gone, kitchen daylight from above.
    Everything is wet

    Dishes not dry at the end of the cycle

    Drying on these machines is done with residual heat and a fan rather than a big element, which makes it more sensitive to rinse aid, to loading and to the program than a conventional dishwasher is. Some of what people report here is the machine working as designed.

    • Plastics still wet, everything else dry
    • Water pooled in cup bases
    • It used to dry and now it does not
    What it usually means
  • The inside of a refrigerator with beads of water on the glass shelves and the back wall, milk and vegetables on the shelves, the door held open, cool interior light.
    Fresh food side going warm

    Refrigerator not cooling

    The fresh-food compartment drifting up while the freezer stays cold. That combination is good news more often than not, because a working freezer proves the sealed system is doing its job and puts the problem somewhere ordinary.

    • Freezer cold, refrigerator warm
    • The machine runs constantly and never arrives
    • It got worse over days rather than overnight
    What it usually means
  • A flat palm resting against the tall side panel of a built-in refrigerator column in a pale kitchen, the cabinet run beside it, warm afternoon light.
    Usually not a problem

    The outside of the refrigerator feels warm

    The most-linked refrigeration article this maker publishes — it appears on forty-nine of its models — and the answer is usually that the machine is working correctly. Which is worth saying plainly before anybody spends anything.

    • Warm panels around the door frame
    • A warm strip down the middle of a column pair
    • It is worse in summer
    What it usually means
  • A freezer bag of vegetables being squeezed between finger and thumb so it plainly gives, held over an open freezer drawer full of frosted packets.
    The freezer is losing it

    Frozen food going soft

    Ice cream that will not set, bags that have gone pliable, or a freezer that is holding a few degrees too warm without ever alarming. It rarely fails all at once — it drifts, which is why people notice it in the food before they notice it in the machine.

    • Ice cream soft, everything else looks frozen
    • Frost inside bags that were dry
    • The freezer has never alarmed
    What it usually means
  • An ice bin pulled out of a freezer drawer and held in two hands, empty except for a scatter of frost in the corners, the open freezer bright behind it.
    Empty bin, or slow, or small

    Ice maker not making ice

    Four complaints that arrive as one: nothing at all, too slowly, cubes too small, or ice that tastes wrong. The first two things to check are the filter and the water pressure reaching the machine, not the ice maker.

    • The bin is empty and stays empty
    • Cubes have got smaller or hollow
    • Production has slowed over weeks
    What it usually means
  • A refrigerator door standing a finger's width open, the interior light spilling out along the gap, food shelves just visible, the kitchen around it dim.
    Or sitting crooked

    Refrigerator door not closing properly

    A door that does not swing shut, one that has started to sit crooked, or a seal that no longer seals. 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.

    • The door needs a push to close
    • It sits proud at one corner
    • Condensation or frost around the frame
    What it usually means
  • A person leaning in with the side of their head near the flank of a tall stainless refrigerator, face turned away and out of frame, hand resting on the panel, bright kitchen behind.
    New sounds, not loud ones

    Refrigerator making an unfamiliar noise

    These machines are quiet, which means a new sound stands out — and the maker publishes articles on gasket noise, fan noise and ice maker noise because most of what gets reported is normal. What matters is whether the sound is new, not whether it is loud.

    • A creak or suck when the door opens
    • A fan that has become louder
    • Knocking or grinding during ice harvest
    What it usually means
  • Bottles lying in dark timber racking inside a glass-fronted wine cabinet, the interior lit cool and even, condensation faint on the inside of the glass door.
    A zone two degrees off

    Wine cabinet holding the wrong temperature

    For wine, two degrees is a symptom rather than a rounding error. A cabinet that sits steadily off, or one that runs continuously without arriving, is telling you about a sensor, a fan, a seal or the air around its condenser.

    • One zone off and the other correct
    • The cabinet runs constantly in summer
    • It was fine last winter
    What it usually means
  • A hand gripping a heavy stainless control dial on the front of a cooking appliance, knuckles tight as if turning something stiff, the fascia brushed and blank.
    Stiff, not broken

    Cooktop dials difficult to turn

    The complaint this maker's own cooktop owners raise more than any other — its article is linked from sixty-one models — and it is a maintenance repair rather than a breakdown. The one thing worth doing meanwhile is not forcing it.

    • One dial stiffer than the rest, or all of them
    • It got gradually harder over a year or two
    • A dial that has started to feel gritty
    What it usually means
  • A gas burner with its cap slightly off-seated and no flame, the igniter electrode clearly visible beside the ports, a hand reaching in to lift the cap.
    Sparking, no flame

    Burner clicks and will not light

    A burner that sparks and never catches. The good news is in the symptom itself: if it is sparking, the ignition side is alive, and the problem is gas reaching the burner or the burner itself — which is very often something you can put right in five minutes.

    • It clicks steadily and nothing lights
    • It started right after the cooktop was cleaned
    • One burner only, or all of them
    What it usually means
  • A gas burner turned right down, the crown of flame low, small and blue, several flame tips lifting away from the ports, photographed close in a darkened kitchen with a heavy pan support in the foreground.
    Holds high, dies at simmer

    Flame goes out on the low setting

    The most-linked freestanding cooker article this maker publishes. A burner that is perfect on high and will not stay lit turned down is telling you something specific, and it is not the gas supply.

    • Full flame is fine, simmer goes out
    • It relights and then dies again
    • It got worse over months
    What it usually means
  • A wall oven standing open with the racks in and the cavity plainly cold and clean, a raw dish of vegetables waiting on the counter beside it, flat daylight.
    Live panel, cold cavity

    Oven display is on but it does not heat

    One of the maker's most-linked oven articles, and a real spread of causes: an element, the temperature sensor, the relay that switches the element, or a thermal cut-out that did its job after a self-clean and has not reset.

    • The controls work and nothing gets hot
    • It worked until the last clean cycle
    • One cavity of a double works and the other does not
    What it usually means
  • The top edge of a closed stainless oven door with the internal latch bar visible in the gap, photographed close and slightly from above in cool kitchen light.
    A3, and patience

    Oven door locked after a self-clean cycle

    A door that will not release when the cycle has finished. The lock is driven by temperature rather than by a timer, so the first thing to try is time — and the one thing not to try is force.

    • The cycle has ended and the door stays shut
    • A3 showing on the display
    • The oven feels cool on the outside
    What it usually means
  • A close view of the narrow vent slot above a stainless wall oven door, brushed metal filling the frame, a hand held flat just below the slot feeling the air.
    Usually the design

    Oven fan keeps running after it is turned off

    A fan that carries on after the oven is off, sometimes for a long time. The maker publishes an article on it because it worries people, and on a built-in oven it is exactly what should happen — with two exceptions worth knowing.

    • The fan runs on after cooking
    • It runs for a very long time after a clean cycle
    • It has become louder than it was
    What it usually means
  • A baking tray of pale scones just out of the oven where the row at the back is clearly darker than the row at the front, set on a trivet on a white counter.
    Browning on one side

    Oven baking unevenly

    Cakes rising crooked, one tray browning while another stays pale, or an oven that is simply not what it was. Sensor and convection fan long before elements — and some of this is not a repair at all.

    • One side or one shelf browns faster
    • Everything takes longer than the recipe says
    • It crept up rather than failing suddenly
    What it usually means
  • The open cavity of a stainless steam oven, completely dry, the small water reservoir drawer pulled out and empty in the foreground, cool light from the kitchen behind.
    Or leaves water behind

    Steam oven will not steam

    A steam oven is a plumbed appliance with a boiler in it, and it has failures no other oven has. Two halves to this symptom, and which half you are in decides everything: it will not fill, or it will not empty.

    • No steam at all on a steam program
    • Water standing in the cavity afterwards
    • It has never been descaled
    What it usually means
  • A heavy steel pan being lifted a hand's width off a black induction surface, the ring beneath it dark, a hand on the pan handle, bright kitchen daylight.
    One zone, under load

    Induction zone cuts out during cooking

    A zone that drops out mid-cook while the others carry on, usually at high power and usually after a while. That pattern is almost always heat and installation rather than the coil, and there are three free checks before anybody quotes a board.

    • It happens at high power after several minutes
    • The same zone every time
    • The fan under the cooktop is running hard
    What it usually means
  • An unlit black glass cooktop set flush into a pale stone counter, photographed straight down, completely dark and reflecting the ceiling, not a single indicator lit anywhere on it, a folded cloth beside it on the stone.
    No response at all

    Cooktop will not turn on

    A cooktop with no lights and no response, or a touch panel that ignores everything. Four free causes before any part, and one of them — half a supply — is not an appliance problem at all.

    • Completely dead, no lights
    • The panel lights but nothing responds
    • It started after other electrical work
    What it usually means
  • A dark ceramic glass cooktop surface with a long branching crack running across it, photographed at a low raking angle so the fracture catches the light, pale stone counter around it.
    Stop using it

    Cracked cooktop glass

    A crack, a chip or a shatter in an induction or radiant surface. This page is short and blunt because the advice is: switch it off at the wall and stop using it. It is a safety matter rather than a cosmetic one.

    • A crack across or radiating from a zone
    • A chip at the edge or around a control
    • It happened when something was dropped
    What it usually means
  • The open door of a front-loading washing machine with grey water standing in the bottom of the drum above the seal, a bundle of wet washing pressed to one side, bathroom-bright daylight.
    Full drum at the end

    Washing machine will not drain or spin

    A cycle that ends with water in the drum, or clothes that come out soaking. Ordinary laundry work on machines this maker no longer sells here — which changes the parts conversation and nothing about the diagnosis.

    • Water still in the drum at the end
    • It hums but nothing empties
    • Clothes are wringing wet after the spin
    What it usually means
  • Looking into the open drum of a front-loading dryer at a heap of towels that are still visibly damp, the door glass swung wide, a laundry basket edge at the bottom of frame, cool daylight.
    Long cycles, damp clothes

    Dryer not drying properly

    Cycles that take forever, or clothes still damp when the machine says it has finished. Two causes account for nearly all of it — the air cannot get out, or the machine cannot tell the load is dry — and a large share of both is free to check.

    • It takes two cycles to dry one load
    • Clothes are damp but the machine has stopped
    • It has got slower over a year
    What it usually means

Why this archive matters more on this maker

A great deal of this equipment reports without a number.

A DishDrawer has no display at all: it flashes a pattern of program and modifier lights, and that pattern is the code. A refrigerator counts beeps and lights an LED — the maker’s own instruction is to count them, because five beeps is F5. An induction cooktop can show a bare E or Er with nothing after it. And not one of this maker’s forty-six cooktop guides carries a code table of any kind.

So on this make, “what is it doing” is not the fallback for readers without a code. It is the main road, and these pages are written as the main road: what to try now, what it usually is, what to check, and which repair it becomes.

Error codes, where there is one
A close view of a row of small round indicator lamps on a brushed appliance fascia, two of them lit, no digits and no text anywhere on the strip, shallow focus, cool daylight.

Where these pages come from

The maker wrote 150 articles about its own machines. We read all of them.

Every model on this maker’s US support site links a set of troubleshooting articles it wrote itself, and the same article appears on as many models as it applies to. That count is a measurement of what actually goes wrong: stiff cooktop dials on sixty-one models, an exterior that feels warm on forty-nine, detergent left in the dispenser on thirty-three.

These pages are built on that rather than on an impression of what breaks. Where the maker says a symptom is normal — a warm frame, a fan that runs on, wet plastics — we say so too, even though it costs us the call.

What each repair starts at
A stack of printed technical articles on a plain table beside a pair of glasses and a highlighter, the text blurred past reading, morning light from a window at the left.

Worth doing before any of these pages

Four free checks that end a real share of these calls

All four are free, none takes ten minutes, and between them they close more calls on this maker than any single part does.

A full minute at the breaker

  • Not a flick — sixty seconds off, then on
  • Storm season leaves controls locked up rather than failed
  • It is the cheapest repair in the trade

Write the code down first

  • Or photograph the flashing panel before you clear it
  • On this maker it is the one piece of evidence that disappears the moment power is cycled

Look at what is blocked

  • A dishwasher filter, a condenser grille, a dryer duct
  • An induction cabinet with nowhere to send its heat
  • Four different appliances, one kind of answer

Dry your hands

  • Every touch panel on this equipment reads capacitance
  • A wet fingertip is the maker's own first cause of "the controls do not work"

By appliance

Or start from the machine

Nine appliance pages, each listing what we are called out for most on that machine.

  • A flush black induction cooktop set into a dark stone worktop, photographed from a low angle along the surface, the glass clean and reflecting daylight, no zone lit and no markings visible.
    Induction · SmartZone · Gas · Rangetops · Teppanyaki · Electric · 12" · 24" · 30" · 36" · 48"

    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.

    Cooktop repair
  • A double dish drawer dishwasher built into a pale kitchen run, the upper drawer pulled fully open with its flat lid raised clear of the tub, the empty basket dry, bright coastal daylight from the left.
    Single DishDrawer · Double DishDrawer · Tall · Drop door · Integrated · Series 5 · 7 · 9 · 11 · 24"

    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.

    Dishwasher repair
  • A front-loading dryer with the door open showing the empty ribbed drum lit from inside and the lint filter half withdrawn from its slot, a laundry basket on the floor, bright daylight.
    Vented · Condenser · Heat pump · Stacked · AeroCare · Laundry closets

    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.

    Dryer repair
  • A tall integrated freezer column with two interior drawers pulled out to show frosted packets and a full ice bin, the door held open, white kitchen behind, cold blue interior light.
    Integrated column freezers · Triple zone · Ice maker · 18" · 24" · 30" · Series 9 · Series 11

    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.

    Freezer repair
  • A freestanding professional range in brushed stainless with a row of heavy stainless control knobs along its front, set in a bright coastal kitchen with pale timber cabinets, no flame lit.
    Professional gas · Dual fuel · Induction · Classic · 4 · 5 · 6 · 8 burner · Griddle · 30" · 36" · 48"

    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.

    Range repair
  • A tall integrated refrigerator column standing open in a bright coastal kitchen, glass shelves neatly filled with vegetables and glass bottles, cool even interior light, pale oak cabinetry either side.
    Integrated columns · French door · Quad door · CoolDrawer · Series 5 · 7 · 9 · 11 · 24" · 30" · 32" · 36"

    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.

    Refrigerator repair
  • A built-in wall oven with a flush handleless front of dark glass set in a tall pale oak column, the door closed and the glass clean and reflecting a bright coastal kitchen.
    Self-cleaning · Combi-steam · Convection speed · Double · Minimal · Contemporary · Professional · 24" · 30"

    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.

    Oven repair
  • A front-loading washing machine and dryer standing side by side in a bright white utility room, the washer door swung open on its empty stainless drum, folded towels on the counter above.
    SmartDrive top loaders · Front loaders · WashSmart · AquaSmart · Stacked pairs

    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.

    Washer repair
  • An integrated wine cabinet with a glass door under a pale stone worktop, dark timber racking behind the glass holding bottles on their sides, the interior lit cool and even.
    Integrated wine cabinets · Column wine · Beverage centers · Dual zone · 24" · Series 9 · Series 11

    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.

    Wine cooler repair
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The repairs these symptoms become

If you already know what the appliance needs, these are the pages with the starting figures on them.

  • A technician's two hands holding a multimeter with both probes resting on adjacent terminals of a wiring harness that has been drawn out of an appliance's lower housing, a small torch propped on the floor tile lighting them and a plain notepad and pencil set down beside.
    from $95

    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.

    What this involves
  • The raised flat lid of an open dish drawer seen from above and close, the horizontal rubber seal running the full length of the tub rim in sharp focus, the small lid motor arm visible at one corner.
    from $185

    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.

    What this involves
  • Under-sink cabinet with the trap, the corrugated drain hose in hand, pliers on the hose clip at the spigot, a drip tray and towel below and a work light standing at the right.
    from $145

    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.

    What this involves
  • A technician kneeling at an open built-in dishwasher with an open tool case on the kitchen floor
    from $165

    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.

    What this involves
  • The lower spray arm of a dishwasher unclipped and lifted a few inches clear of its hub by two hands, the fine mesh screen already lying on a cloth on the open door beside it, the empty sump visible below.
    from $135

    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.

    What this involves
  • The inner skin of a dishwasher door lifted away and held back on its hinges with the outer panel resting against the cabinet, exposing the flat ribbon cable and the control module in the top rail.
    from $265

    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.

    What this involves
  • The freezer compartment with the rear panel off, evaporator fins packed with frost, defrost heater and sensor wiring above, a steam hose in hand and a towel catching the melt.
    from $185

    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.

    What this involves
  • A technician sitting at the back of a refrigerator with the rear panel off and the compressor exposed
    from $650

    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.

    What this involves
  • An ice maker bin filled with cubes below the molds, seen from above inside a white freezer
    from $165

    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.

    What this involves
  • A hand on the edge of an open white refrigerator door, the seal and door edge in close view
    from $145

    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.

    What this involves
  • A board inside a steel chassis, wiring loom and connectors, a white service label at the left.
    from $195

    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.

    What this involves
  • A glass-doored wine cabinet under a stone worktop, two slatted shelves pulled out on their runners, hands at the rear fan grille, a work light on the floor.
    from $195

    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.

    What this involves
Every repair, with what it starts at

If none of them fit

If yours is not on this list, it is still something we see.

These are the symptoms people search for often enough to deserve a page. They are not the limit of what goes wrong, and they are certainly not the limit of what we repair.

Describe what your machine is doing in your own words when you book — a sentence from you is worth more than the closest match on this page.

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About these pages

Questions this archive is asked

Why do you tell me how to fix things myself?

Because a real share of what arrives as a symptom is not a repair, and charging somebody $95 to be told their dishwasher filter was blocked is a poor way to earn a customer. The pages that say "this is free, here is how" are the same pages that say "and this part is not, here is what it costs". Both are more useful than a page that only knows how to book a visit.

My machine has no display. How do I tell you what is wrong?

Photograph it. On a DishDrawer the pattern of flashing lights is the code; on a refrigerator the number of beeps is the code. Ten seconds of video from a phone is worth more than a paragraph of description, and it survives the drive to the appointment.

Two of these pages sound like my problem.

Start with the one that mentions the specific thing — the noise, the light, the water, the smell. Those narrow fastest. If it is still ambiguous, book and describe both: the diagnosis is ours to make and you are not expected to have made it already.

Some of these say my appliance is working correctly.

Several of them do, and it is deliberate. A warm cabinet frame, a fan that runs on after the oven is off, wet plastics at the end of a dishwasher cycle, a heat pump dryer that is slower than a vented one — the maker publishes articles on all four because they are reported constantly, and all four are the design. We would rather repeat that than take the call.

How quickly should I call?

Water is the one that does not wait: a leak reaching cabinetry or a floor is a same-day call. Everything else on this list can generally wait a day, and a few of them — a fan that has got louder, a wine cabinet drifting — are better dealt with early than late, because catching them early is the cheaper version of the same repair.

In more detail

What goes wrong with Fisher & Paykel appliances here

Some of what arrives on these pages is the climate rather than the appliance. A condenser in a house a few blocks from the water collects salt with its dust, and a machine that runs continuously without arriving is usually telling you that before it is telling you anything else. An induction power board in a sealed island has nowhere to send its heat in August and shuts a zone down to protect itself. Humidity puts frost around the drawers of a freezer whose seal has taken a set. A laundry closet with no airflow and a duct that turns twice before it reaches an outside wall makes a healthy dryer slow.

Some of it is the way this equipment is built. Integrated machines carry cabinet doors on adjustable brackets, so a crooked front is often hardware rather than an appliance. A DishDrawer seals from above, so a leak appears on the floor with a dry interior. A steam oven has a boiler, so mineral in the water is a real cause rather than a footnote.

And some of it is not a problem at all, which is worth saying on a page like this. A warm cabinet frame, a cooling fan that runs on, a drying fan after a dishwasher cycle, plastics that stay wet, a heat pump dryer that takes longer than the one it replaced — the maker publishes articles about every one of those because owners report them, and every one of them is the machine working as designed.

Tell us what it is doing, in your own words.

You will have the scope and the price in writing before anything is opened.

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This article is based on:

  • Official manufacturer documentation
  • Internal repair procedures
  • Technician repair history
  • Company quality standards
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