Gloucester · 01930 · North Shore
The bin tells you most of it before anyone opens the appliance. Hollow, dished cubes mean the fill fell short of what the cycle expected. A white core is air and minerals in the water rather than anything mechanical. Cubes that form perfectly and never drop are a harvest fault — the mould heater or the release arm, not the inlet valve.
On this coast in particular
The first is salt. This is the most exposed stretch we cover, and condensers here corrode on a schedule that has nothing to do with how the appliance has been used. An ice maker in a cabinet whose condenser has never been cleared will make ice slowly long before it stops.
The second is seasonal occupancy. A house shut up over the winter comes back to a supply line that has held still water for months, and the first bin out of it is not a diagnosis of anything — it is a line that needs flushing.
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Cloudy cubes with white centres for months. He explained that is air and minerals coming out of the water rather than anything mechanical, checked the inlet, and sorted the filtering. First clear ice we have had since we moved in.
Millicent Y. · Gloucester
Hollow cubes that fell apart in your hand. Apparently that means the fill is short of what the cycle expects. Inlet valve was partly blocked. He also spotted the supply line was kinked behind the unit and straightened it while he was there.
Ferdinand Q. · Watertown
Cubes formed perfectly and then just sat there. He said forming fine but never releasing points at the harvest side rather than the water valve, and it was the mould heater. Booked Tuesday, fixed Wednesday, ice on Wednesday night.
Peregrine J. · Boston
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