What it costs

The visit

Flat $95 service call covering the visit and full diagnosis, credited against the repair once you approve it.

Repair bands

After the diagnosis, before the work

• The bands cover the repair after diagnosis. The $95 is separate and credited, so it is not folded into any figure below.
• Parts and labour split differently by repair. Igniters, fans and defrost components are cheap and the invoice is mostly labour. Control boards and circulation pumps are the reverse — the part is most of it and the labour is an hour.
• Sealed-system work is the largest band for two reasons at once: the component is expensive and the labour is long, certified and cannot be rushed.
• A few known outliers sit outside these bands and get quoted on their own rather than hidden inside an average. We will tell you when yours is one of them.

Repair or replace

What the alternative costs

A comparable built-in runs $8,620 to $19,440 for the appliance alone. Against that, almost every band above is defensible repair economics — which is the arithmetic worth doing before writing an appliance off.

A comparable built-in refrigerator, appliance only — before delivery, installation, custom panels or cabinetry work. Undercounter and wine units sit below this band; a column replacement is usually two purchases rather than one.

What people said afterwards