Appliance repair in Sunland

Sunland sits at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains, where summer afternoons run hotter than the rest of the Valley and a lot of houses still have the 1960s kitchen they were built with, remodeled once. We drive up from Van Nuys in under half an hour.

Most of Sunland is single-story ranch houses on big lots, built between the fifties and the seventies. The kitchens have been redone once or twice, so we see a mix: a newer LG or Samsung refrigerator next to a wall oven that is twenty years old and still worth fixing. A second refrigerator in the garage is normal here, and a garage fridge works hard in a Sunland August.

We repair refrigerators, washers, dryers, dishwashers, ovens, ranges, cooktops, microwaves, freezers and ice makers in Sunland, every major brand, with the common parts on the truck so most jobs finish in one visit.

Sunland and Tujunga are among the hottest neighborhoods in the City of Los Angeles. A refrigerator in a garage or a sun-facing kitchen runs its compressor far longer in July than the same unit would in Santa Monica. That shows up as a condenser fan that gives out early, dust-packed coils, and compressors that overheat and cut out on the hottest afternoons. We clean the condenser and check the fan on every refrigerator call here, before anything is replaced.

A lot of Sunland laundry lives in the garage or a utility porch, with a long vent run through the roof. When a dryer takes two cycles, the vent is the suspect as often as the heating element. We check airflow at the vent before quoting parts, because a lint-packed run makes a perfectly good dryer look broken.