Los Angeles · Sub-Zero
Ice Maker Repair
Clear-ice modules and the supply side behind them — inlet valves, neglected filters, drain pumps and bin sensors.
What owners describe, and what it usually is
- Bin empty for days and the reset in the manual changes nothing
- No production at all, with the arm free, is usually the module, the inlet valve or a filter that has never been changed — in that order of likelihood.
- Hollow, undersized or cloudy cubes
- Hollow or undersized cubes are almost always water supply: pressure, a restricted valve or a filter at the end of its life.
- Cubes freezing together into one block in the bin
- Cubes fusing into a block point at harvest timing or a bin sensor, so the machine keeps making ice into ice that has not been cleared.
- Water on the freezer floor, or a puddle inside the cabinet base
- Water on the freezer floor or in the cabinet base is a fill tube out of line, a cracked reservoir or a drain pump that has stopped.
What the visit covers
- Water pressure and the inlet valve measured at the machine
- Filter age and restriction checked before any part is replaced
- Harvest cycle watched through a full round, not just switched on
- Bin sensor and thermostat verified against the machine cycling
- Drain, pump and reservoir cleaned and tested for leaks
Nothing is quoted until it has been measured. What the bands further down show is the shape of the number for this kind of work; which end of a band your machine lands on is settled in front of you, with the cabinet open, before a part is ordered.
Older cabinets
What we usually find
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A bin that has been getting emptier for months and is now not filling at all, with the arm free and nothing obviously wrong
The inlet valve or a filter nobody has changed since the machine was installed. Both restrict flow long before they stop it, which is why production tails off rather than ending.
Ice maker, water valve or supply line $270–$830
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Cubes that are hollow, undersized or cloudy, in a machine that used to make clear ones
Water supply rather than refrigeration — pressure, a restricted valve, or a filter at the end of its life. The mould is usually the last thing at fault and the first thing people replace.
Ice maker, water valve or supply line $270–$830
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Water in the base of the cabinet, or a bin with a frozen slab in the bottom of it
A fill tube out of line or a drain that has stopped draining. On an older machine the tube and the trough have usually been iced and thawed enough times to have moved.
Ice maker, water valve or supply line $270–$830
Which of these it is gets settled at the visit, before a part is ordered — Sub-Zero Repair Pro Los Angeles, (310) 844-1973.
What it costs
What ice maker repair costs in Los Angeles
One flat charge of $89 covers the trip out and the full diagnosis, and it comes straight off the repair the moment you approve the work.
How the number is agreed
One figure covers parts and labour, and you hear it before a spanner is picked up. Nothing gets opened, ordered or swapped until you have said yes to that number.
The $89 already paid for the visit is then taken off it, so the diagnosis is not billed a second time.
- Door gasket or seal replacement
- $260–$690
- Evaporator or condenser fan motor
- $330–$750
- Defrost heater, thermostat or sensor
- $280–$640
- Ice maker, water valve or supply line
- $270–$830
- Electronic control board
- $390–$970
- Compressor or sealed-system repair
- $1,510–$3,440
A band is a span rather than a price because the same part is not the same job twice over. Age decides most of it: a twenty-year-old cabinet gives up its panels slowly, and a component still stocked for a current model may be a three-day wait on an older serial. Which end of the band your machine sits at is agreed at the visit, out loud, before any of it starts.
For comparison Ask what the alternative costs and the answer is $12,710–$21,440 — a like-for-like built-in on its own, with nothing allowed for fitting it or for the joinery around it. Set that beside the rows above and most of them stop looking expensive, which is the entire reason this site prints both numbers on the same page.
Reviews
What owners on this route say
Left by Los Angeles households after a Sub-Zero repair.
4.9 / 5 · 990 reviews
Cubes came out hollow and half the size they ought to be. The inlet valve was barely passing water. Replaced, along with a filter nobody had touched in years.
Nico H. · Cheviot Hills
The unit in our bar cabinet was flooding the base overnight. Fill tube had shifted out of line and the drain pump was tired. Both dealt with. Marked down only because the first appointment ran late.
Octavia S. · Cheviot Hills
Yield fell to a few cubes a day and what we did get tasted flat. Hard water had left scale right through the mould, and the supply needed flushing. Bin was full again the next morning.
Pilar G. · Mar Vista
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Ice Maker Repair in Los Angeles, priced before it starts
$89 service call, credited against the repair. Price agreed before anything is opened up. Visits 8:00 am – 8:00 pm, seven days; the line is answered 24/7.