Broward · South Florida
Kenmore repair in Lighthouse Point
Canal-front houses, many with a dock and an outdoor kitchen behind the seawall. Anything installed outdoors here takes the heat and the salt together.
We cover Lighthouse Point and the rest of Broward: an on-site diagnostic first, the price agreed in writing before anything is opened, and the exact figure confirmed once we have seen the unit.
By unit
What we repair in Lighthouse Point, by Kenmore unit
Start with whichever matches yours. How an appliance is installed shapes the visit as much as the repair does, which is why we ask about it when you book.
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Under-cabinet and chimney · ducted and recirculating Kenmore range hood repair in Lighthouse Point
Under-cabinet and chimney hoods, and this is the one appliance on the badge with a ventilation specialist behind it — the 233 prefix is Broan. There is not much to a hood: a motor, a switch, a lamp and a path for the air. Which is why most of what we are called about turns out to be the duct or the filters rather than the hood.
- 233 is Broan-built — a ventilation maker, not an appliance one
- Most complaints are the duct or the filters
- Recirculating hoods cannot extract, by design
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Standalone and undercounter · a machine of its own Kenmore ice maker repair in Lighthouse Point
Standalone and undercounter ice makers, which are a separate appliance from the ice maker built into a refrigerator door. They have their own compressor, their own water path and their own harvest mechanism, and they are designed to run continuously rather than in the background. In South Florida that means they run almost every hour of the year, on water that is hard enough to change how they behave within months.
- A machine in its own right, not a refrigerator part
- Mineral buildup is the common ending here
- Which stage the cycle stops at is the diagnosis
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Electric and gas · 110, 796 and 417 Kenmore dryer repair in Lighthouse Point
Electric and gas dryers built by Whirlpool, LG and Frigidaire under the badge. On this appliance the single most useful thing we can tell you is that a large share of no-heat and long-cycle calls are the vent rather than the dryer — and in South Florida houses the vent runs are longer, flatter and wetter than the ones these machines were designed around.
- 110 is Whirlpool-built, 796 is LG-built, 417 is Frigidaire-built
- The vent causes more of these calls than any part does
- Gas and electric fail in different places
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Gas, radiant and induction · drop-in Kenmore cooktop repair in Lighthouse Point
Drop-in cooktops — gas, radiant electric and induction. A cooktop is the simplest appliance in the kitchen on gas and one of the most electronic on induction, and the two share almost nothing but the hole they sit in. What they do share is that a single dead zone is usually a component rather than the whole appliance.
- One dead zone is rarely the whole cooktop
- Gas is mechanical, induction is electronic
- The glass itself is the one part we cannot repair
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Upright and chest · garage and utility room Kenmore freezer repair in Lighthouse Point
Standalone uprights and chest freezers, most of them Frigidaire-built or Whirlpool-built, and most of them living somewhere hot: a garage, a utility room, a covered porch. That location is half the diagnosis. A freezer asked to hold zero degrees in a garage that reaches ninety-five is working at the edge of what it was designed for, and it fails differently from one in a kitchen.
- 253 is Frigidaire-built, 106 is Whirlpool-built
- Where it lives decides how it fails here
- Manual-defrost chest units have no defrost circuit to blame
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Top-load and front-load · 110 and 796 Kenmore washer repair in Lighthouse Point
Laundry is where the decode matters most, because a Kenmore washer can be a Whirlpool, an an LG, and those are two genuinely different machines. A 110 and a 796 do not share a pump, a control board, a diagnostic sequence or a code table, and they do not fail the same way. The model number is not a formality on this appliance — it is the difference between the right visit and the wrong one.
- 110 is Whirlpool-built, 796 is LG-built
- Drain, spin and leaks are most of what we see
- Two washers under one badge, and two code tables
By job
The repairs we are called out for in Lighthouse Point
Starting figures for this equipment in South Florida. What moves them is the model, the access and the part — the exact cost is confirmed after the on-site diagnostic.
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from $265 Appliance control board repair
The repair we rule in last and quote most carefully. A control board is the most expensive single part on most of these appliances, it is the easiest thing to blame, and on a mass-market unit it is the repair where replacing the appliance sometimes wins. We will say which.
- Ruled in by measurement, never by elimination
- Storm-season damage is a real local cause
- An honest replace-instead answer where it applies
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from $165 Surface igniter replacement
A gas burner that clicks and clicks and will not light. Clicking means the spark system is alive and trying, which rules out a great deal — and it is very often the burner cap seating or a blocked port rather than the igniter at all.
- Cap seating and ports checked first, for free
- Igniter tested rather than assumed
- The gas valve is rarely the answer
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from $185 Gas dryer igniter replacement
A gas dryer that tumbles cold. The igniter, the flame sensor and the gas valve coils are the usual sequence, and they are tested rather than swapped — all three produce the same complaint and only one of them is the answer.
- Igniter flame sensor and coils tested in order
- Gas work done by somebody licensed to do it
- The vent checked here too
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from $145 Washer lock and lid switch repair
A washer that will not start, will not spin, or will not release the door at the end. On every one of the three builders the machine refuses to run rather than risk an open door, so a five-dollar switch stops the whole appliance.
- A small part that stops the entire machine
- Tested electrically rather than by feel
- The door alignment checked with it
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from $135 Dishwasher door latch repair
A dishwasher that will not start, or that stops partway through, when the real problem is that the machine cannot confirm its door is shut. The latch and its switch are cheap and they fail far more often than a control board does.
- The commonest cause of a dishwasher that will not start
- Switch tested rather than the board blamed
- The door alignment checked in the same visit
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from $145 Door seal replacement
A gasket that has hardened, torn or stopped pulling the door shut. In a humid house this is not cosmetic: every hour a refrigerator seal leaks is an hour the defrost circuit spends clearing ice it should never have made, and on a front-load washer a tired gasket is where the smell complaints begin.
- Tested with paper rather than judged by eye
- The hinge and the alignment checked with it
- A seal is preventive work on this coast
Nearby
Where else we work near Lighthouse Point
Every place below has its own page, with what the equipment and the access are like there.
Elsewhere in Broward
In more detail
Kenmore repair in Lighthouse Point, in more detail
What Kenmore equipment is like in Lighthouse Point
Canal-front houses, many with a dock and an outdoor kitchen behind the seawall. Anything installed outdoors here takes the heat and the salt together.
Lighthouse Point sits in Broward County, and the equipment here follows the housing: older kitchens with appliances fitted into openings that were cut for something else, and newer ones where they were specified with the cabinetry. Both are Kenmore work — cooktops, dishwashers, dryers — and both are diagnosed on site before anything is priced.
Salt, heat and storms — what they do to a kitchen full of appliances
Close to the water everything ages from the outside in. Salt corrodes the condenser coils and fan motors on the cold side and reaches burner caps, grates and igniters on the hot side, and both fail in the same way: a part that still works, slowly, until the day it does not. In Lighthouse Point that turns a cleaning interval into a seasonal job rather than an annual one, on both halves of the kitchen.
What that means for the appliances in Lighthouse Point
- Refrigerators — Refrigeration installed outside works against ambient heat all summer and salt air all year, which is why cleaning it is seasonal here rather than annual.
- Cooktops — Burner caps, grates and igniter electrodes take the salt here. An igniter sparking through corrosion is an igniter that clicks and does not light, and it happens on a shorter schedule near the water.
- Dishwashers — Hard water is the story inland and hard water plus salt is the story here, so a machine that publishes a scale code will publish it sooner in a house on the water than in one ten miles west.
How a visit in Lighthouse Point is arranged
We ask for the model number from the plate inside the door and a line about what the appliance is doing. That decides which parts ride in the van, and it is the difference between one appointment and two.
- In a building: the service elevator window, the loading bay and the hours contractors are allowed to work
- Behind a gate: how visitors are cleared, arranged before the appointment rather than at it
- Whether the doors are paneled to match the cabinetry, which changes how they come off and go back
- The diagnosis first, then the scope and the price in writing, and your approval before anything is opened
What it costs, and what moves the figure
Prices in Lighthouse Point are the same as everywhere else we cover: a diagnostic from $95 that is credited toward the repair, and starting figures per job rather than one number for "a repair". What moves it is the model, how the appliance is built into the cabinetry, which part it needs and how quickly that part can be sourced — none of which can be judged over the phone. The repairs we carry out lists what each job involves and the figure it starts at, and the unit pages covers what tends to go wrong on each type.
The exact cost is confirmed after the on-site diagnostic and agreed with you before any work begins. We are an independent repair company — not affiliated with, authorized by, or endorsed by any manufacturer — and our warranty covers the labor we performed.
Before you book
Questions about a visit in Lighthouse Point
Do you cover Lighthouse Point?
Yes. Lighthouse Point is in Broward County and inside the area we work every week. Give us the address when you book, and say how the Kenmore is installed — what has to come apart to reach it matters as much as where it is.
How soon can you get to Lighthouse Point?
We will tell you the earliest slot we can genuinely keep rather than the earliest one that sounds good. Tell us the model number and what the unit is doing when you book: whether we can finish the same day depends on the part far more than on the drive.
Does it cost more because the job is in Lighthouse Point?
No. The diagnostic and the work are priced the same across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. What moves the figure is the model, how the unit is built in and which part it needs — never the address. Where access takes longer, we say so before anything is agreed rather than after.
Does being this close to the water shorten the life of a unit?
It shortens the life of the condenser and the fan motors, which is not the same thing. Salt corrodes them years ahead of the schedule written for a dry climate, and a condenser that cannot shed heat makes the compressor work longer for the same result. Cleaning here is seasonal rather than annual.
Booking a visit in Lighthouse Point
Tell us the model number and what the unit is doing. We will bring the parts that problem usually needs, and you will have a firm price before we start.
This article is based on:
- Official manufacturer documentation
- Internal repair procedures
- Technician repair history
- Company quality standards