A drain pump for a Whirlpool-built dishwasher is made in enormous numbers for machines sold under several badges. It sits on a shelf rather than on a boat, and that is the single biggest downward pressure on this whole page. The same job on an integrated European machine costs meaningfully more for exactly that reason. Being ordinary underneath is the best thing about owning one of these.
33 jobs · every figure explained
What a Kenmore repair costs in Miami, and why the badge moves the number both ways.
Kenmore manufactures nothing, and that shows up in the price list twice. The parts are somebody else's volume parts, which pushes most of these figures down. And on a discontinued unit the component has to be found under the builder's number rather than the Sears one, which is real work and occasionally has no answer. Every figure below is a researched market band for this region, never an invoice and never a quote.
- 33 jobs with a published figure
- from $95 diagnostic, credited to the repair
- from $95 the cheapest job on the list
- 10 appliance types covered
Job by job
Every figure, and what changes it
Four things move most of these numbers on this badge: which company built the appliance, whether the part is still catalogued under that company's number, how much has to come apart to reach it, and what the appliance is worth against a replacement. The last one is asked out loud here more often than on any other site in this fleet.
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Diagnostic visit cost
What a diagnostic visit costs on a Kenmore in South Florida, and why it starts one step earlier here than on other makes. The three digits before the period on the rating plate name the company that built the appliance, and that decides which documentation, which sequence and which parts catalog apply.
- from $95, credited toward the repair
- The prefix read before anything is opened
- A measurement, not an impression
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OEM cross reference and parts sourcing cost
The line that exists on this site and on no other in this fleet. On a badge-engineered appliance the part is ordered against the number of the company that built it, not against the Kenmore number, and on a discontinued unit that lookup is what decides whether the repair is possible at all.
- from $95, credited toward the repair
- Cross-referenced to the builder's own number
- An answer either way, including no
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Appliance maintenance cost
Condenser, seals, vent and filters in one visit, on a catalog where every one of those is a South Florida problem before it is a mechanical one. Priced below what the same jobs cost booked separately, which is the whole argument for doing them together.
- from $125 for the combined visit
- Cheaper than the same jobs booked apart
- Measured before and after, not eyeballed
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Appliance installation cost
Connection, leveling and a working test for an appliance that has just arrived. Most of this catalog is freestanding, which is what the figure assumes; a built-in dishwasher, a stacked wall oven, a gas connection or a hood at height moves above it and is quoted before the van is loaded.
- from $145 for a freestanding appliance
- Leveled, connected and run before we leave
- Gas and built-in work quoted first
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Refrigerator not cooling repair cost
The call we take more often than any other, and the one where the figure is held down by the fact that Kenmore refrigerators are Whirlpool, LG, Frigidaire or GE underneath. The parts that end most of these are mass-market components held in stock rather than ordered.
- from $155, and the free answers first
- Volume parts, stocked rather than ordered
- The sealed system ruled out, not assumed
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Defrost system repair cost
Heater, terminating thermostat and control tested as a circuit rather than replaced one at a time. In this humidity the defrost system is the hardest-working part of a refrigerator, and on Whirlpool-built cabinets it is where a slow warm-up most often ends.
- from $175, the circuit tested as one
- Inexpensive parts, and the labor is the cost
- The seal checked in the same visit
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Ice maker repair cost
A job with a genuinely wide range behind it, because the answer runs from a freezer sitting a few degrees too warm — no part at all — to a module. The figure starts at the low end on purpose, since on this equipment the cheap answer is the common one.
- from $155, and often it is not a part
- Water path checked before the machine
- Freezer temperature measured first
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Water dispenser and filter service cost
The lowest refrigeration figure on this site, and deliberately so. A large share of these end at a cartridge, a flushed line and a valve that had silted up — and every one of them is cheaper than the ice maker call that follows if nobody does it.
- from $115, the cheapest cold job here
- Filter, line and valve as one path
- Flow measured before and after
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Condenser cleaning service cost
The maker's own first answer for a refrigerator that is not cold enough, and in a Miami house it is right far more often than it deserves to be. Coils at floor level collect what floors collect, and here that is a great deal.
- from $125, and it prevents the big ones
- Fan, clearance and airflow checked too
- Temperatures measured before and after
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Temperature sensor replacement cost
An inexpensive component and a diagnosis that has to be done properly, against the resistance table published by the company that built the appliance. Priced on establishing which sensor is lying rather than on the part itself.
- from $155, priced on the diagnosis
- Read against the builder's own table
- Cold cabinets and hot ovens alike
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Sealed system repair cost
The most expensive repair on this site, and the one where a mid-market catalog changes the answer. Licensed refrigerant work with recovery, leak location and a charge by weight — and a conversation about whether it is worth doing at all, said out loud rather than avoided.
- from $595, licensed refrigerant work
- Everything cheaper ruled out first
- The replace-instead arithmetic said out loud
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Ice machine cleaning and descaling cost
Cleaner, a full cycle, hand cleaning of what the cycle cannot reach, and output measured before and after. On South Florida water an ice machine scales faster than any manual's interval assumes, and scale is what ends most of them.
- from $155, output measured both ways
- Cycle plus the parts a cycle cannot reach
- The interval your water actually justifies
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Door seal replacement cost
A gasket, and the hinge and alignment work a new gasket needs in order to seat. The parts are somebody else's volume parts and they are inexpensive; the door adjustment is the job, and in this humidity a tired seal costs more than it looks like it should.
- from $145, gasket and alignment together
- Volume parts on every builder here
- The door adjusted, not just re-dressed
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Dishwasher drain repair cost
Filter, hose, disposer plug and check valve before anybody discusses a pump. A real share of these end with no part at all, which is why the figure sits below the pump replacement rather than beside it.
- from $145, and often no part at all
- The disposer plug checked first
- The pump is the last suspect, not the first
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Dishwasher pump replacement cost
The pump itself, plus getting the machine out of a run of cabinetry and back in square and level. Whirlpool-built and Frigidaire-built pumps are stocked mass-market parts, which keeps this well below the same job on an integrated European machine.
- from $225, part and cabinet work
- Volume parts, stocked rather than ordered
- Drain path proven before the pump goes in
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Dishwasher wash performance service cost
Water temperature, spray arms, filter, heater and chemistry, addressed as one problem. On the water here this is usually a service rather than a repair, and it is priced as one.
- from $125, priced as a service visit
- Inlet temperature actually measured
- Scale, arms and filter treated together
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Dishwasher door latch repair cost
The cheapest dishwasher line on this site, because the part is inexpensive and accessible on all three of the companies that build these — and because it is the commonest reason a dishwasher will not start at all.
- from $135, the cheapest dishwasher job
- Latch, switch and door alignment
- The commonest cause of will-not-start
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Washer drain pump replacement cost
The pump, plus the coin trap and hose work that comes with it. The band is much the same on a Whirlpool-built 110 and an LG-built 796; what differs is the access, and that is inside the figure.
- from $175, pump and trap together
- The obstruction found before the part
- 110 and 796 priced the same, accessed differently
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Washer spin and drive repair cost
Set above the pump because the drive systems behind this badge are not one job. A belt, a direct-drive coupler and a direct-drive motor are three different repairs, and which one you have is decided by the first three digits of the model number.
- from $185, and the drive type decides
- Belt, coupler and direct drive priced apart
- Bearings and suspension quoted on the visit
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Washer leak repair cost
Traced rather than guessed, and the tracing is the labor. The parts behind most washer leaks — a hose, a clamp, a gasket — are inexpensive on both of the companies that build these. The tub seal is the exception and it is quoted separately on the visit.
- from $155, traced to a source
- Hoses, clamps and boots are cheap parts
- The tub seal separated out honestly
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Washer lock and lid switch repair cost
A small part that stops an entire machine. Priced on the diagnosis and the access rather than on the component, and the page says so, because a figure like this next to a part that costs very little otherwise reads as a markup.
- from $145, priced on access not the part
- Lock, switch and the control that reads it
- Control lock ruled out before anything else
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Dryer vent cleaning cost
The lowest figure on this site, set deliberately at a level people book rather than defer. In South Florida the duct runs are long, horizontal and carrying humid air, and this is the honest answer to a large share of the no-heat calls we take.
- from $119, the lowest figure here
- Airflow measured before and after
- The commonest cause of a dryer that will not dry
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Dryer heating element replacement cost
The element and the protection replaced as the builder specifies, with the duct checked in the same visit. That check is part of the repair rather than an extra: a thermal cut-off opens for a reason, and fitting a new one without finding the reason buys a few weeks.
- from $175, element and protection together
- The duct checked as part of the job
- Gas and electric are different repairs
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Dryer drum roller and belt repair cost
Inexpensive parts and a genuine amount of labor, because the dryer comes apart. Belt, rollers and idler go back as a set, since doing one and returning for the others is paying the same labor twice.
- from $165, and the set goes back together
- Cheap parts, real dismantling
- The noise identified before anything is ordered
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Gas dryer igniter replacement cost
Above the electric element figure because gas work needs a licensed technician and because the sequence — igniter, flame sensor, valve coils — has to be tested rather than swapped. Guessing at a gas circuit is not a saving.
- from $185, licensed gas work
- The sequence tested, not swapped
- The vent checked in the same visit
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Oven element replacement cost
A volume part with straightforward access on a freestanding range and considerably more of it on a wall oven built into a stack. That difference is the reason this is a 'from' and the reason the wall oven pages say access is the cost.
- from $165, range access assumed
- Wall oven and double stack quoted higher
- Bake and broil circuits separated
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Oven sensor and calibration service cost
Below the element line because calibration is frequently the honest answer and needs no part at all. Where the sensor is genuinely drifting, the component is inexpensive on every company behind this badge and the figure holds.
- from $145, and often no part needed
- Calibration checked before anything is ordered
- Read against the builder's own table
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Oven door lock repair cost
Above the sensor line because the mechanism lives behind the control panel, and because a door locked after a self-clean has to be released without damaging the hinge, the liner or the latch that got it into this state.
- from $175, released without damage
- Self-clean lockouts handled properly
- Motor, switch and control separated
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Surface igniter replacement cost
A modest part, and a meaningful share of these calls end at a seated cap or a blocked port with no part at all. The page says so before it says the figure, because clicking that never lights is one of the most fixable complaints in the kitchen.
- from $165, and often nothing is broken
- Caps, ports and moisture checked first
- Gas work by a licensed technician
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Cooktop element repair cost
A radiant element or the infinite switch that feeds it — both accessible and both inexpensive. The glass is the exception, and a cracked ceramic top is a replacement rather than a repair, which the page says outright.
- from $155, element or switch
- Both are inexpensive, accessible parts
- Cracked glass is not a repair
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Induction cooktop repair cost
The highest cooking figure on this site. The power stage lives under the glass, the cooktop generally has to come out of the counter, and diagnosing a thermal shutdown means holding it at full power long enough to make it happen again.
- from $235, the highest cooking figure
- Reproduced under load, not guessed
- Cooling path checked as part of the job
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Range hood blower and light repair cost
The simplest appliance in this catalog and the cheapest cooking repair on the site. A blower, a switch, a lamp — and height or a chimney installation is what moves the figure, not the component.
- from $135, the simplest job here
- Blower, switch, lamp and wiring
- Height and chimney work move the figure
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Appliance control board repair cost
The most expensive single component on most of this catalog, plus the configuration some boards need for the specific model. This is the row where the replace-instead conversation happens most often on this make, and the page is written to have it rather than avoid it.
- from $265, and the arithmetic said out loud
- Proved with measurements before it is ordered
- Cross-referenced under the builder's number
Why most of these sit low
The parts in your Kenmore are somebody else's volume parts
How a diagnostic visit runs
And the one thing that pushes upward
A part nobody can find is a repair that does not exist
The badge-side parts catalog stops being maintained before the builder’s does, so on an older appliance the component has to be identified under the number the factory used. That lookup has a real failure rate, and sometimes the honest answer is that the part is gone. It is why cross-referencing is a line on this site rather than something absorbed silently into every other figure — and why, on anything with age on it, it is worth running before you commit to a repair.
How we reach a figure
What happens between the call and the number
On the phone
- Three digits off the plate, and what the appliance is doing.
- If it sounds like one of the answers that costs nothing, we say so.
- A code plus a prefix often names the likely part before anybody sets off.
On site
- Measurement rather than inspection — temperature, continuity, pressure, airflow.
- The diagnostic covers this and comes off the repair.
- Nothing is opened before you have the scope and the figure.
Before the work
- Scope and price in writing.
- The replace-instead arithmetic said out loud where it competes.
- Whether the part is still made, on anything with years on it.
Start from the appliance
What it costs depends on which of these it is
A figure moves as much with the machine as with the job. The same drain pump is a stocked Whirlpool part in one of these and a Bosch part in another, and the same element is twenty minutes on a freestanding range and an afternoon in a wall oven stack.
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French door · side-by-side · top and bottom freezer Refrigerators
The appliance the badge is best known for, and the one where knowing who built it changes the repair most. A Kenmore refrigerator in a South Florida kitchen is a Whirlpool, a Frigidaire or an LG underneath, and the first three digits of the model number say which. That decides the parts, the diagnostic sequence and whether there is a published code table to read at all — so it is the first thing we ask for.
- 106 is Whirlpool, 253 is Frigidaire, 795 is LG
- Ice, water and the defrost circuit are most of the call volume
- The parts catalog is the builder's, not the badge's
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Upright and chest · garage and utility room Freezers
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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Standalone and undercounter · a machine of its own Ice makers
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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Built-in · Kenmore and Kenmore Elite Dishwashers
Built-in dishwashers. 665 is the number on most of the plates we see and it is Whirlpool-built; 587 is Frigidaire and 630 is Bosch, and all three turn up in South Florida kitchens. Whirlpool publishes a real code scheme for these, which makes a dishwasher one of the more readable appliances on this badge — provided you read the code against the right builder's table.
- 665 is Whirlpool, 587 is Frigidaire, 630 is Bosch
- Drainage and wash performance are most of the calls
- The code on the display is Whirlpool's code
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Top-load and front-load · 110 and 796 Washers
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
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Electric and gas · 110, 796 and 417 Dryers
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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Freestanding and slide-in · gas and electric Ranges
Freestanding and slide-in ranges, gas and electric. 790 is the number we see most and it is Frigidaire-built; 362 turns up on GE-built ranges and 911 on another range family altogether. A range is the appliance a household notices fastest when it stops, and it is also the one where the difference between a sensor, an element and a control board is the difference between a modest repair and a conversation about replacing it.
- 790 is Frigidaire, 362 is GE, 911 is a range prefix too
- Oven sensor and bake element are most of the calls
- Gas surface problems are usually the igniter, not the valve
If your job is not on this list
Publishing a figure takes volume — doing the work does not
What earned a row here is what we are asked for often enough to be able to research an honest band for it. Plenty of repairs we carry out are not on this page, and their absence says nothing about whether we do them.
Give us three digits from the plate and a description of the behavior, and we will say what it commonly proves to be. Those digits identify the company that built the machine, which is where everything on this site begins.
Before you book
Questions about what it costs
Do you charge for the diagnostic?
Yes — it begins at $95 and it is credited against the repair if you go ahead. It pays for the diagnosis, which is the work, and it is what makes it possible for us to tell you that nothing needs replacing.
Why is every price a 'from' rather than a number?
Because the model, the access and the part move it, and on this badge the model moves it more than usual — the same job on a Whirlpool-built and an LG-built machine is not the same amount of dismantling. A firm figure before anybody has seen the appliance would be a guess with a number attached.
Are these figures your own invoices?
No, and the site says so rather than implying otherwise. They are researched market bands for South Florida, narrowed by what the component actually is on this equipment. When there is real job history to publish, these get corrected against it.
Will you tell me if it is not worth repairing?
Yes, and on this catalog that happens more often than on the built-in brands. A sealed system repair or a control board on a mid-market appliance can approach a meaningful fraction of a replacement, and you get both numbers rather than one.
In more detail
What Kenmore repair actually costs in Miami
Where these numbers come from
They are researched market bands for South Florida — what the same component and the same labor go for here — narrowed by what the part actually is on this equipment and by what the installation does to the time. They are not this company’s invoice history, and the site says so rather than implying an authority it does not have.
The badge cuts both ways
Downward, because the components are Whirlpool’s, LG’s and Frigidaire’s volume parts and they are stocked rather than ordered. Upward, because on an older appliance the part has to be found under the builder’s number and sometimes it cannot be found at all. Most of this page is the first effect; the cross-reference line is the second.
Three local multipliers
Humidity, which decides how hard a defrost circuit works and how soon a door seal matters. Water, which scales an ice machine and a dishwasher heater faster than any manual’s interval assumes. And installation, where a wall oven in a stack or a hood at height means the access is the cost rather than the part. Laundry adds a fourth: duct runs here are long, horizontal and carrying humid air.
Why replacement is discussed openly here
Because this is a mid-market catalog, and that moves the repair-or-replace line earlier than on any built-in brand. A sealed system repair on a freestanding mass-market refrigerator can approach the price of the appliance. Quoting it and saying nothing would not be a service. The pages that reach that point say so.
Three digits, and a sentence about what it is doing.
That is usually enough to name a likely part and the band it falls in. The figure itself is settled once somebody has seen the appliance.
This article is based on:
- Official manufacturer documentation
- Internal repair procedures
- Technician repair history
- Company quality standards