Ice-O-Matic Appliance Repair in West End, Crafton & Carnegie, PA

Ice-O-Matic belongs to the Commercial family of brands, which share engineering and a lot of components. That helps on jobs around West End, Crafton & the Airport Corridor: parts are easier to track down, and the ways these machines tend to fail are well understood.

Send us the model number with your booking. Look for a sticker inside the door or lid, along the frame, behind the bottom kick plate or on the rear panel; with it we can look up that platform's known weak points and carry those parts instead of ordering after the first visit.

A Ice-O-Matic unit that's down is costing you money by the hour. We try to reach commercial calls around West End, Crafton & the Airport Corridor outside the busy part of the day, and we ask for the model and serial number over the phone so the likeliest parts are already with us.

Refrigeration and ice come with food-safety obligations, so you get a note of what we found and what we changed. If the failure traces back to maintenance, such as a grease-coated condenser, a torn gasket or an ice machine that needs descaling, we'll tell you, since that's what brings on the next breakdown.

Basement laundry in older houses, including basements near Chartiers Creek that have been wet, spare refrigerators and freezers in cold garages, gas dryers on older piping, and builder-grade kitchens in the apartment and townhouse complexes of Green Tree and Scott.

No matter the brand, an Ice-O-Matic appliance in West End, Crafton & the Airport Corridor is only as good as the drain, circuit, vent and water line it's hooked to, and here the washer and dryer are usually in the basement in the older houses of the West End, Crafton and Carnegie, and a basement or first-floor laundry room in the newer houses and apartments.

Natural gas is common for ranges, dryers and water heaters in West End, Crafton & the Airport Corridor, and older houses often have gas piping that has been extended and reconnected several times. A gas appliance that won't light usually has an igniter, a sensor or dirty burner ports at fault, not a gas problem.

With a strong gas smell, leave switches alone, get out of the house and call the gas utility from outdoors. We can look at the appliance once it's safe, and after any gas work, each fitting we opened gets leak-tested.

A refrigerator in an unheated space works on the edge of its design. In summer it runs constantly; in January it may hardly run at all, and a freezer that depends on the fresh-food thermostat thaws.

Before paying for a repair on a garage unit, check the manual's ambient-temperature range. We'll check it too, and tell you if the location is the actual problem.