How far is Richmond from your San Ramon shop?

About 40 minutes, up 680 and across through the Berkeley side. We route Richmond with Berkeley and Oakland, so appointments cluster on our East Bay shoreline days and we can usually offer a slot within a couple of days.

Is a repair worth it, or should I just get a used fridge?

I will give you the honest math at the diagnostic. A used fridge with no warranty is a gamble, while a defrost repair on a solid 106 Kenmore comes with a one year warranty on major parts. When the repair does not pencil out, I say so and the $75 is all you have spent.

Can you do the repair the same visit?

Often yes. The common 106 failure parts, defrost components, relays, and fan motors, ride on the truck. If your unit needs something unusual, we order it and return, and the diagnostic fee still credits toward the finished repair.

KENMORE · RICHMOND

Service · All Kenmore Models

Kenmore Refrigerator & Freezer Repair · Richmond, CA

Kenmore refrigerator repair in Richmond, honest quotes on machines that have earned a fix.

$75 diagnostic (waived with repair)
Same or next-day best effort
CSLB #1136642

Call (925) 999-4095

Kenmore in Richmond

Kenmore in Richmond kitchens.

Richmond runs deep with Kenmore. The postwar homes in the Annex and North and East, the bungalows off 23rd Street, and the newer condos out at Marina Bay all hold Sears-badged units, most of them Whirlpool-built 106 models that were sold as workhorses and have lived up to it. Kenmore itself never built a thing, so the model tag decides the repair path, the parts, and the price.

A lot of Richmond calls are repair-versus-replace decisions on tight budgets, and I treat that seriously. The $75 diagnostic credits toward the repair, the quote is written, and if the fix does not make sense I say so before you spend another dollar. We schedule 7 days a week.

We drive up from San Ramon and back the work with 90 days on consumables, one year on major parts, and two years on sealed system repairs.

Water and ice systems

The water inlet valve, a common fridge leak.

Every fridge with a dispenser or ice maker has a water inlet valve. The fittings can leak under the cabinet, or the solenoid fails and the dispenser and ice maker stop getting water.

Laundry

How to spot a bad washer drain pump.

LG and Samsung washer drain pumps side by side. When a washer will not drain or hums at the end of a cycle, this small pump is the usual suspect, and the two brands fail in different ways.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Defrost thermostat failure walling off the evaporator. The classic 106 failure. The defrost thermostat quits, frost builds until the evaporator is a block of ice, and the fresh food section warms while the freezer still freezes. The parts cost little, and after a full defrost and replacement the unit typically runs for years more.
Condenser fan seized by coastal grit and dust. Richmond's air puts real grime into the condenser area under a fridge. When the fan slows or seizes, the compressor overheats and short-cycles, and cooling comes and goes. A new fan motor and a thorough coil cleaning is a modest repair that stops the unit from cooking its own compressor.
Start relay clicking on older top-freezers. A rhythmic click from behind the fridge every few minutes means the compressor start relay is failing. On Richmond's older units this is usually the relay alone, a small part, and not the compressor. I test the compressor windings first so the quote reflects what is actually broken.

Models we service

Kenmore product lines.

Refrigerators (LG-built and Whirlpool-built)
Top-freezer
Side-by-side
French-door

Pricing and warranty

What it costs. What we stand behind.

$75

Diagnostic visit. Waived when you book the repair with us.
Written

90 days on consumables, 1 year on major parts, 2 years on sealed-system rebuilds. Quoted in writing before work starts.
CSLB

#1136642. Bonded and insured. We file warranty paperwork when applicable.

Recent work

Kenmore jobs we have closed.

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FAQ

Kenmore in Richmond questions, answered.

How far is Richmond from your San Ramon shop?

About 40 minutes, up 680 and across through the Berkeley side. We route Richmond with Berkeley and Oakland, so appointments cluster on our East Bay shoreline days and we can usually offer a slot within a couple of days.
Is a repair worth it, or should I just get a used fridge?

I will give you the honest math at the diagnostic. A used fridge with no warranty is a gamble, while a defrost repair on a solid 106 Kenmore comes with a one year warranty on major parts. When the repair does not pencil out, I say so and the $75 is all you have spent.
Can you do the repair the same visit?

Often yes. The common 106 failure parts, defrost components, relays, and fan motors, ride on the truck. If your unit needs something unusual, we order it and return, and the diagnostic fee still credits toward the finished repair.

Need Kenmore service in Richmond?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.