From $85 to a sealed-system repair, cheapest first.
Five of our Hollywood jobs whose notes record the finding as well as the work, ordered from the smallest bill to the largest. Prices are invoice totals to the nearest $5. The ZIP code is the only location we give for a customer.
- Invoice$85
A Samsung range on the wrong power socket
The booking said only “stove”. The range was a Samsung NX58H5650WS, built in May 2014. Our technician’s note says it had been connected to an incorrect power socket, and that this may have affected its performance or safety. His recommendation: disconnect it from that socket and plug it into the correct, dedicated outlet.
Gas or not, this range draws household current: its rating label lists 120 volts and a 12-amp maximum electric load, an 800-watt convection heater among the loads. The bill was $85, the diagnostic fee alone.
The Samsung gas range at the November 2025 visit. 
Rating label: NX58H5650WS, made May 2014, 120 V, 12 A maximum electric load. - Invoice~$200
Ice packed around the coil, so cold air couldn’t get through
The refrigerator wasn’t cooling properly. With the freezer’s back panel removed, the evaporator coil was buried in frost, with solid ice at one end. The technician checked the frost pattern and airflow and tested the defrost circuit. The notes put the cause in the defrost system: a failure there had let ice build up until it blocked the airflow.
A manual defrost came first: it got the refrigerator cooling again and confirmed the diagnosis. We then replaced the defrost heater, the freezer sensor, the defrost sensor and the defrost harness, and checked that it was cooling properly afterwards. The invoice came to about $200, with the service fee included.
Ice patches and frost on the freezer’s back panel, before it came off. 
Behind the panel: frost across the coil and solid ice at the end. - Invoice~$225
An O’Keefe & Merritt with its pilots out
A freestanding O’Keefe & Merritt with chrome trim and the badge on its glass backguard. The rating plate carries the name Tappan Co. Appliance Group, Mansfield, Ohio, and lists natural-gas ratings for an upper oven (18,000 BTU/hr), a lower oven (13,500), the broiler and the top burners (9,000 each), plus a griddle.
The technician’s note for this job is two words: pilots relit. The record doesn’t say why they had gone out, so we won’t guess. It was booked on September 8 and marked complete on September 12.
The O’Keefe & Merritt: four burners and a patterned glass backguard. 
The gas valve and the aluminum pilot tubing. 
The rating plate: Tappan Co. Appliance Group, Mansfield, Ohio, with burner ratings.
Have a Hollywood appliance of your own on the blink? Call, or pick a time online. The first step is an $85 diagnostic, and the repair price reaches you in writing before work begins.
- Invoice~$400
A washer whose buttons stopped responding
A Samsung WF393BTPAWR, made in June 2013, under a matching dryer in a laundry closet. Its control panel no longer responded. The technician traced that to the user interface board, and we replaced it. The job was completed on October 15.
The Samsung washer with the dryer stacked on top, in a laundry closet. 
Two washer control boards in their shipping box. - Invoice~$1,070
A 2007 LG that needed its sealed system opened
The request read: LG refrigerator, not cooling enough. Its rating label gives the model as LBN22515ST, the year of manufacture as 2007 and the refrigerant as R134a, 4.2 oz from the factory. In our photos from March 20, frost covered only one part of the freezer coil and the rest was bare. The condenser coil in the lower back compartment was coated in grey lint. A coil that frosts in only one patch is one of the signs we look for when a sealed system may be short of refrigerant.
The job was completed on March 24 with sealed-system work. We recovered the refrigerant, fitted a charging access valve and replaced the filter drier. Then we purged the system with nitrogen to clear moisture and contaminants, brazed the joints, pulled a vacuum and recharged it to the manufacturer’s specification. The written plan also allowed for a new compressor if testing showed the old one wasn’t pumping properly. The record does not say one was fitted.
March 20: frost on one part of the freezer coil, the rest bare. 
March 24: green corrosion on a copper line beside the compressor. 
Our gauge, set to R134a, in a March 24 photo: low side −2.4 inHg, high side 138.1 psig.
