About one Sherman Oaks household in five has booked us more than once. Across all the places we work, it’s about one in eleven. So the repairs below are grouped by how many times the household called us, and for one of them our file confirms only the diagnosis.
What follows comes from the technician’s own notes and photos. Each dollar figure is the full bill for that job, $85 diagnostic included, rounded off to $5. You’ll see the month and the Sherman Oaks ZIP code, not the street.
1 booking
Done on the first trip, no parts.
Diagnosed and fixed the same visit
Frigidaire refrigerator ZIP 91423 · bill $250
A Frigidaire freezer that was loud and icing up
The complaint was noise and a build-up of ice in the freezer. The evaporator coils were carrying a heavy layer of frost. That frost was what the fan was making noise against, and it was choking the airflow too. The freezer door also wasn’t closing tight.
We adjusted the freezer door until it sealed, defrosted the coil, and cleaned out the drain so the defrost water could run away instead of freezing again. No parts went in. It was quiet and cooling properly when the technician left.
Drain line cleared, machine levelled
Dishwasher (brand not written on the job) ZIP 91403 · bill about $215
A dishwasher fixed at the drain line
This one came in as a plain “dishwasher” booking. The work turned out to be in the drain line: we cleaned it through and checked nothing was left blocking it. The dishwasher also wasn’t sitting level, so we adjusted it, which makes a repeat of the same trouble less likely.
No parts were needed. Dishwashers are a bigger share of our Sherman Oaks work than they are across the area; the figures are further down.
2 bookings
Repaired, then booked again.
Main control board diagnosed; wiring harness flagged
Job closed with GE board WR55X41845 in
Booked again; closed February 4
GE Profile 48-inch built-in side-by-side, model PSB48YSNESS ZIP 91403 · about $570, then about $595
A GE Profile built-in that came back to us
On the first visit the fault led to the main control board. The technician’s write-up warned the homeowner that the board might not be the whole story: a shorted wire harness could also be involved, and if a new board didn’t cure it, the wiring would be the next thing to check and possibly replace.
The replacement was GE’s own main control board, part WR55X41845, ordered in and fitted. The bill for that booking was about $570, and we closed it on January 2, 2025.
On January 31 the same refrigerator was booked again. The write-up from that booking says another company had worked on it before and we had no details of what they had done. Because we aren’t GE-authorized, the technician worked through it step by step, as the manufacturer recommends, and the note warns that the original problem could still come back. It doesn’t say what was found or what was repaired, so we can’t tell you whether the harness turned out to be the cause. That booking came to about $595.
If another company has already worked on your appliance, tell us what they did when you call. It changes where we start.
A Sherman Oaks fridge, dryer or dishwasher playing up? Have the model label handy if you can reach it, and mention any earlier repairs.
A sealed-system diagnosis, the repair unconfirmed.
Cooling fault traced to the compressor; sealed-system repair written up
LG French-door refrigerator, model LFXS24623S, built December 2017 ZIP 91423 · diagnostic paid; repair not confirmed
An LG that needed a new linear compressor
The LG wasn’t cooling properly. The diagnosis went all the way into the sealed system: its linear compressor needed replacing. LG would supply the new compressor as a warranty part, so the write-up covered everything around it. That meant recovering the refrigerant, adding an access valve, flushing the system with nitrogen, brazing, evacuating it and recharging to LG’s specification, plus a firmware update on the control board and a fresh water filter.
The sealed-system work appears on the invoice, but the technician’s note is worded as a proposal and the payment on file covers only the diagnostic. We can’t confirm from the record that the new compressor went in, so we’re telling this one as a diagnosis.
The LG French-door refrigerator, built in December 2017, with its door dispenser.Label on its compressor: LG FLB075LBNA, marked “Linear Compressor”, R134a.
Built-in and high-end brands
Built-in brands, about twice as often.
Viking, Thermador, Sub-Zero and similar built-in or high-end makes account for close to twice the share of our branded jobs here that they do area-wide.
With a built-in, the model number from its label and a list of anything already done to it are the two most useful things to have ready when you call.
Photographed on a Sherman Oaks call: a 48-inch Viking built-in, two tall stainless doors.Inside that Viking’s freezer: evaporator fins packed with ice, a black sensor clipped to the coil.A Viking condenser coil and fan motor shaft caked with dust, lit by a flashlight.
How Sherman Oaks compares
Three ways this city differs from our average.
These come from completed Sherman Oaks jobs, compared with completed jobs across every place we work. Shares are of the jobs where the appliance or brand was written down.
DishwashersMore here
About 1 in 5 of our Sherman Oaks jobs, against about 1 in 8 area-wide.
WashersFewer here
About 15% of Sherman Oaks jobs, against 26% area-wide. Washing machines are a noticeably smaller part of our work here than across the area.
Refrigerator billsHigher here
The median Sherman Oaks refrigerator repair is $490, against $425 area-wide. Leave the built-in brands out and it is still higher than the area figure.
Not different: dryers and ovens make up about the same share of our calls as everywhere else, and the share of visits that end at the diagnostic, with no repair, is the same here as across the whole area.
On Google, word for word
From a Sherman Oaks range visit.
“Quick and easy. On time. No muss no fuss.”
Paul R. · 5 stars on Google Samsung gas range, ZIP 91403, May 2025. It was booked to change the oven igniter, and the homeowner already had the new part.
That Samsung slide-in gas range during the visit: oven floor lifted out, bake burner exposed.
The same on every Sherman Oaks job: $85 diagnostic, credited to the repair once you approve it · estimate in writing before work starts · OEM parts, 1-year parts and 30-day labor warranty · BBB A+ · CA BEAR license #49435 · repairing appliances since 2012 · repairs only, no installs; commercial laundry yes, restaurant and kitchen equipment no · office at 201 N. Brand Blvd, Suite 248, Glendale · (747) 207-2030
The Sherman Oaks ZIP codes on this page: 91403 and 91423
Tell us the brand, the model if you can see the label, and whether anyone has worked on it before. The $85 visit finds the fault, and the repair price is written down for you to approve before any part is changed.
✓The $85 diagnostic is deducted once you go ahead
✓Half of Sherman Oaks repairs came in under $380
✓OEM parts; twelve months’ cover on parts, 30 days on labor
