The notes first, word for word.
Each job below quotes the technician’s note as it was written, then says what it means. The first is from ZIP 91360. The other three come from Agoura Hills, Camarillo and Encino, and each one is marked with its own city. We picked them because each shows a different kind of fault. Invoices are rounded to the nearest $5.
Two machines on one visit: a part for the washer, none recorded for the dryer
The dryer was booked as “not drying well”. The note calls the part that was out of place the drum “buffer”. The photos show the baffles out of the drum and their mounting points. It was refitted and the dryer was cleaned out. The note records no new part.
The washer in the same house had been booked with an “EU” error. That one did need a part: a new rotor sensor, which reads the position of the motor’s rotor. Both machines were working when the technician left.
A Maytag dryer that wouldn’t heat got a new igniter
The booking gave one line: “Maytag dryer – not heating”. The note names the part. An igniter is the small element at the burner that gets hot enough to light the gas, so a dryer with a dead one tumbles but stays cold. The igniter was replaced and the note records the dryer working afterwards.
A gas dryer that lit, then shut its own flame off
Nothing in this dryer had failed. It lit and started heating, then the safety sensors cut the flame because the clogged vent wasn’t letting the hot air out. That’s the dryer protecting itself, and swapping parts wouldn’t have fixed it. The note’s recommendation was to clean the dryer and the vent system.
The record doesn’t say how much of that cleaning was done on the visit itself, so we don’t claim it here.
An LG washer that was stopping, and the advice was half the detergent
The note doesn’t blame a failed part. Foam had built up inside the machine and the washer was stopping because of it. The technician cleaned the residue out of it, then told the customer to use roughly half as much detergent so it wouldn’t happen again.
We include it because the cheapest fix on this page was a change of habit, not a part.
