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FAQ · fourteen answers · West Olympia

What callers want to know before saying yes.

Wells, windstorms, propane, the letters on the display, the gate at the bottom of the drive, the tenant, the warranty.

14 straight answers$99 for the visit and the answer — folded into the repair if you say yesLACEY LINE van kept on Woodland Square Loop, a minute off I-5 · nothing added for the drive

Weekdays 7:30–5:30 · Saturday 9–1 · closed Sunday · Woodland Square Loop, at the Olympia–Lacey line

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Fourteen questions from around the inlet.

What is the $99 for?

It pays for someone to come out with test equipment, tell you in ordinary words which part gave out, and write the repair down as one price. Go ahead with the fix and that $99 becomes part of its price. Walk away and $99 settles the whole visit — with a real answer in hand rather than a guess.

How soon can you be here?

A refrigerator losing cold jumps the queue; ring by noon and there is usually room for it the same afternoon. Everything else is scheduled within a few days, frequently the following morning. The Eastside, downtown, South Capitol and West Bay are the quickest runs from the van.

Do you want the code from the display before you come?

Yes. Samsung 22E, LG OE, Bosch E24, GE F7 — each one tells us which parts to load. Take a phone photo of the display and one of the model sticker and send them with the form or by text.

Our water comes from a well. Does that change anything?

Quite a bit. Iron and hardness crust dishwasher heating elements, choke the fill valve on an ice maker and stain a washer drum orange; a softener left without salt makes itself known at the dishwasher before the sink. We replace what has failed and tell you straight whether the treatment is keeping up.

The refrigerator has not run since the outage. Is it dead?

Probably not. Once PSE restores power, the compressor attempts a restart against pressure and trips its overload; a control board may have lost a relay; a GFCI in the garage or the boathouse may have opened. Testing tells which. In most cases the answer is a component, not a replacement refrigerator.

Our range runs on propane and the flame is yellow.

Nearly always a small job — the wrong orifices, a regulator past its best, or a natural-gas-to-propane conversion somebody never finished. A yellow, sooty flame deserves a call before it blackens the pans and the cabinet fronts.

We are up a long gravel driveway behind a gate.

Type the gate code, or the turn-by-turn, into the form or a text, and the technician leaves with it in hand. Gravel, gates and docks do not appear on the invoice.

I rent the place. Who says yes to the repair?

The landlord or the property manager, by text. You unlock the door, the technician texts over a photo and the price, the owner replies yes, and the job proceeds. Invoice and warranty term go to the owner’s email.

Are you tied to Samsung, LG or Sub-Zero?

No. This is an independent shop on Woodland Square Loop, at the Olympia–Lacey line, and we say so plainly. Every brand gets the same treatment: testing, one price in writing, a printed warranty. Should the maker’s own warranty still be in force on your machine, you hear that before anything is spent.

What do you not take on?

Microwaves, wine fridges, water heaters, garbage disposals, stand-alone ice machines, well softeners, iron filters, boat galley equipment and commercial kitchens. The six we do take: dishwasher, washer, dryer, refrigerator with its freezer, oven-range-cooktop, and the ice maker built into the fridge — panel-ready and built-in makes included.

And if the part is not in the van?

Then it gets ordered and we return to finish; that second visit is on our tab, and the price you agreed to stays exactly where it was.

What is guaranteed afterward?

The repair we did, for the period typed on your invoice. If the same problem comes back inside that period, we return and put it right at no charge.

Will you say when a machine is not worth saving?

Yes, on the spot. Nobody here sells new appliances, so no one benefits from steering you toward one, and no one benefits from patching a machine that is done. The $99 pays for the visit; the honest opinion is included.

How is the bill settled?

Card, check or cash, after the test cycle has run. Nothing is paid in advance and the phone call costs nothing. Owners living elsewhere settle from the emailed invoice.

Display flashing a code, or a refrigerator gone silent?

Tell us over the phone. For $99 a technician tests the machine and writes the repair down as one price with that $99 folded in, and the invoice carries the warranty term in print.

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