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LG appliances, explained by the people who do the repairs in Miami

Guides on LG appliances from the people who repair it in Miami: what problems mean, what repairs cost, when to stop and call, and what prevents the expensive ones.

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  • Two fingers holding down two buttons at once on the flat control panel inside the top of a refrigerator's fresh food compartment.
    Troubleshooting

    Er, F or r: The Letter in Front of an LG Refrigerator Code

    The characters name the part. The letter in front of them names which cooling system is reporting it — and everybody drops it when they write the code down.

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  • A notepad and a calculator lying on the folding counter of a laundry room beside a closed washing machine, a pen resting on the pad.
    Cost Expectations

    What It Costs to Fix an LG Washer, Job by Job

    No belt means fewer cheap failures and a larger job when the drive does go. Both sides of that are worth seeing rather than averaged into one number.

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  • A hand pointing at a blank metal rating plate on the inner frame of a refrigerator compartment beside the crisper drawers, the door held open.
    Cost Expectations

    What It Costs to Fix an LG Refrigerator, Job by Job

    The compressor question is the one everybody asks and the one most often answered wrongly, because on this make there is a warranty that follows the machine rather than the owner.

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  • A printed service invoice lying on a dark quartz counter with a phone beside it face down and a pen across the page.
    Cost Expectations

    What an Appliance Service Call Costs in South Florida, and What You Get for It

    What the diagnostic actually buys, why it is credited against the work, and why a price quoted on the phone without a model number and a code is confident guessing.

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  • A shallow black drain pan slid out from underneath the base of a refrigerator that stands pulled forward on a tile floor, a little dirty water still lying in it.
    Common Problems

    Water Under the Crisper Drawer, and the Tube Behind It

    A refrigerator handles two entirely separate kinds of water, and where the puddle is decides which one you have before anybody is called.

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  • A short drain tube pulled out beside a washing machine's pump filter with its cap off, running into a shallow tray on the floor, towels laid around it.
    Common Problems

    A Washer Stopped Full of Water: The Filter Nobody Opens

    There is a filter behind a small door at the bottom of your washer, it is designed to be opened by you, and what comes out of it is usually the whole explanation.

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  • A rectangular lint filter drawn out of an open hatch at the bottom front of a ventless dryer, packed grey with lint, the hatch door hanging down.
    Maintenance & Prevention

    A Dryer With No Vent: The Maintenance Nobody Told You About

    A heat pump dryer has no duct, two lint filters instead of one, a condenser block that slides out and a water path that stops the machine when it blocks. None of that is optional.

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  • The back of a hand laid flat against the glass of a closed oven door to test the temperature, the oven dark and unlit, a kitchen towel over the handle.
    Troubleshooting

    The Oven Door Is Still Locked After Self Clean. What Now?

    Time first, because the lock is not allowed to release while the cavity is hot — and on a well-insulated wall oven that is hours rather than minutes.

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  • A finger pointing at one small indicator lamp in a row on a laundry machine's control panel in a dark room, that lamp lit and the rest dark, a notebook and pen on the machine's top.
    Troubleshooting

    Reading an LG Washer or Dryer by Its Blinking Lights

    Some of these machines have no numbers to show you. They report by which lights blink, the maker publishes what the patterns mean, and there is nothing to type into a search box.

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  • A dial oven thermometer standing alone in the middle of an otherwise empty oven rack, the door closed and the thermometer seen through the glass with the cavity light on.
    Troubleshooting

    Your Oven Says 350 and It Is Not 350: Calibrating an LG

    A steady error is an offset you can set yourself in five minutes. A swing is a sensor and needs a visit. Half an hour with a thermometer tells you which.

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  • A small magnet held against the base of a saucepan turned upside down on a dark counter beside an induction cooktop, the magnet not sticking.
    Common Problems

    One Burner Dead and the Rest Fine: Gas, Radiant and Induction

    One zone or all of them is the whole first question. After that the answer depends entirely on which of three technologies is under the glass.

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  • A glass jug held under a refrigerator's water dispenser and filling steadily, the dispenser recess lit, the rest of the kitchen dark.
    Common Problems

    No Ice, But the Water Dispenser Works: What That Narrows It To

    One ten-second test splits this problem in half, because ice and water share a supply and part company inside the door.

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  • A kitchen timer standing on a dark counter with its dial turned, an out-of-focus microwave running behind it, its cavity light the only glow in the room.
    Common Problems

    A Microwave That Runs and Does Not Heat, and the Honest Arithmetic

    One test settles the diagnosis in a minute. The harder question is whether repairing it makes sense, and that depends on where the machine is installed rather than on what has failed.

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  • Two hands spreading three wet towels evenly around the inside of a washing machine drum through the open door.
    Common Problems

    A Washer That Will Not Spin: Is It the Load or the Machine?

    Two different problems arrive as one sentence. Three towels and five minutes tell you which one you have.

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  • A finger switching a double-width breaker in a domestic electrical panel with the cover door open, the other breakers in rows either side.
    Common Problems

    A Dryer That Tumbles Cold: What to Check, in Order

    The drum turns on one leg of the supply and the heat needs both, which is why a half-tripped breaker gives you a machine that looks completely alive and heats nothing.

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  • The rubber boot gasket of a front-loading washing machine rolled back at the bottom of the door opening and a cloth wiping the fold underneath it.
    Maintenance & Prevention

    How Often an LG Washer Actually Needs Its Drum Cleaned in Florida

    The machine counts loads and asks with tcL. In this climate that request is worth taking seriously rather than dismissing, and the reason is in the gasket fold.

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  • A large jug on the counter filling from a refrigerator dispenser and spitting air, a new filter carton lying beside it.
    Maintenance & Prevention

    How Long an LG Refrigerator Water Filter Really Lasts in South Florida

    Six months is the label, and the label assumes water that is not this. What actually decides it is hardness, sediment and how much the household draws.

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  • An appliance thermometer standing on a refrigerator shelf photographed by torchlight with the interior lamp off and the compartment dark, a torch lying on the shelf beside it.
    Safety & Risks

    How Long Food Stays Safe in a Refrigerator Without Power

    A storm question in a storm city, and the answer is a clock rather than an opinion. The single most useful thing you can do is not open the door.

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  • A hand held flat in front of the slotted vents in the back wall of a refrigerator's fresh food compartment, feeling for air, the shelves pushed back to reach them.
    Common Problems

    The Light Is On and the Fridge Is Warm: What That Rules Out

    A lit cabinet has power, so electricity is not the question. On an LG there is a second free answer before any part is considered, and it looks exactly like a broken refrigerator.

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  • Three damp towels being dropped one at a time into an otherwise empty dryer drum through the open door, water still dark in the fabric.
    Troubleshooting

    Why the Dryer Says an Hour and Then Suddenly Says One Minute

    The number was never a countdown. On a sensor cycle it is an estimate, and two metal strips inside the drum are what it is estimating from.

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  • A hand holding open the hinged flap of a dryer vent on an exterior house wall at dusk, packed grey lint visible in the duct behind it.
    Common Problems

    A Dryer That Stops After a Few Minutes Is Telling You About Air

    LG measures the restriction in its own exhaust and puts a number on the display. No other make on this fleet does, and it is worth acting on the first time you see it.

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  • A small metal knockout disc lying in an open palm held under a sink, the cupboard dark behind the hand.
    Common Problems

    Water in the Bottom of the Dishwasher: Four Places to Look

    Filter, hose, air gap, disposal plug. In that order, because it runs from free to expensive and the first one answers most of them.

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  • A hand turning the cylindrical filter counter-clockwise out of the floor of a dishwasher tub, the flat mesh plate still in place beneath it.
    Maintenance & Prevention

    The Dishwasher Filter, and Why It Explains Both of Your Complaints

    Poor cleaning and poor draining have one cause in common, and it twists out by hand in about five minutes. Almost nobody does it.

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  • The back of a hand held against the faceplate of a wall outlet behind an appliance pulled out from the wall, the plug seated in the socket beside it, a scorch shadow on the plate.
    Safety & Risks

    Can an Appliance Start a Fire? The Four That Actually Can

    The honest answer separates the appliances people worry about from the ones that deserve it — and the refrigerator is not usually on the second list.

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  • The rear access panel of a refrigerator unscrewed and leaned against the wall beside the cabinet, which has been pulled out onto a sheet of cardboard, the coil and fan visible in the opening.
    Maintenance & Prevention

    The Twenty Minutes That Prevent the Most Expensive Refrigerator Repair

    Nothing on the machine reports a dirty coil. There is a code for the fan over it and none at all for the coil itself, which is why it goes unnoticed for years in a coastal kitchen.

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  • Company quality standards
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