Three of the jobs on this list are LG’s own. Direct Drive bolts the motor to the drum, which removes the belt and most of what used to wear out on a washing machine — and makes the drive repair larger when it comes. The WashTower puts two machines behind one control panel, so the first part of the visit is establishing which half is reporting. And the ventless heat pump dryer has no element and no duct at all: it condenses the water out of the air, which is why it can go in a condo laundry closet and why its maintenance is a condenser and a drain rather than a vent.
46 jobs · 12 appliances
LG service in South Florida, across the widest line any make in this city sells.
LG builds refrigeration, laundry, dishwashing, cooking and ventilation, and several jobs on this list exist because of things only LG makes — a Direct Drive motor, a WashTower, a ventless heat pump dryer, an InstaView door. Each card says what the work is; the figure beside it is a floor rather than a quote.
- 46 jobs with a published figure
- 6 jobs no other site in this fleet has
- 12 appliance types we cover on this make
- from $95 diagnostic, credited to the repair
Start from the job
The work in each job, and the floor it starts from
Treat each number as a floor rather than a quote. It reflects what this equipment and this labor go for in South Florida, and what moves it is on the job's own cost page.
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from $95 Diagnostic visit
One visit, one technician, one answer in writing. On this make the diagnostic starts with something most makes cannot offer: the appliance usually has something to say. LG publishes code lists for its refrigerators, dishwashers, washers, dryers and ranges, and on the machines with no display it publishes what the blinking lights mean instead. Reading that properly is half the job and it costs nothing to do.
- The model number and whatever the appliance is reporting, read before anything is opened
- Blinking-light patterns included, because LG documents them and that makes them codes
- Written findings and a from-price before any part is ordered
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from $125 Appliance maintenance
The visit that stops the other visits. Most of what fails on an LG in this city fails because of something that could have been cleaned: a condenser packed with dust, a dishwasher filter nobody has taken out, a dryer duct that has been closing for three years. None of it is glamorous and all of it is cheaper than the repair it prevents.
- Condenser, filters, seals, drains and levels on whatever you have
- Written findings, so you know what is aging before it fails
- Priced on time rather than per appliance
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from $145 Appliance installation
Delivery is not installation. A machine that has been put in place is level, connected, tested, and standing with the clearances its manufacturer specifies — and on LG's ventless laundry and its built-in cooking there are specifics that get missed often enough to be worth naming.
- Leveled and tested, not just connected and left
- Clearances checked, because a built-in with no vent path fails in August
- Gas connections leak-tested and documented
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from $155 Refrigerator not cooling repair
The most common repair on this badge and the one where the order of work matters most. Air first, then defrost, then the sealed system — a sequence that goes from free to expensive and that anybody quoting a compressor over the phone has skipped two thirds of.
- Demo mode and blocked vents are ruled out before anything is opened
- LG publishes three separate fan codes and the usual cause of all three is ice
- The sealed system is measured with gauges, never assumed
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from $175 Defrost system repair
The slow failure that takes three weeks to show and then takes the whole cabinet. A refrigerator melts its own evaporator clear every few hours; when that stops, ice grows across the airway until the compartment above it can no longer be fed. LG publishes dS for the sensor half of the circuit and the rest is measured.
- Heater, sensor and control — three parts, one circuit
- The cabinet is defrosted properly first, which is time before any part
- Frost on the back wall is this, not the fan and not the gas
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from $165 Evaporator fan repair
LG puts a sensor on its fans, so a blocked or stopped blade is reported rather than left for you to work out from a warm compartment. Three of them are named separately — CF in the machine room, FF in the freezer, rF on the fresh food side — and in this climate the usual cause of all three is ice rather than a dead motor.
- Three fans, three codes, three different access routes
- Ice is the cause more often than the motor, and that changes the repair
- The compartment has to be emptied and often thawed first
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from $125 Condenser cleaning service
The cheapest thing on this list and the one that prevents the most expensive. The condenser is the coil that throws the heat away, and in a coastal kitchen it fills with dust, hair and salt air until the compressor is working against a blanket. LG codes the fan over it as CF; nothing codes the coil itself, which is why it goes unnoticed for years.
- Coil, fan and machine room, properly rather than a brush at the front
- Nothing reports a dirty coil — it is found by looking
- It lowers the running temperature, the noise and the bill
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from $155 Ice maker repair
LG's ice makers live inside the refrigerator — in the door, in the freezer, or as the second unit that makes round Craft Ice — and it publishes three codes for them: IF for the fan that carries cold, IS for the sensor that decides the cubes are frozen, and It for the motor that harvests them. Between them those three cover air, cold and mechanism.
- IF, IS and It: fan, sensor and motor, each named by the manufacturer
- A tray full of ice with an empty bucket is the mechanism; an empty dry tray is water
- The module comes out as an assembly
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from $145 Ice fill tube and heater service
The small white tube that delivers water into the tray ends inside a compartment kept below freezing, and in this climate it grows a plug of ice at the mouth that stops the fill without ever showing a code. Clearing it is short. Replacing the heater that is supposed to stop it happening is not.
- The commonest no-ice cause that no code reports
- Clearing it is quick; the heater around it is the real repair
- Often paired with a door that is not sealing
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from $115 Water dispenser and filter service
The cheapest refrigeration row on this site and the one most often mistaken for something larger. Between the mains and the glass there is a valve, a filter, a tank on some models, a line, and a dispenser switch — and any of them will produce no water, slow water, or a leak that gets blamed on the defrost drain.
- Filter, housing, tank, line and valve, in that order
- A cartridge a few millimeters proud weeps steadily and is missed for months
- Air in the line after a change is normal and clears itself
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from $145 Door seal replacement
Nine wet months a year is hard on a gasket, and a cabinet fighting its own door runs constantly and still loses. The part is not expensive; the fitting is fussy, because a gasket that is not seated evenly all the way round is worse than the tired one it replaced.
- A paper test finds it in thirty seconds and most people never do one
- It is behind a great many cooling, frost and ice complaints
- Fitting evenly is the job — the part is the easy half
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from $155 Temperature sensor replacement
LG publishes four separate sensor codes on its refrigerators — FS for the freezer, rS for the fresh food side, dS for the defrost coil and rT for the room — and they are not all in the same place. A cabinet that has lost one still cools; it simply cannot aim, which is why this arrives as a machine that swings rather than one that has stopped.
- Four sensors, four codes, four different locations
- A cabinet with a bad sensor will happily freeze the fresh food side
- Small part, contained job, and worth doing promptly
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from $595 Sealed system repair
Real, uncommon, and last. It is the only refrigeration repair that needs gauges, recovery, brazing and a vacuum, and it is the only one where the number is large. On this make there is a second reason to be careful before it is quoted: LG's linear compressors carry a long parts warranty that follows the machine rather than the owner.
- Diagnosed with gauges, never from a symptom or a code
- The compressor warranty position is established before any figure is given
- Recovery, drier, vacuum and charge — the whole procedure or none of it
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from $145 Refrigerator leak repair
Water arrives from two places on this appliance and they are entirely different repairs. Melt water that should have gone down a drain, or supply water from the line that feeds the dispenser and the ice maker. Where the puddle is decides which, and the diagnosis comes before the quote.
- Under the crisper is the defrost drain; at the back is the supply
- A cracked drain pan leaves a trail rather than a puddle
- A filter housing that was not seated is the cheapest cause and the most missed
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from $185 InstaView door repair
The panel that lights when you knock on it is glass, a light, a sensor and a harness that runs through a hinge. It is LG's own, no other make on this fleet has it, and it fails in ways a plain door does not: a panel that stays dark, one that lights and will not go out, or a communication code because the wiring through the hinge has fatigued.
- A door panel with electronics in it, and wiring through a moving hinge
- CO — the board-to-display communication code — often starts here
- Glass, sensor, lamp and harness are four different repairs
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from $195 Wine cooler repair
Mechanically this is a refrigerator: the same compressor, fans, sensors and sealed system. What differs is the tolerance and what counts as finished. A cabinet holding within a couple of degrees is right in a kitchen and may still be wrong for somebody storing bottles, and vibration that nobody would notice on a refrigerator is a defect here.
- A refrigerator repair to a narrower band
- Vibration is part of the specification, not a cosmetic complaint
- Built-in cabinets fail on airflow in August and hold perfectly in February
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from $135 Dishwasher drain repair
The most common dishwasher call there is, and most of it is labor rather than part. LG codes it OE, and the causes run from a filter that has never been taken out to a disposal knockout plug that was never removed when the machine was installed.
- Filter, hose, air gap and disposal spigot before the pump
- A pump that hums is blocked; a pump that is silent has failed
- A machine that has never drained since installation is usually the knockout plug
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from $215 Dishwasher pump replacement
When the drain pump has genuinely failed rather than jammed, the machine comes out of its opening and goes onto its back to reach it. The part is stocked on this make and the access is most of the figure.
- Diagnosed before it is quoted — most suspected pumps are blockages
- The machine comes out and goes on its back
- A stocked part on LG, which keeps the number down
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from $155 Dishwasher leak repair
Four quite different repairs share this name — a door boot, a hose, a sump seal, or the tub itself — and only three of them are worth doing. The diagnosis decides, and it happens before the quote rather than after it.
- Door, hose, sump or tub, and they are not the same job
- AE, EI and FE are LG's leak and overfill codes
- A tub that has failed is a conversation rather than a repair
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from $195 Dishwasher heater repair
The element does two jobs — bringing the wash water to temperature and helping the drying — so its failure arrives as poor cleaning, wet dishes, or both. LG codes it HE. The element is inside the tub, which is where the figure comes from.
- HE is the code and it explains poor cleaning as well as poor drying
- The incoming water temperature is checked before the element is blamed
- The element is inside the tub
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from $125 Dishwasher wash performance service
The visit for a machine that runs perfectly and cleans badly. Most of it is not a part: spray arms, filter, water temperature, rinse aid, loading and the diverter that switches between racks. It is priced on time because that is what it takes.
- Arms, filter, diverter and temperature, measured rather than guessed
- One rack clean and one dirty points at the diverter — nE on this make
- Hard water and no rinse aid explain the chalky film, and no repair fixes that
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from $145 Dishwasher door latch repair
A dishwasher will not start with a door it cannot prove is closed, and the latch and its switch are what prove it. The inner door panel comes off to reach them, which makes this a contained job with a small part at the end of it.
- A machine that will not start is often the latch rather than the control
- The inner door panel comes off; the machine stays in place
- A door that has dropped presents a good latch to a moved frame
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from $165 Heat dry system service
LG's dishwashers dry with a heated air system and, on many models, a door that opens itself at the end of the cycle. Three codes cover it — F31 for the fan, F35 for the temperature, F37 for the auto-open door — and all three produce the same complaint: a machine that washes perfectly and leaves everything wet.
- F31, F35 and F37 — fan, temperature, and the door actuator
- The machine is entirely usable meanwhile, which is worth knowing
- Rinse aid is checked first because it does much of the drying
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from $195 Washer drain pump replacement
OE, E03 or E21 on the display and a drum full of water. Most of these are the filter rather than the pump, and the filter is behind a small door the owner is meant to open — so the diagnosis happens before anything is quoted.
- The filter is checked first, and it is free
- A pump that hums is blocked; a pump that is silent has failed
- A stocked part on this make
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from $225 Washer spin and balance repair
UE that will not clear on a fair load, a machine that walks, or a spin that never reaches speed. Dampers, suspension, leveling and the vibration sensor between them account for all of it, and the diagnosis decides which — which is why the band is wide.
- A machine that will not spin any load is different from one that will not spin some
- Leveling is free and it is the first thing checked
- vS and uS are the vibration sensor, and a slow spin is often that rather than the drive
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from $165 Washer leak repair
The boot gasket, the clamp that holds it, a hose, or the pump seal — four sources, most of them reachable from the front, and one of them free to find. A leak that only appears on a spin is a different diagnosis from one that appears on a fill.
- When it leaks tells you where from
- The boot gasket is the commonest and it is visible
- Most of these are reachable without moving the machine
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from $155 Washer door lock repair
dE, dE1 or dE2 on the display, or a door that will not open at the end of a cycle. The interlock is behind the front panel and it is a stocked part. Before it is replaced, the door itself gets checked — a door that has dropped presents a perfectly good latch to a frame it no longer lines up with.
- Power off for five minutes releases most locks and clears many of these
- A dropped door is a hinge repair, not a latch one
- On a SideKick pedestal the same codes mean the drawer instead
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from $345 Direct Drive motor repair
LG bolts the motor straight to the drum, which is why these machines have no belt to fail — and why, when the drive does fail, it is a larger job than a belt would have been. LE and LE1 are the codes. Before the motor is condemned, the obvious causes of a stalled drum are ruled out, because most of them are not the motor.
- LE and LE1: a drum that has been asked to turn and has not
- Overloading and a jammed drum imitate this and cost nothing to check
- The rotor and stator come off the back of the tub
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from $195 WashTower and combo repair
Two machines behind one control panel, or one drum doing both jobs. Neither is a standard laundry repair: the WashTower has a shared control and two separate machines behind it, and the WashCombo washes and dries in a single drum with a heat pump. The first job on either is establishing which half is actually reporting.
- One panel, two machines — the code has to be attributed before anything is opened
- A WashCombo has no vent and no element; it condenses
- tE on a combo can be the drying side rather than the wash
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from $145 Dryer vent cleaning
The single most valuable thing that can be done to a vented dryer in this city, and LG makes the case itself: it measures the restriction in its own duct and reports it as d80, d90 or d95. A restricted dryer is not just slow. It is running hotter than it was designed to with lint packed into the run.
- LG measures its own duct and puts a number on the display
- The wall hood outside is the blockage more often than the duct inside
- It is a safety job as much as a performance one
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from $195 Dryer heating element replacement
A dryer that tumbles cold. The element is a coil in a metal can at the back of the cabinet, and it is replaced together with the thermal cutoff and the thermostats — because a cutoff that has opened did so for a reason, and the reason is nearly always restricted air.
- nP is LG's code for no current reaching the heater
- The double breaker is checked first, and it is free
- The cutoff and the duct are part of the same repair
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from $185 Gas dryer igniter replacement
On a gas dryer the igniter is the part that fails, far more often than the valve. It weakens over years until it no longer draws enough current to open the gas valve — and it will still glow while doing that, which is why 'it glows so it must be fine' is the most common wrong conclusion in this repair.
- An igniter that glows can still be too weak to open the valve
- It is measured, not judged by eye
- The gas connection is leak-tested afterwards and the result written down
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from $225 Heat pump dryer service
A ventless machine has no duct and no element. It has a refrigerant loop, a condenser block, a lint system with two filters instead of one, and a condensate circuit that has to get rid of a liter or two of water per load. All of that is maintenance that a vented dryer never needed, and neglecting it is what stops these machines.
- drn and OE are the condensate codes and only exist on these machines
- The condenser block slides out and is designed to be cleaned
- Dearer parts and a longer diagnosis than a vented machine
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from $115 Dryer moisture sensor service
Two metal strips inside the drum front decide when the load is dry, and fabric softener films them over until the machine reads every load as finished. The result is a cycle that jumps from an hour to a minute, or one that stops with the laundry still damp. Often cleaning rather than a part, and priced accordingly.
- HS is the code when it fails outright; drifting is far more common
- A timed cycle that dries and an auto cycle that does not is this, every time
- Usually cleaning rather than a part
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from $175 Oven element replacement
Bake or broil, and on an electric oven the failure is often visible from the doorway: a blistered, split or broken loop. The part is straightforward and the terminals behind the rear wall are the fussy half.
- Often diagnosable by eye before anything is opened
- F6, F9 and F19 are LG's heating codes
- The terminals behind the cavity wall are the real work
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from $135 Oven sensor calibration
An oven that is consistently out by twenty or forty degrees is measuring slightly wrong and doing exactly what it is told. That is what the offset in the control menu is for. An oven that swings is a different thing and needs the sensor, and telling the two apart takes half an hour with a probe.
- Steady error is calibration; a swing is the sensor
- Measured against a probe, not against the display
- Most LG ovens offer an offset of up to about 35°F
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from $185 Oven door repair
An oven is a box with one deliberately weak side. A hinge that has dropped, a spring that has tired or a glass pack that has separated all let heat out of the top corner, and the consequence is a cavity that preheats slowly, cooks unevenly and always seems to need longer than the recipe says — with a sensor that measures perfectly well.
- Slow preheating and uneven cooking with a good sensor is usually the door
- The door is heavier than it looks and the alignment is the job
- F10 and F20 are the lock rather than the hinge
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from $185 Range igniter replacement
Two different igniters live on a gas range and they are not the same job: the surface igniters that spark the cooktop burners, and the oven igniter that has to draw enough current to open the gas valve. Both are ordinary repairs and both are preceded by the cleaning that fixes a good proportion of them for nothing.
- Cleaning the caps and ports fixes more dead burners than parts do
- An oven igniter that glows can still be too weak — it is measured
- Moisture in the assembly is a real cause in this climate
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from $265 Induction cooktop repair
An induction top has no element to fail. It has a coil per zone, a temperature sensor under each, and an inverter board driving them — which is why a single dead zone is the good version of this problem and several at once is not. F33 and F34 are LG's front burner sensor codes and they exist on nothing else in the range.
- One zone dead is a coil or a sensor; several is the board
- F33 and F34 are induction-only codes
- The glass comes up, and the parts underneath are dearer than radiant
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from $195 Cooktop element repair
On a radiant top the element is under the glass and it fails open, which is measurable. The half people forget is the connector underneath it: it corrodes, it burns, and a new element onto a burnt connector fails early.
- Elements fail open and are measured, not guessed
- The connector under the element is half the repair
- F3 and the water-on-the-panel condition are controls rather than elements
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from $185 Microwave repair
Built-in and over-the-range machines, where the value is in the installation as much as the appliance. The magnetron circuit, the door interlocks and the control cover nearly everything that goes wrong. On a countertop machine we will tell you plainly when the arithmetic does not favor repairing it.
- A machine that runs and does not heat is the magnetron circuit, specifically
- A door interlock that has failed is a safety repair and comes out of service today
- The capacitor holds a lethal charge — this is the one appliance not to open
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from $155 Over the range microwave vent service
An over-the-range microwave is two appliances in one housing, and half the complaints about them are ventilation rather than cooking. Blower, damper, charcoal filter and the duct above the machine — and the first question is whether it was ever ducted outside at all.
- Ducted or recirculating decides what working even means
- The damper flap above the machine seizes and nobody looks at it
- Charcoal filters are replaced, not washed
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from $165 Range hood repair
LG publishes no error codes for its hoods, so this is diagnosis rather than translation. A hood is a motor, a capacitor, a switch, two lamps and a duct — and the commonest call about one turns out to be a recirculating installation working exactly as designed with a filter nobody has changed.
- No published codes on this appliance — it is all measurement
- Filters first, damper second, motor third
- Lights working and fan not is a useful split: power is arriving
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from $285 Appliance control board repair
The board is the last thing suspected rather than the first, because supply problems imitate it perfectly: a long extension lead, a shared circuit with something heavy on it, or a socket with a poor neutral will all produce board errors on a machine that is otherwise healthy. A second board fails exactly the way the first one did.
- The supply is checked first, every time
- EE on a washer and F11 on a range are board-level codes
- A board replaced without finding what killed it is a repeat visit
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from $115 Smart diagnosis and firmware service
LG builds diagnostics into these machines that most makes do not: a connected app, a stored history, and on many models an audible diagnosis the machine plays down a phone line. When that side stops working the appliance still washes and still cools — but you lose the reporting, and on this make the reporting is worth having.
- Connectivity, firmware and the app-side diagnosis
- The machine works without it; you lose the instrumentation
- Often a network problem rather than an appliance one
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from $165 Commercial appliance repair
LG's laundry turns up in places that are not houses — a building laundry room, a salon, a short-let block, a small gym. The machines are the same and everything around them is not: the duty cycle is higher, the downtime costs someone money, and access has to be arranged rather than assumed.
- The same machines, a much harder duty cycle
- Downtime is the cost, so the visit is planned around it
- Priced on time and on access
The jobs that exist nowhere else in this fleet
Direct Drive, WashTower, and a dryer with no duct
See the laundry jobs
What the machine tells you first
Five families that publish, and two that say nothing
LG publishes error code lists for its refrigerators, dishwashers, washers, dryers and cooking ranges, and on the laundry machines with no numeric display it publishes what the blinking indicator lights mean instead. That is more than most makes do and it changes what a first visit is worth. It publishes nothing for range hoods, and its wine cellar reports through the refrigerator control set — so on those two the symptom page is the whole archive and the diagnosis starts from measurement.
Before you book
Three minutes that change the visit
The model number, off the appliance
- Refrigerators: inside, on the left wall of the fresh food compartment.
- Washers and dryers: inside the door opening, or on the back panel.
- Ranges and wall ovens: on the frame behind the door, or under the cooktop.
- Dishwashers: on the edge of the door, visible when it is open.
What the machine is reporting
- A code on the display, written down exactly — including the letter in front of it.
- On a refrigerator, hold Freezer Temperature and Express Frz together for three seconds to bring the last code back.
- On a laundry machine with no numbers, count a full blink sequence and photograph it.
- Do not cut the power first. A code that has been reset is information nobody has.
By appliance
Or start from the appliance
Twelve cards, and each one says what a repair on that appliance actually involves on this make.
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French door · side-by-side · top freezer · bottom freezer · InstaView · Craft Ice Refrigerators
Three hundred and forty-seven of them are in LG's US catalog, which makes this the biggest part of what the badge sells and the biggest part of what we are called out for. LG is also the make that tells you most about itself when something goes wrong: the refrigerator carries a published code for the condenser fan, the freezer fan, the refrigerator fan, three separate sensors and the ice maker, and you can force it to show you the last one by holding two buttons. In a South Florida kitchen most of the calls are not the sealed system. They are ice, water, a fan that iced up behind the back wall, or a door that stopped sealing in air that is wet nine months of the year.
- French door, side-by-side, top freezer and bottom freezer, plus InstaView doors
- Er CF, CO, FF, FS, IF, IS, It, dS, rS and rT are published, with meanings
- Linear and Inverter Linear compressors, and the long compressor warranty behind them
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The freezer side of a French door, a bottom freezer or a side-by-side Freezers
LG does not sell a standalone upright freezer in this country — its freezers are the compartment: the bottom drawer of a French door, the bottom of a bottom-freezer cabinet, the tall left side of a side-by-side, or the top of a top-freezer. That is worth saying plainly, because it decides what a failure means. A freezer that is not holding on an LG is a refrigerator failure with its own published codes — FF for the freezer fan, FS for the freezer sensor, dS for the defrost sensor — and the compartment beside it is usually the evidence.
- The freezer is a compartment on this make, not a separate machine
- FF, FS and dS are published codes and each names a different part
- Frost on the back wall is a symptom of defrost, not of the door
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In-door and in-freezer ice makers, Craft Ice, and the automatic ice maker kits Ice makers
LG does not sell an undercounter ice machine in this country. Its ice makers live inside the refrigerator — in the door, in the freezer compartment, or as the second unit that makes the round Craft Ice — and its accessory catalog carries automatic ice maker kits for cabinets that shipped without one. That is where the calls come from, and LG publishes three codes for it: IF for the ice maker fan, IS for its temperature sensor and It for its motor. Ice is the single most common thing we are asked about on this badge, and it is rarely the ice maker.
- Ice makers in the door, in the freezer, and the second unit that makes Craft Ice
- IF, IS and It are published — fan, sensor and motor, each named
- A filter change and a slow fill line explain most of the no-ice calls
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The LG SIGNATURE wine cellar, and the wine storage inside a four-door cabinet Wine coolers
This is the narrowest page on the site, and it should be: LG's US catalog lists one wine cellar, a SIGNATURE machine, alongside the wine storage built into some of its four-door refrigerators. A wine cabinet is a refrigerator with a much narrower brief — it holds a temperature band rather than a temperature, and it is judged on how still it keeps the bottle as much as how cold. The failures follow from that: compressor cycling, a door seal, a fan, and the sensors that decide when any of it runs.
- One SIGNATURE wine cellar in the catalog, plus in-cabinet wine storage
- Judged on a stable band and on vibration, not on how cold it gets
- The same sensors and fans as the refrigerators, with tighter tolerances
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Front control · top control · QuadWash · TrueSteam · Inverter Direct Drive Dishwashers
A hundred and eight in LG's current catalog, and the best-documented dishwasher on this fleet: LG publishes thirteen codes for it and names the part behind each one — inlet, outlet, temperature sensor, heater, wash motor, water level sensor, the bubble error, the vario pump and three separate errors in the heat-dry system. The two calls we take most are the two the codes describe: it will not drain, and it is not getting things clean.
- Front control and top control, QuadWash arms and TrueSteam
- Thirteen published codes, each naming its own part
- Inverter Direct Drive motors, which are quiet and are not silent
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Front load · top load · WashTower · WashCombo · SideKick pedestal Washers
The laundry side of this badge is the busiest on the site, and LG sells more shapes of it than anyone: front load, top load with no agitator, the WashTower with both machines behind one control panel, the all-in-one WashCombo that washes and dries in one drum, and the SideKick pedestal washer that lives under the main machine. Two hundred and twenty-two laundry machines in the catalog between washers and dryers. LG publishes a separate code list for each shape, and the codes do not all mean the same thing across them.
- Front load, top load, WashTower, WashCombo and the SideKick pedestal
- Around twenty published codes, and a blinking-light set for machines with no display
- Direct Drive motors: fewer parts to fail, and a different failure when they do
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Electric · gas · ventless heat pump · WashTower · the SideKick pair Dryers
Sixty-eight dryers in the catalog, in three quite different kinds: vented electric, vented gas, and the ventless heat pump machines that condense the water into a drawer instead of pushing it outside. That last group changes what a repair is — there is no duct to blame, and the two things that fail are the condenser block and the drain the water leaves by. LG publishes codes for all of it, including the thermistor set tE1 to tE6 and the drn/OE pair that only exists on a machine with a water container.
- Vented electric, vented gas, and ventless heat pump machines
- tE1–tE6 thermistors, nP at the heater, drn/OE on the condensate drain
- On vented machines the duct is the first suspect and usually the answer
Free before paid
Several of these end without a part
A refrigerator in demo mode is lit, responsive and deliberately not cooling — LG’s own way out is to hold FRIDGE and press Express FRZ three times. An oven showing 5b is in Sabbath mode and will hold a temperature and ignore its controls. A cooktop showing H5 is telling you the glass is hot, which is not an error at all. And a dishwasher that has never drained since the day it was fitted is usually a disposal knockout plug nobody removed. We would rather tell you on the phone.
Before you call
Questions we are asked about the work
Do you charge for the diagnostic?
Yes, and it comes off the bill if you go ahead, so you pay it once either way. It pays for the diagnosis, which is the work — and on this make it buys more than usual, because the appliance normally has something to say before anything is opened.
Can you quote over the phone?
A range, often, and on LG more usefully than on most: a code or a light pattern plus a model number narrows it a long way. What we will not do is quote a repair nobody has measured.
Do you work on LG SIGNATURE and LG STUDIO?
Yes. They are the same machines with a different finish and, on some models, a longer parts list. The wine cellar on this site is a SIGNATURE product.
How quickly can somebody come?
Usually within a day or two across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. A refrigerator that has stopped cooling and a dryer that is running hot are treated as urgent; a hood that has lost a lamp is not, and we will say which yours is.
In more detail
What is different about servicing this make
Two languages for the same problem
LG appliances with a digital display show a code. Its laundry machines without one blink their indicator lights instead, and LG publishes what those patterns mean. Both are real reports, and on the machines that blink the pattern is the entire diagnosis — it disappears the moment the power is cut, which is why photographing the panel is worth more than any description.
The prefix is the diagnosis
On refrigeration, LG puts a letter in front of a code to say which part of the machine is complaining. Er dS is the defrost sensor on a single-evaporator cabinet; F dS is the freezer coil of a two-evaporator one and r dS is the refrigerator coil. Writing down the letter with the code is the difference between a diagnosis and a guess.
Volume, and what it does to a repair
LG is one of the two highest-volume makes on this fleet, and a drain pump, an inlet valve, a bake element or an igniter for one is a stocked item at every supply house in Miami-Dade. That keeps the ordinary repairs on this badge below what the built-in makes cost, and it is why a common failure is usually one visit rather than two.
The model number, and what the display or the lights are doing.
Those two together are usually enough for us to name a likely part before anybody sets off. If the machine has no display, tell us exactly which lights are blinking.
This article is based on:
- Official manufacturer documentation
- Internal repair procedures
- Technician repair history
- Company quality standards