A Spanish-style house bar with an undercounter ice maker, seen close and low, the ice catching the light.

Los Angeles County, Los Angeles

Ice maker repair in Pasadena.

Craftsman houses whose kitchens were modernized around the original plumbing, where an ice maker's line may tap into old galvanized pipe that sheds scale into the valve screen, on top of water that is already mineral-heavy.

(844) 773-0701

Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm

Los Angeles County
Three things about Pasadena
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What Pasadena does
to an ice maker.

PWP calls Pasadena's water very hard, averaging 12.9 grains of hardness per gallon.

Metropolitan Water District water makes up more than 60 percent of Pasadena's supply and is blended with local groundwater before it reaches taps.

The city runs water and electricity from one department, created in 1967 when the Water Department and the Light and Power department were consolidated.

Pasadena counts power outages among the effects of Santa Ana winds, and a major Santa Ana windstorm hit the city at the end of November 2011.

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Older housing stock

Older houses often feed the ice maker through a saddle valve clamped onto a copper pipe, a fitting plumbers no longer recommend, and its rubber seal hardens with age until a slow drip at the clamp soaks the subfloor behind the unit.

Mixed housing

Tenants in older rentals often live with an ice maker the landlord bought secondhand, and one missing its filter bypass plug, or fitted with a generic cartridge that does not seat, can leak into the filter housing and down the front of the cabinet.

Family houses

A pitcher held against the dispenser paddle too long, or a small hand reaching into the bin, can knock the shutoff arm or pack chunks around the auger, and a jammed auger is freed and the bin cleared before the motor is ever suspected.

A visit in
Pasadena.

Four steps from the call to a working ice maker in Pasadena, Los Angeles County.

What repairs cost

01Water traced from the valve to the mold
02A number before the work
03Everyday ice maker parts already on board
04Filled, frozen and dropped in front of you

When an ice maker
cannot wait in Pasadena.

In Pasadena as anywhere, these four can spread water across the floor, soak the cabinet or the wall behind the ice maker, or carry water to an outlet or a cord that is still live.

All 17 problems