Sometimes Fixing a Single Wire Can Repair Your Appliance

Sometimes appliances need new belts, new switches, or new control boards. Other times your appliance needs to be completely replaced due to pest infestations. But, yup, sometimes all we need to do is repair a single wire.

Sometimes some simple rewiring is the only issue. With both new and old appliances, wires are vulnerable to wire damage. If your older fridge has been working well for over a decade, for example, and then it suddenly stops working then it could be a single wire causing the issue. It could be the fan, or the fan motor, or it could be a single wire. We say that because that's literally sometimes the case, and you won't know until a specialist looks at it. Ovens, freezers, dishwashers, and all other types of home appliances all have many crucial wires weaving throughout their circuit boards and control switches. How can you turn your dryer on if a wire connected to the ON button has fallen out due to mildew, rat bites, or spider nests? We've seen mice colonies living in refrigerators, so a chewed wire repair is nothing new to us, but it might surprise some people when they realize how simple and affordable their fridge repair cost will be. We'll give you more examples, and share some recent photos, of how and when a single wire made the difference between an appliance working or not.

It's often not that easy to detect, but broken wires are one thing we look for because there is the slight chance, just like in a computer or in a vehicle, that a single wire could be causing enough malfunction to cause errors in its systems and therefore make it not work as intended. In a car, a single frayed wire to the oxygen sensor can cause rough idling. In a freezer, a single wire can make one part of the freezer get colder than the other. We've seen it happen! Wires and electronics work in weird ways, and if you jiggle this and jiggle that it probably won't fix the problem but if an experienced appliance repairman looks at your broken fridge or oven then - slap! - there's about a 8.07% chance it could be a single wire. We're just saying...

Most household appliances will have dozens of wires in them. If your appliance is not working due to a wire issue, the problem isn't always easy to find. It's one of the things we look for when inspecting an appliance at the site. If we a see a wire that is disconnected during the diagnosis and all we need to do is re-plug it, we'll repair it on site and the customer will only pay our one time diagnosis fee, which is $90 (it was $75 before the pandemic, more on that in a future post), and then the appliance will work like new again, all because a single wire was reconnected! Isn't that an interesting aspect of the appliance repair industry?

If you suspect something might be wrong with your appliance, have a professional look at it today, because you won't know until a proper diagnosis is made. We don't recommend kneeling down to scrounge for an unplugged wire DIY or anything. We're just saying, that in our experience in the field at least, single wires being the culprit of appliance malfunctions is not so farfetched, and so we thought it might be interesting information to share with a local Victorian who has never thought much about fixing appliances before, so, again, thanks for reading. Sometimes we can work out what the issue might be over the phone; other times the problem isn't so simple, and we want to share some of those experiences too. We serve the Greater Victoria, Saanich Core, and surrounding areas on the mid island and, if your appliance isn't working due to a single wire being disconnected or frayed, then we'll fix it, like we would no matter what the problem might be.

Thanks for reading!