July 2024 Update

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Greetings,

Happy to announce we are open and available to schedule new calls for appliance repair. We love our customers so grateful for such wonderful people that allow us to do what we do. We want to remind you that we are the number one source for Samsung Dryer repairs. We’ve been enjoying summer here on the treasure coast. The beach is beautiful, the water has been exceptionally warm. Noticing smaller swells and more calm days out on the water. If your having a problem with your refrigerator please give us a call so we can help with your refrigerator repair. We try to stay up to date with fresh content here on our site. We are going to try to get more consistent with posts on our website with fresh relevant news. Whirlpool Appliances have really changed over the years and we have been keeping up with the many refrigerator, washer, and dryer designs they’ve produced over the years. How often do you call an appliance repair company out for a repair and they have the parts on the truck? Isn’t that the best? Nobody wants to wait around for an appliance repair. We have been growing our inventory on our trucks and we are striving for a 90% first call completion rate. Frigidaire Side By Side Refrigerators were some of the best ever made with simple controls and a track record of reliability. Our latest experiences with Frigidaire professional series refrigerators has been complicated to say the least. Its amazing how things have changed, so complex but yet the simplest problems arise that were never even thought of before. Simple fill tubes freezing, over complicated water delivery systems. Its too much.

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PSL Appliance Repair

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Refrigerator Sealed Systems and How To Access Them

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As most appliance technicians know the factory does not install access ports onto refrigerators to be sold to the public. They are tested, pressurized, and sealed off to prevent refrigerant tampering or accidental venting of the refrigerant inside. Refrigerators used to use a toxic refrigerant known as R-12 which was a highly chlorinated refrigerant much like ammonia. Todays refrigerators at the time of writing this are primarily R-134a which is a much safer and environmentally friendly none the less extreme caution must be taken when dealing with any type of refrigerant to prevent accidental atmospheric venting.

Accessing refrigerators is done professionally with two methods, the first is with a supco bullet piercing valve BPV-31

Supco Bullet Piercing Valve

These are not to be left on a system indefinitely because they will eventually leak allowing refrigerant into the atmosphere. I personally only use these for diagnostic and leak detection although I have been leaning towards using access pliers.

Which brings me to my next sealed system access method

Refrigerant Access Pliers

Refrigeration access pliers are a great way to access a sealed system but the problem is that once your remove the pliers the system is left open. But we can solve this problem with a refrigeration pinch off tool.

Refrigeration Pinch Off Tool

With a refrigeration pinch off tool we can seal off the copper tubing beyond the access pliers and once it is fully locked down you can remove your access pliers and seal off the end of the copper stub with some silver solder.