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3 Things You Need to Know About Using an Appliance Service Company

by Emilius Das

If your air conditioner breaks down, and you need assistance figuring out what is wrong with your appliance, you can call an appliance service company come out, figure out what is wrong, and fix it. When you call an appliance service company for assistance, you will be charged a service call fee, flat labor rate, and for parts. They will let you know if your appliance should be repaired or replaced. You should also get a guarantee to accompany any work that was completed.

Fees

When you call an appliance service company for assistance, it helps to understand how the fee structure works.

The first fee you will face is a service call fee. As soon as a technician is dispatched to your location, you are charted a service fee. This fee covers the trip to and from your home that the service technician has to make. The service call fee also covers the diagnostic process. The same fee applies if the technician has to drive an hour out of the way or only spends five minutes figuring out what is wrong with your appliance. This set fee helps make appliance repair service affordable to all individuals. This is the fee you have to pay regardless of if you go forward with the repair.

After that, you will be charged for labor for the repair and for the replacement parts used to fix your appliance. Most appliance services do not charge by the hour, instead they charge by the job. This is referred to as a Flat Rate Labor charge. Flat rate labor charges are great because you know what you will be charged upfront, not after the job is complete. This allows you to make an informed decision about if you want to do the repair or not.

Recommendation

As part of the diagnostic, the technician is going to give you their insight on if they think that the part should be repaired or replaced. They will let you know how long the replacement part with last. They will also be able to look at the overall general health of your appliance and let you know if they think other parts are likely to fail soon and if it would be a better investment of your money to replace the item.

Ultimately though, the choice is yours if you want to fix your damaged appliance or if you would rather replace it.

Guarantee

Finally, you need to make sure the service company you work with provides a guarantee for their work. You should be able to rest assured that the repair they made to your appliance will last. Most appliance service repair companies will offer short warranties, generally somewhere between thirty to ninety days, where if the repair fails for any reason, they will come out and fix it again.

When you need to call an appliance repair company, you will be charged a service call fee and will be present with full diagnostics and options before any work is done your appliance. All work done should be backed up with a short-term guarantee. 

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