A technician in a plain navy work shirt seen from behind and shoulders down, standing in a bright home kitchen with a plain clipboard in one hand, looking toward a stainless built-in refrigerator and a wall of cabinetry with a built-in oven, a small closed tool bag on the floor beside him, calm morning light.

Whole-Home Maintenance Visit

One unhurried pass through every appliance in the house, with a written log of what each one needs next.

(844) 879-5178

Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm

Price before any work
5 steps on the visit
6 problems it answers

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What the whole-home maintenance visit
involves.

A whole-home maintenance visit is a walk through the house with the appliances as the agenda. It starts wherever you use them most, usually the kitchen, and ends in the laundry room or the garage. At each one the technician looks for the quiet signs of wear before they turn into a breakdown: a condenser coil wearing a coat of dust, a gasket that no longer grips a sheet of paper, a burner with a patch of yellow in its flame, a dish care filter caked with food, lint collecting behind the dryer, a washer hose with a soft spot near its crimp. Readings are taken where they tell something: the temperature in the fresh food and freezer sections, the time a dryer needs to heat, how long a dishwasher takes to drain. Easy jobs, such as brushing a coil or rinsing a filter, are done on the spot if you agree; longer ones are listed. You keep a written log with each appliance's model, what was cleaned, what was found and when it should next be looked at. Anything already broken is named plainly and handed to the sister repair site for that appliance.

How the visit goes

What it costsUpkeep is quoted after the appliances have been seen

The four steps rank maintenance jobs against one another; they are not a quote for your house.

Answers 6 problemsAppliance Energy Use Creeping Up With Nothing Else Changed

Appliance Maintenance Code or Reminder Light: Filter, Descale, Vent Check · Door Seal Not Holding: Gaps, Tears and Doors That Drift Open · White Scale on Appliance Water Parts: Steam Ovens, Ice Makers, Dish Care · Appliance Tripping the Breaker Every Time It Runs · Burning Electrical Smell From an Appliance: Breaker Off First

Comes up most onCold storage

Cooking appliances · Dish care · Laundry

Codes that lead hereDoor Ajar Alarm · Door Alert

True Door Ajar Alarm: the door has been open past seven minutes.

Whole-home maintenance visit,
step by step.

Leave a written log per appliance: what was done, what is wearing, when it is due next, and anything that is now a repair.

Walk the house with you and list every appliance, its age if known, and anything it has started doing differently.

Look at each one in turn: coils, seals, filters, burners, drains, hoses and exhaust, with the cover panels the maker lets owners remove.

Take the readings that matter for each: section temperatures, drying and drain times, flame shape, and how level each cabinet sits.

Do the short cleaning jobs you approve on the spot, and set aside anything that needs parts or a second visit.

Leave a written log per appliance: what was done, what is wearing, when it is due next, and anything that is now a repair.

The problems
it answers.

6 of them, from appliance energy use creeping up with nothing else changed to burning electrical smell from an appliance: breaker off first.

All problems

A home kitchen counter in soft daylight with a small plain white plug-in energy meter with a blank dark screen plugged into a wall outlet beside a stainless refrigerator, the refrigerator's kick plate at the bottom visibly furred with dust.

Most common

Appliance Energy Use Creeping Up With Nothing Else Changed

6 causes, cheapest first

Before you call

Tell us this when you book

Every appliance you want looked at, room by room, including a garage freezer or a second oven
The makes and models if they are handy, and roughly how old each one is
Anything that has changed lately: louder, slower, warmer, smellier or a light on the display
Where the water shutoffs, the gas shutoff and the breaker panel are, and any pets that need to be kept away

It also answers

A price before
any work.

The four steps rank maintenance jobs against one another; they are not a quote for your house. One coil takes minutes and a garage full of units takes an hour; a short exhaust run is quick and a long roof run is not; a seal may need cleaning or a new gasket. The technician looks first, tells you what each appliance needs and what it costs, and only with your agreement does any cleaning or part go ahead.

Read the full cost guide

Service	Relative cost
Condenser coil and fan cleaned on a refrigerator, freezer, wine or beverage unit or ice maker, drain pan checked
Water filters replaced and flushed, inlet screens checked, descaling run on a steam oven, ice maker or dish care machine
Door seals tested, cleaned and reseated, hinges and cabinet level adjusted, a worn gasket replaced
Lint path cleaned from the screen housing through the transition duct and wall run to the outside hood
Drain filter cleared, door boot and detergent drawer cleaned, tub clean run, fill hoses checked and machine leveled
Filter and sump cleaned, spray arm nozzles cleared, door seals and dispensers checked, drain loop confirmed
Burner heads, ports and caps cleaned, igniters cleared, flames read, gas connector and shutoff leak-tested
Hood or microwave grease filters degreased or replaced, charcoal pads renewed, fan housing wiped, damper checked
Annual plan: scheduled visits across cold storage, cooking, dish care and laundry, with one running service log

Where it
comes up most.

Most bookings: Cold storage, Cooking appliances, Dish care, Laundry.

All home appliance types

Codes that lead here

Often the same visit

A tidy home kitchen with a tall built-in stainless column refrigerator and freezer pair set into light wood cabinetry, the toe grille at floor level removed and leaning against the cabinet, a technician seen only from the shoulders down kneeling on a gray mat and drawing a long soft coil brush out from under the unit, a small canister vacuum beside him, even daylight from a side window.

Cold storage

A home kitchen with a stainless pro-style gas range and a matching hood above it against a light tile backsplash, the grates lifted off and laid on a folded towel on the counter, a technician seen only from the shoulders down wiping a brass burner cap with a soft cloth, a clean baffle filter leaning beside the towel, all burners off, soft daylight.

Cooking appliances

An open built-in dishwasher in a bright home kitchen with white cabinets, both racks pulled out and empty, the cylindrical filter lifted out and held over a stainless sink by a technician seen only from the shoulders down, a lower spray arm resting on a folded towel on the counter, soft daylight.

Dish care

The makes
we see it on.

35 makes on this site, and the whole-home maintenance visit on any of them. Each mark opens that make's own page.

All 35 brands

Whole-home maintenance visit,
where we come out.

The home, the climate and the building all change how the whole-home maintenance visit goes. These notes are about that, metro by metro.

All service areas

Tampa BayFL · 31 areas

A whole-home maintenance visit around Tampa Bay starts with what the long wet summer leaves behind, a damp laundry room, a musty front-loader seal and a refrigerator grille furred with dust and pet hair, and each finding goes into the home's service log with a date so the visit before the next storm season picks up where this one ended.

OrlandoFL · 30 areas

In Orlando's newer subdivisions a whole-home maintenance visit often meets a full set of appliances bought together when the house closed, so the technician walks them in the order they tend to wear, the laundry exhaust run first, then the kitchen's water filter, then the coils under the refrigerator, and logs each one for the homeowner.

Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas

A South Florida whole-home maintenance visit is usually timed for late spring, ahead of the wet months and hurricane season, so coils are brushed, supply hoses looked over and gaskets wiped of mildew, and a condo owner who leaves for the summer knows what was found before the place is closed up.

New York MetroNY · 75 areas

New York apartments fit a whole kitchen, and sometimes a stacked laundry pair, into a few feet of wall, and a whole-home maintenance visit there works around radiators, building rules and a narrow booking window, checking each appliance's breathing room as carefully as its filters and seals.

HoustonTX · 36 areas

Houston's heat and humidity work on every appliance in a house at once, so a whole-home maintenance visit there hunts the same enemy in several places: mildew in gaskets and drum folds, dust packed onto condenser coils, and rust starting wherever condensation sits for a summer.

ChicagoIL · 50 areas

Chicagoland homes often keep the laundry in a basement and the kitchen two floors up, and a whole-home maintenance visit covers both: the long exhaust run from the dryer to the rim joist and the washer's hoses beside the floor drain below, then burners, filters and seals upstairs, all in one log.

Los AngelesCA · 95 areas

A Los Angeles whole-home maintenance visit reads the basin's two habits inside the house, mineral-rich water on anything that heats, chills or sprays it and fine dust on anything that moves air, then checks gas connector slack and appliance restraints because the region shakes.

San DiegoCA · 31 areas

San Diego homes range from beach cottages in damp marine air to inland houses baked on Santa Ana days, and a whole-home maintenance visit there begins by placing the house in one of those two climates, since that decides whether coils, hinges or water parts get the closest look.

San Francisco Bay AreaCA · 74 areas

A day of Bay Area whole-home maintenance visits can cross three microclimates, from foggy city flats to hot inland suburbs, and each visit ends with a written list by appliance that separates what was cleaned today from what should be watched before the next one.

A family sharing breakfast in a bright, well-kept home kitchen. — For the heart of your home.

Questions about
the whole-home maintenance visit.

How long does a whole-home maintenance visit take?

It depends on how many appliances there are and how long ago they were last cleaned. A kitchen and a laundry pair is usually a morning or an afternoon; a large house with column units, two ovens and a garage freezer can fill most of a day.

What happens if something on the visit turns out to be broken?

You hear it plainly, with what was seen and why it points to a failed part. That work belongs to our sister repair site for that appliance, and the notes from the visit go with it so nobody starts from zero.

Is a whole-home visit worth it when everything seems to work?

That is the best time for it. Coils, filters, gaskets and lint paths wear gradually and silently, and catching them while everything still works is cheaper and far less disruptive than a breakdown on a holiday weekend.

Back to your everyday

Ready to book the whole-home maintenance visit?

Have these to hand: every appliance you want looked at, room by room, including a garage freezer or a second oven, the makes and models if they are handy, and roughly how old each one is, anything that has changed lately: louder, slower, warmer, smellier or a light on the display, where the water shutoffs, the gas shutoff and the breaker panel are, and any pets that need to be kept away.

Schedule maintenance Call (844) 879-5178