--- title: "The number before we arrive, and what would move it." description: "Maytag repair cost for every job we publish, with the floor it starts from and the specific things that move it. No price decided at the door." url: "https://maytagmiami.support/repair-cost/" date_modified: "2026-09-07" --- # Repair cost archive ## The number before we arrive, and what would move it. Every figure on this list is a floor: the point below which the job cannot be done properly with a real part and a warranty behind it. What each page adds is the part most price lists leave out — what pushes the number up on your machine specifically, whether that is a stacked unit in a closet, a wall oven that has to come out on rails, or a part this badge happens not to stock. 46 — jobs with a published range from $89 — diagnostic, credited to the repair 11 — appliance types covered ## What each job runs, and why the range is a range A single figure would be a guess dressed up as a promise. Each page gives the floor, the usual band, and the specific circumstances that take a job past it. No cost pages are published yet. ## The part is usually already on the van This is the practical reason the figures on this list sit where they do. A drain pump, a lid lock, a door switch, a set of drum rollers, an oven igniter — these are commodity parts on a badge this widespread, stocked rather than ordered, and that removes both a second visit and the markup that comes with a specialist supply chain. It is worth saying because it does not hold everywhere. On a low-volume European badge the same repair carries a five-day wait and a part that costs three times as much. Here it usually does not, and the numbers on this page reflect that rather than hiding it. ## Two repairs we will talk you out of A basket bearing on a washer past its twelfth year, and a sealed system on a refrigerator of similar age, are both genuine repairs that we are perfectly able to do — and on an old machine they are frequently the wrong call. So is a magnetron in a countertop microwave, where the part costs more than the replacement. You will get that opinion with the number attached rather than instead of it, and the decision stays yours. What we will not do is quote a large repair on a machine near the end of its life without saying out loud that it is one. ## What actually moves a figure Things about the machine - A stacked pair or a laundry tower: one machine has to come out to reach the other. - A wall oven or a built-in microwave: it comes out of the cabinetry on rails, and that is a two-person lift. - A dishwasher under a stone counter: it has to be released and drawn forward carefully before anything is diagnosed. - A commercial machine: different duty cycle, different parts, and downtime that costs you money. Things about the job - Whether more than one thing is wrong. Two symptoms named when you book is one visit; two discovered at the door may not be. - Whether the part is one this badge stocks. Most are. The exceptions are named on the job's own page. - Access — a second-floor laundry closet, a garage freezer against a wall, a hood over an island. - Whether the machine has already been worked on. Tell us; it changes what we expect to find inside. ## By appliance instead What each appliance typically needs, and roughly what that costs on this badge. ## The figure is agreed before anything is opened The diagnostic covers the visit and a proper answer, and it comes off the repair when you go ahead. After the diagnosis you get the work and the price in writing, and nothing is opened, ordered or fitted until you have said yes to both. If the answer is that the machine is not worth the repair, you have paid for that answer rather than for a quote designed to make the repair sound inevitable. ## The questions the numbers get asked Why a range rather than one price? — Because the same job on two machines is not the same job. A drain pump on a top-loader in an open garage and the same pump on a stacked pair wedged in a hall closet differ by an hour, and a single number would be wrong on one of them by design. Is the diagnostic charged if I decline the repair? — Yes — it covers the visit and the diagnosis, which you keep either way. It is credited against the repair when you go ahead, so it is only ever paid once. Do you charge more for an older machine? — Not for its age. We do charge for what the machine actually requires, and an older one sometimes requires more — a seized fastener, a part that has to come out to reach another. That is on the job's page rather than a surprise. Can you give me a price over the phone? — We can give you the published range and tell you where in it your situation is likely to fall, which is usually enough to decide with. We will not commit to a final number for a machine nobody has looked at, because that number would not be worth anything. ## What a published price list is for ### Deciding before you call Most people looking at a repair figure are deciding whether to repair at all, and that decision needs a number before the visit rather than after it. A list that says call for pricing is a list that has decided you should be on the phone before you know anything, and it is not how we would want to be treated on the other side. ### Why a floor and not an average An average is a number nobody is ever charged. A floor is checkable: it is what the job costs when nothing about it is unusual, and every page then sets out what unusual looks like. If your situation carries none of those things, the floor is what you pay, and if it carries one you will know which one and roughly what it adds. ## Tell us the appliance, the model and the behavior. With those three we can usually place your job in the published range before anybody sets off. --- **[Read full article: Repair cost archive](https://maytagmiami.support/repair-cost-archive/)**