Amana Refrigerator Repair in Philadelphia

To repair an Amana refrigerator well, you start with the hardware: Amana refrigerators, built on Whirlpool refrigeration hardware, are mostly bottom-freezer, top-freezer and side-by-side models with simple controls.

Our Amana refrigerator jobs mostly come down to defrost heaters and thermostats, evaporator fan motors, start relays, and door gaskets. The calls we get tend to mention fresh-food side warm, freezer cold, frost on freezer back panel, and compressor clicking. With a cold top freezer and a warm fresh-food side, press the door switch and listen behind the freezer panel for the evaporator fan. A coat of frost on the freezer's back panel means the defrost cycle has stopped, not that the unit is running too cold.

The straightforward side-by-side and top-freezer Amana designs use a basic electronic or mechanical defrost system, and when the fresh-food side warms up, frost has usually choked off airflow from the freezer. A new defrost heater or thermostat normally solves it, and the compressor is seldom to blame. As long as the sealed system is sound, repair is sensible.

In a rowhouse, the refrigerator usually sits in a rear kitchen with cabinets tight on both sides, and a condenser that cannot breathe is behind a lot of the warm-shelf calls we get. Coils, fan operation, defrost parts and the start relay all get checked before the word compressor comes up.

Heavy frost on the freezer's back panel of a warm Amana top-freezer refrigerator usually means the defrost system has quit. The evaporator fan motors and repairs like it are quoted in writing before we start.

Change the water filter on the schedule in the manual rather than waiting for the indicator light. Calls about compressor clicking are a good example of why we diagnose Amana refrigerators before ordering anything.