Do you cover St. Augustine and St. Johns?
Yes — St. Johns County, including Marsh Creek, Davis Shores, Camachee Island, Palencia. Roughly a 40-mile working radius from the Jacksonville core. Appointments are scheduled, Mon–Fri 8–6 · Sat 9–4.
Local ground
St. Johns County splits cleanly in two: inland communities like Palencia, SilverLeaf and World Golf Village were built around their appliances, while the 32084 old town has kitchens that predate built-in equipment entirely and sit at the far edge of our working radius.
First checks at an address here
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Which half of the county the address is in
Inland new construction and the oceanfront old town fail in different ways, and the parts worth carrying on the van are different for each.
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The cabinet opening, measured
In the old town this decides whether a replacement is even possible. We measure during the diagnostic rather than after an appliance has been ordered.
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Exposed stainless and condenser fins
On the island side, chloride pits stainless locally and corrodes aluminium fins, so a condenser can lose capacity permanently rather than just needing cleaning.
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Hinges, fasteners and door square
Salt seizes hinge pins and rounds out screw heads. A door that has to be forced ends up out of alignment, and a misaligned door is a gasket problem within a season.
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Model and serial before the first visit
This is the far edge of the working radius. Knowing the exact revision decides whether the part rides out with us or costs you a second appointment.
That order is not a script. It is where the odds sit at an address in this area, and a technician who finds the cause in the second step stops there rather than working down the rest of the list.
A county that fails two different ways
St. Johns County does not have one appliance problem, it has two, and which one you have depends on how far you are from the ocean.
Inland — Palencia, World Golf Village, King & Bear, Murabella, SilverLeaf and Julington Creek — is largely recent construction with well-specified kitchens. On the water, around Davis Shores, Camachee Island, Marsh Creek and Sea Colony in 32084, the housing is older, the exposure is harsher, and the constraints are physical.
We plan the visit differently depending on which side of that line the address sits.
Inland St. Johns: whole suites, installed together
A recently built kitchen here usually holds a full set of built-ins: a refrigerator or a pair of columns, a dishwasher, one or two wall ovens, often a steam oven and a plumbed coffee system in the same run.
They were commissioned in the same week, and they reach the same age together. That is why these houses tend to be silent for years and then produce two or three calls in one season, and it is why diagnosing more than one appliance on a single visit is usually the cheaper path for the homeowner.
The other inland reality is distance. This is the far edge of a roughly 40-mile working radius, so a second trip costs a day rather than an hour. Model and serial number given at the booking is what decides whether a board, a seal kit or a drawer runner rides out with us the first time. Built-in equipment is revised through its production life and the correct part is frequently set by the serial rather than the model, so a photograph of the data plate is worth more than a description.
One local note worth correcting: the World Golf Hall of Fame relocated to Pinehurst, North Carolina in 2024. World Golf Village the community is still very much here, and so are its kitchens.
The 32084 coast: chloride and old openings
Davis Shores sits across the Bridge of Lions on Anastasia Island. Camachee Island is on the Tolomato at the north end of town. Marsh Creek and Sea Colony are on the Anastasia side as well. All of it is inside 32084, one of the coastal ZIPs where airborne salt is a daily load rather than an occasional event.
What chloride does is a materials problem rather than a refrigeration one. It locally breaks down the passive oxide film that makes stainless corrosion-resistant, so you get pitting and rust bloom instead of even tarnish. It sets up galvanic corrosion wherever two different metals meet, which seizes hinge pins and rounds out fasteners until a door will not close square — and a refrigerator door that does not seal square in this humidity is a condensation and gasket-mould problem within a season. And it eats the aluminium fin stacks on condensers, so outdoor refrigeration and ice machines lose capacity through the summer.
Rinsing exposed stainless and condenser fins with fresh water monthly is the single most effective thing an owner on the island side can do. Rain does not do it for you — it dissolves deposited salt and carries it into seams.
The old town’s other constraint
St. Augustine’s older housing carries the same retrofit problem we see in Jacksonville’s historic neighbourhoods, and often a sharper version of it. Kitchens were laid out long before built-in appliances existed. Openings are undersized against current dimensions and shallow as often as they are narrow, dedicated circuits were never installed, and the route from the street to the kitchen is not always wide enough for the appliance that has to travel it.
That makes the measurement part of the diagnostic rather than an afterthought. When replacement is the honest recommendation, the opening decides what fits, and the access route decides how it gets there. We would rather establish both before an order is placed than stand in a hallway with a crate.
Working in St. Johns County
Scheduled appointments Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm and Saturday 9am to 4pm, within a roughly 40-mile working radius. We are an independent appliance repair company, with EPA Section 608 certification for sealed-system work.
$80 flat diagnostic, credited toward the repair when you approve the work, written estimate before any part is ordered, genuine OEM parts, 90 days on labor and 365 days on parts.
Where the line is drawn
Kitchen appliances. That is the whole trade.
Every call we take in St. Augustine and St. Johns is a built-in kitchen appliance: built-in refrigeration , ice machines , dishwashers , wall ovens and ranges and cooktops and ventilation . Refrigeration, ice, dishwashing, baking, cooking and the hood over it — six things a kitchen does, and the machines that do them.
We do not work on heating, air conditioning, ductwork or heat pumps. That is a separate trade with a separate licence, and no amount of overlap in the vocabulary changes it: a condenser in a refrigerator and a condenser in an air handler are not the same machine, and we only open one of them. We do not take laundry calls either. If the fault is in your furnace, your air handler or the ducts, a licensed HVAC contractor is who you want — we would rather say that now than at your kitchen door.
What it costs
What does a repair cost in St. Augustine and St. Johns?
One fee to find out: $80, flat, and it comes off the bill the moment you say go ahead. Past that, repair work in St. Augustine and St. Johns sits between $200 and $990, and where inside that band a job lands is decided by the part that failed rather than by the badge on the door.
One table for the whole service area. What changes between addresses is which of these rows comes up, not what the row costs.
| Repair | Parts and labor |
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| Diagnostic visit, flat | $80 |
| Igniter, spark module or surface element | $200–$570 |
| Electronic control board | $440–$990 |
You get a written estimate before any part is ordered or any labor begins. Nothing proceeds without your approval.
Asked in St. Augustine and St. Johns
What does a repair cost in St. Augustine and St. Johns?
$80 to come out and find the fault, credited back the moment the repair is approved. The work itself lands between $200 and $990 on this kind of equipment — $200–$570 for igniter, spark module or surface element, $440–$990 for electronic control board — and which of those it turns out to be is the thing the visit settles. Your own number goes in writing before a part is ordered.
Which counties do you cover?
Duval County, St. Johns County, Clay County, Nassau County. Roughly a 40-mile working radius from the Jacksonville core. $80 flat diagnostic fee, credited toward the repair when you approve the work.
Customer feedback
Recent calls in St. Augustine and St. Johns
Rated 4.6 out of 5 across 101 customer reviews. Every entry below is one appointment, written up afterwards by the householder whose kitchen it happened in.
Filed under this region, so these are jobs that happened at addresses here.
The unit barely stopped running and the cabinet side was hot to touch. The condenser was blanketed in dust from a return that sits right beside it. He stripped and cleaned the fin stack and the cycling was normal by evening.
Ottoline R.2026-01-22
The refrigerator held fine but the freezer drawer kept frosting at the seal. He found the drawer gasket had shrunk at one corner and the rail was out of square. Both corrected in the one visit and the frost has not come back.
Rafferty D.2025-10-09
Our oven fan had turned into a howl loud enough to hear from the porch. The motor bearing had rusted through, which he put down to steam finding its way past a tired door seal. He changed the motor and the seal.
Barrett L.2026-03-27
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You get a written estimate before any part is ordered or any labor begins. Nothing proceeds without your approval.
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