Maytag Appliance Repair · Pacifica, CA

Pacifica sits right on the coast, and the salt air off Rockaway Beach and Sharp Park does something the inland Tri-Valley towns don't deal with. It gets into metal contacts and circuit boards faster than anywhere else on my route. I see Maytag control boards, hinges, and heating elements corrode here years before a comparable unit would fail in San Ramon or Danville.

The dryer heating element and thermal fuse corrode at the contacts in Pacifica homes close to the water, especially in Linda Mar and Sharp Park, and a unit that ran fine for years starts tripping out of nowhere. Washer control panels take the same hit, buttons sticking or the board corroding at the connector pins on both Bravos and the newer front-load models. On the fridge side, the evap fan motor and the defrost thermostat corrode early in garage-installed units that catch the ocean air directly.

A technician based on the Peninsula, in San Mateo County, covers Pacifica along with the run down toward Half Moon Bay, so this isn't a special trip out of San Ramon every time.