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Services

Ice Maker Repair in Denver, CO

No ice, slow ice, small hollow cubes, or a frozen fill line — refrigerator ice makers diagnosed and fixed.

  • Licensed & insured general contractor
  • No drive-time charge, materials at cost
  • Phone answered 24/7, emergencies included
  • Free written estimates, usually within a day

What's included

Every ice maker repair job covers

The same checklist whether it's a quick fix or the full replacement.

  • The whole chain checked: valve, fill line, mold thermostat, ejector, and switch
  • Frozen fill tubes thawed and the reason they froze corrected
  • Water inlet valves — scale's favorite victim — tested and replaced
  • Filters checked and changed; a clogged filter mimics a broken ice maker
  • Leaks at the ice maker's plumbing traced and sealed
  • Full module replacement when the unit itself is done — often the economical fix
Zack Wais, owner of Zack of All Trades, on a job site in Denver

Who shows up

Hi, I'm Zack.

Fifteen years on the tools across the west Denver metro. Ice makers are little machines living inside bigger ones, with their own plumbing and their own opinions.

The failure is almost always in a short chain of parts, and in this metro mineral scale is suspect number one — plenty of dead ice makers are a valve and a filter away from working.

What’s covered

Ice Maker Repair services in Denver, CO

Everything under this heading, handled on the same visit where the job allows.

No Ice / Slow Ice

The water path and module tested link by link — valve, line, filter, thermostat — until production returns.

Frozen Fill Lines

Iced-up tubes thawed and the underlying cause — flow, temperature, or valve dribble — actually corrected.

Hard-Water Scale Service

Valves, filters, and lines cleared of the mineral buildup that slowly strangles metro ice makers.

Module Replacement

The whole ice maker unit swapped when that's the economical fix — common brands, clean install.

How it works

From your list to done

  1. Step 01

    Send me the list

    Call, text, or use the form. Photos help more than descriptions do — most jobs can be quoted from a picture without a site visit.

  2. Step 02

    Get a real number back

    Usually within one business day, itemized, with materials at cost and no charge for driving out to you.

  3. Step 03

    I show up and fix it

    The person who quoted your job is the person who does it. Batch a few items into one visit and the whole list costs less than two separate trade calls.

“Great work, great communication, great follow-through. I'm very impressed with the attic fan install Zack did, which involved long, hot work amidst blown-in insulation. He made himself available quickly and then stayed late to finish the job. Thanks Zack.”
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Common questions

Ice Maker Repair FAQs

Quick answers to the questions Denver homeowners and businesses ask me most.

My ice maker stopped making ice but the fridge works fine. Why?

Because the ice maker is nearly its own appliance — its water valve, fill tube, filter, and module can all fail while the fridge hums along happily. The most common culprits in order: a clogged filter, a scaled-up inlet valve, a frozen fill tube, or the module itself. Each is testable in minutes, and none means anything's wrong with the refrigerator around it.

Why are my ice cubes getting smaller and hollow?

That's a fill-volume symptom — the mold isn't getting enough water per cycle, so cubes freeze thin-walled and hollow. In this metro that's hard-water scale narrowing the inlet valve or an overdue filter nine times out of ten. It's also the early warning: small cubes now, no cubes in a few months. A valve and filter service catches it at the cheap stage.

Do you install ice makers too, or just repair them?

Both — repair lives on this page, and installation (adding an ice maker kit to a fridge, or running the water line a fridge never had) lives with my refrigerator and appliance installation work. The water line is the real job there: braided line off a proper valve, not a piercing saddle valve, which is the part that fails and floods. Either direction, it's one call.

Is a countertop or standalone ice maker worth fixing?

Sometimes — the pumps and valves in a standalone unit are repairable and cheaper than replacing a good machine. Small countertop units usually aren't; the whole sealed system is the machine. I'll tell you which yours is on the phone rather than charging you to find out.

Related services

One person for the whole property.

Refrigerator Repair

Warm fridges, freezers icing over, water on the floor, and refrigerators that never stop running — diagnosed at the actual component and fixed.

See Refrigerator Repair details

Appliance Installation

Dishwashers, ranges, wall ovens, microwaves, hoods, fridges with water lines, washers and dryers — delivered-to-the-driveway appliances actually installed.

See Appliance Installation details

Appliance Repair

Refrigerators, washers, dryers, dishwashers, ovens, and the rest — diagnosed honestly and repaired where repair is the smart money.

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Dryer Vent Cleaning

Lint cleared from the full vent run — the maintenance that shortens dry times, cuts energy waste, and removes the house's most preventable fire risk.

See Dryer Vent Cleaning details

Oven, Stove & Range Repair

Burners that won't light, ovens that won't hold temperature, dead bake elements, and error codes — gas and electric cooking appliances repaired.

See Oven, Stove & Range Repair details

Washer & Dryer Repair

Washers that won't drain, spin, or stop leaking; dryers that won't heat, tumble, or shut up — laundry machines repaired, gas and electric.

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Dishwasher Repair

Not draining, not cleaning, leaking, or dead mid-cycle — dishwashers diagnosed at the pump, valve, or seal responsible and put back to work.

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Freezer Repair

Chest, upright, and garage freezers that stopped freezing, frost over, or run without stopping — diagnosed before the food loses the race.

See Freezer Repair details

Where I work

Ice Maker Repair across the Denver metro.

Out most weeks in Lakewood, Golden, Arvada, Wheat Ridge, Evergreen, Idaho Springs, Littleton, Centennial, Westminster, and Englewood. Don’t see your neighborhood? 19+ Denver metro cities covered — just ask.

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(720) 441-4644
Availability
24 hours a day, 7 days a week — emergencies included
Service area
Lakewood, CO & the Denver metro

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