Not producing, module failure, water line — Same-day, fixed quote.
Every warm stretch, Tigard's ice makers quit in a wave — and because our shop sits on Washington Square Road, 97223 and 97224 no-ice calls often get cubes back the same afternoon the lemonade plans were made. The machines fail in predictable ways, and most causes live in the water's journey rather than in the ice maker itself.
Our check order, fastest-first: the water filter (an overdue cartridge starves flow — small, hollow, crescent cubes are its signature, with a slowing dispenser as co-witness), the fill valve behind the fridge (a tired one underfills the mold; a weeping one drips between cycles and freezes the delivery tube shut), the resulting frozen fill tube (the single most common finding — the maker cycles an empty tray forever until the icicle and its cause are both handled), and only then the module itself, swapped as an assembly when its motor or thermostat has genuinely retired.
The LG and Samsung French-doors filling Tigard's newer construction keep the ice maker inside the refrigerator door in a chilled compartment. When that compartment's seal wears, humid kitchen air sneaks in and everything glaciates: welded cubes, a groaning auger, frost on the mechanism. Chipping the ice buys a month; restoring the seal is the repair — and it's one we do weekly.
Ice output is a freezer thermometer in disguise: a compartment drifting from 0°F toward 15°F slows production long before food complains, so tapering ice earns a full cooling check, not just an ice-maker part. Valves, filters and modules ride the van; the meter names the guilty part; the quote is fixed in writing before work starts.
We reach all of Tigard — Nike corridor, Cedar Hills, Bethany, Raleigh Hills — plus the wider west side, same-day.