Appliance repair ?

[irn-brue]

Is there much money in appliance repair im self employed. Get asked to look at appliances quite a lot, can do the basics. Is their any kind of training available for appliance repair . I have my pat testing ticket . Want to up my skillset so can do some of the more difficult repairs on expensive appliances. Any advice would be appreciated. Cheers

 

[SJD]

Is there much money in appliance repair im self employed. Get asked to look at appliances quite a lot, can do the basics. Is their any kind of training available for appliance repair . I have my pat testing ticket . Want to up my skillset so can do some of the more difficult repairs on expensive appliances. Any advice would be appreciated. Cheers

I was talking to someone yesterday who does just appliance repairs - ovens, washing machines, dish washers etc. One of the issues is keeping a good stock of common spares, e.g. he keeps 2 of the common oven elements in his van (and every time he uses one, orders a replacement). If you don't keep spares, then every job you need to order parts, and unless you know the fault beforehand, means two visits. This is one reason why I never bothered with this kind of work.

 

[littlespark]

A lot of appliances now are so cheap to replace, that to repair the old one, with your time, parts and the possibility that there’s some other underlying problem.... it’s uneconomical.

replacement oven elements are about the only thing I’d do

 

[DJAndy]

I was talking to someone yesterday who does just appliance repairs - ovens, washing machines, dish washers etc. One of the issues is keeping a good stock of common spares, e.g. he keeps 2 of the common oven elements in his van (and every time he uses one, orders a replacement). If you don't keep spares, then every job you need to order parts, and unless you know the fault beforehand, means two visits. This is one reason why I never bothered with this kind of work.

I get sent a few appliance repair jobs from a local agent.

Some element changes are 4 screws and the local shop has stock on the shelf entire job over completed in an hour, some involve taking appliances to pieces and waiting 3 weeks for the parts.

And then there's the days when there's so much grease you can never get your tools or your clothes clean again.

 

[Doomed]

There are several appliance repair people in my area, they don't get a very high hourly rate so if we have an appliance repair we pass it to one of these guys and he recommends us for electrics (unless its one of our contacts then he will subby to us for the repair)

 

[Dustydazzler]

My parents use a local repair guy when their oven or washing machine stop working.
think he charges about £90 per call out and takes as long as needed to repair the appliance. Obviously parts are on top.

 

[freddo]

I did appliance repairs for about 2 years when I left school. I do miss that job. Still do the odd one here and there, most of the recent faults were blown components in the primary side of the SMPS for the control circuit boards.

 

[i=p/u]

There is courses, type into google. Fixed a few diff parts on appliances, but only fix my own now