We were fully resigned to having a new garbage disposal and a new ice maker installed and were figuring a bill of about $600.00 for the two. Dan started with the garbage disposal, asking if we had tried the re-set button. We had and showed him what it was doing-nothing. He proceeded to take a funky z shaped allen wrench out of his tool kit and said and quot;watch thisand quot;. He used the wrench on the bottom of the disposal, wiggled it back and forth and when it moved well, looked down in the disposal from the top and pulled out a tiny piece of bone which had become wedged in it, locking it up. This piece was about 1/4 the size of my little finger nail (maybe 1/4 in by 1/8 in). I had already cleaned out the disposal and run my hand all around the inside feeling for anything that might have jammed it, and found nothing. Then he handed me the allen wrench and said and quot;Here, you keep this. I've got plenty. Put it somewhere that you'll be able to find it the next time you need it.and quot; Problem # 1 solved.
He then asked what the problem was with the ice maker. We told him it had been malfunctioning for years (fridge was about 12 years old). It had been only giving 1 or 2 ice cubes at a time, frequently jamming up with the first cube on the right and then we'd have to work to free that first cube. It hadn't been filling up the bin totally in months. We were going in, freeing up the single cube, resetting the ice maker, etc for about 6 months and finally had been making ice cubes in trays bypassing the ice maker all together-arghhhh!).
He also checked the water flow on the water dispenser which had been weak for years as well, but which we just dealt with (slowly).
He pulled out the filter to see if that was the problem, but no change to water flow. He pulled out the one stuck cube and asked where the tap into the water was. We went into the basement, where he explained to me that the tap gets corroded over time and the way to correct it is to screw in the tap further (the way it was originally installed), then back the tap out to allow water to flow again. That breaks loose the corrosion and should fix the problem. We went upstairs and, voila', the water flow was back to normal. He explained that the ice maker was not getting enough water to make a full load of cubes and that was the problem. He said if it happened again, we should be able to repeat the procedure that he just showed me and it should correct again.
During this process, he noticed that the refrigerator side (it's a side by side unit) was not pulling itself closed. If you didn't push it all the way closed, it would stay partly open. He said and quot;I can fix this if you'd likeand quot;. Our original repair service (years ago, prior to beginning to use Leonardi's, had told us it would cost a whole bunch to fix that as it required a new hinge, so we just dealt with it and made sure we shut the door completely (usually). So he ordered the part (a whopping $5.00) and came out and installed it. The part number was the same but it had been slightly changed, so he altered it to fit and the door now closes properly. Problem # 2 and 3 fixed.
The charge for all of this was under $100.00. And this is the reason we love this place! They are ethical, show up promptly, do an excellent job and are NOT out to just make money. This is not the first time we've used them but maybe the 7th or 8th time in less than 5 years. They are ALWAYS this way! What more could you ask?