Appliance Repair in Charlotte and Across Mecklenburg County

Neighborhood names here are easy to mix up with towns. Ballantyne, SouthPark, South End, NoDa, Plaza Midwood, Dilworth, Myers Park, Elizabeth, University City, Highland Creek and Steele Creek are all parts of the City of Charlotte. Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson, Matthews, Mint Hill and Pineville are separate towns with their own governments.

Utilities run across those lines. Duke Energy supplies electricity to most of the county, Piedmont Natural Gas supplies natural gas, and Charlotte Water serves the city and the towns from Lake Norman and Mountain Island Lake. Gas and electric appliances are both common, so the technician never assumes which one your home has.

Coverage goes by ZIP code, so a county line running through a ZIP doesn't matter. Davidson's 28036 reaches into Cabarrus and Iredell, Huntersville's 28078 and University City's 28269 into Cabarrus, and 28215 in East Charlotte touches Cabarrus too; every address in those ZIPs is served. Beyond Mecklenburg County, we also cover listed ZIPs in Cabarrus, Union, Iredell, Stanly and Anson counties and in York and Lancaster counties, South Carolina.

Mailing addresses don't always match town limits. A Matthews, Mint Hill or Pineville address can sit inside Charlotte or in unincorporated county, and parts of Steele Creek and Northwest Charlotte are unincorporated. None of that affects the visit; the ZIP and street address are what we need.

Center city and close-in neighborhoods: Uptown Charlotte: the four wards and Gateway, mostly apartment and condo buildings; South End & Dilworth: Dilworth's 1890s streetcar suburb and South End's newer apartments; Myers Park & Elizabeth: Myers Park, Eastover and Elizabeth, with period houses and remodeled kitchens; NoDa & Plaza Midwood: NoDa's mill cottages, Plaza Midwood and Optimist Park; SouthPark & Cotswold: Cotswold, Sherwood Forest, Quail Hollow and the Park Road corridor.

South and west: Ballantyne & South Charlotte: Ballantyne, Carmel and Providence, largely two-story homes in planned communities; Pineville: the town of Pineville and the subdivisions around Carolina Place; Steele Creek: the county's newest subdivisions, out to Lake Wylie; West Charlotte: Wesley Heights, the airport area and the York Road corridor; Northwest Charlotte: Mountain Island Lake, Paw Creek, Beatties Ford and Northlake; East Charlotte: Eastland, Idlewild, Hickory Grove and Reedy Creek.

North and east: University City: the UNC Charlotte area, Highland Creek and Mallard Creek; Huntersville: the town of Huntersville, between Lake Norman and Mountain Island Lake; Cornelius & Davidson: the Lake Norman towns of Cornelius and Davidson; Matthews & Mint Hill: the towns of Matthews and Mint Hill, and Charlotte addresses around them; Concord and Harrisburg: part of our Mecklenburg County coverage; Kannapolis: part of our Mecklenburg County coverage; Midland and Mount Pleasant: part of our Mecklenburg County coverage; Indian Trail and Stallings: part of our Mecklenburg County coverage; Waxhaw and Marvin: part of our Mecklenburg County coverage; Monroe, Wingate and Marshville: part of our Mecklenburg County coverage; Mooresville: part of our Mecklenburg County coverage; Locust, Stanfield and Oakboro: part of our Mecklenburg County coverage; Peachland and Polkton: part of our Mecklenburg County coverage; Fort Mill and Tega Cay: part of our Mecklenburg County coverage; Rock Hill: part of our Mecklenburg County coverage; Clover and Lake Wylie: part of our Mecklenburg County coverage; Indian Land: part of our Mecklenburg County coverage; Lancaster: part of our Mecklenburg County coverage.

Winter across the Carolina Piedmont is usually mild, which is exactly why a hard freeze or an ice storm catches houses off guard. The ice storm of December 2002 brought down trees and lines across both Carolinas and left more than half of the region's largest utility's customers without power, some for well over a week. Supply lines to an ice maker or washer that pass through a garage, crawl space or outside wall in Mecklenburg County are the first to freeze in that kind of cold.

During an outage, keep refrigerator and freezer doors closed. USDA guidance is that an unopened refrigerator keeps food safe for about 4 hours, a full freezer about 48 hours and a half-full one about 24. Run any generator outside, far from doors, windows and vents, since its fumes contain carbon monoxide.

Airflow gets checked on a dryer in Mecklenburg County before anyone orders an element, igniter or fuse. A dryer that heats for ten minutes and then goes cold, or one that runs a full cycle and leaves jeans damp, is usually telling you the exhaust is choked. The lint screen housing, the connector behind the machine and the outside hood are where blockages collect.

Plastic and thin foil accordion ducts sag, kink and hold lint, so they are a poor choice behind a dryer. Smooth rigid metal duct is the better choice, with the fewest bends and the shortest run the layout permits. A vent that ends in a crawl space, attic or garage instead of outdoors needs to be corrected, because it fills that space with lint and moisture.