A refrigerator in an older city bungalow kitchen with painted wood cabinetry and a tiled floor.

Hillsborough County, Tampa Bay

Refrigerator repair in Palma Ceia.

Palma Ceia is a South Tampa neighborhood laid out around a golf course, on a grid of short blocks about a mile inland from the bay.

(844) 681-4650

Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm

Hillsborough County
Three things about Palma Ceia
10 repairs we do here

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What Palma Ceia does
to a refrigerator.

Lots built on in the 1920s and 1930s have been redeveloped one at a time, so an original bungalow often stands beside a much larger recent house.

The golf club at its center dates from the 1910s, and the earliest blocks around it were platted in that period.

The neighborhood lies inside the City of Tampa, so building work here is permitted and inspected by the city.

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Older housing stock

Older wiring is rarely undersized for a refrigerator's compressor start-up draw on its own, but it is more likely to share a circuit with other loads or run through a breaker or start relay nearing the end of its service life — either of which turns a normal start-up surge into a tripped breaker that looks like an appliance problem.

Specified kitchens

Custom panels are ordered to match a specific reveal and finish, so a repair that damages a panel — a bent hinge mount, a cracked veneer — can turn a routine visit into a weeks-long wait on a cabinetmaker rather than a parts order.

Outdoor kitchens

Direct sun on a dark cabinet raises the internal temperature the compressor has to fight well past what the same unit would see indoors, and that alone shortens compressor life even on units properly rated for outdoor duty.