Appliance Repair in Burlington, Iowa
We are in Burlington most weeks. Underwoods Appliance is an owner-operated shop out of Burlington, and Des Moines County has turned into one of our steadiest runs. People call us because they get the same person on the phone, the same person in the driveway, and a straight answer about whether a machine is worth fixing. If you cannot talk during the workday, texting (319) 800-8495 works well.
We work all over town. The old houses up on Heritage Hill and North Hill, the apartments and storefronts in the Jefferson Street downtown district, the places on the bluffs above Crapo Park, and the newer homes out along Agency Street and Roosevelt Avenue. We cover West Burlington, Middletown, Danville and Mediapolis on the same trip, so if a neighbor needs a look too, say so and we will line the calls up.
Now the money part, plainly. Burlington is about 60 miles from our Washington shop, roughly an hour and fifteen minutes down US 218 to Mount Pleasant and then east on US 34. That is past our 35 mile line, so a service call to a Burlington address is $125, and that includes the diagnostic. If you go ahead with the repair, $50 of that trip and diagnostic charge is credited toward the parts and labor when we come back to finish the job. Parts are sold at our cost. Our cost is your cost, and we do not mark up parts.
What We Do on a Burlington Trip
One owner, one truck, and a parts stock built around what actually fails in a Des Moines County kitchen or basement laundry room. Here is the work we bring down US 34 with us.
Some jobs carry a flat price, so you know before we start. A Whirlpool control board pressure switch replacement runs $75 each, for example. We will also haul the old appliance away while we are there, so it is not sitting in the garage until spring. Call or text (319) 800-8495 and tell us what the machine is doing.
Where We Work in and around Burlington
Our Burlington runs cover the whole city. Heritage Hill with its 141 old structures, North Hill and South Hill, the downtown commercial blocks along Jefferson Street, the bluff streets near Crapo Park and Mosquito Park, and the South Main area below them. Farther out we are on Agency Street, Roosevelt Avenue and Sunnyside Avenue most trips, and we know the turns off Sunnyside better than the map does.
Getting here is simple enough. US 34 cuts straight across town and over the Great River Bridge, and US 61 runs north and south, so a Burlington call usually pairs up with stops in Mount Pleasant, New London or Danville on the same day. West Burlington is its own city rather than a Burlington neighborhood, and we serve it too, including the streets around Great River Medical Center.
Towns We Serve near Burlington
- West Burlington and Middletown
- Danville and New London
- Mediapolis, Sperry and Kingston
- Yarmouth and Augusta
- Morning Sun and Mount Pleasant
- Fort Madison
- Gulfport, Oquawka and Dallas City across the river in Illinois
- The rest of Des Moines County, farm places included
Old Houses, Older Appliances, and Why Repair Still Wins Here
Burlington has the lowest median home value of any town we serve, right around $114,000, and about seven in ten of those homes are owner-occupied. That shows up in our work every week. People here own the house, they plan to stay in it, and swapping a repairable machine for a new one that might last eight years is not the obvious move.
The late-1800s Victorians and brick houses on the bluffs bring their own puzzles. Openings no modern appliance was designed to fit, basement laundry with dryer vent runs that seem to go on forever, and wiring that deserves some respect. We would rather repair the machine that already fits your space than talk you into one that does not.
Why Burlington Neighbors Call Us
- Owner-operator trained by Whirlpool and GE, and schooled at Fred's Appliance Academy in Ohio
- EPA certified for sealed-system refrigerator work
- Licensed and insured since June 2024
- Parts sold at our cost with no markup, and labor about half what most companies charge
- Rated 4.9 out of 5 on Google across more than 500 reviews
Why spend thousands replacing your broken appliances when you can repair them for a fraction of the cost?
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