Best appliance repair in Fremantle, Melville and Cockburn (2026)
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Fremantle and the port, Hamilton Hill, Spearwood and Bibra Lake across the City of Cockburn, Jandakot on its eastern edge, and Booragoon and Myaree in the City of Melville: this is the south-west corner of the metropolitan area, and it is the hardest appliance-repair catchment in Perth to rank. Appliance repair is a van trade, needs no licence in Western Australia for whitegoods, and most operators publish a phone number and a radius rather than a street. Three searches and a map sweep around Spearwood surfaced 38 listings worth assessing. Four publish a street in the catchment, are categorised by Google as appliance or refrigerator repairers and clear the rating floor, and all four are in the City of Cockburn. The rest are named below with the reason each is not ranked.
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The strongest review record in south-west searches is not on this list, and it is off it on address rather than on quality. Fair Price Dishwashers at 5.0 from 320 reviews, weighted 4.8810, publishes no street. Right Whitegoods at 4.9 from 282, weighted 4.7953, and CAI Appliance Services at 4.8 from 423, weighted 4.7426, publish none either. A paid placement is the route onto this page for an operator that works out of a van rather than a unit.
See placement optionsARC Refrigeration
ARC Refrigeration holds 4.9 from 251 reviews from Glendale Crescent in Jandakot, on the eastern side of the City of Cockburn, a short run to Success, Atwell, Bibra Lake and the Kwinana Freeway. Weighted 4.7860, which is 0.1600 clear of second place, the widest lead on any appliance-repair page on this site.
Two things to know before calling. First, the name: “ARC” here is a trading name. It is not the Australian Refrigeration Council, which licenses refrigerant work, and the name says nothing either way about whether this business holds a refrigerant licence. Second, the same operator runs a second Google listing, Frost, at the same Glendale Crescent address with the same phone number and near-identical website copy, rated 4.6 from 256 reviews (weighted 4.5719 on its own). The two records are reported separately and never added together; this page ranks the business once, on the ARC Refrigeration listing, and shows the Frost figure here so that nobody has to find it by accident. Read both before booking. Its website describes domestic and commercial fridge repairs and in-home work, and its Google category is refrigerator repair service, so this is a fridge-and-freezer call rather than a washing machine one.
See placement optionsPerth Dishwashers
Perth Dishwashers holds 4.9 from 46 reviews from a unit on Bellier Place in Hamilton Hill, between Spearwood, Coogee and South Fremantle and the closest ranked operator to Fremantle itself. Weighted 4.6260, and 0.0462 clear of third.
The same business also ranks on the south-east page from a unit in Kenwick, where a separate Google listing carries 178 reviews. That is a second premises with its own listing and its own review record, not a duplicate of this one, and the two counts are kept apart. The trading name is specific and worth taking at face value: if the machine is a dishwasher this is the obvious first call, and for anything else ask before booking whether they cover it. Its Google category is appliance repair service and the Bellier Place unit appears on its own place page.
See placement optionsPrompt Fridge Services
Prompt Fridge Services holds 5.0 from 19 reviews from Fraser Road in Jandakot. Weighted 4.5798, and 0.0606 clear of fourth.
Nineteen reviews is a small sample, and that alone is why a perfect 5.0 sits below a 4.9 from 46: the score is pulled toward the category average until there are enough reviews to hold it up. Its website describes a family-owned business repairing household fridges, freezers and wine fridges, and its Google category is refrigerator repair service. The site says its technicians are licensed; this page has not checked that against any register and makes no claim about it. For refrigerant work, ask for the ARC licence number and check it yourself.
See placement optionsNational Appliance Repairs Hamilton Hill
National Appliance Repairs Hamilton Hill holds 5.0 from 4 reviews and its place page publishes a street address on Southwell Crescent in Hamilton Hill. Weighted 4.5192.
It is on this page because it clears every test the page applies: a place-page street in the catchment, a Google category of appliance repair service, a rating above the floor and more than two reviews. It is also the thinnest record here, and the context matters. The listing belongs to a national network that services Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide; its website lists Hamilton Hill only as one of many Perth suburbs it covers, the Southwell Crescent address is a residential street rather than a workshop, and four reviews is too few to say much. The phone number on the listing matches the network’s Perth line. Treat it as a national operator with a local base rather than a local business, and ask who will actually attend.
See placement optionsWhy the list stops at four
An operator is ranked here only if it clears four tests at once: a rating of at least 4.3, more than two reviews, a street address published on its own Google listing, and a Google category that actually says appliance or refrigerator repair. Four operators in the south-west clear all four. As in every other catchment, almost nobody fails on rating. They fail on address.
This catchment is thinner than the south-east: there is no industrial strip full of repairer units, and the addressed general repairers that do exist in Melville sit below the rating floor. The list leans to Cockburn because that is where every qualifying address is, not because Fremantle and Melville are ignored; they were swept and the results are named below.
The operators with no published address, named
Each listing below is categorised by Google as an appliance repairer and would be rankable the moment it published a street. Most are metro-wide mobile operators rather than south-west businesses. They are named because a reader who wants the longest review record rather than the most verifiable one should still be able to find them.
Fair Price Dishwashers — 5.0 from 320 reviews, weighted 4.8810. Place page category appliance repair service; no street address, the generic Perth metropolitan centroid as its pin, and a Facebook page rather than a website. On score alone it would have ranked first here.
Right Whitegoods — 4.9 from 282 reviews, weighted 4.7953. Category appliance repair service; no street address on its place page, opened for the south-east page on 19 October.
KTECH APPLIANCE SERVICES — 5.0 from 104 reviews, weighted 4.7549. Category appliance repair service; no street address, and a pin out towards the eastern foothills, well away from this catchment.
CAI Appliance Services — 4.8 from 423 reviews, weighted 4.7426. Category appliance repair service; no street address; it surfaces in sweeps right across the metropolitan area rather than from a base in this one.
AGB Appliances — 5.0 from 63 reviews, weighted 4.6933. Category appliance repair service; no street address; metropolitan centroid.
Perth Appliance Service — 4.8 from 128 reviews, weighted 4.6684. Category appliance repair service; no street address; its place page returns the metropolitan centroid.
Bestec Service Appliance Repairs — 4.7 from 408 reviews, weighted 4.6606. Category appliance repair service; no street address, and the generic metropolitan centroid as its pin.
FixUp Appliance Service — 4.9 from 54 reviews, weighted 4.6403. Category appliance repair service; place page opened this run: no street address, metropolitan centroid.
Setechsa Appliance Repair — 5.0 from 37 reviews, weighted 4.6350. Category appliance repair service; no street address; metropolitan centroid.
Mate Appliance Repairs — 4.7 from 115 reviews, weighted 4.6070. Category appliance repair service; no street address; a northern-suburbs centroid.
WA Appliance Repairs — 4.9 from 36 reviews, weighted 4.6059. Category appliance repair service; no street address on its Maps listing.
Modern Appliance Repairs — 4.9 from 34 reviews, weighted 4.6015. Category appliance repair service; place page opened this run: no street address, with a pin north-east of the city, outside this catchment.
Portside Appliances — 5.0 from 18 reviews, weighted 4.5763. Category appliance repair service; the name suggests the port, but its place page, opened this run, publishes no street and returns the metropolitan centroid. A name is not a location.
Busy Bee Washer And Dryer Repairs — 4.7 from 22 reviews, weighted 4.5361. Category appliance repair service; place page opened this run: no street address, pin south of this catchment towards Kwinana.
Selective Fridges Repairs Perth — 4.4 from 158 reviews, weighted 4.4388. Category refrigerator repair service; place page opened this run: no street address, metropolitan centroid.
Four more appliance repairers came up in the sweeps with no street on their search card but were not resolved on a place page this run, so nothing is claimed about them beyond the card: Turnaround Appliance Repairs 4.9 from 39 (a Maps search for the name did not return its listing), Northern Appliance Repairs 4.8 from 45, North Coast Appliance Repairs 5.0 from 27 and Mobile appliance repairs 4.8 from 5.
Two of the fifteen named listings would have ranked first on this page on score alone, and nine would have ranked in the top two. That is the honest state of this trade, and it is why the page is built on an address rather than a leaderboard.
Addressed, but not general appliance repairers
The biggest review count with a street in the catchment belongs to AirTight Fridge Seals, 4.9 from 760 reviews, from a unit on Discovery Drive in Bibra Lake. Google categorises it as a refrigerator repair service, but its own website is a mail-order shop for replacement door seals, shipped Australia-wide with fitting instructions for the customer. That is a parts supplier, so it is named rather than ranked; if a fridge door seal is the whole problem, it is worth knowing about. A second listing at the same unit, Fridge Seal Gasket, carries one review.
Two coffee-machine specialists publish streets nearby: Home Coffee Machine Repairs, 4.9 from 307, on South Street, and Universal Coffee Tech, 4.5 from 48, on Port Kembla Drive in Bibra Lake. Both are categorised as small appliance repairers, and coffee machines are a different job from whitegoods, so they are named rather than ranked. Smartvision, 4.4 from 113, is a television repairer, and WA Appliance Parts, 3.9 from 115, is a parts supplier on its own listing.
Listings below the floor
Every addressed general appliance repairer in Melville that the sweeps found sits below the rating floor: The Repair Guy at 3.9 from 86 reviews on Marmion Street, weighted 4.2226, and Metropolitan Appliance Service at 3.0 from 84 on Shields Crescent, weighted 3.8152. Direct Appliance Repair in Bibra Lake, 3.1 from 57, is below the floor and categorised as a coffee machine supplier. Premium Appliance Repair shows 3.7 from 122 on one listing and 1.0 from 2 on a second listing with an Osborne Road address; the two are not added together. Dishwasher Repair Fremantle, LLC, 3.7 from 3, is below the floor. WA Whitegoods Repair, 4.1 from 52, is below the floor and in West Perth, outside the catchment. Clem Tech (WA) has a Clark Court unit and no reviews yet. They are named for completeness rather than ranked.
What is actually licensed in Western Australia
There is no appliance repairer’s licence in Western Australia. Fixing a washing machine, an oven, a dryer or a dishwasher is not a licensed occupation, there is no register of appliance technicians to check a trading name against, and an operator advertising itself as a “licensed appliance repairer” in this state is describing something that does not exist.
What is licensed is refrigerant, and it is licensed federally rather than by the state. The Australian Refrigeration Council, which administers refrigerant handling licences for the Australian Government, says a licence is required for any activity involving a risk of a refrigerant emission, and for servicing or maintaining refrigeration and air conditioning equipment whether or not refrigerant is present. Its licence-types page, read for this page on 20 October 2026, lists RDR04 as the restricted class for domestic refrigeration and air conditioning appliances, with a note that it does not cover split-system air conditioners, and RAC01 as the full class covering all refrigeration and air conditioning work outside the automotive industry.
So the gate here is split down the middle of the trade:
| Job | Licence required | How to check it |
|---|---|---|
| Washing machine, dryer, dishwasher, oven, cooktop, microwave | None | No register exists — review record and a verifiable address are what is left |
| Fridge or freezer work that risks a refrigerant emission | Refrigerant handling licence (RDR04 or RAC01) | ARC business search, by sector and postcode |
| Split-system air conditioning | Refrigerant handling licence that covers split systems (RDR04 does not) | ARC business search, by sector and postcode |
| Replacing a fridge door seal, shelf or light | None — the sealed system is not opened | As above, nothing to check |
The ARC runs a public business search by sector and suburb or postcode. It is worth using before booking fridge work. It is not what this page ranks on: it searches by location rather than by business name, so a listing cannot be confirmed against a specific trading name from the outside, and it covers only the refrigerant half of the trade. No claim is made anywhere on this page about whether any operator listed holds an ARC licence. Check it yourself for fridge and air conditioning work.
What to ask before booking
Is there a call-out fee, and does it come off the repair? The commonest billing surprise in this trade. Ask for the figure and whether it is waived if you go ahead.
Do you do domestic work, and do you cover this brand? In this catchment it is a real question rather than a formality: three of the four ranked operators are fridge or dishwasher specialists, not general whitegoods repairers.
Do you carry the part, or is it order-and-return? A second visit is the difference between a one-day fix and a fortnight without a washing machine.
What is the warranty on the part and on the labour? These are often different lengths. Get both in writing.
Will you tell me if it is not worth repairing? A technician who will say “replace it” before charging for a repair is the one worth keeping.
For fridge or air conditioning work, what is your ARC licence number? The only licensing question in this trade with a real answer. For an oven or a dishwasher there is nothing to ask.
How this list was built
Weighted score, not raw stars. Each operator is scored with a Bayesian average that pulls a small sample toward the category mean of 4.5, so 4.9 from 46 reviews outranks 5.0 from 19 by a real margin rather than a rounding artefact.
Several searches across the south-west. An appliance repair sweep centred on Fremantle, one across Melville, Booragoon and Myaree, a washing machine, oven and dishwasher sweep across Cockburn, Spearwood and Bibra Lake, and a map sweep around Spearwood. The same names came back across all of them.
Every ranked place page opened. Ratings, review counts, addresses and categories for the four ranked operators were read off their own Google place pages on 20 October 2026, along with eight of the near misses. Search cards are unreliable in both directions: a missing street on a card is not proof there is none.
Address verified, not assumed. An operator is only ranked if a street address appears on its own Google listing. A phone number and a service area is not an address.
Duplicates kept apart. Where one business runs two Google listings, the review counts are reported separately and never added together, and the business is ranked once.
Locality checked by pin, not by name. Several listings returned the generic Perth metropolitan coordinate. A business name containing “Portside”, “Perth” or “Fremantle” is not evidence of where it is.
Regulation read from the regulator. The licensing section was read from the Australian Refrigeration Council’s own pages on 20 October 2026, not from memory or a summary.
Nothing here was paid for. Placement on this list cannot be bought; paid placements are labelled FEATURED and sit outside the ranking.
Questions homeowners ask
Do appliance repairers need a licence in WA?
Not for whitegoods. Washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, ovens, cooktops and microwaves are not licensed work in Western Australia and there is no register of appliance technicians. Refrigerant is the exception: work on a fridge, freezer or air conditioner that risks a refrigerant emission needs a refrigerant handling licence from the Australian Refrigeration Council.
Is ARC Refrigeration the same thing as the ARC licence?
No. ARC Refrigeration is a business trading name. The Australian Refrigeration Council is the body that issues refrigerant handling licences. The similar initials mean nothing, and this page makes no claim about whether any listed operator holds a licence.
Why is nobody in Fremantle or Melville ranked?
Because none of the appliance repairers found there cleared every test. The addressed general repairers in Melville sit below the 4.3 floor, and the Fremantle-named listings either publish no street or are below the rating floor. All of them are named above.
Is a business without a published address a worse choice?
No. In this trade it is the norm rather than a warning sign, and several of the unranked operators would have ranked first here on score. It simply cannot be checked from the outside, and this list only ranks what can be.
How much does an appliance repair cost in Perth?
There is no reliable single figure, which is why this page carries no price table. A call-out fee plus labour plus the part is the usual structure, and the part is what moves the total most. Ask whether the call-out comes off the repair, and get the part price before authorising the work.
Can I replace a fridge door seal myself?
Often, yes. A door seal is not part of the sealed refrigerant system, so no refrigerant licence is involved. Regassing, repairing a leak or replacing a compressor is refrigerant work and needs a licensed technician.
Run an appliance repair business in Fremantle, Melville or Cockburn?
Fifteen operators that turn up in south-west searches are named above but not ranked for one reason: no street address on their own Google listing. Publishing one is free and it is the single change that makes a business rankable here. Other catchments have their own pages: Joondalup and the northern suburbs and Belmont, Cannington and the south-east.
See placement options Browse the directoryLast updated 20 October 2026. Ratings and review counts were read from Google search results and Maps on 20 October 2026; addresses and Google categories for the ranked operators were read from their place pages that day, and the address status of some unranked listings was read on 13 or 19 October 2026. All will drift; the weighted scores are calculated from those figures and nothing else. Licensing statements are read from the Australian Refrigeration Council’s pages. The absence of a published address, and a Google category other than appliance repair, are both reported as at the date checked and are not statements about any operator’s conduct or quality.