Best appliance repair in Belmont, Cannington and Perth’s south-east (2026)
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Belmont, Kewdale and Welshpool on one side of the airport, Cannington, Kenwick, Maddington and Gosnells running down the Albany Highway on the other: this is the south-east appliance-repair catchment, and it is the most industrial one in Perth. That matters, because 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. The light-industrial units around Kewdale, Welshpool and Kenwick are where the ones who do publish a street tend to be. Three searches and a map sweep across the south-east surfaced 25 listings worth assessing. Four publish a street in the catchment, are categorised by Google as appliance repairers and clear the rating floor. The rest are named below with the reason each is not ranked.
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The biggest review records that turn up in south-east searches are not on this list, and every one of them is off it on address rather than on quality. CAI Appliance Services at 4.8 from 423 reviews, weighted 4.7426, and Bestec Service Appliance Repairs at 4.7 from 408, weighted 4.6606, publish no street at all. Right Whitegoods at 4.9 from 282, weighted 4.7953, publishes none either. All three would outrank everything below. A paid placement is the route onto this page for an operator that works out of a van rather than a unit.
See placement optionsThornburys
Thornburys holds 4.9 from 80 reviews from a unit on Robinson Avenue in Belmont, a few minutes from Kewdale, Rivervale and the Great Eastern Highway, and the closest ranked operator to Victoria Park and the inner east. Weighted 4.6778, which is 0.0497 clear of second place.
Eighty reviews at 4.9 is the best combination of score and sample on this page, and the weighting is what puts it first: second place has more than twice the reviews but gives up two tenths of a star to get them. Its website runs under the Thornbury Electrics name, which is how the same listing appeared in an earlier search, so do not be thrown if the van or the invoice says something slightly different from the Google listing. Its Google category is appliance repair service and the Robinson Avenue address appears on its own place page, not only on a search card.
See placement optionsPerth Dishwashers
Perth Dishwashers holds 4.7 from 178 reviews from Freight Road in Kenwick, in the industrial strip between the Roe Highway and the railway. Weighted 4.6281, and 0.0720 clear of third, which is the widest gap on the page.
This is the longest addressed record in the south-east by a distance: 178 reviews is more than the other three ranked operators put together. A 4.7 over that many jobs is a harder number to hold than a 5.0 over twenty, and the formula reflects that by keeping almost all of its value. The trading name is specific, and it is worth taking at face value: if the machine is a dishwasher this is the obvious first call, and if it is something else, ask before booking whether they cover it rather than assuming the name is just marketing.
See placement optionsSJ Appliances
SJ Appliances holds 4.8 from 23 reviews and publishes a street address on Ramorine Turn in Gosnells, at the southern end of the catchment, a short run to Maddington, Thornlie, Huntingdale and Southern River. Weighted 4.5561, and 0.0374 clear of fourth.
Twenty-three reviews is a small sample, and that alone is why a 4.8 sits below a 4.7: the score is pulled toward the category average until there are enough reviews to hold it up. The address is a residential street rather than an industrial unit, which is a normal set-up for an owner-operator in a mobile trade and is stated here so nobody is surprised. Its search card lists more than five years in business, its Google category is appliance repair service, and it runs its own website.
See placement optionsWA Commercial Appliances
WA Commercial Appliances holds 4.6 from 23 reviews from a unit on Austin Avenue in Kenwick, a couple of kilometres from second place. Weighted 4.5187.
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. The trading name says commercial, and that is worth taking seriously before booking: a business set up for cafe and restaurant equipment may or may not want a household dishwasher. Ring and ask whether domestic work is in scope. If it is, a Kenwick unit and seven-plus years in business, as its search card states, are a sound base to work from.
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 repair. Four operators in the south-east clear all four. The shape of the failures is the same as the northern corridor: almost nobody fails on rating, and almost nobody fails on category. They fail on address.
The south-east is a slightly better catchment to rank than most because of the industrial estates: Kenwick and Belmont account for three of the four ranked operators, and they are units rather than houses. It is still a van trade. The technician comes to the machine, so a workshop address earns nothing commercially, and the largest review records that show up in local searches here publish a phone number and nothing else.
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 of them are metro-wide mobile operators rather than south-east businesses, and the map pin is noted where it says anything. 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.
Right Whitegoods — 4.9 from 282 reviews, weighted 4.7953. Place page category appliance repair service; no street address. Its pin plots in the eastern suburbs, which is the nearest any listing in this section comes to this catchment, and it still cannot be checked against a street.
KTECH APPLIANCE SERVICES — 5.0 from 104 reviews, weighted 4.7549. Place page category appliance repair service; no street address, and its pin sits out towards the eastern foothills, north of this catchment. A second listing under the same name carries two reviews; the two are reported separately, never added together.
CAI Appliance Services — 4.8 from 423 reviews, weighted 4.7426. Place page category appliance repair service; no street address on its place page; it surfaces in sweeps right across the metropolitan area rather than from a base in this one.
Apptech services — 4.9 from 95 reviews, weighted 4.6949. Place page category appliance repair service; no street address, and its pin plots in the Peel hinterland rather than the metropolitan area.
AGB Appliances — 5.0 from 63 reviews, weighted 4.6933. Place page category appliance repair service; no street address; metropolitan centroid.
Perth Appliance Service — 4.8 from 128 reviews, weighted 4.6684. Place page 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. Place page category appliance repair service; no street address, and its pin is the generic Perth metropolitan centroid — a placeholder, not a place.
Setechsa Appliance Repair — 5.0 from 37 reviews, weighted 4.6350. Place page category appliance repair service; no street address on its place page, which this run opened; metropolitan centroid.
Mate Appliance Repairs — 4.7 from 115 reviews, weighted 4.6070. Place page category appliance repair service; no street address, and the same northern-suburbs centroid it returned when the northern corridor was swept.
WA Appliance Repairs — 4.9 from 36 reviews, weighted 4.6059. Place page category appliance repair service; no street address on its Maps listing. A different, similarly named listing nearby publishes a street, carries three reviews at 2.3 and is a small-appliance repairer; the two are not the same business.
Grants Appliances — 5.0 from 24 reviews, weighted 4.5968. Place page category appliance repair service; no street address and the metropolitan centroid, although its search card describes thirty-plus years in business.
5 of those eleven would have ranked first on this page on score alone. That is the honest state of this trade, and it is why the page is built on an address rather than a leaderboard.
The listings Google does not call appliance repairers
The biggest review counts in south-east appliance searches belong to shops, not repairers. A1 Appliances – Maddington at 4.9 from 832 reviews is categorised on its own listing as a used appliance store. Retravision Cannington at 4.9 from 3,062 and The Good Guys Cannington at 3.8 from 1,386 are appliance stores. All three sell machines; none is a repair business on its own Google profile, so none is ranked. A retailer may well arrange a warranty repair on something it sold you, and that is worth asking about first if the machine is still under warranty.
One listing just outside the catchment is a near miss worth knowing: Coffee machine & small appliances Repairs – Revive Tech, 5.0 from 39 reviews, publishes a unit on Cullen Street in Bayswater and is categorised as a small appliance repair service. Bayswater is north of the river and outside this boundary, and coffee machines are a different job from whitegoods, so it is named rather than ranked.
Listings below the floor
Four addressed listings in or on the edge of the catchment do not clear the rating floor: LNB Electronics at 3.1 from 112 reviews in Welshpool, weighted 3.7604; Camtec Service & Parts at 2.8 from 315 reviews in Canning Vale, weighted 3.2096; Camtec Appliances at 2.1 from 33 reviews in Canning Vale, weighted 3.9045; St James Appliance Servicing at 3.0 from 4 reviews in East Cannington, weighted 4.4423. Two more, Kitchtek Pty Ltd at 5.0 from a single review and a second KTECH APPLIANCE SERVICES listing at 5.0 from two, are below the minimum review count this page uses. 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 19 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 the south-east this is a real question rather than a formality: some of the addressed operators here are set up for commercial kitchens or a single machine type.
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 4.7 from 178 reviews outranks 4.8 from 23 by a real margin rather than a rounding artefact.
Several searches across the south-east. A sweep centred on Belmont, Kenwick and Cannington, an appliance repair sweep across Maddington, Gosnells and Canning Vale, a washing machine, oven and dishwasher sweep across Victoria Park and Cannington, and a map sweep around Cannington. 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 19 October 2026, along with the near misses this run opened. Search cards are unreliable in both directions: on this catchment the biggest review counts belong to appliance stores.
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.
Locality checked by pin, not by name. Several listings returned the generic Perth metropolitan coordinate, and one returned a pin in the Peel hinterland. A business name containing “Perth” or “WA” 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 19 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.
Only four operators? There must be more appliance repairers in the south-east.
There are, and most of them are on this page somewhere. Twenty-five listings were assessed and only four publish a street in the catchment while being categorised as appliance repairers and clearing the floor. Eleven more are named above, several with far longer review records, every one unrankable only because no address is published.
Why are the big appliance stores not on the list?
Because on their own Google listings they are stores, not repairers. Retravision and The Good Guys in Cannington and A1 Appliances in Maddington carry the largest review counts in the area for buying a machine. If the machine is under warranty, ask the retailer first; otherwise this page ranks the people who fix them.
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.
When is it not worth repairing?
A rough rule of thumb rather than a rule: if the quoted repair approaches half the replacement cost on a machine already past the middle of its service life, replacement is usually the better value. A technician willing to say so before invoicing a diagnosis is worth more than the diagnosis.
Can I get a fridge repaired by someone without an ARC licence?
Not if the job risks releasing refrigerant. Replacing a door seal, a shelf, a light or a fan is not refrigerant work. Regassing, repairing a leak or replacing a compressor is.
Run an appliance repair business in Perth’s south-east?
Eleven operators that turn up in south-east searches are off this list 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. The northern corridor has its own page: best appliance repair in Joondalup and the northern suburbs.
See placement options Browse the directoryLast updated 19 October 2026. Ratings, review counts, addresses and Google categories for the ranked operators were read from Google Maps place pages on 19 October 2026; figures for some unranked listings were read on 13 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 licence 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.