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Serving Orlando & Seven Central Florida Counties
Upfix repairs refrigerators, washers, dryers, dishwashers, ovens, ranges, microwaves, water heaters, ice makers and garbage disposals throughout Clermont — downtown, the neighborhoods up in the hills, and the gated communities off Highway 27. We’ll tell you what’s wrong, what it costs, and whether it’s worth fixing. Sometimes the honest answer is that it isn’t, and we’ll say that too.
Clermont sits on the Lake Wales Ridge, which is why it has hills in a state that mostly doesn’t. Downtown runs along Montrose Street near Lake Minneola. Newer neighborhoods spread south and east along Highway 27, State Road 50 and Hancock Road, and that’s where most of the city’s growth landed over the last twenty-five years.
We cover all of it. Downtown, the Clermont Chain of Lakes neighborhoods, the communities along 27, and the gated developments south of town.
Because Clermont is in Lake County rather than Orange, we hold the local business tax receipts that Florida law requires for working here — the county’s and the city’s both.
Downtown to Highway 27
Six Gated Communities
Close to a quarter of Clermont residents are 65 or older, and six gated active-adult communities sit inside the city. Kings Ridge alone is 2,088 homes across fifteen neighborhoods. Palms at Serenoa adds another 570. Heritage Hills, Summit Greens and Esplanade at Highland Ranch fill in from there.
Communities that size have a particular pattern, and it explains a lot of service calls. The homes went up in phases, which means the appliances went in at roughly the same time, which means they reach the end of their run at roughly the same time too. When your neighbor mentions their refrigerator just quit and yours is making a new noise, those two things are related.
The City of Clermont draws its water from the Floridan Aquifer through eight wells around the city, and the city states plainly that its groundwater requires only disinfection with chlorine before distribution.
That sentence is the whole story for your appliances. It means the water is clean and safe, and it also means nothing removes the minerals before the water reaches your house. There’s no softening step. Whatever the limestone put in the water is still there when it hits your dishwasher’s heating element.
That isn’t a criticism of the utility. Clermont’s water division has earned eight FDEP Plant Operations Excellence Awards, so this is well-run water. It’s geology, not a failure. But minerals in the supply still do what minerals do.
Floridan Aquifer
Gas & Electric
Clermont is served by Lake Apopka Natural Gas District, and the city adopted an energy choice ordinance, so gas appliances are common here — particularly gas ranges and gas water heaters in the homes built through the 2000s.
Two things we see regularly in this market. First, a lot of residents who cook seriously prefer gas and want the range repaired rather than swapped for electric, even when the repair takes a part order. That’s a reasonable choice and we’ll support it. Second, the gas water heaters that went into 2000s-era homes are now well past the age where the thermocouple and the burner assembly start giving trouble.
All of Clermont, plus the neighboring towns we reach on the same routes.
Please have the gate code ready or arrange a guest pass when you book.
Call us or book online. You’ll get a flat $79 diagnostic, a real price before any work starts, and a thirty-day written warranty when it’s finished. And if we think your appliance has reached the end of the road, we’ll tell you that instead of selling you a repair.
