Category: Featured

Spring Clean Your Refrigerator

Does a cluttered fridge = a cluttered mind? Regardless of your organizational style, a messy fridge can lead to a foodborne illness and your appliance working harder than it needs to. A clean fridge can keep both YOU and your appliance healthy! If the longer days

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A Company You Can Trust

Westside Appliance Repair has built its business on the foundation of trustworthiness. Over the past 80 years, we’ve earned that trust time and time again by providing the highest quality of appliance repair and customer service for our customers in the Central Iowa. When we heard

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Combatting Manufacturer’s Parts Delays

The appliance industry is not immune to the supply chain issues that have impacted the world due to COVID-19. Currently, there is not only a shortage of new appliances available, but also the parts needed to repair your current appliances. At Westside, we are doing our

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Is it OK to Use the Metal Rack in Your Microwave?

It seems counterintuitive that some microwaves come with a removable metal rack in them. You may have learned the hard way that metal and microwaves don’t mix, like accidentally leaving aluminum foil on your leftovers, or making tea in a metallic coffee mug. Some stoneware containing

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Expert Tip: Forgo the Manufacturer Extended Warranty

Looking for some expert appliance repair advice? Westside Appliance Repair’s Owner and CEO, Joe Chmelka, always recommends passing on purchasing (or renewing) their appliance’s extended warranty through the manufacturer. “I always tell friends and family NOT to buy the extended warranty. They are typically expensive, and

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AMP up your Spring Cleaning with these Appliance Maintenance Tips!

The springtime sunshine often sheds light on the dust and dirt that have been accumulating in your home all winter. While online spring cleaning checklists may direct you to wax your hardwood floors and shampoo your carpets, it is also a great time of year to

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Is it Safe to Store Food Outside in the Winter?

Are you hosting a large meal this holiday season? While you’re busy prepping and cooking in the kitchen, it is easy to see how freezer and refrigerator space fills up quickly! Not to mention when your guests show up with a dish they brought in hopes

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To Repair or To Replace? We’ll Help You Decide.

To repair, or not to repair? That is the question on most homeowners’ minds when their appliance is on the fritz. Appliances are an investment, and you want to make them last as long as possible, but there are times when the cost of maintaining and

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Letter from the CEO: About our Scheduling Process

Most of our clients are surprised to learn that here at Westside we run approximately 110 service calls each day in the Des Moines metro area.  Currently, we have 15 repair technicians.  In order to meet the large number of customer repair requests each day, we

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3 Washing Machine Myths

Washing machines sure do make life easier! However, with a few myths lingering around about the proper use of the machine, not everyone knows how to use their washing machines most effectively. Here are three common myths about washing machines debunked so you can get the

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