District Appliance Repair

District is fraudulently impersonating Vienna Appliance Repair, an established firm. They claim to have merged with them. They are liars and incompetent. I cannot begin to type out the whole sorry saga. Just don’t use them. I had to stop a check payment and cancel a credit card because the District guy asked for it before completing the work. Beware.
Name of technician: Mohammed. He could or would not tell me the name and phone of his boss.
Suggest you read the reviews listed as not recommended at bottom if the Unilocal page. They offer further evidence that you do not want to deal with this «company.»

My repair man was very nice but had no idea what he was doing. He came to the house about 6 plus times to repair my refrigerator, always replacing something else and then something else wouldn’t work. When my fridge stopped cooling and became just a large box in my kitchen, I finally called a GE repair man who was able to diagnose, get the part (compressor), install and voila a working refrigerator.

I should have done more research. To me it’s just odd that the company goes by more than one name. After I had my not so great experience, I went on the web to find that the 703−996−9115 number I called is associated with at least four different names (District Appliance Repair, Appliance Repair of Northern Va, Appliance Repair of Vienna and DC Appliance Repair) and who knows how many others. Because of this, it’s hard to find solid review info on them. Perhaps this is by design.
I gave the woman on the phone my model number and asked that they put a belt on the truck if they had it. Of course my tech Mo was surprised and hadn’t heard anything about this. I wasn’t surprised about this. He opened up my dryer and pointed out that the belt wasn’t broken, just off. Yeah! He offers to vacuum it out if I have a shop vac. Nice! He puts the belt on and cleans it out for about 20 minutes and puts it back together. Then he turns it on. It was so loud the everyone in the house came running to see what was wrong! He then told me that I needed a new blower wheel. I asked him to explain why if the wheel was failing I had never heard a noise before or had any problems with the dryer before I broke the belt. The conversation was long and intense but the only explanation he ever offered me was that «You just don’t know what the future is going to hold». I got upset by this and told him to leave.
Two days later my dryer was fixed by a reputable company. They did not have to order me any new parts. A bracket was loose on my motor/​drive shaft. I’ll never know if Mo unintentionally knocked it while kindly vacuuming my dryer or something more shady happened there. But I do know that he’d didn’t have a clue what was wrong with the dryer or why it was making that noise. And if I didn’t ask him to leave it would have cost me more money than it needed to. Well Mo, I do know that In the future I will never call you again.