After 58 years, Appliance Fix-It is closing
After 58 years, Appliance Fix-It in Bailey’s Crossroads is closing its doors for good, as of 4 p.m. on June 10.
The store, at 5800 Seminary Road, specializes in repairing lawnmowers, lamps, vacuums, window screens, generators, and household appliances.
Appliance Fix-It lost its lease, a store manager says. The landlord is quadrupling the rent and putting in a hookah bar/café.
Some of the Appliance Fix-It employees are looking for places to reopen the business. The owner lives out of the area and is not interested in relocating.
There are plenty of hookah bars in the area, the manager says, but “there are zero places like ours. People will have to drive miles away to get stuff fixed.”
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I hope they find a new home. They do provide a service that is difficult if not impossible to find in this area.
This place did great work. I don’t have a clue where to go in the future
Maybe they could do a Fix-It truck/van?
Sad to see them go, they were great. And we call this progress, I call it a loss in a way of life that made our area a service friendly neighborhood and a great convenience.
Manufacturers just want us to throw our stuff out and replace it with new Chinese manufactured products; while the discarded products end up polluting the slums of India. This is not progress, its climate suicide.
They still have our riding mower. Sad to hear them closing but we weren’t informed and have no contact information for them. I need anyone’s contact info. Nofum AT aol.com
Really sad. Disgusting really. I’m sick of the slaughter of business due to the greed of landlords. I hope their hookah bar fails. I’ve seen them go out of business after a few years.
All of you should have written reviews because they had quiet a few really bad ones. And my experience was terrible. If you asked logicalnquestions like when would it be ready, they would get angry. They were very rude. A couple of times I pretty u comfortable, almost scared. They worked on by elheatedntwicr. The same on/off switch broke atlgain. The person in the phone was nice and said bring it in so we can take a look. When. I did so, they seemed to be highly I suited. Always said they would call and they never did. I got it back just before ilthey really closed. After a fews days, it broke again. So I paid them and was left with a broken switch on the heater. Maybe the neighborhood got too diverse for them. Any their leaving is not political. People are using more modern methods to get things done. Thisnisnlifr.
I grew up near Culmore, my parents were Fix-It customers since the day it opened (1 year before I was born). It was in Culmore shopping center between the bank and what is now Peking Gourmet Inn. When I was young they used to sell colectible coins. It was a great place to fill out your penny or nickel collection books with the ones you could not find in your parents change. Also Bike parts, lots of bike parts.
Loved this place! Always got my mowers serviced here and even a coffee machine or two 🙂
Really hope they find a new spot.
I have a table lamp that was to be repaired.
Do you know how I may retrieve it?
Their phone has been disconnected….
No place else like it. One of a kind a la Brown’s Hardware.
Brown’s lost my business when, after Hugh Brown’s passing, management decided to aggressively enforce fascist mask mandates when no one else was.
Really?!? Because an INDEPENDENT (capitalist) business asked its customers to follow their rule, THEY are the fascists??? Is it different than a restaurant that says “No Shoes/Shirt No Service”? or a theater that says “No outside food”? Maybe they had an employee with a medical condition. Or maybe they have young kids who were not allowed to get vaccinated? Did you ever consider that they might have a need for the rule?
🙂 agreed, the masks were common sense
Loved this place for over 45 years. Is it possible the employees could restart the business somewhere close by?
Very sorry to hear this. We had a desk lamp they were repairing. Any idea how to pick it up or if they have relocated? Thanks!!
Hello.
So sorry to see this place go. I’ve been using them for years.
But what I really want to know is how to get my very expensive desk lamp back that they have had for months while waiting for a switch that was back ordered? I can’t believe that they didn’t call me to let me know that they were closing.
I’ve called them multiple times over several months to check on the status of my lamp and they always said to be patient and that they will call me.
Is there some way to contact them?
They will be missed. Great store with knowledgeable employees. Hope they find a place to relocate.
Si it seems like several people had things there and never got it back. What was the owners name? How can we find them or contact. We have tried this local news and they don’t know anything. We have tried their facebook qnd other contacts and all is disconnected. We can’t sue with their name or address. Someone had to know them it’s ridiculous. And we paid to have a riding mower delivered there and back and out of a additional $200 which not one person has said anything.
Any news on them reopening ?
Such a loss to so many. Counted on the shop for well over half its life. Hope the pros there will reconstitute nearby and reach out to their patron list. Lots of broken things need them.
There didn’t seem to make an effort to contact customers to pick up appliances….My mother had an appliance there for months and months. No call to pickup. Annandale Today, maybe a story on where people’s belongings are?
The building now houses the Forni pizza restaurant. The owner of Forni says Appliance Fix-It didn’t leave any contact information.
If you haven’t already done so, you might want to file a complaint with the Fairfax County Consumer Services Division: https://dccs.powerappsportals.us/file-a-complaint/
Mike Taylor was the most recent owner of the place, he is from Maryland. His cell is (443) 253-7545. He also owns Taylor Wholesale Supply, an electrical supplier.
I was checking the Internet to see their hours, only to learn they’d closed. What a loss. My parents used them in Culmore, and followed them to Bailey’s Crossroads. As an adult, I used them there. Alway pleasant, and did one or two jobs that took a minute or two for free.
I will miss them.
Please find out where they open next, lost without them!