One road from I-45, just short of the Galveston causeway, leads onto Tiki Island, a canal-front village that occupies a small peninsula of Jones Bay. Nearly every lot backs onto the water, and weekends are when the kitchens work hardest.
What turns up in Tiki Island homes, and how that affects a Thermador repair in this area.
Streets carry a Polynesian theme. Canals were dredged in the 1960s, and the spoil raised the ground by four to ten feet over sea level. Incorporation came in August 1982. By the 2019 tax rolls the village held 1,000 detached houses, 31 condos and 194 lots with nothing built on them.
Your water bill comes from a Galveston County district, Fresh Water Supply District No. 6, which also runs sewer and works out of the same building as Village Hall. Behind it is the Gulf Coast Water Authority: its Texas City treatment plant (Mackey) cleans Brazos River water for the district.
Water borders every lot, and the breeze off West Bay carries salt into garages, boat sheds and outdoor kitchens. Rust shows first where air moves freely: screws on the outside of a cabinet, fins on a condenser, and sheet metal that stays wet overnight.
On Tiki Island we service dishwashers and built-in refrigeration in renovated canal houses, including full kitchens with Thermador ranges and wall ovens, and the second refrigerators kept near a dock or on a covered deck.
Tiki Island has a single way in, so finding it is simple, and our visits are next-day windows shared with Bayou Vista and the West End. A police department of its own operates in the village. When a gate is closed or the owners are traveling, name the person who can let the technician in.
Second homes that sit shut for weeks produce a predictable set of calls: stale-smelling ice, a dishwasher door seal that dried out and leaks on its first cycle, or a refrigerator someone switched off and never restarted. When you arrive, run water through the dishwasher and ice maker lines, discard the first batch of ice and let a normal cycle finish before you judge the machine. If trouble remains, we check gaskets, drain hoses and the pump seal during the same visit.
Not necessarily. Door seals and the sump dry out during long idle spells, and one or two normal cycles often cure it. If water still escapes, we inspect the gasket, float and pump seal.
Yes, when it is a model we support. Salt air calls for more frequent coil cleaning and a dry outlet, and we look at both. If the unit was never meant for the outdoors, we tell you straight away.
Reserve online or by phone, with gate and key directions. Our findings reach you by phone while we are in the house, you okay the written price by phone or email, and the house is locked again when we finish.
Request a visit online in about a minute or phone our coordinators. Close-in neighborhoods often see a same-day slot; the outer counties usually get the next day across Houston.