--- title: "It has started making a new noise" description: "KitchenAid it has started making a new noise — a new sound is a real signal rather than a nuisance, and it is usually the earliest warning you get." url: "https://kitchenaidmiami.support/symptoms/appliance-making-a-new-noise/" date_modified: "2026-08-23" Appliance type: "Dishwashers, Dryers, Freezers, Ice makers, Range hoods and vents, Refrigerators, Washing machines" --- # KitchenAid it has started making a new noise ### The fastest diagnosis is a ten-second recording Record it on your phone, and note when it happens — all the time, only during one part of the cycle, or only when the machine has been running for a while. Those two things narrow a noise more than any description can, and a recording is something we can listen to before anybody is dispatched. ### Noise is the cheapest warning you get Almost nothing in a kitchen fails silently. Blower motors get loud, dryer rollers squeal, washer bearings rumble on the spin, refrigerator fans buzz when something touches them. All of those give weeks or months of notice, and all of them are smaller repairs while they are still only a noise. That is the whole argument for calling about a sound rather than waiting for a failure. ### Describe it in two words Hum, buzz, click, squeal, rattle, grinding — plus when it happens. That is a more useful sentence than a paragraph, and it maps onto different parts: a hum is usually electrical or a motor under load, a click is a switch or a relay or a compressor, a squeal is nearly always a bearing or a belt, and a rattle is usually something loose that costs nothing to remove. A fan with something touching it Condenser or evaporator on refrigeration. A buzz or a ticking that changes when the door opens is the classic, and it is usually cheap. A compressor trying to start A hard click every few minutes, sometimes with a hum, and a cabinet that is not getting cold. This one is worth calling about rather than watching. Something loose in a sump or a drum A coin, a bone, a piece of glass. Free to find and worth finding early, because what it grinds against is not free. Bearings or rollers Rising with the spin on a washer, or a steady squeal on a dryer. The noise that gets worse rather than staying the same is always this kind. A grease-packed blower On a range hood, a motor that has become loud is telling you it is working harder than it should. It is the warning before it stops. Record ten seconds of it On a phone, close to the appliance. It is genuinely useful to us and it captures a noise that will inevitably be silent on the day of the visit. Note when it happens All the time, at one point in the cycle, only under load, only after the machine has been running a while. That timing is half the diagnosis. Check the easy mechanical causes A machine that is not level, something loose in a drum, a spray arm catching, an item touching the back wall of a refrigerator. All free, all common. Then book the visit Tell us what kind of noise it is — hum, buzz, click, squeal, rattle, grinding — and when it happens. Those two words save a great deal of time. Nothing else has changed What it usually means A hum or a buzz that was not there before A squeal that comes and goes A clicking every few minutes with nothing else wrong The fastest diagnosis is a ten-second recording Record it on your phone, and note when it happens — all the time, only during one part of the cycle, or only when the machine has been running for a while. Those two things narrow a noise more than any description can, and a recording is something we can listen to before anybody is dispatched. Noise is the cheapest warning you get Almost nothing in a kitchen fails silently. Blower motors get loud, dryer rollers squeal, washer bearings rumble on the spin, refrigerator fans buzz when something touches them. All of those give weeks or months of notice, and all of them are smaller repairs while they are still only a noise. That is the whole argument for calling about a sound rather than waiting for a failure. Describe it in two words Hum, buzz, click, squeal, rattle, grinding — plus when it happens. That is a more useful sentence than a paragraph, and it maps onto different parts: a hum is usually electrical or a motor under load, a click is a switch or a relay or a compressor, a squeal is nearly always a bearing or a belt, and a rattle is usually something loose that costs nothing to remove. ### Some refrigerator noises are normal, right? Plenty of them. Water running and gurgling after a defrost cycle is normal, so is a fan changing speed and so is the occasional pop from the cabinet expanding. What is worth attention is a new sound that has appeared and stayed, or one that is getting louder week by week. ### It only does it sometimes and never when you would be here. Which is exactly why a recording is worth making. Intermittent noises are the hardest thing to diagnose on a single visit, and ten seconds of audio plus a note of when it happens frequently settles it before anybody drives out. ### Is a noisy appliance urgent? Rarely urgent, usually worth booking. The exception is a hard click every few minutes on a refrigerator that is also losing temperature — that combination is a compressor struggling to start, and it is better looked at sooner than later. --- **[Read full article: It has started making a new noise](https://kitchenaidmiami.support/symptoms/appliance-making-a-new-noise/)**