Company helps tackle repairs at home, work

CANTON, Mich. -

Julia Nicolaou sees appliance repairs at her Royal Oak salon as a welcomed challenge.

"It's not that hard.It's the fear that's holding you back," said Nicolaou, who owns Aqua Salon on West 4th Street. "As a small business owner, my job is to make sure that we stay in business, we stay profitable and our business keeps going. You know, we cannot afford any down time."

Especially problematic is when her washer or dryer breaks down. Nicolaou said she runs the appliances 24/7.

She started tackling repairs herself 10 years ago.

"Now I don't have to call the guy and say, 'Hey can you come over and look at my dryer?' And $200 later, he spent 10 minutes just replacing a fuse or something like that. Something minor," Nicolaou said."A lot of times I would do it in the past and I would say, 'Can you tell me what you did so I can do it myself?"

She said the secret to her success is where she gets her replacement parts: RepairClinic.com.

The Canton-based company ships replacement parts across the U.S.

Inside the Michigan Avenue warehouse is more than one million parts for 160 brands of appliances, heating and cooling and outdoor equipment including snow blowers and lawn mowers.

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