Sub-Zero Repair in Denny-Blaine
Central / Lake Washington Lead appliance: Refrigerator and Freezer
Denny-Blaine has been lakefront house lots since Charles Denny and Elbert Blaine began subdividing it in 1910, and its kitchens tend to be generous: a refrigerator and a freezer standing together, and a call about one of the two.
- Compressor
- Manifold gauges
Pattern Ledger
Denny-Blaine: how it usually goes
- Most often A failed defrost part on the freezer half
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Gives itself away by Frost whitens the freezer's back wall and packages go soft, while the refrigerator half keeps its usual reading as if nothing had happened
Price band Defrost heater, thermostat or sensor$260–$690
- Sometimes The warm half's evaporator fan has quit
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Gives itself away by Hold that half's door switch in and its vents give no draft, while the healthy half can still be heard humming
Price band Evaporator or condenser fan motor$330–$690
- Rarely Leak or restriction in one half's sealed system
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Gives itself away by Fan turning, no heavy frost, and still that half's coil never gets properly cold while its compressor seldom rests
Price band Compressor or sealed-system repair$1,410–$3,350
Telling these three apart is what the $89 visit is for. Sub-Zero Appliance Repair Seattle · (206) 339-4211
A pair is two machines
Two columns side by side are two appliances, plainly. The wide built-ins are less obvious, but Sub-Zero’s design guide for its classic combination models describes two compressors and independent control of the refrigerator and the freezer. So a pair that fails by halves is behaving exactly as it was built to. On a combination cabinet the half still holding its temperature is useful evidence: it shows power is reaching the cabinet, and it points us at parts the failing half does not share with it.
Where the freezer half goes wrong
On the classic 600-series built-ins, the defrost equipment sits on the freezer side: a heater on the evaporator, a terminator that ends each defrost, and a heated trough that carries the meltwater away. The service manual lists the fresh-food coil’s heavy frost under a door left ajar, a fan fault or a misread sensor, with no heater among them. When one freezer defrost part stops, frost thickens across the coil until the fan can hardly push air through it, and the freezer loses ground over a day or two while its compressor keeps working. The cure is the failed part plus a thorough defrost.
Reaching a lakeside kitchen
Lakefront lots can put the kitchen a long walk from the curb. When you book, say where a van can stop, whether the easiest way in is a side or service door, and who will open the house if you are out.
Three things to have in hand
Tell us which half is warm and what each display reads, and look for frost on that half’s back wall. On a classic side-by-side the model and serial tag sits inside the freezer door near the top hinge; on an over-and-under, inside the refrigerator door. The phone at Sub-Zero Appliance Repair Seattle, (206) 339-4211, is answered around the clock; pass those details along and the technician comes knowing which half to open first.
Customer reviews
What Seattle owners say
Built-in Sub-Zero calls in Queen Anne, Madison Park, Laurelhurst and Magnolia.
4.9/ 51,435 reviews
Panel-ready column, flush with the cabinetry, and I dreaded anyone pulling it out. It was the compressor relay. Back in place, and you cannot tell it moved.
Anneli P.Madison Park
Interior light flickered and the temperature alarm tripped at random, so I expected a new board. It was a chafed harness behind the kick plate. Repaired, re-routed, and he shimmed the cabinet so it cannot rub.
Isolde W.Magnolia
The unit in the pool house had quietly stopped producing and nobody noticed until guests arrived. Drain pump had failed and the bin sensor was gummed up. New pump, bin cleaned properly, back in service.
Clementine R.Laurelhurst
Cabinet running warm?
Ring before the food decides for you
Give the model number and what the cabinet is doing, and the visit is booked from there. Visits 8:00 am – 8:00 pm, seven days; a person answers the phone 24/7.