Sub-Zero Repair in South Lake Union
Downtown and Queen Anne Lead appliance: Wine Cooler
South Lake Union, at the southern tip of Lake Union, has gained a wave of new residential buildings since its redevelopment began in the early 2000s, and this page opens with wine storage, from full-height columns to undercounter units beneath a bar counter.
- Probe lead
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Pattern Ledger
South Lake Union: how it usually goes
- Most often One of the unit's fans slowing or stopped
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Gives itself away by A zone creeping above its setting over a day or two, and a fan that sounds rough or has gone quiet
Price band Evaporator or condenser fan motor$330–$690
- Sometimes Condenser at the kickplate clogged with dust
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Gives itself away by Both zones losing ground together, worst on warm afternoons, with lint visible through the louvers
Price band none set for this work — quoted after the diagnosis
- Rarely A fault in the sealed system itself
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Gives itself away by Fans turning, condenser clean and the door sealing, yet a zone sits near room temperature
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
Warm bottles first, numbers second
Owners here usually notice through the wine: a red that pours warmer than it should, or a white that never quite chills, while the zone display shows a figure a few degrees above the setting. Sub-Zero’s own list of reasons wine storage runs warm covers the fans, the sensors that tell the unit when to cool, the door seal and the sealed system. We leave the sealed system for last, because the causes that cost least are also the ones we meet most.
Readings that are not a fault
A case put away in the afternoon will lift a zone’s reading for a while, since Sub-Zero notes that newly added bottles raise the temperature temporarily. The room matters as well. Sub-Zero designs its indoor units for surroundings between 60°F and 90°F, and outside that range no repair holds the cabinet steady until the room comes back into it. Before you call, make sure the door closes fully past every rack, move anything leaning on the kickplate, where both the full-height and the undercounter models keep their condenser, and give the unit a day to settle.
Access in a newer building
Tell us when you book how a contractor reaches your floor: where a service vehicle can pull in to unload, whether a fob or an escort from the desk is needed for the elevator, and how much notice the management expects. If the office asks anything of contractors, find out what before the day and say so on the call.
Reading the tag
On a full-height Sub-Zero wine column the model and serial tag is on the handle-side wall, just below the control panel; on undercounter wine units it may be on the ceiling inside or on the underside of the control panel. Give that number, both zone readings and their set temperatures to Sub-Zero Appliance Repair Seattle at (206) 339-4211.
Customer reviews
What Seattle owners say
Built-in Sub-Zero calls in Queen Anne, Madison Park, Laurelhurst and Magnolia.
4.9/ 51,344 reviews
Frost rebuilt on the rear panel days after I scraped it off. A torn drawer seal was letting room air in and the drain was half clogged. Both dealt with in one visit. Six weeks on, none.
Nadine B.Laurelhurst
Fresh food side crept into the low fifties while the freezer stayed solid, so I assumed the whole unit was finished. It was the evaporator fan on the fresh food circuit, and he had one on the van. Cold air again inside two hours.
Rosemary K.Queen Anne
Condensation beading inside the glass door had me worried about the labels. The seal had shifted and the interior fan was turning slowly, so humid air settled instead of moving. Clear through a wet month.
Soren E.Madison Park
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.