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Sub-Zero freezer repair in Silver Lake
Hillside houses from the 1920s with built-ins wedged into original openings, which is why a freezer column here is usually worked on where it stands.
What Silver Lake freezer calls turn out to be
The blocks above the reservoir are the hardest access anywhere on this route. A freezer column set into a 1920s opening has almost no side clearance, so the job starts by protecting plaster and floorboards, and most of these are repaired where they stand rather than drawn out.
The faults here run mechanical rather than refrigerant: evaporator fans, sensors that have drifted, defrost heaters, and doors that have stopped pulling themselves closed. Stairs are the reason the van carries the likely parts rather than making a second trip for them.
Start with the fault
The fault that comes off these hillside blocks more than any other isa sheet of frost on the back wall.
The second, in kitchens where the cold storage is drawers rather than a column, isa freezer drawer frozen shut.
What either one costs to put right is set out band by band onthe repair cost page.
Asked about a freezer in Silver Lake
The kitchen is up a flight of steps. Does the freezer have to come out?
Almost never. The fan, the defrost heater, the sensors, the board and the seals are all reached from the front, inside the opening the cabinet already sits in. Drawing a column out of a 1920s run is a last resort here, and the plaster and the floorboards get covered before anything moves.
What does a freezer call up on the hill start at?
A flat $89 covers the drive up, the readings and the whole diagnosis, and it comes off the repair once you approve the figure. Ring Sub-Zero Repair Experts Los Angeles on (310) 496-3358 and say whether the house is reached by a driveway or by steps.
Afterwards
What people said once the kitchen was back together
Built-in Sub-Zero calls on both sides of the pass.
Owners on this route4.9/ 5573 reviews
September in the valley hit triple digits and the unit ran without ever satisfying. The condenser was matted with dust off the hillside. Cleaned properly, gauges checked, and it rests between cycles again.
Cormac D.Studio City
Bottom freezer drawers stopped freezing while the refrigerator side stayed perfect. He traced it to a dead damper motor rather than the compressor another company had wanted to replace. Two months on, still right.
Corinne P.Sherman Oaks
Upper zone read fifty five and was actually nearer sixty two, which I only caught with my own thermometer. Stalled damper motor, replaced on the spot. He did turn up an hour past the window.
Roman E.Silver Lake
A freezer in Silver Lake, read properly rather than guessed at
Phone answered 24/7; work runs 8:00 am – 8:00 pm, seven days. The $89 visit is credited against the repair.