Sub-Zero Repair in Portage Bay
North / Northwest Lead appliance: Undercounter Unit
Portage Bay keeps one of the larger surviving clusters of Seattle houseboats, with houses on the streets behind the shore. A galley on the water seldom has room for a full-height column, so this page deals with the undercounter refrigerator or drawer set beneath the worktop.
- Compressor
- Condenser fan
- Wiring connector
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Portage Bay: how it usually goes
- Most often Condenser behind the kickplate clogged with lint and dust
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Gives itself away by The compressor runs with hardly a pause, the cabinet loses ground by evening, and the grille at floor level wears a gray fur
Price band none set for this work — quoted after the diagnosis
- Sometimes Door or drawer seal no longer meeting the frame
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Gives itself away by Beads of water along one edge after a muggy day, and a corner of rubber standing away when you look closely
Price band Door gasket or seal replacement$290–$640
- Rarely Condenser fan motor, or the wiring that feeds it
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Gives itself away by The compressor starts yet the small fan beside it never turns, and a freshly cleaned coil changes nothing
Price band Evaporator or condenser fan motor$330–$690
Telling these three apart is what the $89 visit is for. Sub-Zero Appliance Repair Seattle · (206) 339-4211
What a warm undercounter unit usually comes down to
You open the door and the drinks are cool rather than cold, or a drawer of greens has gone limp overnight. An undercounter Sub-Zero has a single cooling system and very little space around it, so the first thing we look at is the air it breathes. Sub-Zero puts the condenser of these models behind the kickplate, low on the cabinet front and right at floor level, where lint, pet hair and grit tracked in from outside settle first. The manufacturer’s interval for cleaning that coil is six to twelve months, shorter where pets share the house, and it says a neglected coil can cost temperature or damage the machinery.
With the coil clear, the seal is next. Damp air off the water finds any gap in a door or drawer gasket, and the moisture it leaves is often the first sign. The controls come last, once air and seal have both been ruled out.
Humidity, heat and a kitchen on the water
Sub-Zero rates its indoor units for rooms kept from 60°F up to 90°F, and it notes that a film of sweat on the outside can appear in humid homes without air conditioning, though it should never drip. If the unit sits in a room left unheated while you are away, or you see water running rather than a light film, say so when you call; either one changes where we start.
Reaching the door along the dock
When you book, tell us where a car can stop, whether the dock has a locked gate or a keypad, and how far the walk is from the street to your door. Mention a narrow walkway or a steep ramp too, since everything travels along it by hand. Undercounter refrigerators carry their rating plate inside the cabinet, in the upper left area. The model number from that plate, what a thermometer inside reads, and whether the fan at floor level is running are the three answers that help most, and Sub-Zero Appliance Repair Seattle takes them on (206) 339-4211.
Customer reviews
What Seattle owners say
Built-in Sub-Zero calls in Queen Anne, Madison Park, Laurelhurst and Magnolia.
4.9/ 51,286 reviews
No ice for ten days, and the reset in the manual did nothing. He ruled out the water line, then found the module seized and swapped it.
Simone A.Queen Anne
Salt air off the bluff, and our integrated wine column had started icing at the back of the lower zone. Blocked drain, humidity control given up. He cleared it, fitted the part, showed me the vents.
Rafael Q.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.