Service area · 02138
Sub-Zero refrigeration in Cambridge
West Cambridge and the streets around Harvard Square are dense with Victorians and large frame houses cut into condominiums, so a built-in refrigerator often sits in a kitchen carved out of an older floor plan. Access tends to be by narrow stair and shared hall rather than driveway.
Almost every built-in we see on this side of the river is in a kitchen that was fitted into a building that did not originally have one. That changes the job before it starts: a column can be boxed in on three sides with a run of cabinets built tight to it, and the condenser grille can be six inches from a soffit. We measure clearance first, because a unit that has been running warm for a year in a sealed alcove is not always faulty — sometimes it is just suffocating.
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What we get called out for in Cambridge
- Sub-Zero Refrigerator Repair Built-in Sub-Zero refrigerators of the kind fitted into kitchens across Wellesley and the inner suburbs, from panelled columns to integrated under-counter drawers. Work covers dual-refrigeration systems, evaporator and condenser faults, control boards, door alignment and the drain and gasket problems that show up first. Interior lights on but the compartment slowly warming
- Sub-Zero Freezer Repair Freezer columns and drawers, including the paired column installations common in larger kitchens west of Boston. Defrost heaters, thermistors, blocked drains and tired gaskets account for most of what we find, and the sealed system is checked before anything is replaced. Auto-defrost leaving a sheet of ice on the drawer floor
- Sub-Zero Ice Maker Repair In-freezer ice modules and stand-alone clear ice machines, including units plumbed into older houses with long, cold supply runs. Typical causes are fill valves, water lines, moulds, ejector assemblies and filters that were changed without being purged. Cubes fusing into one block in the bin
- Sub-Zero Wine Cooler Repair Wine storage units in dining rooms, pantries and finished basements, where a few degrees of drift matters and noise carries. We diagnose zones that will not hold apart, failing fans and compressors, humidity and condensation faults, and seals that have gone hard. Zone temperatures converging on one another
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4.9out of 5across 1437 reviews
5 out of 5
Condo in a Victorian near Fresh Pond. Water pooled at the base every few days. The drain line was blocked with sludge and the small heater had quit, so it kept icing over again. He dealt with both.
Emeka V. · Cambridge
5 out of 5
Top shelf ran several degrees warmer than the panel claimed. He calibrated against his own probe and found the sensor reading low. Sensor replaced, and the readout finally matches what is happening.
Malachy P. · Cambridge
5 out of 5
Narrow stair and a shared hall, and he still got the drawer unit out without marking the plaster. Frost had built up around the fan because the seal had a small tear near the bottom corner.
Odile B. · Cambridge
Reviews left by Wellesley area customers of Sub-Zero Repair Wellesley.
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$95 service call, credited against the repair. On site 8:00 am – 8:00 pm, seven days.