Guides
Repair guides for Encinitas owners
Each of these started as a question a customer asked while a panel was off. They are here so the next owner can read the answer instead of paying for it.
Encinitas reading order
Start with dual refrigeration explained if you own a Sub-Zero and have never been sure what is behind the panels. Knowing that the fresh-food side and the freezer run as two separate systems is what lets you read most faults yourself: a cold freezer over a warm refrigerator rules out the expensive answer before anyone arrives.
From there, the guides follow the questions Encinitas owners bring us. If the unit has started making a sound, fan motor or compressor shows how one test with the door tells the two apart, and our refrigerator noise page goes through the rest of the sounds a built-in makes. If the ice tastes or smells wrong, the ice maker smells guide traces the odor to food, water or something growing in the bin. And for a Wolf rangetop that clicks without lighting, the ignition guide explains why the cause is usually sitting on top of the burner rather than inside the range.
Dual refrigeration explained: two sealed systems in one cabinet
Dual refrigeration means your Sub-Zero is two refrigerators sharing a cabinet.
Burner clicks and will not light: ignition, spark modules and caps
When a Wolf surface burner clicks and will not light, or clicks on and on after it has lit, the cause is usually sitting on top of the burner rather than inside the…
Fan motor or compressor: telling two noises apart
Open the refrigerator door: if the noise stops the instant the door comes off its seal, it is an evaporator fan inside the cabinet, because a door switch cuts that…
Sub-Zero ice maker smells: tracing the odor to its source
An ice maker smells for one of three reasons: the cubes have absorbed odors from food in the freezer, the water reaching the machine is stale or poorly filtered, or…
Appliance down in Encinitas?
Tell us the brand and what it is doing — we can usually name the likely repair before we arrive.