Sub-Zero Appliance Repair in Encinitas

Every Sub-Zero standing in an Encinitas kitchen is really two refrigerators in one cabinet. The fresh-food side has its own compressor and evaporator, the freezer has a second, entirely separate set, and no air passes between the two compartments, which is why produce keeps its moisture and nothing in the refrigerator tastes of what is frozen beside it. It is also why a warm refrigerator over a hard-frozen freezer is better news than it sounds: one complete sealed system has just proved itself healthy, and the fault is somewhere on the other one.

Where the cabinet stands decides what we find inside it. On the bluff streets in Leucadia and the blocks below the 101 in Old Encinitas, the air carries salt year round and the condenser fins collect a film that holds dust rather than shedding it. The aluminum goes chalky, a condenser fan bearing stiffens, and the first thing anyone notices is a fresh-food compartment that drifts warm through the afternoon and recovers overnight. Two miles east, in Olivenhain or on the Encinitas Ranch side of I-5, the marine layer burns off by midday and the same partial restriction is paid for in compressor run time instead, so the unit that arrives on the phone as not cooling is really a machine that has been working too hard for a year.

Equipment we service

• Classic built-ins, including the 600 and 700 series behind most Encinitas panel fronts
• Designer and integrated columns, refrigerator and freezer towers made for custom panels
• PRO series stainless refrigerator-freezers, including the glass-door models
• Wine storage columns, undercounter refrigerator and freezer drawers, and undercounter ice makers

Factory-approved parts, and a technician who has seen this fault before. Call (858) 779-0698.