Sub-Zero Repair in Wedgwood
Northeast Lead appliance: Refrigerator
The heart of Wedgwood was built as Cape Cod-style houses from the war years on, so a Sub-Zero in one of these kitchens usually arrived with a later remodel. This page opens with the refrigerator side, the part of a combination built-in these kitchens lean on hardest.
- Wiring connector
- Condenser fan
- Compressor
Pattern Ledger
Wedgwood: how it usually goes
- Most often Fresh-food evaporator fan no longer turning
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Gives itself away by The freezer stays hard while the milk warms over a day, and holding the door switch in brings no draft from the refrigerator vents
Price band Evaporator or condenser fan motor$330–$690
- Sometimes Refrigerator thermistor misreading its compartment
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Gives itself away by A thermometer on a middle shelf and the display disagree by ten degrees or more, in either direction
Price band Defrost heater, thermostat or sensor$260–$690
- Rarely Leak or restriction on the refrigerator's own circuit
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Gives itself away by Fans turning, coil clean, door sealing, and the fresh-food side still never pulls down to its setting
Price band Compressor or sealed-system repair$1,410–$3,350
Telling these three apart is what the $89 visit is for. Sub-Zero Appliance Repair Seattle · (206) 339-4211
When only the milk is warm
What Wedgwood owners describe is a refrigerator that has slipped a few degrees while the freezer beside or below it carries on as if nothing were wrong. A classic built-in combination gives the refrigerator and the freezer separate compressors, evaporators and fans, so a hard freezer is useful evidence: the power and the freezer’s machinery are sound, and the search stays with the refrigerator’s own parts.
Most of the time the answer is air that has stopped moving. On those built-ins the fresh-food evaporator fan is wired through a switch that the closed door presses, so a bent or missing depressor on the door, a tall jar pushed against the fan cover, or a worn motor all end the same way: a cold coil behind the panel and a warm shelf in front of it. The sensor comes next, then the condenser, and gauges only come out once all of those have been ruled out.
Parking and the way in
Wedgwood is mostly quiet residential streets, so access tends to be easy, but a few details still help. When you book, say whether there is room at the curb or in a driveway, how many steps lead up to the kitchen door, and whether the refrigerator is set flush into cabinetry with panels that match the cupboards.
Worth noting before you call
On a classic built-in the model and serial numbers are on a tag inside a door, up near the top hinge. Read them off, write down what each display shows, and say whether the refrigerator side warmed gradually or all at once. That is enough for the technician to arrive with a short list rather than a long one.
Customer reviews
What Seattle owners say
Built-in Sub-Zero calls in Queen Anne, Madison Park, Laurelhurst and Magnolia.
4.9/ 5911 reviews
Fresh food side crept into the low fifties while the freezer stayed solid, so I assumed the whole unit was finished. It was the evaporator fan on the fresh food circuit, and he had one on the van. Cold air again inside two hours.
Rosemary K.Queen Anne
After a power flicker the refrigerator half of our paired columns stopped holding temperature. The board had lost its settings rather than failed. He reset it, watched the pull-down, then showed me what to check next time.
Sylvie M.Laurelhurst
Cubes came out hollow and cloudy and I had written the ice maker off entirely. It was the inlet valve restricting flow, a far cheaper outcome. He did arrive near the very end of the window.
Lachlan F.Queen Anne
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.