Sub-Zero · Los Angeles, CA
Refrigerator Repair
Fresh-food columns, integrated and stainless alike, that have stopped holding their setpoint: sealed-system faults, a defrost path that has given up, boards, and the airflow problems a hot kitchen finds first.
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| What you are seeing | What it usually turns out to be | If it is the part |
|---|---|---|
| Fresh food in the fifties, freezer still at zero | The fresh-food circuit alone: the defrost path, or a sensor feeding the board a number it believes | $280–$610 |
| Runs without stopping through a hot afternoon | Condenser airflow — a coil packed with dust, or the fan that pulls air across it | $300–$720 |
| Door springs back open a second after closing | Gasket compression and hinge alignment, which loads everything downstream of the door | $260–$680 |
| Warm in every compartment at once | The sealed circuit or the board that drives it — the one case where the diagnosis has to come before any price | $1,400–$2,960 |
Symptom, likely part, band. Sub-Zero Appliance Repair Los Angeles settles which row you are in with an instrument, not a guess, and the $89 visit pays for that — (310) 496-7399.
Ranges cover parts and labour on this company's own price bands; the $89 service call is separate until you approve the work, and then it is not.
How it gets put on the phone
- Fresh-food side drifting into the fifties while the freezer column still holds zero
- Condenser running almost continuously through an afternoon over 90°F
- Door that pulls back against you seconds after it is closed
- Standing water under the crisper drawers, or a sheet of ice across the floor of the cabinet
What an instrument is put on
- Shelf and evaporator temperatures read with a probe, against the panel rather than from it
- Condenser condition and the airflow through the grille, which is what a hot week exposes first
- Evaporator fan, defrost path and thermistors on the fresh-food circuit
- Suction and discharge pressures read while the circuit is working, not at rest
- Gasket compression, hinge alignment and the door closer
Two separate circuits mean the fresh-food side can go while the freezer stays exactly where it should be, and that one observation rules out most of the costly answers before a panel moves. What is left is nearly always confined to one circuit: airflow, the defrost path, a sensor reporting a number the board has no reason to doubt, or a condenser that stopped rejecting heat some weeks ago.
What it costs
Six bands, and which one is yours
The $89 service call is what it costs to get somebody in front of the cabinet with instruments; approve the repair and that $89 is credited back against it.
- Door gasket or seal replacement $260–$680 A door that pushes back at you, or glass beading up on a humid morning.
- Evaporator or condenser fan motor $300–$720 Runs and runs without pulling down, or a note that changes when a door opens.
- Defrost heater, thermostat or sensor $280–$610 Frost that comes straight back, or a panel insisting on a number the shelf disagrees with.
- Ice maker, water valve or supply line $260–$840 An empty bin with the arm down, hollow cubes, or water freezing where it should not be.
- Electronic control board $440–$980 Nothing responds, or one circuit is ignored while the other behaves — often after a surge.
- Compressor or sealed-system repair $1,400–$2,960 Every compartment warm at once. The only row where the diagnosis has to come before the figure.
Two things move a job up or down inside its band: which part your serial number takes, and how much of the cabinet has to be dismantled to get at it. The single figure is agreed before anything is ordered, the $89 already paid is deducted from it as soon as you say yes, and nothing is fitted on a hunch.
Set against that: a comparable built-in replacement, before installation and cabinetry work — $12,560 to $22,800. That gap is why a control or sealed-system repair is still the sensible answer on almost every cabinet this company is called to.
Reviews
Read afterwards, not during
5.0/ 5612 reviews
Column started chiming and drifting overnight. He traced it to a thermistor feeding nonsense to the board, swapped it, then stayed to watch the cabinet pull back down before he packed up.
Jocelyn D.Pacific Palisades
Marine air had chewed through the door seal, so the cabinet ran warm and the compressor never rested. New gasket, hinge shimmed, condenser fins cleaned. It cycles properly again and the door pulls itself shut.
Shirin D.Pacific Palisades
Tudor kitchen, original pantry, a built-in wedged into cabinetry that barely clears. He walked it out without marking the woodwork, fitted a new control board, and had it back in place before lunch.
Kenneth B.Hancock Park
Booking
Ring while it is still misbehaving
A fault described as it happens is worth more than a fault remembered: the shelf reading, the noise, the number on the panel. Catch it live and the visit begins somewhere in the middle rather than at the start.
- To come out
- $89, credited back on an approved repair
- Technicians working
- 8:00 am – 8:00 pm, seven days
- Who picks up
- A person, 24/7