Islands, bars and butler pantries — the hardest thermal positions in the house.
Undercounter refrigeration fails for reasons that have as much to do with where it was installed as with what is inside it. A unit boxed into an island with no ventilation path is being asked to reject heat into a sealed cavity, and no part replacement fixes that. We say when the answer is airflow rather than a component.
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On undercounter units
4.9out of 5
from 1,491 reviews across Greater Boston
Warm at the top of the cabinet, cold at the bottom. Turned out the condenser had drawn in a decade of dust from the cooktop a few feet away. Cleaned properly and the airflow came back. He suggested a rough interval for doing it again.
Anastasia D. · Cambridge
Condensation on the outside of the door all through July in a basement bar. He checked the seal, found it deformed where the unit sits against a cabinet stile, and fitted a new one. Small fault, but it had been bothering us for a year.
Octavius B. · Salem
The unit in our island ran constantly and never got properly cold. He showed me it had been built into a sealed cavity with nowhere to push the heat, and that no part would fix that. We cut a vent. Problem gone, and he charged for the visit only.
Fitzgerald M. · Boston
The $95 covers the visit and the full diagnosis and comes off the repair once you approve it. If it turns out nothing should be repaired, we will say that too.