Towns
Sub-Zero Repair in Lexington
Three kinds of house sit side by side in Lexington and each treats a built-in differently: the antique colonial with low ceilings and a kitchen added at the back, the mid-century modern with its flat roof and long glazed wall, and the large modern rebuild with an island the length of the room.
Flat $95 service call — the trip and the diagnosis — credited against the repair if you approve one. 8:00 am – 8:00 pm, seven days.
The moderns, and where the appliance ended up
Mid-century houses put the kitchen at the core of the plan with little exterior wall to spare, so the refrigeration frequently backs onto a closet or a stair. Heat rejected into an enclosed space behind the unit has nowhere to go, and the symptom is a compartment that holds fine in winter and cannot in August. Anyone who has lived with one of these already knows the seasonal pattern; it is diagnostic rather than incidental.
New builds, paired columns and the island
Recent rebuilds tend to have a refrigerator column and a freezer column with a joining trim, plus undercounter refrigeration or an ice maker in the island. Island units are the awkward ones — they draw and reject air through a single toe-kick grille, and a rug pushed against it in winter is enough to raise the compartment several degrees. It is worth ruling out before anything else.
Antiques
In the oldest houses the constraint is the doorway, not the kitchen. Where a unit will not come out through the room it went into, a repair carried out in place is the difference between a morning and a project, and the diagnosis is arranged around that fact from the start.
Cost
Quoted in full before anything is opened
Flat $95 service call covering the visit and full diagnosis, credited against the repair once you approve it. The bands below are where most repairs land once the fault is known.
- Door gasket or seal replacement$290–$760
- Evaporator or condenser fan motor$320–$650
- Defrost heater, thermostat or sensor$280–$680
- Ice maker, water valve or supply line$300–$700
- Electronic control board$480–$920
- Compressor or sealed-system repair$1,000–$2,330
Worth repairing? A comparable new unit runs $8,270 to $19,510
A comparable built-in refrigerator, appliance only — before delivery, installation, custom panels or cabinetry work. Undercounter and wine units sit below this band; a column replacement is usually two purchases rather than one.
What moves a job inside its band
Which circuit failed
A door seal, a fan motor, a defrost heater and a sealed system sit at very different points on the same range. What failed decides most of the figure before anything else does.
Whether the part is still made
A current platform part arrives in days. A superseded board or a discontinued evaporator means a supersession lookup and a longer wait, and that shows up in the quote honestly.
What it takes to reach it
A hillside house with the unit backed onto an exterior wall, or a column boxed in by a stone counter, is more work to open than a unit that rolls forward. Access is quoted, not discovered.
One trip or two
If the part is on the van it finishes that day. If not, the return is inside the quoted figure rather than added to it afterwards.
Reviews
Written after a Winchester-area visit
4.9out of 5across 766 reviews
5 out of 5
Production had dropped to a handful of cubes a day. The inlet screen was choked with sediment after work on the street main. Cleaned out, filter changed, and we had full bins again inside a day.
Estelle J.Symmes Corner
5 out of 5
Both halves lost temperature together over one weekend. It was the dual-compressor relay rather than a sealed system failure, which is what I had braced myself for. Fixed in a single visit and holding fine.
Rosalind V.Woburn
5 out of 5
Island machine in a condo kitchen was leaking into the cabinet below and we only noticed when the floor swelled. The drain pump outlet hose had split right at the barb. Replaced, the base dried and sealed, and he checked the neighbouring cabinet too.
Curtis W.Arlington
Book the visit
Winchester and the towns around it — the model number and the symptom is enough to start.
(781) 675-1098Flat $95 service call, credited against an approved repair.