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Independent service

The door half of the trade, and what we turn down

This is a refrigeration practice with a narrow middle. Doors, gaskets, hinges, closers, drawer runners and the custom fronts hung on them are the work. The cold side behind them — airflow, a matted condenser, a control reading badly, the sealed system — gets diagnosed and repaired when that is genuinely where the fault lives, and the order those two are looked at in never changes: the moving part first, the expensive possibility last.

Declining work is part of how the rest of it stays good. Anything that applies heat — an oven, a range, a cooktop, a hood — gets a referral inside the first minute of the phone call instead of a booking. So does a fault that turns out to belong to the cabinetmaker rather than to the appliance, because a carcase door hung badly is joinery, and a joiner will make a better job of it than any appliance technician.

Most of this site is written rather than sold, for the same reason. Somebody who can tell a hardened seal from a dropped hinge before anyone arrives gets a shorter visit and a smaller bill, and somebody who reads the whole file and decides not to phone at all has still been dealt with straight. The shelf of guides is there for both of them.

Hand feeding a thermometer probe into an open dual-zone wine cabinet, digital thermometer in the other hand
Phone
(310) 499-2240
Speciality
Doors, gaskets, hinges, closers, custom panels, integrated columns
On the road
8:00 am – 8:00 pm, seven days
To find the fault
$89, deducted from the repair you approve
Equipment
Sub-Zero refrigeration only — no cooking appliances
Established
Working on Los Angeles kitchens since 2001

This is a licensed, bonded and insured business. The licence number is not published here; it is given out on request.

How a call runs

Four steps, and no surprises in the middle

  1. The phone call

    Say what the door is doing rather than what you think has broken: whether it closes itself from a hand-width open, whether the gap down the sides looks even, and when it last did line up. That decides which seals and hardware ride along on the first visit.

  2. The visit

    The visit is $89 flat. That pays for coming out and for finding the fault, and it drops off the bill the moment you approve the repair. It begins at the door — shut on a strip of paper all the way round, the reveal measured down both sides, the hinge loaded the way the panel loads it.

  3. The number

    You get the fault in plain language and one firm price for putting it right, before anything is opened up. Where the honest answer is an adjustment rather than a part, that is what you are charged for.

  4. The finish

    A door is proved closed, not proved fitted: paper test round the frame, reveal even, and the panel back on the fixings it came off. Joinery travels on protection whenever a cabinet has to move at all.

The written-up version of all of it is on the shelf: doors and seals, custom panels and integrated columns, with every component named along the way explained in the parts list. If you would rather describe the door to somebody than read about it, the two ways of reaching us — and what is worth having to hand when you do — are on the contact page.

Book the visit

Tell us what the cabinet is doing and we will bring the right meter.

A flat $89 covers the trip and the diagnosis, and comes off the bill when you approve the repair. You hear the price for the work first — nothing starts before you agree to it.

(310) 499-2240 Book online

8:00 am – 8:00 pm, seven days · calls answered 24/7