Burbank, CA
Sub-Zero doors, seals and panels in Burbank
Across Riverside Drive from Toluca Lake: post-war houses whose kitchens have usually been opened up around the refrigeration.
In Burbank
What the doors and panels here are doing
Burbank kitchens tend to have been remodelled rather than replaced, which means a built-in living in an opening that was adapted to it rather than built for it. Doors here are often carrying a front that arrived with the second or third kitchen, and the fixings underneath remember every one of them. The commonest call is a panel that no longer lines up with the drawer beside it, and the second commonest is a seal that gave up quietly enough that nobody noticed until the freezer started frosting.
A door job needs measuring more than it needs stock, and that is what decides how these visits run. The reveal down both sides gets checked against each other, the door is shut on a strip of paper all the way round, and the hinge is loaded the way the panel actually loads it — with the front on, not with it off.
Where a kitchen has been refaced, the panel usually comes into it. Fronts get taken off and put back during a remodel, and the fixings do not always return to exactly the holes they left. It shows up months later as a gap that is wider at one end than the other, or a door that has to be pushed the last inch. Both are adjustments rather than parts, and both are worth doing before a new seal is fitted to a door that is no longer hanging straight.
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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.