Built-in cabinets, read under gauges — not off the display.

Almost never. A built-in of this kind runs the two compartments off separate cooling circuits, so a warm fresh-food column beside a freezer that is still hard points at that one circuit and nothing else — the evaporator fan, the defrost heater, a thermistor reporting a temperature the shelf does not have, or an air path that is blocked. That is a repair, and the diagnosis is usually quick.

Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Roscoe Village and Lincoln Square. It is one run rather than a list, which is the point — a call booked in the morning is usually seen the same day because the van is already inside those four neighbourhoods. If you are outside them, say so on the phone and you will get a straight yes or no rather than a window nobody intends to keep.

Not directly, but two things follow it. Heating season dries the air in the flat, gaskets that have gone hard stop pulling themselves shut, and the cabinet starts working against a door that never quite seals. Then in August the same cabinet has to reject heat into a kitchen already at eighty degrees, and a condenser that has been half-blocked since spring finally cannot. Most "sudden" failures were measurable months earlier.

It is the single most common thing behind a call from these blocks. A built-in rejects heat through the grille at the base, and joinery built tight around it, a toe-kick that was never cut for airflow or a return path blocked by the cabinet behind will all read on the gauges as a failing compressor. The clearance gets checked before anything is quoted, because replacing a compressor that was only ever overheating is an expensive way to keep the fault.

The service call is $89 flat. It covers getting there and the full diagnosis, and it is credited in full against the repair if you approve the work. You get one firm figure for parts and labour before anything is opened further or ordered — nothing is replaced on suspicion, and the price does not move afterwards.

On this stock, usually repair. These cabinets were built to be serviced, parts for the common model families are still available, and a sealed-system or control repair is a fraction of a replacement before you count the joinery work a new cabinet drags behind it in a rehabbed kitchen. When a unit has genuinely stopped being worth the money, you will be told that instead of quoted for it.

On site 8:00 am to 8:00 pm, seven days. Dispatch is a separate line and is answered around the clock — an overnight failure gets logged with the model, the fault and the address, and goes into the front of the next working window rather than into a queue that starts at nine.

The parts that fail often ride along: evaporator and condenser fan motors, defrost heaters and terminators, thermistors, door gaskets, water inlet valves and control boards for the widespread families. Sealed-system components are ordered against your specific serial rather than guessed at, because guessing at a part on a sealed system is how one visit becomes three.