Everything that opens, seals or faces the room

• Doors and seals

  The Door File: Sub-Zero Doors, Seals and Hinges

  A built-in door is a moving part that has to land in the same place, within a millimetre or two, several thousand times a year. When it stops doing that you get one of five complaints, and they are the five articles below, in the order they are worth reading.

  1. 1 Why Won’t My Sub-Zero Door Stay Closed?
  2. 2 How Do I Know the Door Gasket Is Worn Out?
  3. 3 Why Is My Sub-Zero Door Sagging?
  4. 4 Why Is There Moisture Around the Door Frame?
  5. 5 Why Does the Door Alarm Keep Beeping When the Door Is Shut?

• Panels

  Panel Ready: Living With Custom Panels on a Sub-Zero

  A panel-ready cabinet arrives without a face. What goes on the front is joinery, made to match the rest of the kitchen, and it is hung on an appliance door that was engineered for a particular weight and a particular fixing pattern. Most panel trouble starts there, and these five articles follow it from the fabricator to the finished kitchen.

  1. 1 How Heavy Can a Sub-Zero Door Panel Be?
  2. 2 Why Are My Panels Uneven After the Remodel?
  3. 3 Can a Technician Take the Panels Off Without Damaging Them?
  4. 4 Overlay, Flush Inset or Stainless: Which Sub-Zero Do I Have?
  5. 5 Will My Old Panels Fit a New Sub-Zero?

• Integrated columns

  Flush Fit: Integrated and Designer Columns

  A Designer Series column is built to disappear: panelled front, concealed hinges, no grille above the door, and a reveal around it measured in millimetres. That tolerance is what makes it beautiful and what makes it complain. These four articles are about the faults that only show up when an appliance is fitted flush with the joinery.

  1. 1 Why Does My Integrated Column Door Rub the Cabinet?
  2. 2 How Are Integrated Column Hinges Different?
  3. 3 Why Won’t My Refrigerator Drawer Seal?
  4. 4 Two Columns Side by Side: Why Does the Gap Between Them Matter?

• Local conditions

  Valley Heat, City Water: Local Conditions

  A Los Angeles kitchen does things to refrigeration that no catalogue mentions. Three articles: the afternoon heat load a condenser has to shed, the difference between one water supply and the next, and what a wine column does when the room around it swings.

  1. 1 Why a Sub-Zero Struggles Through a Hundred-Degree Valley Afternoon
  2. 2 Why Ice Makers Scale Faster in Tarzana Than in Windsor Square
  3. 3 Wine Column Off Setpoint: Zone Drift, Sweating Glass and Frost

Every component named along the way is unpicked on its own page in the parts list.