Guides
Read the symptom before you read a quote
One fault per guide, written out properly: what the symptom means, what it usually turns out to be, what you can check yourself in ten minutes, and the point at which it stops being worth your own time.
- Getting a Sub-Zero Into a Chicago Lakefront High-Rise: Freight Elevators, COIs and 1920s Service Cores In a Chicago lakefront tower a Sub-Zero built-in reaches the kitchen through the loading dock and a reserved service elevator, on the association's hours and insurance rules. Here is how that shapes install day, later repair costs, and what to ask before delivery.
- An Ice Maker Being Starved Looks Exactly Like One That Has Failed Small, hollow or missing cubes in a high-rise kitchen are usually a water supply problem rather than a broken module. Here is how to tell the difference from your own kitchen, before anyone quotes you for a part.
- Wine Cabinet Glass Sweating Through a Humid August Condensation on a wine cabinet door in a humid Chicago summer is almost never the refrigeration failing. It is the door heater, the seal or the dew point in the room — and which one it is can be worked out before anyone opens the cabinet.
Read it, checked it, still warm?
Everything in these guides stops at the point where the next step needs gauges, a meter or a panel off. That is the point to call.