Costs · Kirkland
Freezer Door or Drawer Gasket Cost
A freezer gasket is the flexible seal round a door or drawer that keeps room air out of the cabinet. Once it tears, flattens or lets go of its channel, the repair falls in the $290–$660 band, with the figure fixed after the fit is checked. Sub-Zero Repair Kirkland, (425) 699-2400.
- Term
- Freezer gasket
- Band
- $290–$660Gasket
- Tell
- A stripe of frost along one edge of the opening, heaviest where the seal has stopped touching.
| Band | Covers | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Door gasket or seal replacement | Door seals and drawer seals, including the corner that tears first | $290–$660 |
Service call The $89 visit covers coming out and diagnosing the fault in full, and all $89 comes back to you as a credit on any repair you go ahead with.
Doors and drawers wear in different places
A door gasket bends against the cabinet each time the door shuts, and the corners take the sharpest bend, so a split shows there first. A drawer seal has a harder life at the bottom, where crumbs and spilled ice collect and the loaded drawer is pushed home with some force. Either way, the first sign is rarely the seal itself. It is frost, laid down in a line wherever damp room air slips past.
Sub-Zero asks that a service technician replaces any door or drawer gasket, and sends owners with a ripped seal to service rather than to a parts counter.
Alignment comes before the seal
A new gasket on a door that has dropped, or on a drawer riding crooked on its slides, meets the cabinet in the same wrong place the old one did. So the door or drawer is checked for sag and square before anything is ordered, and the gap is closed by position rather than by squashing fresh rubber into it. On a drawer the whole assembly comes out for the seal to be changed, which matters on an over-and-under freezer drawer, where the drawer is the whole freezer.
What the band covers
The seal, the fitting, and the adjustment that makes it sit true. The same band covers the door seal of a wine storage unit, where a hardened gasket shows as fog on the glass instead of frost. Frost that built up because of the leak is cleared in the same job. Heavy ice that has nothing to do with the opening is another fault with its own figure, and the page on frost buildup repair costs lays those causes out side by side. A freezer drawer repair visit begins with the $89 diagnosis, credited once you approve the work.
Check these before you call
- 01
Shut the door or drawer on a sheet of paper at the top, both sides and the bottom. Wherever it pulls free with no grip, air is leaking in.
- 02
Look inside the opening for a band of frost. It gathers opposite the length of seal that no longer meets the cabinet.
- 03
Step back and compare the front with its neighbours. An edge sitting proud or low means the fit is off, not only the seal.
Still wrong after that? Sub-Zero Repair Kirkland, (425) 699-2400 — visits eight till eight, every day.
Field log
Priced, fixed, signed off.
What Kirkland owners wrote after the figure was agreed and the work was done.
5.0 / 51,817 reviews
The door sucked itself shut so hard we had to wrestle it open, and then the cabinet ran warm. Stiff gasket, damper stuck open. Both replaced and the door rebalanced.
Ravi P.Houghton
Condensation on the glass every evening and a musty smell starting. The seal had relaxed on the hinge side and the interior fan was barely moving air. Gasket and fan in one visit, racks wiped down.
Emmett L.Bridle Trails
Water ran down the inside back wall and froze into a ramp under the ice drawer. The fill tube heater had failed. He replaced it, checked the fill volume and tidied up the mess unasked.
Sunniva B.Bridle Trails
Next step
Say what the unit is doing. The band comes before the bill.
Have the model number from the rating plate and a line on what the unit is doing. The visit is $89, the fault is named and priced inside its published band, and nothing is replaced until you agree the figure.