Guides
Repair guides for Hillcrest owners
Written by the people who do the work, for the owner who wants to understand the appliance before deciding anything. No sales pitch in them — the phone number is at the bottom if you want it.
R-12 to R-134a on an older Sub-Zero: what a conversion actually involves
A conversion means recovering whatever R-12 is left, changing the oil the compressor runs on, fitting a filter drier rated for the new refrigerant, pulling the…
Thermador fault codes: reading them without replacing the board
A fault code does not name a broken part.
After a power cut: the order to check things in
Leave the doors shut. That is the whole first hour, and it decides more about what you lose than anything you can do at the breaker panel.
Appliance down in Hillcrest?
Tell us the brand and what it is doing — we can usually name the likely repair before we arrive.