PRO Series · Note 04
PRO Refrigerator Drawers Not Sealing
A PRO refrigerator drawer that will not seal is tested in a fixed order: the load, its seat on the slides, its adjustment, and only then the gasket. The drawer has its own temperature setting, so a leak can show at that drawer alone. Sub-Zero Appliance Repair Bellevue, (425) 696-2636.
SignedBjorn Aaltonen
- In the trade
- 15 years
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Which drawers a PRO has
Sub-Zero’s current PRO guide gives three temperature controls: the refrigerator behind the door, the refrigerator drawer or drawers, and the freezer. Both widths have at least one refrigerator drawer, each front with its own gasket and pair of slides.
What stops a drawer sealing
- Load. A tall jar standing above the top edge catches the frame and holds the front off its gasket.
- The slide. Owners may lift a drawer out for cleaning, and the older PRO 48 guide warns that the slide front must engage the drawer on the way back. Seated on one side only, it closes out of square.
- Adjustment. Each front has height, side-to-side and tilt settings, and a side-to-side change needs both slides turned equally. A front out of tilt meets its gasket at the top and not the bottom, or the reverse.
- The gasket. A fold, a split, or a run pressed flat by an over-full drawer.
What we check
The drawer is emptied, reseated on both slides and closed on a paper strip at the top and down each side. Even drag clears the seal. A loose side is brought in with the height, side or tilt setting; each tilt hole moves the front 1/32 inch. A warm drawer with every seal holding sends us to the setting and the cooling instead.
Asked about this
The drawer has frozen to its frame. Can it be pulled free?
Not by force: a hard pull against ice can tear the gasket. Sub-Zero's current PRO guide melts heavy ice with the unit off and a handheld steamer, not a hair dryer. Ice there means air got in, so the seal is tested next. Sub-Zero Appliance Repair Bellevue, (425) 696-2636.
Where this sits
Back to PRO SeriesPRO3650, PRO3650G, PRO4850, PRO4850G: the series this note belongs to.