Built-in brands in Downtown towers

Start with the room rather than the badge. There is no wall for a 48 inch side-by-side and, on most interior units, nowhere to duct a hood to the outside. So what goes in is refrigeration in columns, a refrigerator or freezer drawer under the counter, a wine cabinet doing the job a cellar does in a house, and an ice machine behind the bar. Cooking is a 30 or 36 inch range or a cooktop, frequently under a hood that recirculates, which leaves more heat in a small closed room than the same appliance would ever produce in a suburban kitchen.

Sub-Zero is what we open most often, and here almost every one of those calls begins at the grille, because a condenser in an interior kitchen has nowhere to send its heat. Wolf is cooking equipment only, ranges, rangetops, wall ovens and cooktops, and the repeat jobs are ignition faults and an oven sensor that has wandered a long way from the setting while the control does exactly as it is told. Viking arrives as both a range and, in some of these residences, refrigeration, with the wear landing on igniters, oven thermostats and heavy door hardware. Thermador carries the most electronics of the four, so a code names a component and we test that component before anyone orders it. Cove is the dishwasher of the group and turns up alongside Sub-Zero in the newer kitchens.