Hibernia Cold Systems — (904) 201-3304 # Sub-Zero Repair on Pace Island · Hibernia Independent Sub-Zero repair on Pace Island, Fleming Island, Clay County. Gated access, Doctors Lake humidity, wine storage and undercounter units. Source: https://subzerorepairflemingisland.com/shores/pace-island/ --- - [Home](https://subzerorepairflemingisland.com/) - [Shores](https://subzerorepairflemingisland.com/shores/) - Pace Island Clay County # Sub-Zero repair in Pace Island A gated community between Doctors Lake and the St. Johns, where most houses have more than one refrigeration appliance and at least one of them lives near water. - County Clay - ZIP 32003 - Diagnostic $129 Flat, and credited toward the repair. [Call (904) 201-3304](tel:+19042013304) ![Hands checking the runner track of an open freezer drawer, frost visible along the gasket above it.](https://subzerorepairflemingisland.com/img/hs-drawer-freezer-04.webp) Pace Island cabinets are mostly original, and the runners have carried twenty years of groceries. Pace Island ## On the ground Pace Island sits between Doctors Lake and the St. Johns River, gated, with larger lots and older custom houses than the master-planned parts of Fleming Island. Two things follow from that for a refrigeration shop, and both of them change how a visit is planned. ## More than one appliance per house In a typical Eagle Harbor kitchen there is a refrigerator and that is the inventory. On Pace Island there is frequently a built-in in the kitchen, a wine unit somewhere between the kitchen and the dining room, undercounter drawers in the island or the butler’s pantry, and something refrigerated in the garage or under a covered porch near the water. That matters because the units fail differently and get noticed differently. The kitchen built-in is watched daily and any fault is reported within a day. The wine unit can drift five or six degrees above its set point for a season before anybody opens it with a thermometer in hand. The undercounter drawers in an island tend to fail from heat rather than from anything internal, because they are in a sealed cabinet with stone above them and whatever clearance the installer chose to leave. And the appliance nearest the water is the one working hardest in August. When we come out for one of these, it is worth ten minutes to look at the others. Checking a condenser and a door seal on three appliances during one visit is cheaper for you than three visits. ## Access, gates and the route out Pace Island is gated, which is a scheduling fact rather than an obstacle: we need to be on your list or expected at the gate, and it is worth telling us at booking whether there is a code, a call box or a guard. The larger practical constraint is inside the house. A full-height built-in has to come out of its opening on its rollers to be worked on properly, and the route it takes matters. Custom houses out here have wide kitchens and narrow routes: a stone threshold at the doorway, a step down into the family room, a turn tight enough that the door has to come off. We look at that before anything is disconnected and we tell you what is involved rather than discovering it halfway. ## Water on two sides Being between Doctors Lake and the river means humidity that does not really drop, and humidity is the quiet load on refrigeration. Door gaskets take a set sooner. Glass-doored wine units sweat. Screened porches open into kitchens and change the room the appliance is fighting every time somebody walks through. What we do not claim is a salt-air story. This is twenty-odd miles inland on a tidal river, not the beach, and corrosion on condenser fins and hinges is a coastal ZIP problem rather than a Pace Island one. Overstating that would be a way to sell you something. ## Heat, clearance and the sealed island cabinet The undercounter units out here fail from their surroundings more often than from anything internal, and it is worth explaining why, because it changes what we look at first. An undercounter refrigerator or wine unit rejects heat through a condenser at the front, behind the grille, and it needs air to move across it. Built into an island with stone above and cabinetry on three sides, the only supply and the only exhaust is that narrow strip at the bottom. Block it with a decorative panel, a toe-kick trim piece fitted flush, or a drawer of dust and pet hair, and the machine is breathing its own warm air. The symptom is not a dead appliance. It is a unit that never quite reaches its set point in August, runs almost continuously, and gets described as having slowly become less cold over a couple of years. On a wine unit that drift can go unnoticed for a season, because nobody opens it with a thermometer in hand. So we check the grille, the clearance and the condenser before anything else, and we look at what is above and around the cabinet. Every unit also has an upper ambient limit, and a sealed island cabinet in a west-facing room can find it. A machine that is out of its depth in its installation is not a broken machine, and replacing a part will not change where it was put — when that is the finding, we say so rather than sell the part. ## Terms Flat diagnostic fee, credited toward the repair. Written estimate before any part is ordered. Genuine OEM parts, 90 days on labour, 365 on parts. We are an independent shop working Sub-Zero refrigeration only, weekdays and Saturday mornings. Neighbourhoods ## Where the calls come from - Pace Island - Doctors Lake Related ## What we do here - [Built-in refrigeration — The full-height built-in units that sit flush with the cabinetry — warm boxes, running fans, frost, water on the floor, doors that stopped sealing.](https://subzerorepairflemingisland.com/service/built-in-refrigeration/) - [Integrated columns — Single-purpose refrigerator, freezer and wine columns that hide completely behind cabinet panels — one box warm, one still cold, and no visible grille to check.](https://subzerorepairflemingisland.com/service/integrated-column-refrigeration/) - [Undercounter and drawers — Refrigerator drawers, beverage centres and undercounter freezers built into islands, butler's pantries and lanai kitchens — small boxes in tight, hot cabinets.](https://subzerorepairflemingisland.com/service/undercounter-refrigeration/) - [Wine storage — Wine units drift before they fail. Uneven zones, a glass door that sweats through August, a fan that runs and runs, and racks that no longer sit true.](https://subzerorepairflemingisland.com/service/wine-storage/) - [Sealed system work — Refrigerant, compressors, condensers and evaporators — the part of the appliance that cannot be diagnosed from a symptom list and should never be guessed at.](https://subzerorepairflemingisland.com/service/sealed-system-and-compressor/) - [When an Older Built-In Is Worth Repairing — When a fifteen-year-old Sub-Zero built-in is worth repairing and when it is not, and what an independent shop looks at before quoting compressor work.](https://subzerorepairflemingisland.com/waterline/when-an-older-built-in-is-worth-repairing/) Working hours: Monday – Friday 8:00am – 6:00pm; Saturday 9:00am – 4:00pm. Roughly 40 miles from Fleming Island. Customer feedback ## What owners in Pace Island said afterwards 4.3 out of 5 across 38 customer reviews. [Read every one of them](https://subzerorepairflemingisland.com/reviews/). ★★★☆☆ The repair itself was sound and the unit has behaved since. Getting there was slower than I would have liked, with a part on back order and no update until I rang and asked where things stood. Loretta H.2025-10-02 ★★★☆☆ The gasket was replaced correctly and the door pulls in as it should. He did leave a smear of sealant on the panel that I had to clean off afterwards, which is why this is not full marks. Elowen S.2025-12-18 ★★★☆☆ Work was done properly and the cabinet holds. My reservation is the scheduling: the second appointment moved twice, and both times I found out only because I called to confirm it myself. Ignatius B.2025-08-26