Journal
Notes from the coast
What we see repeatedly, written down so you can recognise it before it becomes an expensive week.
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Outdoor refrigeration on an exposed pool deck
Why an uncovered outdoor unit in Ponte Vedra Beach ages several times faster than the same appliance indoors, and which of that damage is preventable.
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Closing a house for the summer
What to do with refrigeration in a Ponte Vedra Beach house that will sit empty for months, and why the ice maker is the decision that matters most.
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Wine storage in a house near the water
Stability beats any single temperature, and a glass door in a Florida summer is a thin boundary. What actually threatens a cellar on this coast.
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Reading a warm fresh-food compartment
One side warm and the other cold is a specific diagnostic clue. Here is the order faults should be eliminated in before anyone opens a sealed system.
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Why an ice maker fails in stages, not at once
An ice maker rarely stops. It degrades in a fixed order, and each stage has its own symptom — here is that order and which parts of it are recoverable.
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Salt air, condenser coils and long run times
Why a Sub-Zero within a mile of the Atlantic runs longer every year, how to read the symptom correctly, and what corrosion on the fins actually means.