A flat storage room with a compact upright freezer, seen close and low, the freezer door or lid catching the light.

San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area

Freezer repair in Russian Hill.

Only about 2 percent of the homes in 94109, the ZIP code that takes in much of Russian Hill, are detached houses.

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What Russian Hill does
to a freezer.

Households in 94109 average 1.65 people, and only about 4 percent have four or more members.

Parts of Vallejo and Green streets climb the hill as staircases rather than roadways.

NOAA's downtown San Francisco station records about 4 nights a year at 40 degrees F or below and a winter low that averages 47.2 degrees F.

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Tower living

Standalone freezers are rare in towers, where the space goes to freezer drawers under a counter or a slim column beside the main kitchen unit, and a warm drawer there is repaired in its opening because the cabinetry was cut to its exact size.

Apartments and small homes

In a small apartment the freezer is often a compact upright in a closet or a hallway nook, where the heat it gives off through its walls or rear coil has nowhere to go, and a closet door kept shut all day turns that nook into a warm box the compressor never catches up with.

Older housing stock

In a cellar the freezer shares the air with a boiler in winter and damp foundation walls in summer, so it meets two different rooms in one year, and a unit that ran fine in January and struggles in July is sorted between the room and the part.