Formerly Adam & Sam Brothers RepairBrier · kitchen, garage and shop units
Brier homes sit on big lots, and many of them run a second refrigerator or a chest freezer out in the garage. We repair both kinds, along with the kitchen unit, from a shop about seven to nine minutes away.
Here is a call we take every winter in Brier. The kitchen fridge is fine, but the older refrigerator in the garage, the one holding the overflow from a big grocery run, has a soft freezer full of thawing meat. Nothing is broken in the usual sense. When a cold snap drops the garage into the thirties, the thermostat in the fresh-food section rarely asks for cooling, because that space is already cold. On many single-system models that same thermostat also decides when the freezer gets cold air, so the freezer quietly warms up. Some manufacturers sell a garage heater kit for exactly this; others say plainly in the manual that the unit is not meant for an unheated space.
Brier is a quiet, single-family town of about 6,600 people, incorporated in 1965 and still zoned for houses on generous lots. With one small grocery and no state highway running through, households tend to stock up and keep a second fridge or a chest freezer in the garage. That makes this one of the few cities where we spend as much time on garage units as on kitchen ones. Adam and Sam's shop in Mountlake Terrace sits right next door, and most Brier addresses are a short drive along 228th or 236th Street SW.
Most Brier houses went up during the 1980s and 1990s, with a few older pockets from the 1924 Shasta Park plat and the ranch houses of the 1950s and 1960s. By now, nearly every kitchen has been through two or three refrigerators, and the retired one has often been rolled into the garage instead of hauled away. That second-life fridge is frequently fifteen to twenty years old, has never had its coil cleaned, and lives in a room that swings from near freezing in January to the high eighties in a summer heat spell. It is no surprise that relays, condenser fans and defrost parts fail there first.
Garage units are worth a different conversation than kitchen units. If an old garage fridge has a bad relay or a dusty coil, the repair is small and keeps a lot of food cold. If its compressor is failing, we will usually suggest retiring it, because putting a sealed-system repair into a basic, aging fridge that lives in a cold garage rarely pays back. Upright and chest freezers are often the better tool for long-term garage storage, and we work on those as well. If you are shopping for one, look for a model whose manual lists a garage-ready temperature range, and leave a few inches of space around it so the coil can breathe through a hot August afternoon.
Brier gets its water from the Alderwood district, which buys Everett's Spada Lake supply, so hardness runs around 12.5 parts per million. Garage fridges rarely have a water line anyway, but on kitchen units with dispensers, the soft supply means valve failures here come from wear and cracked fittings rather than mineral scale. Some homes in unincorporated Alderwood Manor use a Brier address; we serve them on the same trip.
A Brier refrigerator repair, kitchen or garage, starts at $265. Relay and overload swaps, defrost heaters, thermostats and controls, and condenser fan motors make up most of what we replace on these calls. That is an entry point across north Seattle and south Snohomish County, not a quote for your refrigerator. After the $85 diagnostic, you get the exact price on paper, and if you say yes, the diagnostic is part of that price rather than an extra line.
Starting prices for the north Seattle area, 2026. The $85 diagnostic is included in any repair you approve, and the exact price is in the written estimate before work starts.
Start with what the fridge does for you. A garage unit that holds drinks and overflow produce deserves a simple, quick fix, such as a relay, a fan or a coil cleaning, and not much more. A garage freezer full of a season's worth of fish or meat is worth more protection, and a new lid gasket or a defrost repair makes sense on almost any freezer that still holds temperature. For the kitchen fridge, Brier homeowners tend to buy well and keep things a long time, so a ten-year-old counter-depth or French-door unit with a failed fan or board is usually a clear repair. Sealed-system work is the real decision point: it makes sense on a quality unit with sound cabinets and doors, and rarely on a builder-grade top-freezer that has already given twenty years. We lay out the price, the unit's age and its weak spots, then leave the choice to you.
Often it is not. Many fridge-freezer combos use one thermostat in the fresh-food section, and a cold garage keeps it from calling for cooling, so the freezer warms. We confirm the system is healthy, then either fit the maker's garage kit where one exists or explain the temperature range the unit was built for. A standalone freezer handles a cold garage far better.
Yes. Freezers fail in many of the same ways as refrigerators: relays, fans on auto-defrost uprights, defrost parts, worn lid gaskets and occasional sealed-system leaks. Mention that it is a freezer when you book, along with the brand, so we know which parts to bring. If it sits in a crowded garage, a clear path to the back of the unit helps.
Seven to nine minutes off-peak from our Mountlake Terrace shop for most of town. Brier has no state routes, so we come in on 228th or 236th Street SW. Brier calls that come in before lunch, Monday to Saturday, normally land on that day's schedule, and the short hop means we can return quickly if a part has to be ordered.
Yes. Book both together, and the second unit's diagnostic comes with $10 off because we check it on the same trip. You get a separate written price for each, so you can fix the kitchen fridge right away and decide later about the older garage unit.
Every repair comes with a written warranty on the work we did and the parts we installed, and it is spelled out on your paperwork. If the same repair gives you trouble, call us and we come back to make it right. It does not cover unrelated parts that fail later, which is why we point out weak spots during the visit.
Talk to Adam & Sam
Garage freezer thawing or kitchen fridge warm in Brier? Ring the shop at (425) 570-9520; booking online instead takes up to $18 off the repair. Approve the work and the $85 diagnostic is already counted inside the price.
Refrigerator
Frigidaire cooling failures cluster around the start relay's click, defrost faults that ice the coil, stalled fans, and the garage-fridge physics problem.
Refrigerator
Kenmore fridges are built by Whirlpool (106), LG (795) or Frigidaire (253), and the prefix decides the diagnosis, including LG's linear compressor.
Refrigerator
KitchenAid refrigerators share Whirlpool engineering: evaporator fans, defrost systems and dampers lead the warm-fridge list, with dual-evaporator twists.
Schedule a repair
Send the basics and we call you back with an arrival window, most days the same morning.