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title: "Freezer columns"
description: "Thermador freezer columns: the other half of the pair, and the cabinet the ice maker lives in."
url: "https://thermadormiami.support/appliances/freezer/"
date_modified: "2026-08-19"
Appliance type: "Freezer columns"
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# Thermador freezer columns

### Ice is the early warning

On a column pair, ice production falls off before anything else is noticeable. It is worth mentioning when you call even if it sounds unrelated.

### What actually goes wrong

- **Losing temperature slowly.** A freezer column announces itself long before the food is at risk: frost patterns change, the compressor runs longer, and the ice slows down first.
- **Heavy frost building on one wall.** One wall rather than everywhere points at the defrost cycle or at air getting in past a seal, not at the compressor.
- **The ice maker inside it.** On this brand the ice maker lives in the freezer column, so ice trouble and freezer trouble arrive on the same page and are often the same visit.
- **A door left ajar by its own panel.** Same as the refrigerator column: the hinges are set for the weight of the joinery on the front.

### Mention the ice even if it sounds unrelated

Ice production falls off before anything else is noticeable, because making ice is the most demanding thing the cabinet does. A column that is still holding temperature but making less ice than it did is telling you something a thermometer will not for another few weeks. It is the single most useful sentence you can put in the booking form.

Freedom columns · 18" 24" 30" 36"

Freezer repair

Not holding temperature, with the refrigerator column fine

Heavy frost building on one wall rather than evenly

Ice production slowing down or stopping altogether

Ice is the early warning

On a column pair, ice production falls off before anything else is noticeable. It is worth mentioning when you call even if it sounds unrelated.

What actually goes wrong

Losing temperature slowly. A freezer column announces itself long before the food is at risk: frost patterns change, the compressor runs longer, and the ice slows down first.

Heavy frost building on one wall. One wall rather than everywhere points at the defrost cycle or at air getting in past a seal, not at the compressor.

The ice maker inside it. On this brand the ice maker lives in the freezer column, so ice trouble and freezer trouble arrive on the same page and are often the same visit.

A door left ajar by its own panel. Same as the refrigerator column: the hinges are set for the weight of the joinery on the front.

Mention the ice even if it sounds unrelated

Ice production falls off before anything else is noticeable, because making ice is the most demanding thing the cabinet does. A column that is still holding temperature but making less ice than it did is telling you something a thermometer will not for another few weeks. It is the single most useful sentence you can put in the booking form.

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