A wine cellar with a through-wall cooling unit and white plaster walls, seen close and low along the racks.

San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area

Wine cellar cooling unit repair in Marina.

Flats and small buildings where the cellar is a closet-sized room on the garage level, the seismic worry is the racks and the unit's wall sleeve, and salt air off the bay reaches any condenser set beside the garage door.

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What Marina does
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The district occupies the grounds of the 1915 Panama–Pacific fair, and every exhibition building except the Palace of Fine Arts was torn down to make room for it.

Before 1906 the shore here was a mix of bay shallows, tidal pools, sand dunes and marsh, much like nearby Crissy Field.

Four people died in the district during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, four buildings were lost to fire and seven collapsed.

By midnight after that quake most of San Francisco had its lights back, and two days later only 12,000 customers were still waiting.

Also known as Marina District.

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Closet and stair cellars

In a smaller home the cellar is often a converted closet or the space under a stair, and a small room with thin walls gains heat quickly, so the unit's capacity is checked against the room's walls and door before any part is replaced.

On the water

Along salt water the air corrodes a cellar unit's condenser coil and fan from the outside in, and a split condenser on a seaside terrace or a through-the-wall unit venting toward the water loses capacity year after year until the cellar cannot hold 55.

Tower living

A wine room in a tower has to put its heat somewhere the building allows, and a unit whose exhaust ends in a closed utility closet breathes its own warm air until the cellar drifts toward 65, so the first check up here is where that heat really goes.