In the Beginning
In 1943, Westye F. Bakke built the first freestanding freezer in the basement of his Madison, WI. home. A businessman with a keen ability to anticipate post-World War II refrigeration trends, he founded Sub-Zero Freezer Company just two years later in an old two-car garage. From its modest beginnings, Sub-Zero has become what it is today: the recognized leading manufacturer of premium built-in home refrigerators.
Since its founding, Sub-Zero has pioneered quality products that meet its customers needs. In the mid-1950s, for example, the company developed the built-in refrigerator - a unit that changed the future of kitchen design by fitting within surrounding counter and cabinet space. Over time, the company has refined its early concept and has brought to market a comprehensive line of built-in models, including the 200 Series of undercounter models, its award-winning 500 Series, the design-flexible 600 Series, the integrated 700 Series, and, most recently, the state-of-the-art 400 Series of wine storage.
For 60 years, Sub-Zero has offered innovative, aesthetically appealing and technologically advanced solutions to meet virtually any home refrigeration need. Through foresight and responsiveness, the company has earned its position as an industry leader - a position Sub-Zero intends to maintain well into the new millennium.
What do you want your kitchen to be? Sub-Zero refrigerators, freezers and wine storage units are the definitive kitchen components. Made by hand. Tested to the nth degree. With innovative dual refrigeration. Built to the same exacting standards, Wolf cooking instruments help give the fullest expression to your love of good food and the pleasure of preparing it. Wolf fuels your passion for cooking.
Newly redesigned, the Sub-Zero BI-48SD side-by-side with dispenser offers ice and water dispensing through the refrigerator door. Exterior refinements include redesigned grilles and lower-profile hinges. Inside, new technology in food preservation makes the new built-ins nothing short of revolutionary. Available at AJ Madison.
MFG SKU BI-48SD/O
This refrigerator uses 754 kWh/yr and has an estimated yearly operating cost of $83.62.
Your operating costs will depend on your utility rates and use. The estimated operating costs is based on a 2011 national average electricity cost of $0.1109 cents per kWh. For more information, visit www.ftc.gov/appliances.
Rated 2.5 out of 5Â by 2
reviewers.
Rated 2 out of 5Â by BG Don't buy this for the ice in the door!
Wow...ice makers in the door are not new features...You'd think that the maker of the most expensive refrigeratior on th planet could get it right...or copy someone!
Expect to get ice on your floor, at least 80% of the time. Glad my dog likes Ice cubes or my back would be out by now! Water is an issue too as it splashes out of the glass readily. if you don't use the icemaker every few hours, the ice freezes together in the icemaker and you have to hit the side with your hand to break it up before you can dispense any ice through the door. The fridge itself works great, so if you don't need ice in the door, buy the one without it.
I'm very dissapointed in this product
8/8/12
Rated 3 out of 5 JG
Replaced a GE 48' with this Subzero. Wish I had my GE back. Not nearly as much room inside the fridge. No quick adjustable shelves like GE, shelves are shallow, no room in door for anything bigger than salad dressing, and no wine caddy. Part of fridge is taken up by ice dispenser. Water and ice dispenser compartment is very deep and if the glass is not in the exact proper spot, the water splashes all over the inside of the compartment. You have to hold your glass and push a button to get the water to dispense, no lever to push your glass on, to get water. Also when you are finished dispensing water and take your finger off the button there is a delay in the flow of water stopping so don't take your glass out too soon or you will have water everywhere in the compartment and down the door! The dispenser is very low and does not have a lock on it so if you have toddlers or youngsters who like to play in the water you will get just that. Water all over the place because they can reach it and you can't lock it! In a 24 hour period the ice maker failed to fill the ice bin.
9/28/10
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