What's your travel time from San Ramon to Albany?

Around 40 to 45 minutes on 580 or Highway 24 into 80. Albany is routed with Berkeley and Richmond on the same Inner-East-Bay days, so a booked window comes with a written arrival time.

Our cafe stays open all day. Can you work around that?

Yes, we build visits around your hours rather than the other way around, coming before opening or after close for an Albany cafe when that's what works. Most Beverage-Air diagnostics take under an hour on-site.

This unit is past ten years old. Is repairing it worth it?

Usually. A fan motor, gasket, or controller board is a small cost against a new cabinet, and Beverage-Air units tend to keep running well past that age with basic upkeep. If it turns out to be the compressor or a rusted coil, we'll put the replacement cost in the quote and let you weigh it.

BEVERAGE-AIR · ALBANY

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Beverage-Air Commercial Refrigeration Repair · Albany, CA

Beverage-Air repair for Albany cafes and restaurants, along Solano and San Pablo Avenue

$99 diagnostic (waived with repair)
Same or next-day best effort
CSLB #1136642

Call (925) 999-4095

Beverage-Air in Albany

Beverage-Air commercial service.

Albany squeezes a dense run of small restaurants and cafes into 1.8 square miles, most of them along Solano Avenue, shared with North Berkeley, with more storefronts where San Pablo Avenue crosses through. Beverage-Air undercounters and reach-ins are the norm in these small kitchens, where every square foot of back-of-house space has to earn its keep. Our commercial division, Bay Area Refrigeration Service, covers this whole area.

Cramped floor plans are the local wrinkle in Albany. A lot of these Solano Avenue kitchens are older, narrow storefronts with equipment shoved right up against each other, so condensers clog quickly and units end up running warm against the wall. When a cafe owner calls about a warm milk cooler, I start by checking airflow and refrigerant charge, since in a kitchen this size that's the answer far more often than a burned-out compressor.

We're EPA Section 608 Universal certified, licensed CSLB #1136642, and we work seven days, which counts for something when a Solano Avenue espresso bar can't open without cold milk on hand. The diagnostic runs $99 and disappears from the invoice once repair is booked, with a written quote ahead of any work.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Grease-bound condenser fans in tight Solano Avenue kitchens. Beverage-Air worktop and undercounter units wedged next to an espresso machine or a panini press pull in steam and grease all day. The condenser fan motor gets coated, slows, and eventually seizes, and the unit loses capacity right through the morning rush. We swap the motor, degrease the coil, and open up what clearance we can behind the unit.
Iced evaporator coils in high-traffic cafe kitchens. Doors on a busy Solano Avenue counter get opened all day long, and the gasket tears early under that kind of wear. Humid air keeps piling frost onto the evaporator until it's a solid block and the cabinet warms up. We fit a new gasket, thaw the coil, check that the defrost cycle actually runs, and clear the drain line.
Thermostat drift spoiling dairy in milk coolers. Cafes here run these units right at the edge of dairy-safe temperature in a small kitchen, and a drifting probe or a weak controller lets the milk sit warmer than it should without anyone noticing. We check the real cabinet temperature against the display, replace bad probes or boards, and set the unit so the number on the display can be trusted.

Models we service

Beverage-Air product lines.

Reach-ins
Back-bar coolers
Under-counters
Prep tables

Pricing and warranty

What it costs. What we stand behind.

$99

Diagnostic visit. Waived when you book the repair with us.
Written

3 months standard, 1 year on inverter boards, up to 2 years on sealed-system rebuilds. Quoted in writing before work starts.
CSLB

#1136642. Bonded and insured. We file warranty paperwork when applicable.

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FAQ

Beverage-Air in Albany questions, answered.

What's your travel time from San Ramon to Albany?

Around 40 to 45 minutes on 580 or Highway 24 into 80. Albany is routed with Berkeley and Richmond on the same Inner-East-Bay days, so a booked window comes with a written arrival time.
Our cafe stays open all day. Can you work around that?

Yes, we build visits around your hours rather than the other way around, coming before opening or after close for an Albany cafe when that's what works. Most Beverage-Air diagnostics take under an hour on-site.
This unit is past ten years old. Is repairing it worth it?

Usually. A fan motor, gasket, or controller board is a small cost against a new cabinet, and Beverage-Air units tend to keep running well past that age with basic upkeep. If it turns out to be the compressor or a rusted coil, we'll put the replacement cost in the quote and let you weigh it.

Need Beverage-Air service in Albany?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.