How long is the trip from San Ramon to Woodside?

About 50 to 60 minutes, taking 680 south and then 92 or 280. We run Woodside on our Peninsula day with Hillsborough, and we send a written arrival time so someone can be ready at the gate.

Can you service the machine before a party if the owner is not home?

Yes. On these properties we are used to coordinating through whoever manages the house rather than the owner directly. Tell us the gate code or arrange access ahead of time, and we will text or email the written quote for a sign-off, then send you photos once the work is finished.

Is it worth repairing a residential frozen drink machine instead of replacing it?

Most of the time, yes. These are built to commercial standards, and the cabinet itself easily outlasts a home appliance. What decides it is the compressor and the sealed refrigeration circuit. If those test out fine, you are looking at seals and drive parts, which is not much money. If the compressor or the circuit is the problem, I will tell you plainly in the quote instead of talking you into a repair that is not worth it.

CRATHCO · WOODSIDE

Service · All Crathco Models

Crathco Frozen Beverage Machine Repair · Woodside, CA

Crathco service for Woodside estates, where the only Crathco machines in town sit on private property.

$75 diagnostic (waived with repair)
Same or next-day best effort
CSLB #1136642

Call (925) 999-4095

Crathco in Woodside

Crathco commercial service.

Woodside's only commercial cluster is the small village center, so every Crathco machine I service here sits on private land. Frozen drink machines show up in pool cabanas for summer parties, D series bowls sit in catering pantries built for big lawn events, and I have found Mini-Pro units set up next to a home theater or a sport court where the family wanted the real concession stand experience for the kids.

A lot of commercial service outfits simply refuse residential calls, so a broken machine on a Woodside estate can sit untouched for a year with nobody willing to drive out. We treat it like any other service call on our board, same $75 diagnostic that comes off if you repair, same written quote up front, same one year warranty on the repair, and I am the one handling the sealed refrigeration circuit under EPA 608 Universal certification.

Between the long private driveways and the gate codes, discretion is already built into how these estates operate, and our visit matches that. It is one technician, one van, and I leave the work area exactly as clean as I found it.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Seized auger after sitting idle in a pool cabana. A machine that only comes out of storage for one big party a year gives the auger plenty of time to seize. Leftover product turns to varnish between the auger and the cylinder wall, and the shaft seal goes flat and hard sitting unused. I work the auger free, check it over, put in new seals, sanitize everywhere the product touches, and run it through a full pulldown cycle before I call it good.
Start components failing on a compressor that barely runs. These machines idle for months between uses, and that pattern is tough on start relays and run capacitors even though the compressor itself barely turns over. What you get is a hum and a click but no cooling. I swap the start kit, then check the compressor's winding resistance to make sure it rode out the idle time okay.
Perished seals on a machine parked by the sport court. Seals do not care how many hours the machine ran, they harden and crack with time no matter what. A unit near the sport court or the pool only comes out on weekends, but the gaskets and o-rings are aging every single day it sits idle. Since this machine serves the family and their guests, I would rather replace every seal in one visit than have you find out the hard way which one gave out.

Models we service

Crathco product lines.

Crathco D, FROZEN, and Mini-Pro beverage dispensers
Bubbler and spray units

Pricing and warranty

What it costs. What we stand behind.

$75

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

90 days on consumables, 1 year on major parts, 2 years on sealed-system rebuilds. Quoted in writing before work starts.
CSLB

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

Recent work

Crathco jobs we have closed.

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FAQ

Crathco in Woodside questions, answered.

How long is the trip from San Ramon to Woodside?

About 50 to 60 minutes, taking 680 south and then 92 or 280. We run Woodside on our Peninsula day with Hillsborough, and we send a written arrival time so someone can be ready at the gate.
Can you service the machine before a party if the owner is not home?

Yes. On these properties we are used to coordinating through whoever manages the house rather than the owner directly. Tell us the gate code or arrange access ahead of time, and we will text or email the written quote for a sign-off, then send you photos once the work is finished.
Is it worth repairing a residential frozen drink machine instead of replacing it?

Most of the time, yes. These are built to commercial standards, and the cabinet itself easily outlasts a home appliance. What decides it is the compressor and the sealed refrigeration circuit. If those test out fine, you are looking at seals and drive parts, which is not much money. If the compressor or the circuit is the problem, I will tell you plainly in the quote instead of talking you into a repair that is not worth it.

Need Crathco service in Woodside?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.