Perlick Commercial Refrigeration Repair · Belmont, CA

Belmont doesn't run a bar district the way San Carlos or Redwood City does next door, so the Perlick work here splits between two different jobs. The restaurants along the El Camino Real and Ralston Avenue frontage run back-bar coolers and direct-draw beer systems behind a tight service line, and the remodeled homes climbing the hillside toward Water Dog Lake and Carlmont put Perlick undercounter refrigerators and wine columns into new kitchens and outdoor bars. Both jobs get the same first step from me, a sealed system check before I touch anything mechanical, because guessing at a compressor problem wastes your money.

The housing stock up on the hillside is mostly newer construction and remodels, and the failures I see there are more often installation problems than worn-out parts, a cabinet built a half inch too tight, a vent panel the contractor forgot about. Downtown along Ralston, the failures run the other way, older units that have logged years of restaurant service and finally need a coil clean or a compressor. We group Belmont with San Carlos and San Mateo on our Peninsula routing, so a technician working this stretch of the Mid-Peninsula is not a rare event.