How fast can you reach a San Jose bar from San Ramon?

We come down 680 from San Ramon, which puts downtown San Jose at roughly 40 to 45 minutes outside of commute crush. We route San Jose together with Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Saratoga, and Los Gatos, so if the truck is already working the South Bay that day the response can be much faster. For a bar down on a Friday night, call anyway. We answer, and we will tell you honestly when we can be there.

Do you handle both the refrigeration and the beer dispensing side of a Perlick system?

Yes. The back-bar cabinet, the glycol power pack, and the tower cooling are all refrigeration problems, and that work runs through our commercial division, Bay Area Refrigeration Service. Faucets and couplers we can service while we are in there. If your beer is foaming, the cause is usually temperature, not the tap, so we start at the refrigeration.

If the unit turns out fine, what do I pay for the visit?

The diagnostic is $75 and it is waived when you approve a repair with us. You get a written quote before any work starts, so a San Jose bar manager can send it to the owner and decide with real numbers. Repairs are covered for 1 year, parts and labor.

PERLICK · SAN JOSE

Service · All Perlick Models

Perlick Commercial Refrigeration Repair · San Jose, CA

Perlick back-bar and beer system repair in San Jose, with Friday night phone coverage from our commercial division.

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

Call (925) 999-4095

Perlick in San Jose

Perlick commercial service.

San Jose has more Perlick equipment per square mile than anywhere else we drive to. The bars around San Pedro Square and the SoFA district run BBS-series back-bar coolers hard, doors opening every thirty seconds from happy hour to last call. When one of those cabinets loses cooling on a Friday night, the bar is pouring warm beer and losing the room. We answer the phone on Friday nights. Commercial refrigeration work in San Jose runs through our division, Bay Area Refrigeration Service, and the truck comes stocked for Perlick.

It is not only bars. Downtown high-rise condos and the remodeled Willow Glen kitchens we see carry Perlick Signature Series undercounter refrigerators and wine reserves, and the ADUs going up across San Jose lots often get a 24-inch Perlick because it is one of the few compact units built like commercial gear. Same brand, same sealed system logic, so the same technician handles both sides.

I hold EPA Section 608 Universal certification, which matters on Perlick because many of the newer cabinets run R-290 and the older stock is R-134a, and you need to know which one you are opening before you put gauges on it. ADRIUM Service Solutions is CSLB #1136642, we work 7 days, and the $75 diagnostic is waived when you approve the repair.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Condenser coil choked with bar lint on BBS back-bar coolers. Behind a busy San Jose bar the front-vented condenser on a BBS60 or BBS84 pulls in napkin dust, fruit fly debris, and floor grime all night. The coil mats over, head pressure climbs, and the compressor starts tripping on thermal overload during the Friday rush. The cabinet reads warm, then recovers, then warms again. We pull the grille, clean the coil properly, check the condenser fan motor amp draw, and verify the overload and start components before we call it fixed.
Iced evaporator and foaming beer from failed door gaskets. Heavy door traffic tears Perlick gaskets and drops the stainless doors on their hinge cartridges. Humid bar air pours in, the evaporator ices into a block, airflow dies, and product temperature swings. On dispensing setups that swing shows up as foamy pours before anyone notices the thermometer. We replace gaskets and hinge cartridges with Perlick parts, defrost and inspect the coil, and confirm the evaporator fan is not seizing from the ice cycles.
Temperature control and probe drift on Signature Series undercounters. The residential-grade Perlick HP24 and HC24 units we service in San Jose condos and ADUs mostly fail at the control end. A drifted thermistor or a flaky control board makes the unit short cycle or run warm while the sealed system is fine. I test the probe resistance against actual cabinet temperature before condemning anything expensive. Repairs carry our 1-year warranty, parts and labor.

Models we service

Perlick product lines.

Tobin Ellis Signature bar
Glass washers
Undercounter refrigeration
Beer dispensing systems
Back-bar refrigeration

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

Perlick jobs we have closed.

Oakland, CA · Bar refrigeration suite (Perlick, Hoshizaki, kegerator + back-bar)

Viridian Bar Oakland: Full Refrigeration Service Across the House

Multiple units across the bar were losing temperature, cycling hard, or pulling well over rated amp draw. Service had been deferred while the bar grew busier and the cocktail program expanded.
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FAQ

Perlick in San Jose questions, answered.

How fast can you reach a San Jose bar from San Ramon?

We come down 680 from San Ramon, which puts downtown San Jose at roughly 40 to 45 minutes outside of commute crush. We route San Jose together with Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Saratoga, and Los Gatos, so if the truck is already working the South Bay that day the response can be much faster. For a bar down on a Friday night, call anyway. We answer, and we will tell you honestly when we can be there.
Do you handle both the refrigeration and the beer dispensing side of a Perlick system?

Yes. The back-bar cabinet, the glycol power pack, and the tower cooling are all refrigeration problems, and that work runs through our commercial division, Bay Area Refrigeration Service. Faucets and couplers we can service while we are in there. If your beer is foaming, the cause is usually temperature, not the tap, so we start at the refrigeration.
If the unit turns out fine, what do I pay for the visit?

The diagnostic is $75 and it is waived when you approve a repair with us. You get a written quote before any work starts, so a San Jose bar manager can send it to the owner and decide with real numbers. Repairs are covered for 1 year, parts and labor.

Need Perlick service in San Jose?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.

Call (925) 999-4095