What is your travel time to Sunnyvale from San Ramon?

About 40 minutes in decent traffic, down 680 and across 237. We route Sunnyvale together with Mountain View, Cupertino, Los Altos, and San Jose, so a Sunnyvale call often lands on a day we are already in the neighborhood, which shortens the wait. A bar with a dead back-bar cooler on a weekend gets bumped to the front. Call and we will give you a straight arrival window.

Can you fix the Perlick in my ADU rental, and who do you coordinate with?

Yes, this is a common Sunnyvale call. We work with owners and property managers directly, send the written quote to whoever pays the bill, and coordinate access with the tenant. In a small unit that one compact refrigerator is the whole kitchen, so we treat these as priority calls, not as a side job.

Do you actually come out nights and weekends when a bar unit dies?

We work 7 days and we answer the phone on Friday nights, because that is exactly when a back-bar cooler quits. Whether we roll that night or first thing in the morning depends on where the truck is, and I will tell you honestly on the call. Either way you get the $75 diagnostic waived with repair and a 1-year parts and labor warranty on the fix.

PERLICK · SUNNYVALE

Service · All Perlick Models

Perlick Commercial Refrigeration Repair · Sunnyvale, CA

Perlick repair in Sunnyvale, from Murphy Avenue back bars to the compact units in ADU and townhome kitchens.

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

Call (925) 999-4095

Perlick in Sunnyvale

Perlick commercial service.

Sunnyvale gives us two very different Perlick calls. Historic Murphy Avenue and the blocks around downtown run taprooms and restaurant bars on Perlick back-bar coolers and direct-draw beer dispensers, and those places live and die by pour quality on weekend nights. The other call comes from the housing side, because Sunnyvale is dense with new townhomes and backyard ADUs where a 24-inch Perlick undercounter is doing the work of a full refrigerator in a 400-square-foot unit. When that one machine fails, the tenant has no cold food at all.

Commercial jobs in Sunnyvale run through Bay Area Refrigeration Service, our commercial refrigeration division. Same company, same technician, and the phone gets answered on Friday nights because that is when back-bar equipment picks its moment. We work 7 days across Sunnyvale and the surrounding cities.

The company behind the truck is ADRIUM Service Solutions, CSLB #1136642, based in San Ramon. I carry EPA Section 608 Universal certification, which covers both the R-290 charges in current Perlick cabinets and the R-134a in the older fleet. Diagnostic is $75, waived with repair, and every quote is written before work begins.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Direct-draw kegerator running warm and foaming kegs. A Perlick direct-draw unit on Murphy Avenue that creeps from 36 to 42 degrees will foam off a quarter of every keg, and the staff usually blames the CO2 first. The actual culprits we find are a lint-blinded condenser, a dying evaporator fan, or a worn door gasket letting the compressor run without ever catching up. We test cabinet pulldown, correct the airflow problem, and leave the unit holding dispense temperature so the beer pours right again.
Evaporator fan motor failure on HP24 and HC24 undercounters. In Sunnyvale ADUs and townhome wet bars the small Perlick undercounters run nonstop, and the evaporator fan motor is the part that wears out first. The symptom is a compressor that sounds normal while the cabinet slowly warms, sometimes with a soft scraping noise from ice contacting the blade. We replace the motor, defrost and inspect the coil, and check why the coil iced in the first place, because a fan that died fighting ice will kill its replacement too.
Start relay and capacitor failures from hot enclosure installs. Sunnyvale remodels tuck Perlick units into island cabinetry next to dishwashers and wine walls, and the trapped heat cooks the compressor start components. The unit clicks, hums for a few seconds, and shuts off without starting. That click-hum-stop pattern is usually a $200 repair, not a dead compressor, but only if it gets fixed before the windings suffer. I test the relay, capacitor, and compressor winding resistance and give you the real answer in writing.

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.

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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 Sunnyvale questions, answered.

What is your travel time to Sunnyvale from San Ramon?

About 40 minutes in decent traffic, down 680 and across 237. We route Sunnyvale together with Mountain View, Cupertino, Los Altos, and San Jose, so a Sunnyvale call often lands on a day we are already in the neighborhood, which shortens the wait. A bar with a dead back-bar cooler on a weekend gets bumped to the front. Call and we will give you a straight arrival window.
Can you fix the Perlick in my ADU rental, and who do you coordinate with?

Yes, this is a common Sunnyvale call. We work with owners and property managers directly, send the written quote to whoever pays the bill, and coordinate access with the tenant. In a small unit that one compact refrigerator is the whole kitchen, so we treat these as priority calls, not as a side job.
Do you actually come out nights and weekends when a bar unit dies?

We work 7 days and we answer the phone on Friday nights, because that is exactly when a back-bar cooler quits. Whether we roll that night or first thing in the morning depends on where the truck is, and I will tell you honestly on the call. Either way you get the $75 diagnostic waived with repair and a 1-year parts and labor warranty on the fix.

Need Perlick service in Sunnyvale?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.

Call (925) 999-4095