How fast can you reach Portola Valley, and do you cover after-hours?

Figure 50 to 60 minutes from San Ramon, down 680 south and across on 92 or 280. If a machine goes down ahead of a gathering we move it up the schedule, and we will take an after-hours call, especially one that comes right after a power shutoff.

Do you keep Schaerer parts on hand, or does everything get ordered?

Wear items, milk tubing, seals, valves, gaskets, live on the van already. Anything specific to your machine's line, a brew-unit assembly, a touchscreen, a control board, gets ordered, and we confirm exactly what it is before it goes on the bill.

What should I expect to pay for a repair?

Once you sign off on the repair, the $75 diagnostic charge comes off entirely. Nothing gets done before you have a written number for parts and labor in hand.

SCHAERER · PORTOLA VALLEY

Service · All Schaerer Models

Schaerer Commercial Coffee Machine Repair · Portola Valley, CA

Schaerer bean-to-cup coffee machine repair for Portola Valley homes and event kitchens, 94028.

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

Call (925) 999-4095

Schaerer in Portola Valley

Schaerer commercial service.

Portola Valley has almost no commercial inventory beyond its small town center off Alpine Road and Portola Road, so the Schaerer machines we service in 94028 live mostly in private kitchens on wooded acreage properties and whatever event kitchen gets set up for a gathering. These are super-automatic boxes, pouring steadily for a household or a small staff and then sitting cold overnight, which wears on milk lines and seals regardless of volume.

We come up from San Ramon on 680 south and across on 92 or 280, about 50 to 60 minutes, and Portola Valley runs on our Peninsula route day with Hillsborough. Because this is a wildfire-aware area with occasional PG&E power shutoffs, a machine that trips out after an outage is a call we can usually sort out quickly. For the electrical and water-line side of an install, we carry CSLB #1136642.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Milk system valves and tubing. A quiet week followed by a full morning of pouring is hard on a milk circuit either way, since dried residue in the lines is what actually flattens the foam. We open the circuit, strip out the tubing and valves, and rebuild it clean rather than just flushing what is there.
Boiler descaling. Some properties toward the outer roads run on well water rather than the treated municipal supply, so scale behaves a little differently machine to machine. We test what actually feeds the unit, descale the boiler, check the heating element, and recommend a filter cartridge suited to that water.
Brew unit service. A Coffee Soul or Coffee Prime lives or dies by its brew unit. Once the seals wear and the piston starts sticking, you get weak shots and leaks around the group. We pull the whole assembly, rebuild or swap it, then pressure test it before it goes back in.
Grinder calibration and burr wear. When the cup tastes thin, the grinder is usually the cause before anything else, dose and grind both drift as the burrs dull. We check the burrs, recalibrate, and replace them if they are past adjusting.

Models we service

Schaerer product lines.

Coffee Soul
Coffee Skye
Coffee Prime and Club

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.

Nearby cities

Schaerer service in neighboring cities.

More cities

Schaerer across our service area.

FAQ

Schaerer in Portola Valley questions, answered.

How fast can you reach Portola Valley, and do you cover after-hours?

Figure 50 to 60 minutes from San Ramon, down 680 south and across on 92 or 280. If a machine goes down ahead of a gathering we move it up the schedule, and we will take an after-hours call, especially one that comes right after a power shutoff.
Do you keep Schaerer parts on hand, or does everything get ordered?

Wear items, milk tubing, seals, valves, gaskets, live on the van already. Anything specific to your machine's line, a brew-unit assembly, a touchscreen, a control board, gets ordered, and we confirm exactly what it is before it goes on the bill.
What should I expect to pay for a repair?

Once you sign off on the repair, the $75 diagnostic charge comes off entirely. Nothing gets done before you have a written number for parts and labor in hand.

Need Schaerer service in Portola Valley?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.