How far is Hillsborough from your San Ramon base?

It is one of our longer runs, about 55 minutes across the bay. We group Hillsborough with Atherton, Palo Alto, and Los Altos Hills into Peninsula days, so a scheduled appointment gets you a reliable window. For a true emergency we still come, we just tell you the real drive time up front.

Can the visit happen while only our house manager is home?

Yes, that is normal for us. We confirm access details in advance, the diagnostic findings and written quote go to you by email or text, and no repair starts until you approve it.

Should we just replace an older machine instead of repairing it?

Sometimes, and I will say so. If the compressor is healthy, almost everything else on a Spaceman is rebuildable at reasonable cost. If the sealed system is failing on an old unit, I put the repair number next to a replacement number in the quote and let you decide with real figures.

SPACEMAN · HILLSBOROUGH

Service · All Spaceman Models

Spaceman Frozen Beverage Machine Repair · Hillsborough, CA

Spaceman soft serve and frozen beverage repair for Hillsborough homes

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

Call (925) 999-4095

Spaceman in Hillsborough

Spaceman commercial service.

Hillsborough has no commercial district at all, and that is exactly why we get calls here. The Spaceman machines in this town sit in estate kitchens, pool pavilions, and home theaters, bought as party equipment and installed by contractors who build beautiful cabinetry and rarely think about condenser airflow. When one of these units fails, the owner discovers that appliance repair companies decline commercial equipment and restaurant service companies decline residential addresses.

I take these jobs because the machine does not care where it lives. A Spaceman freeze cylinder in a Hillsborough pool house has the same compressor, the same auger seals, and the same failure modes as one in a shop, plus two extra enemies: long idle periods and enclosed installs. Most of my Hillsborough repairs trace back to one of those two.

We come from San Ramon under CSLB #1136642, EPA 608 Universal certified for refrigerant work. The $75 diagnostic is waived with repair, every quote is written, repairs carry a 1 year warranty, and we schedule 7 days a week around your household's calendar.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Unit trips the breaker when guests arrive. Party day is the machine's hardest day, and a weak start capacitor or a compressor drawing locked rotor amps picks that moment to show itself. I load test the start components and the compressor so the fix happens before the next event, not during it.
Sour smell from the barrel after storage. Mix left in the lines over winter breeds in places a rinse cannot reach. I do a full teardown, replace the seals and o-rings that biofilm has degraded, and sanitize the mix path. Then I leave written shutdown steps so next winter the machine sleeps clean.
Overheating inside a built-in bar enclosure. A gorgeous cabinet with a two-inch vent gap is a slow compressor killer. The unit cuts out on hot afternoons exactly when it is wanted. I repair the immediate fault and give your contractor the clearance and ventilation specs in writing so the enclosure can be corrected once.

Models we service

Spaceman product lines.

Frozen-beverage and soft-serve machines

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.

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FAQ

Spaceman in Hillsborough questions, answered.

How far is Hillsborough from your San Ramon base?

It is one of our longer runs, about 55 minutes across the bay. We group Hillsborough with Atherton, Palo Alto, and Los Altos Hills into Peninsula days, so a scheduled appointment gets you a reliable window. For a true emergency we still come, we just tell you the real drive time up front.
Can the visit happen while only our house manager is home?

Yes, that is normal for us. We confirm access details in advance, the diagnostic findings and written quote go to you by email or text, and no repair starts until you approve it.
Should we just replace an older machine instead of repairing it?

Sometimes, and I will say so. If the compressor is healthy, almost everything else on a Spaceman is rebuildable at reasonable cost. If the sealed system is failing on an old unit, I put the repair number next to a replacement number in the quote and let you decide with real figures.

Need Spaceman service in Hillsborough?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.