How long does it take you to get to Albany from San Ramon?

Call it 40 to 45 minutes out of San Ramon, taking either I-580 or the 24 into I-80. Albany goes on the same route as our Berkeley and Richmond stops, so same-day service is realistic most weeks. Let us know if you're down to one working reach-in during a busy stretch, and we'll bump the priority.

Is an older Traulsen worth fixing rather than replacing?

Usually, yes, but I look at each cabinet on its own. Traulsen builds these heavy, and money spent on a start component, a fan motor, or gaskets on an old G-Series pays off. If the sealed system itself is what's failing, I'll tell you straight in the written quote so you can decide whether repair or replacement makes more sense.

How much does the diagnostic visit run?

$99, and it comes off the bill once you approve the repair. You'll have a written quote before we start, and the completed repair carries a one-year warranty.

TRAULSEN · ALBANY

Service · All Traulsen Models

Traulsen Commercial Refrigeration Repair · Albany, CA

Traulsen reach-in repair for Albany restaurants along Solano and San Pablo Avenue

$99 diagnostic (waived with repair)
Same or next-day best effort
CSLB #1136642

Call (925) 999-4095

Traulsen in Albany

Traulsen commercial service.

Albany crams a lot of restaurants into a small footprint, most of them along Solano Avenue's dense strip of cafes and bakeries, with San Pablo Avenue adding a second cluster of storefronts. Traulsen shows up often in these kitchens because the cabinet holds up under years of line abuse better than a cheaper unit would. We repair these reach-ins on site, including older G-Series cabinets that have run in the same tight Albany kitchen since well before some of the newer restaurants on the block opened.

Older Traulsens and newer ones need different approaches. The mechanical-control cabinets are mostly sealed-system and airflow work, checking the basics before assuming a compressor is dead. The INTELA-TRAUL microprocessor on newer cabinets keeps a fault history, and skipping it means guessing. I've seen an Albany kitchen get billed twice for the same warm-box call because nobody pulled the stored codes the first time around. We check the controller history first, verify it with gauges, and the written quote comes from what we actually find.

Bay Area Refrigeration Service is our commercial division and it covers this work. EPA Section 608 Universal certification, CSLB #1136642, and a $99 diagnostic that gets credited back the moment you approve the repair. We answer calls seven days a week, because a Solano Avenue kitchen losing a reach-in on a Saturday can't just wait for Monday.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Condenser coil fouling in tight line placements. Albany's Solano Avenue storefronts are small and old, and the top-mounted Traulsen condenser usually sits close to the cook line with little clearance around it. A fouled coil drives head pressure up until the unit cuts out mid-service. Cleanup means combing the grease and dust off the coil, pulling the shroud to check the condenser fan motor, and loading the system to confirm pressures are back where they should be.
Evaporator icing from defrost failures. A failed defrost heater or termination sensor on a Traulsen freezer turns the evaporator into a solid block of ice. Once that happens airflow stops and the box creeps warm even though the compressor won't quit running. The newer controllers usually throw a code for it before you'd notice by feel. We clear the ice, test the heater and sensor circuit, swap the bad part, and run a full defrost cycle to confirm it's fixed.
Compressor start component failures on older G-Series. In older kitchens around Albany, a Traulsen that looks like a dead compressor often turns out to be a bad start relay or capacitor instead, a cheap fix on a box built to last. We check the start components first before writing off the compressor, and if the sealed system really has failed on a cabinet this old, I'll tell you plainly rather than sell you a repair that won't hold.

Models we service

Traulsen product lines.

Reach-ins
Roll-ins
Under-counters
Blast chillers

Pricing and warranty

What it costs. What we stand behind.

$99

Diagnostic visit. Waived when you book the repair with us.
Written

3 months standard, 1 year on inverter boards, up to 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

Traulsen in Albany questions, answered.

How long does it take you to get to Albany from San Ramon?

Call it 40 to 45 minutes out of San Ramon, taking either I-580 or the 24 into I-80. Albany goes on the same route as our Berkeley and Richmond stops, so same-day service is realistic most weeks. Let us know if you're down to one working reach-in during a busy stretch, and we'll bump the priority.
Is an older Traulsen worth fixing rather than replacing?

Usually, yes, but I look at each cabinet on its own. Traulsen builds these heavy, and money spent on a start component, a fan motor, or gaskets on an old G-Series pays off. If the sealed system itself is what's failing, I'll tell you straight in the written quote so you can decide whether repair or replacement makes more sense.
How much does the diagnostic visit run?

$99, and it comes off the bill once you approve the repair. You'll have a written quote before we start, and the completed repair carries a one-year warranty.

Need Traulsen service in Albany?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.