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

About 40 to 45 minutes via I-580 or the 24 to I-80. El Cerrito rides along with our Berkeley and Richmond stops, so it's usually a same-day reach on those route days. Give us a heads-up if your only reach-in is down and you've got a full house, and we'll move you up the list.

At fifteen years old, does it still make sense to fix this Traulsen instead of replacing it?

Most of the time, yes, but it comes down to the specific cabinet. These are built heavy, and putting money into a start relay, a fan motor, or new gaskets on an old G-Series almost always pays off. If the sealed system itself has failed on a unit that age, I'll say so plainly in the quote and leave the call to you.

What do repairs cost to diagnose?

The diagnostic visit runs $99, and it's waived once you approve the repair. You'll get a written quote before we start anything, and the finished repair comes with a one-year warranty.

TRAULSEN · EL CERRITO

Service · All Traulsen Models

Traulsen Commercial Refrigeration Repair · El Cerrito, CA

Traulsen reach-in repair for El Cerrito restaurants, from the San Pablo Avenue strip to El Cerrito Plaza

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

Call (925) 999-4095

Traulsen in El Cerrito

Traulsen commercial service.

Food businesses in El Cerrito cluster along San Pablo Avenue, small restaurants, bakeries, and markets, with more counters tucked into El Cerrito Plaza near the BART stop. When one of these places needs a reach-in that can take a beating, Traulsen is a common pick, since the cabinet construction holds up long after a cheaper door or hinge would have given out. We work on these units in place, and that includes G-Series cabinets pushing fifteen-plus years old that are still earning their keep in a San Pablo Avenue kitchen.

The failure pattern depends on the vintage of the cabinet. Older mechanical-control Traulsens mostly need straightforward sealed-system and airflow attention, nothing fancy. The newer cabinets run the INTELA-TRAUL microprocessor, and it logs fault history worth pulling before any part gets swapped. I've walked into El Cerrito kitchens where the previous tech guessed at a warm box twice and charged for it twice, when the controller had the answer the whole time. We read the codes first, confirm with gauges and a meter, and the quote reflects what's actually wrong.

This is commercial work, and it runs through our division Bay Area Refrigeration Service. We hold EPA Section 608 Universal certification for refrigerant handling and CSLB license #1136642, the $99 diagnostic comes off the bill once you approve the repair, and we are on call seven days a week since a kitchen on San Pablo Avenue can't afford a dead reach-in over the weekend.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Condenser coil fouling in tight line placements. El Cerrito's San Pablo Avenue kitchens are mostly older storefronts with cramped back-of-house space, and the top-mounted Traulsen condenser often sits right in the grease-laden airflow off the line. Once the coil is caked up, head pressure climbs until the cabinet shuts itself down in the middle of a shift. We degrease and comb the coil, check the condenser fan motor while the shroud is off, and confirm pressures under load.
Evaporator icing from defrost failures. When the defrost heater or termination sensor fails on a Traulsen freezer reach-in, the evaporator ices over solid, airflow stops, and the box drifts warm while the compressor runs nonstop trying to catch up. Newer units often flag it on the controller. We melt the coil out, test the heater and sensor circuit, replace whatever failed, and confirm a full defrost cycle before we close up.
Compressor start component failures on older G-Series. Older Traulsens still running in El Cerrito kitchens often present as a dead compressor when the real failure is the start relay or capacitor, a cheap fix on a cabinet worth keeping. We test the start components before condemning the compressor, and I'll tell you straight when a cabinet has hit the point where repair money is better spent on something new.

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 El Cerrito questions, answered.

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

About 40 to 45 minutes via I-580 or the 24 to I-80. El Cerrito rides along with our Berkeley and Richmond stops, so it's usually a same-day reach on those route days. Give us a heads-up if your only reach-in is down and you've got a full house, and we'll move you up the list.
At fifteen years old, does it still make sense to fix this Traulsen instead of replacing it?

Most of the time, yes, but it comes down to the specific cabinet. These are built heavy, and putting money into a start relay, a fan motor, or new gaskets on an old G-Series almost always pays off. If the sealed system itself has failed on a unit that age, I'll say so plainly in the quote and leave the call to you.
What do repairs cost to diagnose?

The diagnostic visit runs $99, and it's waived once you approve the repair. You'll get a written quote before we start anything, and the finished repair comes with a one-year warranty.

Need Traulsen service in El Cerrito?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.