How long is the trip to Hillsborough from your San Ramon base?

About 50 minutes across the San Mateo Bridge in normal traffic. We plan Peninsula days that combine Hillsborough with Atherton, Palo Alto, and Los Altos Hills, so booking a day ahead gets you a firm window. For urgent failures we will tell you honestly what time we can commit to.

Can the service be arranged entirely through our house manager?

Yes, and in Hillsborough it usually is. We take the request, schedule the window, work with staff on site, and send the written quote and invoice to whoever handles approvals. The one-year repair warranty is documented the same way.

What does the visit cost if we proceed?

The $75 diagnostic is waived when you approve the repair, so a completed job costs only the quoted work, in writing before we start.

TRAULSEN · HILLSBOROUGH

Service · All Traulsen Models

Traulsen Commercial Refrigeration Repair · Hillsborough, CA

Traulsen service for Hillsborough estate kitchens, scheduled and documented

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

Call (925) 999-4095

Traulsen in Hillsborough

Traulsen commercial service.

Hillsborough has no commercial district at all, so every Traulsen we service here is in a private home. The estates in this town are built with real prep kitchens, and it is common to find a commercial two-section reach-in, a wine and cheese cabinet conversion, or a roll-in serving a household that hosts at scale. Owners chose Traulsen because it is the cabinet hospitals buy, heavier than any residential unit, and they expect service that treats the machine and the house with the same care.

Commercial equipment in a residence still fails like commercial equipment. Hinge cartridges wear, condensers foul inside enclosed cabinetry, probes drift, and the INTELA-TRAUL controller on newer units records each fault with a code we read before opening panels. What changes in Hillsborough is the logistics. We coordinate arrival windows with house managers, work clean in finished kitchens, and put every recommendation in writing so the person approving the spend sees exactly what the machine needs.

Commercial refrigeration is handled through our Bay Area Refrigeration Service division. EPA Section 608 Universal certified, CSLB #1136642, $75 diagnostic waived with repair, written quotes, seven days.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Condenser starvation inside custom cabinetry. Hillsborough kitchens hide equipment behind millwork, and a Traulsen top-mount condenser sealed into cabinetry runs hot, cycles on its limits, and ages the compressor fast. We clean the coil, measure real airflow clearance, and give the house a written venting recommendation. It is the most preventable expensive failure I see in this town.
Probe drift and nuisance alarms in quiet houses. A cabinet that alarms overnight in a house where nobody opened it is almost always a drifting thermistor rather than a refrigeration failure. The controller logs the events with codes. We verify each probe against a calibrated thermometer, replace the drifted one, and clear the history so alarms mean something again.
Door hinge cartridge and gasket renewal. Even lightly used estate cabinets age out gaskets and self-close cartridges over the years, and a door that no longer pulls itself shut leaks humid air that ices the evaporator. We rebuild the hinges, fit factory-profile gaskets, and verify the perimeter heater keeps the frame dry.

Models we service

Traulsen product lines.

Reach-ins
Roll-ins
Under-counters
Blast chillers

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

Traulsen service in neighboring cities.

FAQ

Traulsen in Hillsborough questions, answered.

How long is the trip to Hillsborough from your San Ramon base?

About 50 minutes across the San Mateo Bridge in normal traffic. We plan Peninsula days that combine Hillsborough with Atherton, Palo Alto, and Los Altos Hills, so booking a day ahead gets you a firm window. For urgent failures we will tell you honestly what time we can commit to.
Can the service be arranged entirely through our house manager?

Yes, and in Hillsborough it usually is. We take the request, schedule the window, work with staff on site, and send the written quote and invoice to whoever handles approvals. The one-year repair warranty is documented the same way.
What does the visit cost if we proceed?

The $75 diagnostic is waived when you approve the repair, so a completed job costs only the quoted work, in writing before we start.

Need Traulsen service in Hillsborough?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.