Our Millbrae kitchen loses a reach-in at 2 pm. You are in San Ramon. What actually happens?

Call us and we triage by phone first, sometimes a tripped defrost or a blocked condenser can be stabilized before we arrive. The drive is about 50 minutes over the bridge, and commercial down-box calls take priority over the routine Hillsborough and Millbrae residential stops on that route. Same-day is the goal on any loaded box.

The unit is 12 years old. Is a compressor job on a Traulsen worth it?

On a Traulsen, usually yes. The cabinet, insulation, and doors are built for decades, and a compressor replacement costs well under half of a comparable new unit delivered and installed. You get a written quote after the $75 diagnostic, the fee is waived with the repair, and the work carries a one-year warranty.

Can you do the repair outside our service hours?

Yes. We schedule seven days a week and can take early morning or after-close windows for Broadway restaurants that cannot have a tech in the kitchen mid-service. Tell us your prep and service schedule when you book and we will fit the visit around it.

TRAULSEN · MILLBRAE

Service · All Traulsen Models

Traulsen Commercial Refrigeration Repair · Millbrae, CA

Traulsen reach-in and roll-in repair for Millbrae kitchens, from Broadway to the SFO corridor.

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

Call (925) 999-4095

Traulsen in Millbrae

Traulsen commercial service.

Millbrae works its refrigeration hard. The Broadway restaurant row turns tables all day, and the hotel and catering kitchens serving SFO traffic never really close. Traulsen boxes are the right tool for that duty, heavy cabinets built to be opened four hundred times a shift and built to be serviced when something finally gives.

We repair Traulsen reach-ins, roll-ins, under-counters, and blast chillers on site in Millbrae. A down reach-in during service is inventory on a countdown, so we treat commercial refrigeration as priority dispatch, seven days a week. I am EPA 608 Universal certified, which covers everything from a gasket swap to a full sealed-system repair with recovery and recharge.

On a Traulsen the repair math almost always favors fixing. These cabinets outlast two or three generations of cheaper boxes, and the parts support is strong.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Evaporator icing from failed defrost components. The box holds temp overnight, then climbs through the afternoon rush. That daily pattern means the evaporator is icing over because a defrost heater or termination control failed. I melt the coil out, test the heater and control under load, and check the drain line, since refrozen drain water restarts the whole cycle.
INTELA-TRAUL controller alarms and sensor faults. The microprocessor control on newer Traulsens is honest when its sensors are. A drifted cabinet or coil probe throws high-temp alarms on a box that is actually cold, or worse, hides a real problem. I verify each probe against a calibrated reference and replace the drifted ones instead of guessing at the board.
Doors that no longer pull shut. Traulsen's cam-lift hinges take a beating in a busy line. When they wear, the door stops self-closing, the gasket gets crushed on one corner, and the compressor runs constantly to fight the leak. I rebuild the hinges, replace torn gaskets, and re-square the door so the cabinet seals like it did 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.

$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

Traulsen in Millbrae questions, answered.

Our Millbrae kitchen loses a reach-in at 2 pm. You are in San Ramon. What actually happens?

Call us and we triage by phone first, sometimes a tripped defrost or a blocked condenser can be stabilized before we arrive. The drive is about 50 minutes over the bridge, and commercial down-box calls take priority over the routine Hillsborough and Millbrae residential stops on that route. Same-day is the goal on any loaded box.
The unit is 12 years old. Is a compressor job on a Traulsen worth it?

On a Traulsen, usually yes. The cabinet, insulation, and doors are built for decades, and a compressor replacement costs well under half of a comparable new unit delivered and installed. You get a written quote after the $75 diagnostic, the fee is waived with the repair, and the work carries a one-year warranty.
Can you do the repair outside our service hours?

Yes. We schedule seven days a week and can take early morning or after-close windows for Broadway restaurants that cannot have a tech in the kitchen mid-service. Tell us your prep and service schedule when you book and we will fit the visit around it.

Need Traulsen service in Millbrae?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.