How far is Oakland from your San Ramon shop, and do you actually cover the whole city?

About 35 minutes via Highway 24 or I-580 depending on the neighborhood. We route Oakland with Piedmont and Berkeley as our Inner East Bay run, and yes, we cover the full city from Rockridge down to East Oakland. Hospital and commissary calls get priority scheduling.

Our building's condensing unit is on the roof and the landlord says it is our problem. Can you sort out what failed?

Yes, and the written diagnostic helps with exactly that conversation. I document whether the failure is at your cabinet, in the interconnect wiring, or at the rooftop condensing unit, with photos. That gives you something concrete to bring to the landlord instead of an argument.

Can you service Traulsen blast chillers used for cook-chill in institutional kitchens?

We do. RBC blast chillers are common in Oakland institutional food service, and the usual calls are probe failures, cycle faults, and condensate problems. We test against the chill-cycle temperature requirements your HACCP logs depend on.

TRAULSEN · OAKLAND

Service · All Traulsen Models

Traulsen Commercial Refrigeration Repair · Oakland, CA

Traulsen repair across Oakland, from Temescal restaurant lines to hospital and commissary kitchens.

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

Call (925) 999-4095

Traulsen in Oakland

Traulsen commercial service.

Oakland has the densest and most varied commercial kitchen stock in the East Bay. Restaurant rows in Temescal, Uptown, and along International Boulevard run Traulsen reach-ins on their lines, while the city's hospitals, schools, and commissary kitchens run the heavier end of the catalog, roll-ins and blast chillers on remote refrigeration. Traulsen built its reputation in exactly these institutional kitchens, and a lot of that equipment in Oakland is decades old and still worth fixing.

Our commercial work runs through Bay Area Refrigeration Service. In older Oakland buildings the remote systems are the tricky part. The condensing unit might be on a roof three floors up or in a basement mechanical room, and the wiring between cabinet and rack has often been touched by three generations of contractors. When a box goes warm I start at the cabinet contactor and trace outward, because in these buildings the fault is on the far end as often as not.

Diagnostic is $75, waived with repair. Written quotes before work, one year repair warranty, EPA 608 Universal certified for refrigerant handling on both self-contained and remote systems.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Contactor and control wiring faults on remote reach-ins. In older Oakland buildings the interconnect wiring between a Traulsen cabinet and its remote condensing unit corrodes, loosens, or gets pinched during other trades' work. The symptom is a box that works some days and not others. We trace the control circuit end to end with a meter rather than guessing, because intermittent electrical faults do not show up on gauges.
Evaporator coil icing in high-traffic restaurant lines. Uptown and Temescal dinner services open the reach-in doors hundreds of times a night. Moisture loads the coil, and if defrost is marginal, ice builds until airflow dies. We clear the ice, then fix the cause, whether that is the defrost heater, the termination thermostat, sagging gaskets, or door hinges that no longer pull the door shut.
Aging compressor start components on legacy R-Series units. Oakland has a lot of old Traulsen iron still running. The compressors outlast everything around them, but relays, capacitors, and overloads do not. A hum-and-click on startup is usually a starting-component repair, not a compressor replacement, and I test before quoting so you are not sold a sealed-system job you do not need.

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.

More cities

Traulsen across our service area.

FAQ

Traulsen in Oakland questions, answered.

How far is Oakland from your San Ramon shop, and do you actually cover the whole city?

About 35 minutes via Highway 24 or I-580 depending on the neighborhood. We route Oakland with Piedmont and Berkeley as our Inner East Bay run, and yes, we cover the full city from Rockridge down to East Oakland. Hospital and commissary calls get priority scheduling.
Our building's condensing unit is on the roof and the landlord says it is our problem. Can you sort out what failed?

Yes, and the written diagnostic helps with exactly that conversation. I document whether the failure is at your cabinet, in the interconnect wiring, or at the rooftop condensing unit, with photos. That gives you something concrete to bring to the landlord instead of an argument.
Can you service Traulsen blast chillers used for cook-chill in institutional kitchens?

We do. RBC blast chillers are common in Oakland institutional food service, and the usual calls are probe failures, cycle faults, and condensate problems. We test against the chill-cycle temperature requirements your HACCP logs depend on.

Need Traulsen service in Oakland?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.