How do you schedule Piedmont visits from San Ramon?

Piedmont sits about 35 to 40 minutes away via Highway 24, and we route it with Oakland and Berkeley on our Inner East Bay days. Because those runs happen several times a week, a Piedmont appointment is usually available within a day or two, and a failed unit full of product gets same-day handling.

The Traulsen is built into custom cabinetry. Can you service it without damaging the millwork?

Yes, that is a normal condition of work in Piedmont. Most service access on these cabinets is from the front and top. I protect adjacent surfaces, and if a repair genuinely requires pulling the unit, that goes in the written quote first so there are no surprises.

Should we replace a 2008 Traulsen or keep repairing it?

Usually keep it. These cabinets are built heavier than nearly anything sold today at comparable size, and the common failures, gaskets, fans, sensors, start components, are all economical repairs. If I ever find a failure that changes that math, like a corroded evaporator or a dead compressor on an obsolete refrigerant, the written diagnostic will lay out both paths honestly.

TRAULSEN · PIEDMONT

Service · All Traulsen Models

Traulsen Commercial Refrigeration Repair · Piedmont, CA

Traulsen repair for Piedmont estate kitchens and the institutions that serve the city.

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

Call (925) 999-4095

Traulsen in Piedmont

Traulsen commercial service.

Piedmont is nearly all residential, and that shapes the Traulsen work here. The typical call is an estate kitchen with a built-in commercial reach-in, sometimes original to a major remodel twenty years ago, plus school and civic kitchens that run institutional equipment on weekday schedules. There is no restaurant row in Piedmont, but the refrigeration is serious and so are the expectations.

We service these units through Bay Area Refrigeration Service, our commercial refrigeration division. A commercial Traulsen in a home fails exactly like one in a restaurant, just slower, and it is usually surrounded by cabinetry that punishes sloppy work. I take panels off carefully, protect the floors, and put everything back the way the millworker intended.

The diagnostic is $75 and is waived if you approve the repair. Written quote before work, one year warranty on the repair. Traulsen builds cabinets meant to run for decades, so my default recommendation in Piedmont is almost always repair, and I will say so in writing.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Built-in units overheating inside cabinetry enclosures. Piedmont remodels often box a commercial Traulsen into millwork with less ventilation than the spec sheet calls for. The condenser recirculates warm air, pressures rise, and the compressor runs hot year after year. We clean the coil, measure the numbers, and if the enclosure is the real problem, we document what airflow change would stop the cycle of repeat calls.
Long-idle failure after vacation seasons. Estate kitchens sit quiet for weeks, then get loaded for holidays. Start components that were marginal fail on the restart, and drains that dried out clog on the first heavy defrost. If your Traulsen came back from summer warm or weeping water, this pattern is the likely story, and both fixes are routine.
Original gaskets and hinges past their service life. A twenty-year-old Piedmont Traulsen often still has its factory gaskets, hardened to the point of uselessness. The box sweats, cycles constantly, and ices its coil. Fresh gaskets and hinge cartridges are the cheapest meaningful repair on these units and frequently the only one needed.

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 Piedmont questions, answered.

How do you schedule Piedmont visits from San Ramon?

Piedmont sits about 35 to 40 minutes away via Highway 24, and we route it with Oakland and Berkeley on our Inner East Bay days. Because those runs happen several times a week, a Piedmont appointment is usually available within a day or two, and a failed unit full of product gets same-day handling.
The Traulsen is built into custom cabinetry. Can you service it without damaging the millwork?

Yes, that is a normal condition of work in Piedmont. Most service access on these cabinets is from the front and top. I protect adjacent surfaces, and if a repair genuinely requires pulling the unit, that goes in the written quote first so there are no surprises.
Should we replace a 2008 Traulsen or keep repairing it?

Usually keep it. These cabinets are built heavier than nearly anything sold today at comparable size, and the common failures, gaskets, fans, sensors, start components, are all economical repairs. If I ever find a failure that changes that math, like a corroded evaporator or a dead compressor on an obsolete refrigerant, the written diagnostic will lay out both paths honestly.

Need Traulsen service in Piedmont?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.