How quickly can you reach Alamo from San Ramon?

About 15 minutes up 680 or Danville Boulevard. Alamo sits on our home route between Danville and Walnut Creek, and Lafayette calls run the same corridor, so we can usually fit an Alamo visit into the same day, 7 days a week.

Do you work on True units built into a home bar or outdoor kitchen?

Yes, that is a big share of our Alamo work. Residential installs of commercial True equipment need the same EPA 608 certified refrigerant handling as a restaurant unit, and we service them under the same 1-year repair warranty.

The unit runs but the compressor keeps clicking on and off. What is that?

Short-cycling usually means a failed gasket letting warm air in, a dirty condenser, or a failing start relay. All three are quick to diagnose. The $75 diagnostic finds the actual cause and it is waived if you approve the repair.

TRUE · ALAMO

Service · All True Models

True Commercial Refrigeration Repair · Alamo, CA

True undercounter and back-bar repair in Alamo, 15 minutes from our San Ramon shop.

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

Call (925) 999-4095

True in Alamo

True commercial service.

Alamo does not have a big restaurant district, but it has a lot of True equipment anyway. The delis and food shops around Alamo Plaza run reach-ins and prep tables, and the estate homes off Danville Boulevard and Stone Valley Road often have True undercounters built into outdoor kitchens, pool houses, and home bars. We service both through Bay Area Refrigeration Service, our commercial refrigeration division.

The home-bar installs are their own animal. A TUC-27 built into a cabinet run with zero side clearance recirculates its own hot discharge air, and the condenser plugs with dust from the surrounding millwork. I clean and check airflow on every built-in call in Alamo because half the time that is the real cause of the warm cabinet.

We are based in San Ramon, one town over, EPA 608 Universal certified, CSLB #1136642. The $75 diagnostic is waived with repair and you get a written quote before we touch a part.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Built-in undercounter overheating in cabinet enclosures. True undercounters in Alamo outdoor kitchens and bar runs often run hot because the enclosure blocks condenser airflow. High head pressure kills fan motors and eventually the compressor. We clean the coil, replace worn fan motors, and if the enclosure is starving the unit, I show you exactly what venting it needs.
Door gasket failure from sun and heat exposure. Outdoor and patio installs bake gaskets until they harden and split. The seal leaks, the unit short-cycles, and energy use jumps. We fit OEM True gaskets and check door alignment and hinge tension at the same time so the new seal actually seats.
Defrost timer stuck, evaporator iced solid. A stuck defrost timer on a plaza deli reach-in shows up as a unit that runs nonstop and still cannot hold 38 degrees. We replace the timer, defrost the coil, and confirm the thermostat is cycling correctly before we leave.

Models we service

True product lines.

Reach-in refrigerators & freezers
Prep & sandwich tables
Under-counters
Bottle coolers

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

True in Alamo questions, answered.

How quickly can you reach Alamo from San Ramon?

About 15 minutes up 680 or Danville Boulevard. Alamo sits on our home route between Danville and Walnut Creek, and Lafayette calls run the same corridor, so we can usually fit an Alamo visit into the same day, 7 days a week.
Do you work on True units built into a home bar or outdoor kitchen?

Yes, that is a big share of our Alamo work. Residential installs of commercial True equipment need the same EPA 608 certified refrigerant handling as a restaurant unit, and we service them under the same 1-year repair warranty.
The unit runs but the compressor keeps clicking on and off. What is that?

Short-cycling usually means a failed gasket letting warm air in, a dirty condenser, or a failing start relay. All three are quick to diagnose. The $75 diagnostic finds the actual cause and it is waived if you approve the repair.

Need True service in Alamo?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.