TRUE · HALF MOON BAY
Service · All True ModelsTrue Commercial Refrigeration Repair · Half Moon Bay, CA
True commercial refrigeration repair for Half Moon Bay's Main Street and harbor kitchens, plus the whole Coastside.
- $99 diagnostic (waived with repair)
- Same or next-day best effort
- CSLB #1136642
True in Half Moon Bay
True commercial service.
Half Moon Bay is the anchor of the Coastside for us, and that means Main Street and the seafood houses down at Pillar Point Harbor, plus the smaller kitchens up and down Highway 1 in Montara, Moss Beach, and El Granada. Restaurants along Main Street run True reach-ins and prep coolers through steady weekend crowds, and the harbor kitchens lean on True glass-door and bottle coolers to keep up with a fish-forward menu that turns over fast.
Salt air is the part of this coast that makes True equipment age differently than it does inland. Condenser coils near the water pick up salt on the fins faster than a unit in San Ramon or Redwood City ever would, and that salt eats at the aluminum and speeds up corrosion on top of the normal grease and dust a kitchen produces. I clean and inspect for that specifically on every Coastside call, not just the standard coil brushing.
ADRIUM Service Solutions runs True service here through Bay Area Refrigeration Service. I am EPA Section 608 Universal certified and we are licensed under CSLB #1136642, with a $99 diagnostic that we waive when you approve the written quote to repair. We work 7 days a week, and Half Moon Bay is covered by our Peninsula-based technician, so the truck coming over Highway 92 already lives in San Mateo County.
Common repairs we do
What we close on the truck.
- Condenser coils corroding faster from salt air. A True condenser coil at a harbor restaurant or a Main Street kitchen with an outdoor-facing compressor deck picks up salt film that eats through the fin coating years before an inland unit would show the same wear. Reduced airflow drives head pressure up and the compressor works harder for the same result. I clean these coils more aggressively on Coastside calls and will flag a coil that is too far gone to keep cleaning.
- Rusted hinges and fasteners throwing off door alignment. Exterior hardware on a True unit near the coast rusts faster than the cabinet itself, and a rusted hinge lets the door sag just enough that the gasket stops sealing evenly. The fix looks like a gasket problem but it is really a hardware problem, so I check hinges and latch alignment before I replace anything on a salt-air unit.
- Electrical contacts and fan motor connections corroding intermittently. Salt air gets into places you cannot see easily, including the connections on condenser fan motors and control board terminals, and the failure shows up as an intermittent problem, the unit works fine one day and cuts out the next. I check and clean those contacts on Coastside service calls instead of only chasing the part that is failing today.
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.
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$99
Diagnostic visit. Waived when you book the repair with us.
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Written
3 months standard, 1 year on inverter boards, up to 2 years on sealed-system rebuilds. Quoted in writing before work starts.
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CSLB
#1136642. Bonded and insured. We file warranty paperwork when applicable.
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FAQ
True in Half Moon Bay questions, answered.
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Do you actually cover Montara, Moss Beach, and El Granada, or just Half Moon Bay proper?
Half Moon Bay is our anchor point for the whole Coastside, and that includes Montara, Moss Beach, and El Granada up Highway 1. Our Peninsula-based technician runs this coast regularly, it is not a special trip. -
Does living near the ocean actually shorten how long a True unit lasts?
It changes what fails first. Salt air speeds up coil and hardware corrosion specifically, so a Coastside unit can need coil cleaning and hardware checks on a tighter schedule than the same unit would inland, even if the compressor itself has plenty of life left. -
How does response time work for Half Moon Bay compared to somewhere like San Ramon?
We have a technician who lives on the Peninsula in San Mateo County, so a Half Moon Bay call does not mean a truck crossing the whole bay first. I will not invent a number of minutes since Coastside traffic on 92 and 1 varies, but the technician assigned to this coast already lives close to it.
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