TRUE · SANTA CLARA
Service · All True ModelsTrue Commercial Refrigeration Repair · Santa Clara, CA
True T-series and undercounter repair for Santa Clara's Koreatown, campus cafes, and event kitchens.
- $75 diagnostic (waived with repair)
- Same or next-day best effort
- CSLB #1136642
True in Santa Clara
True commercial service.
Santa Clara's True equipment concentrates along the El Camino Real corridor, where the Koreatown restaurants and bakeries run reach-ins and prep tables at full load seven days a week. Add the caterers and event kitchens working the convention center and stadium calendar, plus the cafes around the university, and you get a city where refrigeration downtime directly cancels revenue. Event kitchens especially cannot slip a repair to next week.
We service Santa Clara through Bay Area Refrigeration Service, the commercial refrigeration division of ADRIUM Service Solutions. Andrew Kuznetsov owns the company, holds EPA Section 608 Universal certification, and we are licensed under CSLB #1136642. Available 7 days, $75 diagnostic waived with repair, written quotes with actual part numbers, and a 1 year warranty on the work.
Common repairs we do
What we close on the truck.
- Condenser fan motors stalling in hot kitchen alcoves. Korean barbecue kitchens run hot, and the True reach-ins parked near the cook line lose their condenser fan bearings early. Once the motor slows, head pressure spikes and the cabinet cannot recover between door openings. We replace the motor and blade and clean the grease-loaded coil that helped kill it.
- Prep table gaskets leaking and short-cycling compressors. TSSU prep tables on the El Camino corridor take constant pan traffic, and torn gaskets are the most common thing I find on them. The compressor short-cycles, the rail warms, and cut vegetables lose their hold temperature. New gaskets and a lid check put the unit back inside food-safe range.
- Evaporator icing from a defrost timer stuck in cool mode. Catering reach-ins that sit loaded between events are prone to silent defrost timer failure. Ice grows on the evaporator until airflow stops entirely. We thaw the coil completely, prove out the heater and drain, and fit a new timer so the unit is dependable for the next event load-in.
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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$75
Diagnostic visit. Waived when you book the repair with us.
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Written
90 days on consumables, 1 year on major parts, 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 Santa Clara questions, answered.
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How long from San Ramon to Santa Clara?
About 40 minutes down 680, and we fold Santa Clara into our South Bay loop with San Jose, Sunnyvale, and Cupertino. Those routes run often, so a down unit in Santa Clara typically gets a same-day or next-day slot. -
We have an event in three days and the reach-in is warm. Can you make that?
Tell us the deadline when you call. Fan motors, gaskets, and defrost parts for True are stocked locally, so most failures are fixable well inside a three day window, and we work weekends. -
Do you show the price before starting?
Yes, every time. Written quote after the $75 diagnostic, and that fee is waived once you approve the repair. No verbal estimates that grow later.
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