Oakland, California
Commercial refrigeration and ice machine repair in Oakland
Eleven of the 16 Oakland jobs in our premium and commercial records were commercial refrigeration or ice machines. Homeowners call too, mostly about refrigerators. Either way, start by telling us the make and what the unit does right before it quits.
An ice maker stuck in a loop
A Hoshizaki IM-200BAC could not get past the start of its cycle. The water tank and plate would rise, drop noisily and try again, over and over, and no ice came out of it. We cleaned the cam mechanism that drives that movement and fitted a new spring. The dropping stopped.
Then a different error showed up. That second fault needs a diagnosis of its own, and the case leaves it open.
A JennAir French door refrigerator gave us a different clue. Its fans ran and air moved, yet it was not getting cold enough. With the evaporator cover off, one corner of the coil carried heavy frost and the rest was bare metal. That pattern pointed to the sealed system, not a fan or a defrost part. The owner approved the estimate, and the repair was booked as its own visit.
What 16 Oakland jobs looked like
In the two years ending October 2026, 16 Oakland jobs in our premium and commercial scope were closed. Eleven were commercial. Perlick and Manitowoc came up three times each, Atosa and Hoshizaki once, and three commercial jobs were logged with no maker's name.
The other five were in homes: refrigerators from JennAir, Monogram and Thermador, and two dishwashers, a Miele and a Fisher & Paykel. Six of the 16 closed in September 2026 alone.
One job needed more than one visit. A closed record means we finished working on it, which can be a repair or a diagnosis the owner decided not to pursue. We don't tie published cases to single records, so the two cases above may be among these 16.
Setting up a commercial call
Let us know who will meet the technician and where the equipment sits. For an ice machine, tell us whether it stops partway through a cycle or runs a full cycle and makes no ice. For a refrigerator, a reading from a thermometer inside the box tells us more than the dial setting.
The diagnostic visit runs $99, whether we look at one unit or several on that trip, and it comes off the repair if you approve one.