We're a small kitchen on Solano Avenue and the ice machine just went down before a weekend rush. How fast can you get here?

We run an after-hours line at (925) 999-4095 for exactly this. From San Ramon, Albany is about 40 to 45 minutes via I-580 or Highway 24 to I-80, and we route it with the Berkeley and Richmond Inner East Bay days, so we're in the area on a regular basis. A weekend ice failure jumps ahead of routine residential scheduling.

Our machine keeps short-cycling. Is it just old?

Age is rarely the reason. In a tight Albany kitchen the more common cause is a condenser starved for air, either too close to a wall or caked with dust. We clean and reposition where the layout allows before we talk about replacing anything.

Do you offer a maintenance plan for a single-machine kitchen?

Yes. Twice-yearly PM visits: coil cleaning, water-system service, head-pressure check, sanitation-cycle verification. For a single Hoshizaki or Manitowoc running hard on Solano or San Pablo, that is what keeps it working through a rush instead of failing during one.

COMMERCIAL ICE MACHINE REPAIR · ALBANY

Commercial Ice Machine Repair · Albany, CA

Hoshizaki and Manitowoc ice repair for the cafes and restaurants along Solano and San Pablo Avenue.

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

Call (925) 999-4095

Commercial Ice Machine Repair in Albany

Commercial Ice Machine Repair for Albany kitchens.

Albany is under two square miles, and the commercial kitchens are just as compact, most of them along Solano Avenue's strip of cafes and small restaurants that runs into North Berkeley, with more storefronts where San Pablo Avenue cuts across. Back-of-house space is the tightest constraint I run into on these calls. A Hoshizaki KM cuber or a Manitowoc Indigo NXT gets wedged wherever there is room, sometimes with barely a hand's width between the condenser and the wall, and that is usually where the trouble starts.

Water hardness in Albany runs the same as the rest of the inner East Bay, and it scales a Hoshizaki evaporator plate on its own timeline, not the one in the owner's manual. A Solano Avenue cafe pushing one machine through a weekend rush is the classic case I get called on: production drops off by midday and the owner assumes the compressor is failing. I check the plate and measure output against the spec sheet first. Deliming it solves most of these outright.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Hoshizaki KM cuber, output dropping through the day. Evaporator plate scaled from hard water. We delime, verify output against spec, and set a six-month interval logged inside the panel.
Manitowoc Indigo NXT shutting down on high pressure. Condenser packed with dust in a tight Solano or San Pablo storefront kitchen. We clean the coil, check the filter, and set a quarterly cleaning schedule.
Indigo NXT hanging mid-harvest. We test in order: harvest valve coil, curtain switch, control board last. Most calls resolve before the board is ever a suspect.
Water filter overdue. Owners run the filter on the printed twelve-month schedule. Local water needs six. We change it at every visit and date the panel.

Pricing and warranty

What it costs. What we stand behind.

$75

Diagnostic visit. Waived when you book the repair with us.
1 yr

Parts and labor warranty on completed repairs. In writing before we start.
CSLB

#1136642. Bonded and insured. We file warranty paperwork when applicable.

Nearby cities

Commercial Ice Machine Repair in neighboring cities.

More cities

Commercial Ice Machine Repair across our service area.

FAQ

Commercial Ice Machine Repair in Albany questions, answered.

We're a small kitchen on Solano Avenue and the ice machine just went down before a weekend rush. How fast can you get here?

We run an after-hours line at (925) 999-4095 for exactly this. From San Ramon, Albany is about 40 to 45 minutes via I-580 or Highway 24 to I-80, and we route it with the Berkeley and Richmond Inner East Bay days, so we're in the area on a regular basis. A weekend ice failure jumps ahead of routine residential scheduling.
Our machine keeps short-cycling. Is it just old?

Age is rarely the reason. In a tight Albany kitchen the more common cause is a condenser starved for air, either too close to a wall or caked with dust. We clean and reposition where the layout allows before we talk about replacing anything.
Do you offer a maintenance plan for a single-machine kitchen?

Yes. Twice-yearly PM visits: coil cleaning, water-system service, head-pressure check, sanitation-cycle verification. For a single Hoshizaki or Manitowoc running hard on Solano or San Pablo, that is what keeps it working through a rush instead of failing during one.

Need commercial ice machine repair in Albany?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.