Our house toward Quito Road gets full afternoon sun. Does that hurt the ice machine?

It adds load. An air-cooled machine rejects heat into the room, so a sun-warmed room means longer cycles and less ice. Keep the grille clear and the room ventilated, and we can check head pressure on a warm afternoon to see how hard the unit is working.

What does a maintenance visit on a home bar ice machine include?

A delime and sanitize, a filter change, a condenser and grille cleaning, a look at the drain and the water line, and a timed cycle. Once a year suits a lightly used home bar. Twice a year suits one that gets used every weekend.

Which ice machine brands do you work on in Saratoga homes?

Manitowoc NEO and Koolaire, Hoshizaki undercounter units, Scotsman cubers and nugget machines, and Follett nugget units. The license on every job is CSLB #1136642.

COMMERCIAL ICE MACHINE REPAIR · SARATOGA

Commercial Ice Machine Repair · Saratoga, CA

Undercounter ice machine repair for Saratoga hill homes and the Quito Road flats, including units from older remodels.

$99 diagnostic (credited toward the repair)
Same or next-day best effort
CSLB #1136642

Call (925) 999-4095

Commercial Ice Machine Repair in Saratoga

Commercial Ice Machine Repair for Saratoga kitchens.

Saratoga is a town of houses, and the commercial-grade ice machines here are mostly undercounter cubers built into home bars during remodels. A lot of those remodels date to the late 90s and early 2000s, so the machines that went in with them are twenty-odd years old. That is the age when repair or replace becomes a real question, and we answer it with measurements from the machine, not a sales pitch.

The two halves of town wear machines differently. In the hill homes off Pierce Road and Big Basin Way, shade from oaks and redwoods keeps rooms cooler, but leaf litter finds its way into any grille near an outside door. Toward Quito Road the flats take full afternoon sun, and a unit in a warm room works harder. Our technician checks the grille, the coil and the room first. The $99 diagnostic is credited toward the repair if you go ahead, and the quote is written first.

Common repairs we handle.

Twenty-year-old cuber that barely makes ice. We measure a full cycle against the original spec. Scale and a dirty condenser explain much of the loss on an older unit, and a delime plus a coil cleaning can bring it close to spec again. When the compressor or the evaporator is the problem, we price replacement next to the repair.
Undercounter unit throwing a high-temperature alarm. Hoshizaki undercounter units raise a high-temp alarm when the condenser is dust-blocked. We clean the coil, check the fan motor, and replace the filter, then watch head pressure settle through a cycle before closing the panel.
Slow refrigerant leak at an old braze joint. Braze joints and service valves on older machines can seep for months before the ice falls off. We leak-test, repair the joint, and recover, evacuate and weigh in the charge. ADRIUM holds EPA 608 Universal certification for this work.
Water line and shutoff left from the remodel. Supply tubing and saddle valves from twenty years ago get brittle and restrict flow. We check the line, the shutoff and the inlet screen on the water valve, and replace what is failing so the fill is steady.

Pricing and warranty

What it costs. What we stand behind.

$99

Diagnostic visit. Credited toward the repair.
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.

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FAQ

Commercial Ice Machine Repair in Saratoga questions, answered.

Our house toward Quito Road gets full afternoon sun. Does that hurt the ice machine?

It adds load. An air-cooled machine rejects heat into the room, so a sun-warmed room means longer cycles and less ice. Keep the grille clear and the room ventilated, and we can check head pressure on a warm afternoon to see how hard the unit is working.
What does a maintenance visit on a home bar ice machine include?

A delime and sanitize, a filter change, a condenser and grille cleaning, a look at the drain and the water line, and a timed cycle. Once a year suits a lightly used home bar. Twice a year suits one that gets used every weekend.
Which ice machine brands do you work on in Saratoga homes?

Manitowoc NEO and Koolaire, Hoshizaki undercounter units, Scotsman cubers and nugget machines, and Follett nugget units. The license on every job is CSLB #1136642.

Need commercial ice machine repair in Saratoga?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.