CONTINENTAL · EL CERRITO
Service · All Continental ModelsContinental Commercial Refrigeration Repair · El Cerrito, CA
Continental reach-ins and prep tables along the San Pablo Avenue strip and around El Cerrito Plaza, diagnosed by an independent shop before anything gets quoted.
- $99 diagnostic (credited toward the repair)
- Same or next-day best effort
- CSLB #1136642
Continental in El Cerrito
Continental refrigeration in El Cerrito.
El Cerrito's restaurant row sits along San Pablo Avenue, with a scatter of counters in and around El Cerrito Plaza near the BART station. The Continental gear inside those kitchens isn't the kind you swap blind. We see these reach-ins, prep tables, and undercounters in the bakeries and taquerias along San Pablo, and in the smaller cafes tucked toward the hillside off Moeser Lane.
When the cold side goes down, these owners want the actual fault, not a guessed part. Continental holds up well over time, so a cabinet acting up is rarely a write-off. We work it as an independent shop and carry fan motors, relays, thermostats, contactors, and gaskets on the truck, which means the needed part is often already on the truck.
Common repairs we do
What we close on the truck.
- Reach-ins that won't pull below 45. A San Pablo Avenue kitchen calls us about a Continental reach-in stuck warm more often than any other complaint. Usually it's a dead evaporator-fan motor or a frosted coil from a defrost cycle that quit running. We swap the fan motor, clear the ice off the coil, check the defrost timer and heater, and don't leave until the box has pulled back down to temp.
- Prep tables on packed condensers. The bakeries and taquerias along San Pablo run their Continental prep and sandwich tables hard through lunch, and a condenser packed with flour and grease drives the compressor hot until the rail can't hold. We clean the coil out, verify the charge is where it should be, and confirm the rail holds a safe temperature before we go.
- Sealed-system and gasket work. Gaskets fail quietly, hardening until warm air leaks past the seal and the compressor never gets a rest. Catching it early and swapping the gasket protects the compressor from that extra wear. When a leak or a dead compressor is the real problem, our EPA #1279674151528 covers the sealed-system side: recovery, evacuation, and a weighed-in charge, all in-house.
Models we service
Continental product lines.
- Reach-in refrigerators and freezers
- Refrigerated prep tables
- Undercounter units
- Worktop refrigerators
- Roll-in and pass-through cabinets
- Display merchandisers
Pricing and warranty
What it costs. What we stand behind.
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$99
Diagnostic visit. Credited toward the repair.
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Written
1 year parts and labor on the repair, 90 days on consumables. 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
Continental in El Cerrito questions, answered.
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Before anything gets replaced on a Continental unit, do you confirm what actually failed?
We open the unit and find what actually failed before we say a word about price. Too many of the independent kitchens here run older Continental equipment to risk a wrong-part guess. -
Do you handle after-hours emergencies in El Cerrito?
Yes. Hours run 7 AM to 7 PM, seven days, out of San Ramon, and that same number takes after-hours calls too. Say it's an outage when you call and it jumps the queue. -
How long does it take you to get from San Ramon to El Cerrito?
Forty to forty five minutes, either 580 to 24 to 80 or straight up 80 depending on traffic. El Cerrito is Contra Costa County and runs on our Berkeley and Richmond Inner East Bay day, so a booked window gets you a written arrival time.
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