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Bay Area Refrigeration Commercial Refrigeration & Ice Machine Service
(925) 999-4095 · San Ramon, CA · CSLB #1136642 · BBB A+

SCOTSMAN · SAN BRUNO

Service · All Scotsman Models

Scotsman Commercial Ice Machine Repair · San Bruno, CA

Independent Scotsman ice machine repair for San Bruno, from the San Bruno Avenue restaurants to the Bay Hill office break rooms.

  • $99 diagnostic (credited toward the repair)
  • Same or next-day best effort
  • CSLB #1136642
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Scotsman in San Bruno

Scotsman refrigeration in San Bruno.

San Bruno sits right under the SFO flight path, and the ice machines we see split between the restaurants along San Bruno Avenue and the Tanforan shopping district, and the break rooms in the Bay Hill business park a mile up the hill. Both push a Scotsman hard, just on different schedules.

A good share of San Bruno's storefronts date to the 1940s through the 1960s, and the electrical panels in some of those buildings were never upgraded past what a small kitchen needed back then. An undercounter Scotsman added later sometimes shares a circuit that cannot really carry it, and that shows up as nuisance trips more than a real machine fault.

We are a CSLB-licensed company, #1136642, EPA 608 certified, and we work on Scotsman equipment as an independent shop. Prodigy ELITE cubers, Brilliance ice, and undercounter heads are all in scope. $99 diagnostic, credited toward the repair, written quote first.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

  • Undersized circuits in older storefronts. In some of the 1950s-era buildings along San Bruno Avenue, an undercounter Scotsman was added to a circuit that already carries a reach-in and a prep table. The machine trips the breaker on start-up or the compressor struggles under low voltage. I test the circuit with a meter before I touch the compressor, since a lot of what looks like a bad start relay is really a power problem.
  • Harvest and water faults on business park cubers. The break rooms in the Bay Hill business park run Prodigy ELITE cubers through a steady midday rush, and the machines code on water, harvest, or a sensor fault when a float sticks or a thermistor drifts. We diagnose off the actual code and swap the failed part rather than guessing.
  • Sealed-system and R290 repairs. A Scotsman that short-cycles or never pulls down to temperature is usually a sealed-system problem. We handle the recovery, evacuation, and weigh-in in-house under EPA #1279674151528, and we are trained through Mainstream Engineering for the R290 hydrocarbon undercounter units showing up more often now.

Models we service

Scotsman product lines.

  • Prodigy ELITE modular cube ice machines
  • Brilliance gourmet ice (cube and nugget)
  • Meridian and undercounter ice machines
  • Flake and nugget ice machines
  • Remote air-cooled and water-cooled condenser units
  • Ice storage bins and dispensers

Pricing and warranty

What it costs. What we stand behind.

  • $99

    Diagnostic visit. Credited toward the repair.

  • Written

    1 year parts and labor on the repair, 90 days on consumables. Quoted in writing before work starts.

  • CSLB

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

Nearby cities

Scotsman service in neighboring cities.

FAQ

Scotsman in San Bruno questions, answered.

  • Is this shop authorized by Scotsman?
    No. We repair Scotsman ice machines independently, with no factory authorization from Scotsman. The only brand we hold factory certification on is Manitowoc.
  • How quickly can you reach San Bruno?
    Our Peninsula technician runs up 101 from San Mateo to reach San Bruno, past the SFO exit, and that beats the old drive in from San Ramon by a wide margin. We still give an honest arrival window rather than a same-day guarantee.
  • What's the diagnostic fee?
    $99, credited toward the repair, with a written quote before any work begins.

Need Scotsman service in San Bruno?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.

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