Commercial Refrigeration & Ice Machine Repair · Lafayette, CA

Refrigeration and ice repair in Lafayette

Most of Lafayette’s commercial kitchens sit downtown along Mt. Diablo Boulevard and around La Fiesta Square. Sit-down restaurants, a couple of bars, bakeries with display cases, and the markets and grocery spots off Pleasant Hill Road. It’s not a high-volume corridor, but the operators here run tight rooms and they notice the second a box drifts warm. We service commercial refrigeration and ice across all of it, and we stock the truck so a fix doesn’t turn into three return trips.

What we see here

The restaurants lean on reach-in coolers and freezers from True, Turbo Air, and Beverage-Air, plus undercounter and worktop prep tables that get opened a hundred times a shift. A handful of places run small walk-ins out back. The bars carry Perlick back-bar coolers and bottle wells. Ice is mostly Manitowoc and Hoshizaki heads behind the bar or in the kitchen.

The failures track the equipment. Prep tables warming up because the condenser coil is packed with flour and grease and the compressor’s running hot. Reach-in gaskets torn at the hinge so the door never really seals. Evaporator fan motors seizing and icing the coil. On the ice machines, Lafayette runs moderately hard water off the local supply, so we see scale on the evaporator plate, slow or cloudy harvest, and float valves sticking. Most of that is a deep cleaning, a descale, and a new water filter, not a new machine.

Sealed-system and ice work

We do sealed-system repairs in-house with recovery, evacuation, and weigh-in. Our EPA #1279674151528 (Section 608) covers refrigerant handling, and we’re HC/R290 trained for the hydrocarbon units like Atosa. On ice, Andrew is Manitowoc-certified, factory-trained on Indigo NXT, NEO, and QuietQube. We’re certified to service those machines, not a factory sales dealer. Every other brand we handle as an independent shop.

High-end residential

Up in Happy Valley and Burton Valley there’s a lot of Sub-Zero and U-Line built-in work: dual evaporators, condenser fans, control boards, door seals. We service those too.

Getting out to you

Downtown Lafayette is a quick run off Highway 24. We dispatch from San Ramon, 7AM to 7PM, seven days, same number after hours. Diagnostic is $75, waived when you approve the repair, and you get a written quote before we touch anything. Call (925) 999-4095 or email [email protected]. We’re part of ADRIUM Service Solutions, alongside Bay Area HVAC Service and Bay Area Refrigeration Service.