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A bar with an undercounter ice machine and white shaker cabinets, seen close at the ice machine's bin door.

San Mateo County, San Francisco Bay Area

Ice machine repair in Hillsborough.

Hillsborough's zoning requires a house of at least 2,500 square feet on a lot of at least half an acre, so the town has no apartments, condominiums or townhouses.

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What Hillsborough does
to an ice machine.

Among its houses is the Flintstone House, built in 1976 by spraying concrete over balloon-shaped forms.

Among its landmarks is the Sidney Bazett Residence, a Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian design of 1939 finished in 1940 and still largely original.

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Gated communities

A clubhouse bar, a fitness center and a pool pavilion inside a gated community often each run their own ice machine under the association's care, so a visit is arranged through the manager and the gate, and several machines are checked on one trip.

Home bars with clear ice

A panel-ready undercounter ice machine wears a custom front that matches the cabinets, and a heavy panel slowly pulls the door hinge out of line until warm air leaks into the bin, so a machine whose ice melts into clumps is checked at the door first.

Ice for pool decks and patios

A backyard party can empty a small bin in an hour, and owners who expect the machine to refill it at the same pace are often surprised that a full bin takes most of a day to rebuild, which is capacity, not a failure.

A visit in
Hillsborough.

Four steps from the call to a working ice machine in Hillsborough, San Mateo County.

What repairs cost
  1. 01One cycle, watched closely
  2. 02The cause, then the price
  3. 03Parts that travel with us
  4. 04A harvest before we go

When an ice machine
cannot wait in Hillsborough.

In Hillsborough as anywhere, these four call for the ice machine to be shut down and left that way for our visit: water spreading from it or its drain across a walkway or toward an outlet, a burning or hot electrical smell, a breaker that trips when it starts, or a hiss or gas smell at a machine charged with flammable R-290.

All 17 problems
A stainless modular ice machine head sitting on a wide stainless ice bin in a tiled restaurant back room, a sheet of clear water spreading from under the ice machine bin across the red quarry tile toward a wall outlet with a plugged-in cord, a few loose ice cubes melting in the puddle. Clear the area first

Ice Machine Leaking Water Across the Floor or Under the Bin

6 causes, cheapest first

 A stainless undercounter ice machine built in under a dark wooden bar counter, its door closed and its lower front grille showing a faint gray haze drifting out into the dim bar, bottles on the back shelf out of focus, the empty bar stools pushed in. Clear the area first

Burning or Hot Electrical Smell From an Ice Machine

6 causes, cheapest first

 A gray electrical panel on a painted wall in a restaurant back corridor, one breaker switched to the middle tripped position, and through the open doorway beyond it a stainless modular ice machine on its bin standing dark and silent, a plastic ice scoop resting on the bin lid. Clear the area first

Ice Machine Tripping the Breaker or Blowing a Fuse

6 causes, cheapest first

 An empty bar storeroom with its back door propped wide open to a bright alley, a stainless self-contained ice machine standing against the far wall with its bin door closed, cases of glassware on steel shelving, daylight and fresh air pouring in. Clear the area first

Hissing or a Gas Smell Near an Ice Machine on R-290

6 causes, cheapest first

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