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An office break room with a nugget ice machine and gray slab cabinets, seen close at the ice machine's bin door.

Santa Clara County, San Francisco Bay Area

Ice machine repair in Palo Alto.

Palo Alto offices and startups keep nugget ice machines in their shared kitchens, University Avenue restaurants run cube machines through long lunches, and a remodeled Eichler may hide a clear-ice undercounter unit at its home bar.

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What Palo Alto does
to an ice machine.

Electricity, gas and water inside Palo Alto come from a city-owned department, City of Palo Alto Utilities, rather than from PG&E, which serves nearly every other community in Northern California.

Power reaches the city through interconnection points on PG&E's transmission system.

Palo Alto's record high is 108°F, reached on September 6, 2022, and it sees 90°F or more on about 12 days in an average year.

North of Oregon Expressway most homes date from the first four decades of the 1900s, while to the south many are Eichler or Eichler-style houses from the two decades after World War II.

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Home bars with clear ice

Kitchen designers often place the clear-ice machine far from any floor drain, which means a drain pump hidden in the cabinet, and the pump's check valve and vent line are the first stop when water collects under a spotless island.

Newer developments

New shopping centers and office parks in planned communities hand tenants a space with an ice machine already installed, and the first thing a new restaurant or office should confirm is who owns it, since service follows the lease.

Family houses

Family houses in the suburbs often place an undercounter ice machine in a game room or a basement bar far from the kitchen sink, and its drain runs to a pump or a laundry standpipe, which is where a slow drain is usually found.

A visit in
Palo Alto.

Four steps from the call to a working ice machine in Palo Alto, Santa Clara 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 Palo Alto.

In Palo Alto 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

Near Palo Alto.

1 more in Santa Clara County, 12 across San Francisco Bay Area, each with its own ice machine repair page.

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Ice machine trouble in Palo Alto?

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