A restaurant back room with a modular ice machine on its bin and white shaker cabinets, seen close at the ice machine's bin door.

Alameda County, San Francisco Bay Area

Ice machine repair in Piedmont.

In the 1920s Piedmont was called the 'City of Millionaires', and many mansions from that era still stand on Sea View Avenue and in upper Piedmont.

(844) 410-9163

Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm

Alameda County
Three things about Piedmont
10 repairs we do here

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What Piedmont does
to an ice machine.

Police, fire, parks and recreation are Piedmont's own, but for a library and a post office residents rely on Oakland.

Of its occupied housing units in the 2020 census, 86.4 percent were lived in by their owners.

The Oakland Museum weather station nearby averages 72.1°F on summer afternoons and gets 90°F on fewer than 5 days a year.

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Older housing stock

Older wiring may put an ice machine's compressor on a circuit shared with other bar equipment, and a breaker that trips each time the harvest starts is left off and reported rather than reset again and again; at a burning smell, switch the breaker off.

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.

Mixed housing

On a block where an old corner restaurant faces a new cafe, the older one may still run a modular head from decades back whose parts are getting scarce, while the new one runs an R-290 machine full of sensors, and each takes a different kind of repair.

A visit in
Piedmont.

Four steps from the call to a working ice machine in Piedmont, Alameda County.

What repairs cost

01One cycle, watched closely
02The cause, then the price
03Parts that travel with us
04A harvest before we go

When an ice machine
cannot wait in Piedmont.

In Piedmont 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