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

San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Ice machine repair in San Francisco.

10 cities and neighborhoods across San Francisco, part of San Francisco Bay Area — 6 with a page on what that place does to an ice machine.

(844) 410-9163

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10 places covered
6 with a page
10 repairs we do here

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What San Francisco does
to an ice machine.

Where ice machines sit in San Francisco: small cafes and back bars, older housing stock, home bars with clear ice.

All of San Francisco Bay Area

Small cafes and back bars

Small cafes and studio apartments often set an ice machine beside other equipment that throws heat, an espresso machine or a bottle cooler, and the warmth those neighbors add can cut a small machine's daily ice by a noticeable share.

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.

Where we go
in San Francisco.

10 cities and neighborhoods across San Francisco, part of San Francisco Bay Area, 6 of them with a page on what that place does to an ice machine. The same visit in each.

10places covered 6counties in San Francisco Bay Area 10repairs

All of San Francisco Bay Area

Marina

Chestnut Street bars and the flats near the bay put ice machines in small spaces close to salt air, and in this seismic zone a modular head should be secured to its bin so a strong quake cannot shift it off its base.

Noe Valley

Along 24th Street the cafes and small restaurants keep compact undercounter ice machines behind the counter, and in the family houses up the hills a unit added at a remodeled bar most often needs its drain pump looked at.

Pacific Heights

Remodeled Victorians here sometimes set a panel-front undercounter ice machine into a butler's pantry, while the restaurants of Fillmore Street run modular heads in tight back rooms, where a clogged condenser filter is the usual reason for thin ice.

Presidio Heights

Most Presidio Heights homes were built in the early 1900s, many of them Edwardian, and the neighborhood's name is older than the 1906 earthquake.

Russian Hill

The Atkinson House on the Vallejo Street Crest, built in 1853, is among the oldest houses still standing in San Francisco.

Sea Cliff

NOAA's station on San Francisco's ocean side averages a daily high of just 62.1°F in June, July and August, with less than one day a year reaching 90°F.

Also covered in San Francisco

Bernal HeightsBernal Heights is mostly residential, with restaurants, bakeries and salons along Cortland Avenue and the 'Fiesta on the Hill' street fair near summer's end.
Cole ValleyCole Valley, the smallest neighborhood in San Francisco, lies near Kezar Stadium, and the N Judah line still stops at the heart of its small business district.
St. Francis WoodSt. Francis Wood was laid out in 1912 as an upper-middle-class residential neighborhood with streetcar access to jobs downtown.
West PortalBanks, restaurants, coffee shops, a bakery and an ice cream shop give small West Portal, on the city's West Side, a village-like feel.

A visit in
San Francisco.

Four steps from the call to a working ice machine, the same in all 10 places of San Francisco.

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 San Francisco.

Across San Francisco, the four problems where an ice machine puts water across a walkway or near power, smells of burning wiring, trips its breaker or hisses and smells of gas.

All 17 problems