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.

Harris County, Houston

Ice machine repair in West University.

West University's rebuilt two-story houses sometimes add an undercounter ice machine in a game room or a second-floor bar, where the drain runs to a pump that collects debris after a few years of use.

(844) 410-9163

Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm

Harris County
Three things about West University
10 repairs we do here

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What West University does
to an ice machine.

The city incorporated because Houston was unwilling to run its power lines out that far from downtown.

Unlike Houston Heights, West University Place never consolidated into the City of Houston.

The drainage ditch through West University was dredged in 1928 after serious flooding and was later rebuilt with concrete by the county.

Mid-20th-century bungalows and cottages here have steadily given way to larger red-brick Georgian houses.

Also known as West University Place.

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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.

Mixed housing

A landlord who inherited an ice machine with a building may have no manual and no service record, so the visit starts by reading the model plate, finding the maker's cleaning schedule and writing down what has been done.

Small cafes and back bars

Behind a narrow bar the undercounter ice machine is boxed in by coolers and a sink, and an air-cooled unit forced to breathe its own warm exhaust runs long cycles and drops thin cubes, so the clearance at its front grille is checked before the sealed system.

A visit in
West University.

Four steps from the call to a working ice machine in West University, Harris 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 West University.

In West University 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