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

Manhattan, New York Metro

Ice machine repair in Tribeca.

Tribeca's restaurants and converted lofts run ice machines on old industrial plumbing, and a clear-ice undercounter unit in a renovated loft kitchen often sends its water to a distant drain through a pump, the first part checked.

(844) 410-9163

Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm

Manhattan
Three things about Tribeca
10 repairs we do here

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What Tribeca does
to an ice machine.

Old warehouses and factory buildings, now mostly lofts and apartments, set Tribeca's look, and galleries, boutiques, restaurants and bars fill the ground floors.

Towers finished here in the 2010s include 30 Park Place, which holds the Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown, along with 56 Leonard Street and 111 Murray Street.

Flooding at 140 West Street during Hurricane Sandy disrupted voice and data service across Lower Manhattan.

The longest string of 90-degree days Central Park has ever seen ran 12 days, from late August into the first days of September 1953.

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Tower living

Many newer ice machines charged with R-290 sit in small tower pantries and lounges, and a hiss or a gas smell there means no switches and no flame: open the door, leave the room and call 911 if the smell is strong.

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.

Older housing stock

In an older house a premium undercounter ice machine added during a remodel may drain into a cast-iron or galvanized line narrowed by decades of buildup, and melt water that backs up into the bin is traced down that old pipe first.

A visit in
Tribeca.

Four steps from the call to a working ice machine in Tribeca, Manhattan.

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 Tribeca.

In Tribeca 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