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

Miami-Dade County, Miami / South Florida

Ice machine repair in Brickell.

Brickell's towers hold restaurants, rooftop bars and residents' lounges whose ice machines often shed heat through remote condensers on the roof, and in the condos themselves a compact undercounter unit pumps its water into tight cabinetry.

(844) 410-9163

Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm

Miami-Dade County
Three things about Brickell
10 repairs we do here

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What Brickell does
to an ice machine.

Swire Properties' mixed-use complex in the neighborhood, whose hotel and residential towers opened in 2016, joins a Saks Fifth Avenue store, restaurants, a hotel, offices and condominiums.

NOAA's long-term relative humidity at Miami International Airport, a few miles from Brickell, peaks at 77.8 percent in September.

The neighborhood covers about 1.19 square miles and had an estimated 32,489 residents, more than 27,000 people per square mile.

Miami's self-described oldest bar, Tobacco Road, was in business in Brickell from 1912.

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Tower living

Building rules usually send an ice machine's drain to a floor sink or a standpipe through a long run of pipe, so a slow drain in a tower is found by following that line and its air gap, not by pulling the machine out of its opening.

Small cafes and back bars

Where one short counter serves coffee, drinks and ice, the scoop tends to live inside the bin, and a handle touched by hands all day is how slime starts on the bin walls, so a clean cycle and a scoop holder solve more than any part.

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.

A visit in
Brickell.

Four steps from the call to a working ice machine in Brickell, Miami-Dade 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 Brickell.

In Brickell 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