Commercial Refrigerator Repair in Miami, Los Angeles, Houston, New York and San Diego

Where these units work

Reach-in refrigerators line the cooking stations of restaurants, school and church kitchens, clinics and corner stores. They come with one, two or three doors, solid or glass, and the compressor may sit on top, on the bottom or out on a remote system.

Climate matters here. In Miami and Houston, humid air that slips past a poor seal turns into water and frost inside the box. In Los Angeles and San Diego, dry heat and dust load the condenser, and in a New York galley kitchen the unit may be boxed in with almost no room to breathe. Grease in the air felts over the coil in any city.

How we work through a warm cabinet

We begin with the causes that account for most calls: the condenser coil and fan, the evaporator fan, gaskets and hinges, the drain and the thermostat or controller. The sealed system is tested only after those are cleared. A warm cabinet does not say which one is to blame, so we measure first.

On an older unit we tell you honestly whether to repair or replace. A fan motor or gasket usually earns its cost on a sound cabinet, while a leaking sealed system in a rusted body may not. Please do not scrape ice from the coil with a tool or open the refrigeration circuit, because the tubing is easy to puncture.