Commercial refrigeration repair across the Salt Lake valley
A cooler drifting above 41°F puts your inventory and your next health inspection at risk at the same time. We service commercial refrigeration only: walk-ins, reach-ins, prep tables, display cases, ice machines and rack systems, for restaurants, grocers, schools and institutional kitchens along the Wasatch Front.
Call (801) 555-0142What we actually fix
Most commercial refrigeration calls come down to a handful of failure modes. A technician who works on this equipment daily can usually narrow it down before the truck arrives, so describing the symptom precisely on the phone can save you a diagnostic visit.
- Not holding temperature. The unit runs but the box will not pull down. Usually refrigerant charge, a restricted metering device, or a condenser that has not been cleaned in a year.
- Running constantly and never cycling. Often a failing door gasket or a defrost termination problem long before it is a compressor.
- Icing on the evaporator. A defrost cycle that is not terminating, a failed heater, or a door that is not sealing and is pulling humid air across the coil.
- Water on the floor. Blocked or frozen condensate drain line, nine times out of ten.
- Compressor short-cycling. Low charge, a failing start component, or a pressure control out of calibration.
- Noise that changed. Bearing wear in a fan motor, or a compressor beginning to fail. Worth calling about early.
Equipment we service
Walk-in coolers and freezers, reach-in refrigerators and freezers, sandwich and pizza prep tables, undercounter and back-bar units, open and closed display cases, blast chillers, commercial ice machines, and parallel rack systems in grocery and convenience settings.
We work on all the major commercial brands, including True, Traulsen, Turbo Air, Beverage-Air, Continental, Delfield, Hoshizaki, Manitowoc, Scotsman, Ice-O-Matic, Heatcraft, Bohn, Copeland and Russell.
Refrigerant handling and compliance
Every technician handling refrigerant on your equipment is EPA Section 608 certified.
R-404A systems get more expensive to service every year as the industry moves away from higher-GWP refrigerants, and plenty of Utah kitchens are still running them. If yours is one of those, we will price the repair against a retrofit so you can see both numbers. Topping off a leaking system twice a year is usually the worst of the available options.
What it costs
A diagnostic visit on commercial refrigeration runs about what a standard service call runs, and it applies against the repair if you go ahead. Common repairs land in the low hundreds: gaskets, fan motors, defrost components, thermostats, contactors.
Compressor replacement, refrigerant recovery and recharge, or evaporator work costs considerably more. On equipment past ten years old we will quote replacement alongside the repair, because at that age a repair often buys eight months.
Questions we get asked
How fast can someone get here?
Same-day dispatch valley-wide, with a two-hour target on refrigeration emergencies where product is at risk. Park City, Ogden and Utah County runs take longer. Ask when you call and we will give you the actual window.
Do you work on residential refrigerators?
No. We service commercial equipment only. If your home refrigerator or ice maker has failed, an appliance repair company is the right call and will be considerably cheaper.
What temperature does Utah require for cold holding?
Utah Admin. Code R392-102-12 requires temperature-controlled-for-safety food to be held at 41°F (5°C) or below, and hot holding at 135°F (57°C) or above. A walk-in logging above 41°F is a compliance problem as well as a product problem.
Do you offer maintenance agreements?
Yes, and for most kitchens they cost less than the emergency calls they prevent. Quarterly coil cleaning, gasket inspection and temperature verification catch the majority of failures while they are still cheap.
Service area
We cover Salt Lake, Davis, Utah, Summit and Weber counties. Same-day dispatch valley-wide, 2-hour target on refrigeration emergencies.
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For quotes, maintenance agreements and anything that can wait until morning, this reaches us just as reliably.
Need commercial refrigeration repair?
Same-day dispatch valley-wide, 24 hours a day.