For businesses and properties
Commercial Appliance Repair in Austin, TX
Repair for refrigeration, ice machines, dishwashing and cooking equipment in Austin restaurants, cafes, bars, food trucks, offices and rental properties.
- Reach-ins, prep tables, under-counter and display refrigeration
- Ice machines, including scale-related faults
- Commercial dishwashers and cooking equipment
- Visits planned around prep and service times where possible
Businesses we work with
Commercial and household equipment in Austin-area businesses and rental properties.
Restaurants and cafes
- Reach-in and prep-table refrigeration
- Ice machines
- Dish machines
- Ovens, ranges and cooktops
Bars and music venues
- Back-bar and under-counter coolers
- Ice machines under heavy summer demand
- Glass washers
- Beverage and keg refrigeration
Food trucks and trailers
- Compact refrigeration in hot enclosed spaces
- Under-counter freezers
- Cooking equipment
- Scheduling around where the unit is parked
Offices and break rooms
- Break room refrigerators
- Dishwashers
- Microwaves
- Ice and water dispensers
Rental and property managers
- In-unit refrigerators, ranges and dishwashers
- Stacked and full-size laundry
- Turnover repairs between leases
- Access arranged with the tenant or manager
Short-term rentals
- Kitchen appliances between guest stays
- Washers and dryers
- Outdoor refrigeration and beverage centers
- Scheduling around check-in and check-out
What Austin puts commercial equipment through
Busy corridors
Kitchens along South Congress, East 6th, Rainey Street, South Lamar, Burnet Road and around The Domain often have tight back-of-house space and limited loading access. Tell us about access and parking when you book.
Event seasons
SXSW in March, ACL Festival in the fall and UT home football weekends push commercial kitchens and bars hard. Equipment that is marginal beforehand, such as an ice machine with scale buildup or a cooler with a dirty condenser, is more likely to fail under that load.
Heat and hard water
Summer heat makes condensers work harder, especially in hot kitchens and trailers, and hard water leaves scale in ice machines and dish machines. Regular condenser and filter cleaning and descaling on the manufacturer's schedule reduce breakdowns.
How a commercial repair visit works
Book
Describe the equipment, brand and model, the fault, and the best times to visit around prep and service.
Diagnose
The technician inspects the equipment and its installation to identify the fault.
Quote
You get a quote before any repair work starts. If a part must be ordered, you will know before approving.
Repair and test
The approved repair is completed and the equipment is tested before the technician leaves.
Equipment We Repair
Pick the equipment type for its common faults and the brands we service.
Refrigerator Repair
Because a refrigerator runs around the clock without a break, most of its breakdowns are wear from that nonstop work: gaskets, sensors, defrost components and fans usually give out well before the compressor. In Austin it also carries the load of long, hot summers, and a second refrigerator in the garage can spend August in air well above 100°F.
Washer Repair
Washers fill, tumble or agitate, drain and spin while carrying heavy wet laundry, which is why belts, bearings, pumps and suspension components take most of the wear. Around Austin the washer usually sits in a utility room, the garage or a second-floor laundry, and in that last spot a small leak is worth fixing quickly.
Dryer Repair
At heart a dryer is a fan moving warm air through the laundry and outdoors, so any restriction in that airflow puts strain on all the other parts. Many Austin-area homes vent the dryer up through the attic to a roof cap, and those long runs are a bigger factor in slow drying and overheating than most people expect.
Dishwasher Repair
For a dishwasher to work, water has to come in at the correct pressure and temperature, circulate with enough force to clean, and then drain out fully. Results also depend on detergent and water hardness, and Central Texas water is hard enough that hardness settings and rinse aid make a visible difference.
Oven Repair
An oven must heat to the set point and stay there, and small inaccuracies appear in cooking results well before anything looks wrong with it. Most of the work is done by the igniters, elements, door seals and temperature sensors, and a self-clean cycle stresses every one of them more than normal baking.
Microwave Repair
Microwaves cook using energy produced by a magnetron, and the door seals and switches are what contain that energy. Because over-the-range units also act as the vent hood, their fans, dampers and filters get the same attention as the cooking components.
Freezer Repair
Because a freezer failing for just a few hours can spoil an entire load of food, it pays to catch a problem early. Chest and upright freezers fail in different ways, and in Central Texas many of them live in garages where summer heat, not the freezer, is often the first thing to check.
Cooktop Repair
Cooktops send heat straight into pans, whether by gas burner, radiant element or induction coil, and each of these methods fails in its own characteristic ways. Glass surfaces can crack, and island or downdraft setups bring extra ductwork and wiring that frequently play a part in diagnosing the fault.
Ice Maker Repair
Ice makers freeze incoming water and release it on a timed harvest cycle, which is why water quality, water pressure and cleanliness drive most of their performance. Austin-area water is hard, and scale and biofilm build up quickly in an ice machine that is not descaled and sanitized on schedule.
Wine Cooler Repair
Wine coolers must keep a steady, narrow temperature range with minimal vibration, a stricter task than an ordinary refrigerator handles. Compressor and thermoelectric models behave very differently when the room around them warms up, so knowing which kind you own is the first step in any diagnosis.
Stove Repair
Stoves house an oven and a cooktop in one cabinet, and either section can break down by itself. Gas stoves bring ignition and flame issues, electric stoves bring element and switch issues, and since many Austin-area homes are all-electric, which kind you have changes the whole diagnosis.
Range Repair
Ranges place a cooktop and an oven on one set of controls, and slide-in, dual-fuel and pro-style versions each bring additional complexity. The larger kitchens in the hill-country and lake neighborhoods west of the city often have one, and it is usually worth repairing well past the point a basic model would be replaced.
Commercial Appliance Repair Questions
4 questions people ask about commercial appliance repair, answered plainly. Anything not covered here can go in the notes when you book.
Still have questions?
Book online with the equipment, the brand and model, the fault, and the times the kitchen is quietest. If equipment is down during service, say so.
Tell us when prep starts, when service runs and when the kitchen is quietest, and the visit will be planned around those times where the schedule allows. If equipment is down and affecting service, say so when you book.
Hard water is a common cause in Central Texas. Scale builds up on the evaporator and in the water distribution system, which slows harvest and changes ice quality. A clogged water filter, a dirty condenser or high ambient temperature in a hot kitchen can also reduce production. Follow the manufacturer's cleaning and descaling schedule; if production does not recover, book a diagnosis.
Make sure the door gaskets seal and the door is not being propped open, that product is not blocking the evaporator fan or air vents inside, and that the condenser coil is not clogged with grease or dust. Check the thermometer against a second one. If the cooler still cannot hold temperature, move perishable product to working refrigeration and book a repair.
Yes. Household appliances in offices, break rooms, rentals and short-term rentals are repaired too. Keep in mind that a residential appliance used under commercial conditions can wear faster, and that commercial use may affect the manufacturer's warranty.