Preventive Maintenance in Solana Beach, CA

A scheduled visit on built-in refrigeration decides whether you spend money on a coil or on a compressor, which is the entire argument for it. In Solana Beach the most valuable part of the visit is not the cleaning at all, it is the access survey: can the grille above the doors actually exhaust, has joinery closed off a base grille, has a custom panel dragged a door out of square. Those three findings put more appliances out of service in this town than any component we carry, and not one of them will ever appear on a diagnostic display.

What this covers in Solana Beach

Each visit covers the coil and the whole route its heat has to take, the seals and the closers, the drain traced through to the pan, fan bearings listened to before they fail, filter age where a filter is fitted, and compartment temperatures taken with a probe. Whatever turns up is named, explained and priced while we are standing in front of it. Nothing gets quietly repaired and added to the total.

• Coil cleaned properly, worked out from between the fins rather than blown off the face
• Exhaust route above the upper grille measured against soffits, crown and filler panels
• Base grille clearance on drawers, beverage centers and undercounter wine cabinets
• Seal pull tested around the full perimeter, and overlay panels reset where their weight has moved them
• Drain flushed and followed through to the pan, with the drain heater checked where one is fitted
• Compartment temperatures probed at the top shelf and the bottom rather than trusted to the panel

A published condenser cleaning interval is written for an average kitchen in an average climate. Solana Beach holds two climates inside one small ZIP code, so we would rather set your interval by what the coil looks like on the first visit. Down near Fletcher Cove and on the streets west of the 101, airborne salt keeps moisture against the fins and binds lint into a mat that has to be worked out by hand, and a coil there reaches a given restriction sooner than the identical coil a couple of miles inland. On the Lomas Santa Fe side you get dry dust and animal hair instead: minutes to clear, and back again faster, particularly in a house with dogs.

OEM parts, or an authorized supplier when the factory part is unavailable, and one price agreed before the work starts. Call (858) 703-5919 and tell us what the appliance is doing.