An Eichler kitchen with an undercounter ice maker in the island, seen close and low, the ice catching the light.

Santa Clara County, San Francisco Bay Area

Ice maker repair in Palo Alto.

Eichler and tract houses on slab floors, where the ice maker's water line often runs through the slab or along an outside wall, so a leak there is hard to see and a remodel is the moment owners reroute and replace the old tubing.

(844) 773-0701

Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm

Santa Clara County
Three things about Palo Alto
10 repairs we do here

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What Palo Alto does
to an ice maker.

Adobe Creek near the eastern boundary, Matadero Creek and San Francisquito Creek on the western edge all cross Palo Alto on their way north to the bay.

On summer evenings a fog bank often rolls over the western foothills and covers the city, trapping the warmth of the day.

Measurable snow is very rare in the populated parts of Palo Alto, though 1.5 inches fell on January 21, 1962.

The city limits reach well into the Santa Cruz Mountains, up to about 2,812 feet near Skyline Ridge, far above the official elevation of 30 feet.

All of San Francisco Bay Area

Designed kitchens and bars

A designed kitchen may carry three sources of ice at once, the door dispenser, a freezer drawer mold and an undercounter unit at the bar, each on its own supply branch, so mapping which valve feeds which is the first step in any leak call there.

Newer developments

New houses are often handed over with the ice maker switched off and its supply valve closed, so first-time buyers call about "no ice" when the answer is opening the valve under the sink and turning the ice maker on at its control.

Family houses

In a family house children use the door dispenser many times a day, and a chute flap that no longer closes lets warm kitchen air into the ice path, so ice freezes inside the chute and the dispenser jams until the flap and its seal are put right.

A visit in
Palo Alto.

Four steps from the call to a working ice maker in Palo Alto, Santa Clara County.

What repairs cost

01Water traced from the valve to the mold
02A number before the work
03Everyday ice maker parts already on board
04Filled, frozen and dropped in front of you

When an ice maker
cannot wait in Palo Alto.

In Palo Alto as anywhere, these four can spread water across the floor, soak the cabinet or the wall behind the ice maker, or carry water to an outlet or a cord that is still live.

All 17 problems