Commercial Ice Machine Repair and Service in Greater Vancouver
An ice machine that stops producing does not just inconvenience a bar — it stops drink service. We repair, clean and install cuber, flaker and nugget machines for restaurants, bars, hotels, care homes and grocery stores across Greater Vancouver, and we stock the pumps, valves, sensors and filters that fail most often on the makes we see every week.
What actually fails ice machines on the coast
Metro Vancouver runs soft water — the Capilano, Seymour and Coquitlam supplies all sit well below the point where water counts as hard — so the hard-water scale story most ice machine advice is built on does not describe what we find in Vancouver, Burnaby or on the North Shore. What we find is biofilm: slime and pink film in the bin, on the evaporator and right through the water circuit, and filters loading up faster than the sticker on the door predicts. Soft, low-alkalinity water is also aggressive toward metals, so it works on fittings and tubing rather than coating them. The answer is scheduled deep cleaning and sanitation of the whole water path, not a descale booked by calendar. Further east it stops being the same supply: the Township of Langley blends local wells into the regional water, and Abbotsford draws part of its own from the Fraser Valley aquifer, so both the source and the treatment behind it differ from what Vancouver gets — and they vary well to well. That is the whole reason we test your water on the first visit instead of assuming it matches the last site we were at.
Repairs that end at the cause
A machine that will not harvest can be a failed float switch, a plugged water distributor, a tired pump, low refrigerant charge or a control board — and guessing gets expensive fast. We diagnose the circuit, quote in writing, and fix the fault instead of swapping parts until something changes. Where a part is not on the truck we tell you the lead time up front rather than leaving you waiting on a callback.
Sanitation records an inspector will accept
Ice is food, and inspectors treat it that way. Every clean we carry out is documented — date, machine, work performed and filter changed — so you have a record to produce on request. Clients on a cleaning agreement get visits booked ahead, which means the work lands on your calendar instead of in the middle of a rush.
Commercial Ice Machines — common questions
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Twice a year is the usual minimum. High volume, a warm or greasy kitchen, and sites east of the city drawing on groundwater rather than the regional supply all push that toward quarterly. We set the interval after seeing the machine and testing your water, then book the visits ahead so they do not get forgotten.
Usually not. Falling production on a machine that still runs is most often biofilm on the evaporator or a filter that has loaded up and is choking the water flow. A deep clean and a filter change bring most machines back to their rated output.
We do. We size the machine to your peak daily demand rather than your average, sort out the water supply, filtration and drain, and install it to code. We service all major ice machine brands, so you are not locked into one manufacturer.
Yes. Cleaning and non-urgent repairs are scheduled early morning or after close wherever the job allows, and the emergency line is staffed 24/7 if a machine goes down mid-service.
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