A Houston restaurant kitchen with a long fryer bank, seen from across the room.

Houston, TX

Commercial appliance repair in Houston.

Houston runs on restaurants, hospital kitchens, stadium concessions and hotel laundries spread across a sprawling city in steady heat and humidity. Rooftop condensing units bake all summer, and hurricanes bring flooding and outages that can cost a walk-in its whole contents. Repairs after a storm sort out what stood in water, what lost power and which gas lines must be checked before cooking resumes.

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What Houston does
to a commercial appliance.

CenterPoint Energy, the Fortune 500 utility once known as Houston Lighting & Power, keeps its headquarters in CenterPoint Energy Tower at 1111 Louisiana Street downtown.

ERCOT said the Texas grid was four minutes and 37 seconds from complete failure when partial shutdowns began during the February 2021 storm.

An expansion begun in 2001 grew the George R. Brown Convention Center to 1.8 million square feet and added the 1,200-room Hilton Americas-Houston, joined to it by two skywalks.

The Texas Medical Center, a group of more than 60 institutions, employs over 106,000 people and sees more than 160,000 visitors a day.

The counties

Family houses

Suburban family restaurants and school cafeterias run fryers, griddles and dish machines through predictable rushes, and wear shows first on the busiest units, so maintenance there follows the school calendar and the weekend peaks.

Newer developments

Planned communities often set rules on rooftop equipment, noise and service hours, so repairs on condensing units and laundry exhaust are planned within those rules from the first call.

Patio dining and pool service

Patio bars and poolside service stations run reach-ins, prep tables and undercounter units in direct sun, and those cabinets need clean coils, shade and sound gaskets to hold food at safe temperatures outdoors.

Spare and overflow units

A second dish machine or an extra extractor added to an existing circuit or drain can overload that supply, and when both run at once, tripped breakers or slow drains point to the shared line rather than to either machine.

The work,
in Houston.

Ten commercial appliance repairs, cheapest first, each with what Houston changes about it.

What we do

Commercial appliance diagnostic visit

After a Houston storm the first diagnostic question is what the power did: a walk-in that sat dark for a day, a control board that caught the surge on restoration and a pilot relit in a hurry can all look like the same warm box to a manager.

Commercial preventive maintenance plan

Houston maintenance plans schedule rooftop condenser cleaning before the heat and a review of outage plans before hurricane season, so walk-ins and reach-ins can hold food through heat waves and a power cut.

Commercial fryer repair

Houston fried-chicken and Cajun kitchens run pressure and open fryers from morning to night, and the heat inside those cabinets bakes wiring and gas valve parts, so a fryer repair there includes the cabinet's cooling air and the state of its wiring.

Commercial cooking line gas repair

Houston cooking lines live with flood risk, and a line that was under floodwater needs its gas valves, thermostats and pilot assemblies inspected by a technician before it is relit, never simply wiped dry and fired.

Walk-in cooler repair

Houston summers put rooftop condensing units under months of direct sun, and a walk-in that holds overnight but drifts warm by midafternoon points to a matted condenser coil or a slowing fan motor on the roof, reached without stopping the kitchen below.

Reach-in and prep table repair

When a Houston line kitchen loses its air conditioning in August, the undercounter reach-ins struggle first, and a unit that trips its compressor overload every afternoon is checked for a blocked condenser and a tired fan before its compressor is written off.

Commercial oven and combi oven repair

Houston barbecue joints and banquet halls run cook-and-hold and convection ovens through long overnight loads, and a unit that has lost its heat by morning is checked for a failed element, a relay or a door seal before the next brisket goes in.

Dish machine repair

Houston dish rooms turn stifling in summer, and a machine's booster heater, pumps and controls run hot all day, so a repair there checks electrical connections and heater elements along with the wash and rinse temperatures on the gauges.

Commercial laundry machine repair

Houston laundromats and hotel laundries face flooding and long outages, and machines that stood in water need their motors, controls and wiring inspected before restart, while tumblers need their exhaust and lint paths cleared.

Commercial controls and board repair

Houston storms bring long outages and power spikes when the grid comes back, and control boards in walk-ins, fryers and dish machines are often damaged in that moment, so repairs there check the voltage and the unit's restart settings.

The commercial appliances
we see most here.

Concentrated in Houston more than elsewhere: commercial cold storage, commercial cooking equipment, commercial laundry equipment.

All commercial appliance types

A row of three stainless steel reach-in cabinets with solid doors along the wall of a working restaurant kitchen, the reach-ins clearly the subject, one door open showing sheet pans of prepped vegetables on wire shelves, a walk-in cooler door with a clear strip curtain visible at the far end, a cook seen only from behind in a white jacket passing in the soft background, bright even kitchen light.

Commercial cold storage

Walk-in cooler repair Houston

Storm outages put a whole box of food at risk.

A working restaurant cooking line under a stainless ventilation hood, two stainless gas fryers with baskets hanging above the oil, a flat griddle and a combi oven with a glass door beside them, the equipment clearly the subject, a cook seen only from behind and shoulders down at the far end of the line, warm kitchen light, small blue flames visible under the griddle.

Commercial cooking equipment

Commercial fryer repair Houston

Fried-chicken and Cajun kitchens fry all day.

A clean modern laundromat with a long row of stainless front-load commercial laundry machines with round glass doors, a row of large stacked tumblers along the opposite wall, one machine door open, the laundry machines clearly the subject, a customer seen only from behind folding towels on a counter in the soft background, bright daylight through a storefront window.

Commercial laundry equipment

Commercial laundry repair Houston

Flooded laundries need motors checked before restart.

What a commercial appliance visit in
Houston looks like.

Four steps from the call to a working commercial appliance, the same in each of the 31 areas of Houston.

What repairs cost

01Safety and supply before anything else
02The cause, and what it costs
03Parts that ride along
04Proved under load before we leave

When a commercial appliance
cannot wait in Houston.

Across 5 counties of Houston, the five where commercial equipment smells of gas, catches fire in a fryer or under the hood, lets a walk-in or a reach-in warm past safe holding with food inside, puts water on the floor near power, or gives off a burning electrical smell.

All 17 problems