My commercial fridge died in the middle of Friday dinner rush last month...

Lost $800 worth of prep because I hadn't checked the condenser coils in over a year - has anyone else had a fridge failure screw up their whole weekend?

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scott.jana1mo ago

You mentioned you hadn't checked the condenser coils in over a year, and that's the kind of thing we all tend to put off until it's too late. It seems like in so many areas of life, the little maintenance tasks that don't feel urgent end up causing the biggest problems when we ignore them. Lost $800 is a tough way to learn that lesson, but I bet you'll never skip that check again.

jackson.matthew1mo ago

Hold up, $800 seems steep for just dirty coils. Are we sure there wasn't something else going on with the unit?

alex3071mo ago

$800 is definitely steep for just a coil cleaning. I had a similar situation with my Trane unit last summer where the quote was $600 just to clean coils and the tech tried to upsell me on a full system flush for another $400. When I asked the supervisor to come out and show me exactly where the blockage was, they found the coils weren't even that dirty - ended up being a bad capacitor that was making the compressor run hot and trip the safety switch. So yeah, sometimes the high price is them lumping in diagnostic time with a cleaning that might not even be the real fix.