Thermoelectric unit humming and vibrating against the wall. He found the fan shroud had come loose from the heat sink and the whole assembly was resonating. Refitted it, added an isolation pad. Quiet.
Everything we do
Services
One category, done properly. Wine coolers and wine refrigerators — diagnosis, repair, and the installation corrections that turn out to be the whole fault more often than anyone expects.
$89 service call · waived when the repair is booked
- Service call
- $89, waived when the repair is booked
- Coverage
- The whole Bay Area, Napa and Sonoma included
- Not offered
- Wine cellars, wine rooms, cabinetry, general appliance repair
01 The list
What we take on
01 Diagnosis and repair
The core work. Measurement first — panel, shelf, discharge air — then the fault, then the number. Every wine cooler architecture, every brand.
More → 02 Temperature faultsNot cooling, not cold enough, drifting warm, running constantly, freezing bottles. Condenser, fans, sensors, start components, sealed system.
More → 03 Dual-zone faultsZones locked together, a zone that will not come down, zones that drift toward each other. Dampers, solenoids and zone fans.
More → 04 Door seals, hinges and condensationFog on the glass, water in the base, mould on the gasket, doors that no longer self-close. Gaskets, hinge sets, frame heaters and drains.
More → 05 Thermoelectric unitsPeltier modules, hot-side fans and power supplies — plus the honest arithmetic on whether a small thermoelectric cooler is worth repairing.
More → 06 Noise and vibrationBuzzing, rattling and gurgling. Compressor mounting grommets, fan blades fouling insulation, and charges that someone topped up who should not have.
More → 07 Condenser cleaning and checkCoil brushed and vacuumed, drain cleared, door seal checked, shelf temperature verified against the display, and a written note of what we found.
More → 08 Installation faultsUnits that have never worked properly since they were fitted. Blocked grilles, closed cabinet venting, free-standing units built into sealed openings, doors reversed without moving the cam.
More → 09 Second opinionSomebody has quoted you a compressor or a control board. We measure it from zero and tell you what we find, including when the first opinion was right.
More → 02 By brand
Brand-specific repair notes
Each of these is a page on what that manufacturer builds, how it fails, and what parts availability actually looks like.
EuroCave French multi-temperature cabinets U-Line Under-counter, front-vented Marvel Professional under-counter Perlick Commercial-grade under-counter Liebherr German cabinets, multi-zone Vinidor Thermador Built-in preservation columns Sub-Zero American built-in wine storage columns Viking American undercounter and full-height wine cellars
03 Straight answers
Scope questions
What do you not do?
Wine cellars and wine rooms. No cellar construction, no cabinetry, no glass doors, no wine-room cooling installations. This business repairs and services wine coolers and wine refrigerators, and that is all it does.
Do you service kitchen refrigerators too?
No. Wine coolers only. It is a narrower category than general appliance repair and the failure patterns, the parts channels and the brands are almost entirely different.
Do you install wine coolers?
We correct installations — venting, grilles, hinge sets, door reversals, levelling — and that is often the whole repair. We do not do cabinetry or new kitchen fit-outs.
How do I book?
By phone on (650) 484-4687, or through the online booking link. There is no contact form and no email on this site — those two routes are it.
Book a visit
Tell us the number it is holding
Model, what the panel says, and what a thermometer on the shelf says. That is usually enough to know what we are walking into.
07 Customer notes
What people say
Compressor was starting and stopping every thirty seconds. He measured the start relay and the overload and both were bad. Replaced them together, checked the current draw after, and showed me the reading.
Thermador column drifting up overnight and recovering by day. He worked out the kitchen lights on a dimmer were heating the cabinet above it. Also found a partially blocked condenser. Both dealt with, and he was straight about which one mattered more.