How do you route to Albany from San Ramon?

We take I-580 or Highway 24 over to I-80, and it's usually a 40 to 45 minute drive from San Ramon. We pair Albany with Berkeley and Richmond on the same Inner East Bay day, so a window is almost always available, with a written arrival time once it's booked.

I'm a UC Village resident. Can I book this myself?

Yes. You book, we diagnose for $99, and you get a written quote you can send to housing management if that's who needs to see it. We're happy to answer their questions directly.

How do I tell which company actually built my Kenmore?

Check the sticker inside the fresh food door, side wall or ceiling. The first three digits of the model number are the tell: 106 is Whirlpool, 795 is LG, 253 is Frigidaire. Send us that full number and we can often quote likely parts before we arrive.

KENMORE · ALBANY

Service · All Kenmore Models

Kenmore Refrigerator & Freezer Repair · Albany, CA

Kenmore refrigerator repair across Albany, from Marin Avenue bungalows to UC Village.

$99 diagnostic (credited toward the repair)
Same or next-day best effort
CSLB #1136642

Call (925) 999-4095

Kenmore in Albany

Kenmore in Albany kitchens.

Albany's bungalow stock goes back to the 1920s through the 1940s, and a lot of those small kitchens on the Marin Avenue grid still run a Kenmore that's older than the current owner. Kenmore was only ever a label, LG, Whirlpool, and Frigidaire built the machine underneath it, so the model number tells me more than the badge ever will.

UC Village family housing along Buchanan Street adds a different wrinkle. Those units turn over often as families rotate through, and the fridges take a beating from moves and heavy use, sometimes running compact or smaller-depth models because the kitchens are built small to begin with. The ADUs and basement units going in across the rest of Albany often inherit whichever fridge was already on the property, which is frequently the oldest one.

We schedule Albany seven days a week from San Ramon. $99 diagnostic credited to the repair, written quotes you can forward to a landlord or property manager, 90-day warranty on the repair, one year on inverter boards.

Water and ice systems

The water inlet valve, a common fridge leak.

Every fridge with a dispenser or ice maker has a water inlet valve. The fittings can leak under the cabinet, or the solenoid fails and the dispenser and ice maker stop getting water.

Laundry

How to spot a bad washer drain pump.

LG and Samsung washer drain pumps side by side. When a washer will not drain or hums at the end of a cycle, this small pump is the usual suspect, and the two brands fail in different ways.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

Evaporator fan whine in compact bungalow kitchens. A Kenmore that screeches from the freezer and quiets down when the door opens has a dying evaporator fan motor. Albany's small original kitchens run these units in tight spots with poor airflow, which wears the fan faster. It's an inexpensive part on Whirlpool built 106 units and usually rides on the van.
Defrost drain ice in older top freezers. The 253 and 106 top freezers common in Albany's older bungalows and UC Village units have a signature failure: a frozen defrost drain. Water pools under the crispers or drips onto the floor below, which is usually the first sign anyone notices. Clearing the drain and adding a drain strap stops it from coming back.
Start relay failures that sound like a dead compressor. Click, pause, click, repeating every few minutes. That's usually a failed start relay or overload on an older Kenmore, not a dead compressor. I test the windings directly, and a fifty dollar relay kit often saves a fridge that looks ready for the curb.

Models we service

Kenmore product lines.

Refrigerators (LG-built and Whirlpool-built)
Top-freezer
Side-by-side
French-door

Pricing and warranty

What it costs. What we stand behind.

$99

Diagnostic visit. Credited toward the repair.
Written

3 months standard, 1 year on inverter boards, up to 2 years on sealed-system rebuilds. Quoted in writing before work starts.
CSLB

#1136642. Bonded and insured. We file warranty paperwork when applicable.

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Kenmore jobs we have closed.

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FAQ

Kenmore in Albany questions, answered.

How do you route to Albany from San Ramon?

We take I-580 or Highway 24 over to I-80, and it's usually a 40 to 45 minute drive from San Ramon. We pair Albany with Berkeley and Richmond on the same Inner East Bay day, so a window is almost always available, with a written arrival time once it's booked.
I'm a UC Village resident. Can I book this myself?

Yes. You book, we diagnose for $99, and you get a written quote you can send to housing management if that's who needs to see it. We're happy to answer their questions directly.
How do I tell which company actually built my Kenmore?

Check the sticker inside the fresh food door, side wall or ceiling. The first three digits of the model number are the tell: 106 is Whirlpool, 795 is LG, 253 is Frigidaire. Send us that full number and we can often quote likely parts before we arrive.

Need Kenmore service in Albany?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.