How do you route to Berkeley from San Ramon?

Through the Caldecott, usually 35 to 40 minutes via 24. We pair Berkeley with Oakland, Piedmont, and Orinda stops on the same run, so there is almost always a Berkeley window available. Afternoon slots dodge the morning tunnel backup.

I am a tenant. Can I book the repair myself?

Yes. You book, we diagnose for $75, and you get a written quote you can send to your landlord or property manager for approval. We are happy to talk to the owner directly if they have questions. Nobody gets stuck relaying technical details secondhand.

How do I find out which company built my Kenmore?

Open the fresh food door and find the sticker on the side wall or ceiling. The first three digits of the model number are the source code, 106 means Whirlpool, 795 means LG, 253 means Frigidaire. Text us that full model number and we can often quote likely parts before we arrive.

KENMORE · BERKELEY

Service · All Kenmore Models

Kenmore Refrigerator & Freezer Repair · Berkeley, CA

Kenmore refrigerator repair across Berkeley, from student rentals in the flats to brown shingles in the hills.

$75 diagnostic (waived with repair)
Same or next-day best effort
CSLB #1136642

Call (925) 999-4095

Kenmore in Berkeley

Kenmore in Berkeley kitchens.

Berkeley might be the Kenmore capital of the East Bay. Decades of landlords furnished flatland bungalows, triplexes, and student rentals with Sears appliances, and those units are still on duty long after Sears itself disappeared. The catch is that Kenmore was only a label. LG, Whirlpool, and Frigidaire built the actual machines, so the model number, not the logo, tells me what I am working on and what parts exist.

Berkeley housing adds its own wrinkles. Kitchens in Elmwood and the north side brown shingles are tight, fridges get shoehorned into alcoves with no airflow, and the growing ADU stock often inherits the oldest fridge on the property. Old knob and tube circuits in some houses also produce voltage sag that mimics compressor failure, so I check power at the outlet before condemning hardware.

We schedule Berkeley seven days a week from San Ramon. $75 diagnostic credited to the repair, written quotes tenants can forward to property owners, 90 days on consumables, one year on major parts.

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 tight alcove installs. A Kenmore that screeches or clicks from the freezer, then goes quiet when the door opens, has a dying evaporator fan motor. Berkeley's alcove installations run these fans hotter and kill them sooner. It is an inexpensive part on Whirlpool built 106 units and I usually have it on the van.
Defrost drain ice in decades old top freezers. The rental stock here is full of 253 and 106 top freezers, and their signature failure is a defrost drain frozen solid. Water sheets under the crispers or drips onto the floor of a unit below, which is how a lot of Berkeley landlords first hear about it. Clearing the drain and adding a drain strap stops the repeat calls.
Start relay failures that sound like a dead compressor. Click, pause, click. An older Kenmore doing that every few minutes often has a failed start relay or overload, not a failed compressor. I test the compressor windings directly, and more often than not a fifty dollar relay kit brings a twenty year old fridge back. It is the most satisfying repair in this city.

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.

$75

Diagnostic visit. Waived when you book the repair with us.
Written

90 days on consumables, 1 year on major parts, 2 years on sealed-system rebuilds. Quoted in writing before work starts.
CSLB

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

Recent work

Kenmore jobs we have closed.

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FAQ

Kenmore in Berkeley questions, answered.

How do you route to Berkeley from San Ramon?

Through the Caldecott, usually 35 to 40 minutes via 24. We pair Berkeley with Oakland, Piedmont, and Orinda stops on the same run, so there is almost always a Berkeley window available. Afternoon slots dodge the morning tunnel backup.
I am a tenant. Can I book the repair myself?

Yes. You book, we diagnose for $75, and you get a written quote you can send to your landlord or property manager for approval. We are happy to talk to the owner directly if they have questions. Nobody gets stuck relaying technical details secondhand.
How do I find out which company built my Kenmore?

Open the fresh food door and find the sticker on the side wall or ceiling. The first three digits of the model number are the source code, 106 means Whirlpool, 795 means LG, 253 means Frigidaire. Text us that full model number and we can often quote likely parts before we arrive.

Need Kenmore service in Berkeley?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.