How long from San Ramon to Martinez?

About half an hour up 680, and Martinez shares route days with Pleasant Hill and Concord, so we are in the area several times a week. Shift workers, tell us your sleep schedule and we will slot the visit around it, including weekend mornings.

Our house is over a hundred years old. Does that complicate the repair?

It changes the checklist, not the outcome. I verify outlet voltage under load, check the floor and door geometry, and make sure the fridge space has airflow, because old house conditions imitate appliance faults. The machine repair itself is the same as anywhere, guided by the model number.

Can you tell what is wrong from the noise it makes?

Noises narrow it usefully. Clicking every few minutes suggests start components, a chirp from the freezer suggests the evaporator fan, a rattle underneath points at the condenser fan or a drain pan. Describe or record the sound when booking and the van gets loaded accordingly. The $75 diagnostic confirms it on site.

KENMORE · MARTINEZ

Service · All Kenmore Models

Kenmore Refrigerator & Freezer Repair · Martinez, CA

Kenmore refrigerator repair in Martinez, keeping the old town's hard working fridges on duty.

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

Call (925) 999-4095

Kenmore in Martinez

Kenmore in Martinez kitchens.

Martinez is one of the oldest towns in the county, and its housing shows it, Victorians and early bungalows downtown, postwar streets fanning out toward the hills, and a workforce that includes plenty of refinery shift schedules. Kenmore refrigerators are thick on the ground here, bought at Sears over decades and kept running by families who fix things rather than replace them. That instinct is correct, because these units were built by LG, Whirlpool, and Frigidaire, and their parts never went away even though Sears did.

Old Martinez houses bring old kitchens, tight fridge spaces, uneven floors that throw doors out of alignment, and circuits shared with half the room. I look at all of it, because a door that will not seal on a sloped 1910 floor produces the same complaints as a failed gasket, and one of those fixes is free.

We run up from San Ramon seven days a week. $75 diagnostic credited to the repair, written quote before any parts, one year warranty 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.

Doors drifting out of square on old floors. Downtown Martinez floors have settled for a century, and a Kenmore standing on one slowly racks until the door gasket cannot seal. Frost, sweating, and long run times follow. I level and shim the unit, adjust the hinges, and only then judge the gasket, which often turns out fine once the geometry is right.
Defrost heaters burning out on 106 top freezers. The workhorse Whirlpool built top freezers common in Martinez kitchens lose their defrost heaters with age, and frost slowly walls off the evaporator until cooling fades. Heater, bimetal, and control get tested as a circuit, the failed piece gets replaced, and the frost gets fully melted so the fix starts from zero.
Compressor start kits on units past fifteen years. A rhythmic click from behind an older Martinez Kenmore, with no cooling between clicks, is usually the start relay and overload, not the compressor itself. I meter the windings to be sure, then fit a new start kit. It is a modest repair that routinely buys these old units several more years.

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.

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Kenmore jobs we have closed.

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FAQ

Kenmore in Martinez questions, answered.

How long from San Ramon to Martinez?

About half an hour up 680, and Martinez shares route days with Pleasant Hill and Concord, so we are in the area several times a week. Shift workers, tell us your sleep schedule and we will slot the visit around it, including weekend mornings.
Our house is over a hundred years old. Does that complicate the repair?

It changes the checklist, not the outcome. I verify outlet voltage under load, check the floor and door geometry, and make sure the fridge space has airflow, because old house conditions imitate appliance faults. The machine repair itself is the same as anywhere, guided by the model number.
Can you tell what is wrong from the noise it makes?

Noises narrow it usefully. Clicking every few minutes suggests start components, a chirp from the freezer suggests the evaporator fan, a rattle underneath points at the condenser fan or a drain pan. Describe or record the sound when booking and the van gets loaded accordingly. The $75 diagnostic confirms it on site.

Need Kenmore service in Martinez?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.