Is San Carlos a regular stop for you or a special trip?

Regular. We have a technician who lives in San Mateo County, so San Carlos is inside his normal working area, not a favor squeezed in from San Ramon. I won't guarantee same day on every call, but a booking made a day or two out generally lands cleanly.

The fridge came with the house. There's no manual anywhere. Can you still fix it?

Yes. Everything we need is on the model and serial sticker inside the fresh food section. That number tells me whether LG, Whirlpool, or Frigidaire actually built the machine, and from there I can pull the real service data and order the right parts.

What does the $99 diagnostic actually cover?

It covers an honest look at the machine, model decoded, fault confirmed, and a written quote with the part and the price before anything gets replaced. Book the repair and that $99 is credited toward the repair. If the right call is to replace the fridge instead, you still walk away knowing why.

KENMORE · SAN CARLOS

Service · All Kenmore Models

Kenmore Refrigerator & Freezer Repair · San Carlos, CA

Kenmore refrigerator and freezer repair in San Carlos, from the flats above Laurel Street to the shops and garages on the industrial east side.

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

Call (925) 999-4095

Kenmore in San Carlos

Kenmore in San Carlos kitchens.

San Carlos keeps a wide range of these units running, from the small kitchens above the restaurants on Laurel Street to the garages and light industrial buildings on the east side near the airport. Kenmore was never a factory, it was Sears selling machines built by LG, Whirlpool, and Frigidaire under one badge. Sears is gone now, so the manufacturer's name printed inside the door, not on the front, is what actually tells me how the fridge fails and what it takes to fix.

I start every San Carlos call the same way, reading the model prefix before I touch a screwdriver. A 106 build points me toward Whirlpool style defrost and door parts. A 795 or Elite badge points toward an LG compressor and inverter board. Guessing wastes your money, so I confirm the manufacturer first and the fix second.

We have a technician based on the Peninsula, in San Mateo County, so San Carlos doesn't sit behind a drive from our San Ramon office. Book any day of the week, the diagnostic is $99 and it's credited toward the repair, and every job gets a written quote before a part gets touched.

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.

Grease-fogged condensers above the Laurel Street kitchens. Flats sitting over the restaurants on Laurel Street pull in cooking exhaust through the same air the fridge breathes, and over a few years the condenser coil grows a film of grease and dust thick enough to choke airflow. The compressor runs long and the interior still climbs. I pull the unit out, degrease the coil by hand, and check the fan motor before calling the job done.
Overload trips in east side garage fridges. Homes near the light industrial strip on the east side often keep a second Kenmore in the garage, and summer heat back there pushes an older compressor's overload protector into a trip and reset loop that looks exactly like a dead unit. I test the start relay and the overload separately so you aren't paying for a compressor when a small, inexpensive part is the actual culprit.
Dual evaporator faults on Kenmore Elite French doors. The LG built Elite French doors that show up in San Carlos's remodeled kitchens run two separate evaporators, one cooling the fridge and one cooling the freezer. When the fridge side evaporator ices over or its sensor drifts, the freezer stays rock solid while the fridge climbs into the fifties, which confuses most owners into thinking the whole unit died. I test each zone on its own before deciding what to replace.

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.

Recent work

Kenmore jobs we have closed.

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FAQ

Kenmore in San Carlos questions, answered.

Is San Carlos a regular stop for you or a special trip?

Regular. We have a technician who lives in San Mateo County, so San Carlos is inside his normal working area, not a favor squeezed in from San Ramon. I won't guarantee same day on every call, but a booking made a day or two out generally lands cleanly.
The fridge came with the house. There's no manual anywhere. Can you still fix it?

Yes. Everything we need is on the model and serial sticker inside the fresh food section. That number tells me whether LG, Whirlpool, or Frigidaire actually built the machine, and from there I can pull the real service data and order the right parts.
What does the $99 diagnostic actually cover?

It covers an honest look at the machine, model decoded, fault confirmed, and a written quote with the part and the price before anything gets replaced. Book the repair and that $99 is credited toward the repair. If the right call is to replace the fridge instead, you still walk away knowing why.

Need Kenmore service in San Carlos?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.