How do you route to Union City from San Ramon?

Down 680 and across, about 25 minutes. Union City sits between Fremont, Hayward, and Newark on our regular East Bay corridor, so we pass through often and next-day scheduling is usually available.

Can you look at both our kitchen fridge and the garage unit in one visit?

Yes, and it is a common request here. I diagnose both while on site and write separate quotes so you can approve one, both, or neither. The trip is already paid for, so the second unit costs you nothing extra to evaluate.

Our Kenmore is from the late 90s. Are parts still around?

For a Whirlpool-built 106, absolutely. That platform's defrost parts, relays, fans, and valves are still manufactured and stocked. Frigidaire-built 253 parts are nearly as available. The badge died with Sears, the parts did not.

KENMORE · UNION CITY

Service · All Kenmore Models

Kenmore Refrigerator & Freezer Repair · Union City, CA

Kenmore refrigerator repair in Union City, practical fixes for practical households.

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

Call (925) 999-4095

Kenmore in Union City

Kenmore in Union City kitchens.

Union City is mostly 70s and 80s tract neighborhoods, plus the older Decoto district, and its refrigerators reflect households that fix things when fixing makes sense. Kenmore units are thick on the ground here, bought from Sears when it anchored the local malls, and nearly all of them were actually built by Whirlpool or Frigidaire. The model number, not the badge, tells me which machine I am really repairing.

Multigenerational homes are common in Union City, and so are hard-working kitchens with a second fridge in the garage. Both raise the value of an honest repair-versus-replace answer, so every visit produces a written quote and a straight recommendation at the $75 diagnostic, which credits toward the work.

We are based in San Ramon, about 25 minutes away, and we schedule 7 days a week with a 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.

Condenser coils packed solid in busy kitchens. A kitchen that cooks daily sheds grease-laden dust that mats the condenser coil under a Kenmore. Cooling fades on hot afternoons and the compressor runs hot enough to shorten its life. A deep coil cleaning with a condenser fan check often restores full performance without a single part, one of the best-value visits I make.
Modular ice maker failures on 106 side-by-sides. The bolt-in ice maker on Whirlpool-built side-by-sides eventually stops cycling, but the same symptom comes from a frozen fill tube or a scaled inlet valve at far less cost. I test in that order, cheapest first, so the quote covers the true fault and nothing extra.
Start relays failing on garage second fridges. The older Kenmore relegated to the Union City garage takes a beating from temperature swings, and the compressor start relay is usually the first casualty. The unit clicks, hums briefly, and goes silent. I verify the compressor windings before replacing the relay, because that check is the difference between a small repair and honest advice to retire the unit.

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 Union City questions, answered.

How do you route to Union City from San Ramon?

Down 680 and across, about 25 minutes. Union City sits between Fremont, Hayward, and Newark on our regular East Bay corridor, so we pass through often and next-day scheduling is usually available.
Can you look at both our kitchen fridge and the garage unit in one visit?

Yes, and it is a common request here. I diagnose both while on site and write separate quotes so you can approve one, both, or neither. The trip is already paid for, so the second unit costs you nothing extra to evaluate.
Our Kenmore is from the late 90s. Are parts still around?

For a Whirlpool-built 106, absolutely. That platform's defrost parts, relays, fans, and valves are still manufactured and stocked. Frigidaire-built 253 parts are nearly as available. The badge died with Sears, the parts did not.

Need Kenmore service in Union City?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.