How far is Piedmont from your San Ramon shop?

About forty minutes through the Caldecott Tunnel on Highway 24. We bundle Piedmont with Oakland and Berkeley calls, and Orinda sits on the route home, so west-of-tunnel days give us full schedules and you a dependable window.

Our basement stairs are narrow. Can you still do major repairs?

Yes. Nearly everything, including bearing jobs, can be done in place if there is about four feet of working space in front of the machine. Measure that before you book and mention the stairs, and we will bring the work to the machine instead of the machine to the truck.

Is it smarter to fix our old Speed Queen or buy the current model?

If the frame, tub, and transmission are sound, fix it. The mechanical machines in Piedmont basements were built to be serviced, and parts for most of them are still stocked. When a machine crosses the line where repair stops making sense, I say so at the diagnostic and you have lost only $75 finding out.

SPEED QUEEN · PIEDMONT

Service · All Speed Queen Models

Speed Queen Laundry Repair · Piedmont, CA

Speed Queen repair for Piedmont's older houses and their basement laundry rooms.

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

Call (925) 999-4095

Speed Queen in Piedmont

Speed Queen in Piedmont kitchens.

Piedmont is a small city of houses from the nineteen-tens through the thirties, and in most of them the laundry lives in the basement, reached by a narrow stair off the kitchen. The homes were built before anyone imagined a washing machine, so the vent runs are long, the circuits are grandfathered, and the machines work harder than their spec sheet assumes.

Speed Queen suits these houses. A TC5 down a Piedmont basement stair goes in once and stays for twenty years, which is exactly why owners here pick them over machines they would have to wrestle out again in seven. Our job is keeping the wear items ahead of failure so that twenty-year plan actually holds.

We come through the Caldecott from San Ramon. The $75 diagnostic is credited toward your repair, the quote is written, and we cover the work with 90 days on consumables and one year on major parts.

Common repairs we do

What we close on the truck.

FF7 front-loader rumbles on spin. A rumble that grows with spin speed on the FF7 is the drum bearing, usually after a slow seal leak let water reach it. This is the big repair on any front-loader and I quote it honestly: it is worth doing on an FF7 because the machine is built to be rebuilt, with a tub that comes apart instead of a glued shell. We bring the bearing and seal kit and plan the extra bench time.
Dryer trips its safety on a long basement vent run. Piedmont basements often vent the dryer through ten or fifteen feet of old duct before daylight. When airflow drops, the cycling thermostat overworks and the thermal cutoff eventually opens, leaving the dryer spinning cold. We replace the failed thermostat and cutoff as a set and measure the exhaust flow so you know whether the duct needs attention from a vent cleaning service.
Older mechanical timer stops advancing. Plenty of Piedmont households still run Classic-series Speed Queens with mechanical timers, and a timer that stalls mid-cycle strands the machine full of water. Timers for these models are still available, and swapping one is straightforward. I like these repairs because a fresh timer on a sound mechanical washer buys years for the cost of a part.

Models we service

Speed Queen product lines.

TC and TR top-load washers
FF front-load washers
DC and DR dryers
Commercial-grade residential laundry

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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FAQ

Speed Queen in Piedmont questions, answered.

How far is Piedmont from your San Ramon shop?

About forty minutes through the Caldecott Tunnel on Highway 24. We bundle Piedmont with Oakland and Berkeley calls, and Orinda sits on the route home, so west-of-tunnel days give us full schedules and you a dependable window.
Our basement stairs are narrow. Can you still do major repairs?

Yes. Nearly everything, including bearing jobs, can be done in place if there is about four feet of working space in front of the machine. Measure that before you book and mention the stairs, and we will bring the work to the machine instead of the machine to the truck.
Is it smarter to fix our old Speed Queen or buy the current model?

If the frame, tub, and transmission are sound, fix it. The mechanical machines in Piedmont basements were built to be serviced, and parts for most of them are still stocked. When a machine crosses the line where repair stops making sense, I say so at the diagnostic and you have lost only $75 finding out.

Need Speed Queen service in Piedmont?

Tell us what is broken. We will quote it.