We are a small independent outfit working out of St. Augustine, across St. Johns County and as far north as the beaches. The whole of the trade here is one manufacturer's refrigeration: built-in and integrated columns, undercounter drawers and refrigerators, wine storage, and ice machines. We do not take on cooking equipment, laundry, or other makes of refrigeration, and we would rather say so at the first phone call than find out on your kitchen floor.
The reason for the narrow trade is that these are sealed-system machines built into cabinetry, and the failures are particular. A condenser that cannot reject heat, an ice machine that fills and never harvests, a control board that survived a surge but lost one output — none of that is diagnosed quickly by someone who saw one last year.
Handling refrigerant lawfully requires EPA Section 608 certification, which our technicians hold. That credential is the only one we claim, and it is genuine. We hold no manufacturer appointment of any kind, and we will not imply one.
Two local conditions shape most of the work. Salt air reaches the coastal ZIP codes and the barrier island, where it films condenser fins, stiffens hinge pins under heavy panelled doors and speckles stainless. And roughly 68 thunderstorm days a year, plus the multi-day outages that followed Matthew in 2016 and Irma in 2017, mean control boards and variable-speed compressor drives here take more electrical punishment than they would in a drier, steadier climate. Neither condition is a reason to replace a cabinet; both are reasons to look at it before it fails.