Ice machine installation and relocation

Installation and relocation cover a new machine, a used machine moving to a new spot, and a kitchen that was remodeled around the old one. This desk schedules a company for that work. It does not pull permits, and it does not publish a recipe for line sizes or breaker sizes. The nameplate on the machine and the local code are the company job. The labor ranges below assume the water, drain, and power are already in the right place. If they are not, the price changes, and it should change in writing before anyone opens a wall.

A workable install has a shutoff the kitchen can reach, a drain that keeps up, and an electrical circuit that matches the nameplate. The drain needs a proper air gap. An ice machine tied into a floor sink that also takes the fryer, without an air gap, is how a backup puts dirty water where ice is made. Say if the only drain is a mop sink across the kitchen. Long drain runs and pumps are a different scope from a machine sitting next to a floor sink. Level matters. A cuber that harvests onto the floor instead of into the bin was not leveled, or the bin and head do not match.

Air has to move. The manufacturer plate states the clearance. A machine slid into a cove with the condenser against a cooking line will run hot the first July, no matter how new it is. Remote condensers need a path to a roof or a remote pad, and the line set is not a piece of furniture. Moving a split system across a building can mean opening the refrigeration circuit. That is the company work, with recovery equipment, not a hand truck job for the night crew. Say if the condenser is remote before anyone quotes a simple relocate.

Relocation inside the same kitchen still needs the water, drain, and power checked at the new spot. A move across town needs that check plus a look at whether the machine was hauled full of water and scale. Used equipment should be cleaned and sanitized before it makes ice for guests. Ask for that as its own line if it is not in the install price. A used head with an unknown compressor history belongs next to a new-machine price so you can see the gamble.

New restaurants and tenant improvements in this valley often wait on a landlord, a mall, or a casino facilities desk before water can be shut down. This desk does not control that approval and does not promise a badge or a dock time. Put the property rules in the message. Equipment price and labor price should be separate numbers. A new commercial cuber is often several thousand dollars for the machine before labor, and a large modular head costs more. Those equipment figures move with the model. Ask the company. Do not treat the labor band on this page as the price of the machine.

On the form, say whether this is a new install or a move, whether water and a drain already exist, whether the condenser is remote, and when the outlet has to be making ice. The labor band for a straightforward set, with utilities in place, is a planning range. New electrical, a new drain, roof work, and after-hours cranes or dollies through a casino corridor are outside it. The company confirms scope and price before work. Permits, if the city or the county requires them for the new lines, are part of that conversation.

Typical for the valley. These are planning ranges, not a quote and not a price from a specific company. The company that does the work confirms the price after looking at the equipment. After-hours calls, a rooftop condenser, casino check-in, and a machine that has to be pulled out of a tight cove sit outside these bands.