Services

    Commercial Dishwasher Repair

    Fast repair for commercial dish machines across Northern Colorado — door-type, undercounter, conveyor, and flight-type warewashers. 24/7 emergency dispatch keeps your kitchen sanitary and open.

    When the dish machine goes down mid-service, a restaurant is one rack away from shutting the line. Accutemp Services provides rapid commercial dishwasher repair across Northern Colorado for every machine type — undercounter, door/hood, conveyor rack, and flight-type warewashers — from Hobart, Jackson, CMA, Champion, Meiko, and Insinger. Our technicians carry the most common wash parts on the truck, understand the health-code side (sanitizer temperature and chemical concentration), and back every repair with a 30-day labor warranty.

    A commercial dishwasher isn't just a convenience — it's a health-code requirement. Without a working dish machine hitting the right final-rinse sanitizing temperature (or the correct chemical sanitizer concentration on low-temp units), a kitchen can't legally keep serving. That's why Accutemp treats dish-machine failures as true operational emergencies: a broken warewasher during service means dirty racks stacking up, staff hand-washing to keep up, and a real risk of a health inspector shutting the operation down. Our 24/7/365 dispatch gets a technician on-site fast so you stay open and compliant.

    We repair all commercial dishwasher configurations. Undercounter units (the compact machines under a bar or prep station), door-type / hood machines (the stainless pull-down units in most restaurant dish pits), conveyor rack machines (higher-volume operations that pull racks through automatically), and flight-type systems (the large continuous belts in hotels, hospitals, and institutional kitchens). Across all of them we service the same major brands you'll find in a Northern Colorado kitchen — Hobart, Jackson, CMA, Champion, Meiko, Insinger, and Ecolab-supplied machines — plus the booster heaters and chemical dispensing systems they depend on.

    The five failures we see most often are worth knowing, because most are preventable: (1) machine not reaching sanitizing temperature — usually a failed booster heater, heating element, or thermostat on a high-temp machine; (2) poor wash results — clogged or worn wash and rinse arms, spray-nozzle scaling, or a failing wash pump; (3) not filling or draining — a stuck fill valve, float switch, drain valve, or clogged drain line; (4) chemical / sanitizer problems on low-temp machines — an empty or miscalibrated detergent/sanitizer dispenser reading the wrong concentration; and (5) door or curtain leaks and hard-water scale buildup that slowly chokes performance. Our technicians diagnose the actual cause instead of swapping parts and hoping.

    Hard water is the silent killer of commercial dish machines in Northern Colorado. Mineral scale builds up in booster heaters, wash arms, and spray nozzles, dropping wash quality and forcing the machine to work harder until something fails. Beyond reactive repair, we descale machines, service the booster and heating elements, calibrate chemical dispensers, and set up preventive-maintenance schedules that keep a warewasher hitting temperature and passing inspection. Many clients start with one emergency repair and roll into a PM contract that prevents the next three.

    What's Included

    • 24/7 emergency commercial dishwasher repair across Northern Colorado
    • Undercounter, door/hood, conveyor rack, and flight-type warewasher service
    • Hobart, Jackson, CMA, Champion, Meiko, and Insinger dish machine repair
    • Booster heater and heating-element repair for high-temp sanitizing machines
    • Wash pump, wash arm, and rinse arm repair and replacement
    • Fill valve, float switch, and drain valve troubleshooting
    • Low-temp chemical sanitizer dispenser calibration and repair
    • Descaling and hard-water scale removal to restore wash performance
    • Door gasket, curtain, and leak repair
    • Sanitizing-temperature verification for health-code compliance
    • Preventive maintenance plans that keep machines passing inspection

    Our Process

    1

    Priority Dispatch

    A down dish machine is a health-code and service emergency — our 24/7/365 line gets a technician moving fast across our Northern Colorado service area

    2

    Root-Cause Diagnosis

    We diagnose the real failure — booster heater, wash pump, fill/drain, or chemical dispensing — instead of guessing, using temperature and pressure checks on-site

    3

    Same-Visit Repair

    Our trucks stock the most common dish-machine parts, so most repairs are completed on the first visit without waiting for parts

    4

    Sanitation Verification

    Before we leave, we confirm the machine hits final-rinse sanitizing temperature or correct chemical concentration so your kitchen stays compliant

    Frequently Asked Questions

    On a high-temp machine, failure to reach the ~180°F final-rinse sanitizing temperature almost always traces to a failed booster heater, heating element, or thermostat, or scale buildup insulating the heating surface. On a low-temp machine, it's usually a chemical sanitizer dispenser that's empty, miscalibrated, or pulling from an empty container. Either way it's a health-code problem, so we treat it as a priority call, verify the actual sanitizing temperature or chemical concentration on-site, and fix the root cause.

    We service all major commercial dish machines — Hobart, Jackson, CMA, Champion, Meiko, Insinger, and Ecolab-supplied machines — across undercounter, door/hood, conveyor rack, and flight-type configurations, plus the booster heaters and chemical dispensing systems they run on.

    Service calls start at $145 per hour with a 1.5-hour minimum (so the floor for any visit is $217.50). Parts are billed separately at standard markup and backed by the manufacturer's parts warranty. We provide a transparent estimate before any work begins, and the 30-day labor warranty covers every repair.

    Yes. A broken warewasher mid-shift is a true emergency — dirty racks stack up fast and you can be forced to stop serving. Our 24/7/365 dispatch treats dish-machine failures as priority calls with technicians typically on-site within 30–60 minutes across our Northern Colorado service area, and there's no after-hours premium.

    Poor wash and rinse results usually come from clogged or worn wash and rinse arms, scaled spray nozzles, a weakening wash pump, low water temperature, or a detergent-dispensing problem. Hard-water scale is the most common culprit in Northern Colorado. We clear and rebuild the wash system, descale the machine, and verify water temperature and chemical dosing so racks come out clean and spot-free.

    Yes — it's the leading cause of dish-machine failure on the Front Range. Mineral scale builds up in booster heaters, wash arms, and nozzles, cutting wash quality and forcing components to overwork until they fail. Routine descaling plus a preventive-maintenance schedule dramatically extends machine life and keeps it hitting sanitizing temperature. We handle both the descaling and the PM.

    Yes. We verify final-rinse sanitizing temperature (high-temp machines) or sanitizer concentration (low-temp machines), document it, and provide service records that support health-department inspections and HACCP compliance. PM-contract clients receive a record of every visit — exactly what inspectors want to see.

    Repair is usually the right call unless the machine is well past its service life with major failures (a corroded tank or repeated booster failures) stacking up. We give an honest repair-vs-replace assessment based on the machine's age, condition, and your volume, and we service both leased/chemical-supplied machines and owned equipment.

    Yes. We dispatch from Loveland and serve Fort Collins, Greeley, Longmont, Windsor, Berthoud, Johnstown, and the surrounding Front Range. Restaurants, breweries, hotels, schools, and institutional kitchens across the region rely on us for both emergency dish-machine repair and preventive maintenance.

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