Independent Hobart repair
Hobart Appliance Repair in Northern Virginia
Commercial dish machine repair for Hobart undercounter, door-type and conveyor units in restaurants, hotels, schools and cafeterias.
Booking online? The Hobart model number in the form lets us check parts before we arrive.
Step one covers the appliance; step two, your contact details. We follow up to book the visit.
A few of the makes we service
Hobart Repair for Owners, Renters and Landlords
Hobart is the dish machine name most commercial kitchens know, based in Troy, Ohio, and part of Illinois Tool Works' food equipment group. We fix Hobart warewashers as an independent company with no tie to Hobart Service. A machine still covered by a new-equipment warranty or a service agreement should be handled through that agreement first. For everything else, a technician looks at the machine in your dish room, tells the manager what failed, and quotes the repair before any work.
How a Repair Visit Works
Tell Us What's Wrong
Name the make, add the model number if it is handy, and describe the symptom. A picture of the label inside the door lets us check parts.
Diagnosis at Your Home
The technician tests the appliance along with its power, water, drain, gas or vent connections until the fault is confirmed.
A Price Before Work
We name the failed part and give you the cost of fixing it. Work starts only after you agree.
Repair and Check
The part is installed and the appliance is run through a cycle so you can watch it working.
Related Repairs
Other appliances, brands and service areas on the site.
Hobart Products We Service
Three sizes of machine, three sets of habits
The LXe undercounter is the small one, tucked under a bar or prep counter and loaded like a household dishwasher but on a timed commercial cycle. The AM-series door-type sits in a corner of the dish room with a hood that lifts over a single rack. CL conveyors pull racks through a tunnel on a drive, and the largest kitchens use flight-type machines with a continuous belt.
Each size wears in its own spots. Undercounters live and die by their pump and rinse system. Door-types work their hood switches and hinges hard, dozens of times an hour. Conveyors add a drive motor, curtains and more tanks to keep hot.
Rinse heat, chemicals and mineral scale
A high-temp Hobart kills bacteria with a final rinse from a booster heater. A low-temp model does it with sanitizer injected into the rinse. So when a machine fails its check, the questions differ: is the booster actually getting the water hot enough, or is the sanitizer pump pulling from an empty jug?
Hard water leaves scale on booster elements, tank heaters and rinse nozzles. Scale insulates an element until it overheats and burns out, and it narrows nozzles until the rinse pattern breaks up. A kitchen that delimes on the schedule in its manual sees far fewer of these calls.
Scheduling around the dinner rush
In Northern Virginia that dish room might belong to a restaurant along the Wilson Boulevard corridor in Arlington, a hotel kitchen near Reston Town Center, or a school or office cafeteria. When you book, give us your service hours and the name of whoever can let us into the back. If the fault allows, we avoid tearing a machine apart mid-service.
A machine that can't reach its sanitizing temperature or chemical level shouldn't be used for service ware. Fall back on your manual washing setup until it is fixed, as your health permit requires.
What your staff can check before calling
Pull and rinse the scrap screens and strainers, make sure the wash and rinse arms spin freely and their end caps are on, confirm the door or hood is closing fully, and look at the chemical containers. Note what the display or temperature gauges read. Those few minutes sometimes solve the problem outright, and when they don't, they shorten the diagnosis.
Hobart products we see
- Dishwashers: LXe undercounter, AM-series door-type, CL conveyor and flight-type dish machines, high-temp and chemical low-temp. Pumps, boosters, fill valves, hood switches and drives come up most.
Parts for Hobart
We identify Hobart parts from the data plate's model and serial number and order through Hobart's parts channel or foodservice parts suppliers. Rinse arms, end caps, pump seals, heating elements, fill solenoids and hood switches are everyday items. For machines that have been in service many years, a few components may only be available as equivalents, and the quote will say so.
Common Hobart Questions
Brief answers to what customers most often ask us. Don't see yours? Ask when you call, or add it to the notes when you book online.
Still have a question?
Get in touch with the brand, the symptom and, if you can find it, the model number. Some things we can answer right away; others need a technician in front of the machine.
Usually a booster element that has burned out or scaled over, a failing booster thermostat, or incoming hot water that arrives cooler than the machine expects. We measure the inlet water first, since that changes which repair is needed.
Check your lease first, since the chemical supplier may be responsible for the machine or its dispenser. If the machine itself is yours to maintain, we can diagnose the wash, rinse and fill side and work alongside the supplier on the chemical feed.
Yes, as long as we follow the building's vendor rules. Tell us about badge or sign-in requirements, loading-dock access and any insurance paperwork when you book.