Maintenance guides for the people who keep sites running.
Articles on running maintenance, at one site or many: work orders, preventive maintenance schedules, spare parts, and how to fix the equipment that breaks most. Each one answers one question fully.
Where there is a manufacturer's manual, we cite it and link to it, so you can check the step yourself.
Last updated 5 November 2026 · Author: Vimal Bhaya
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Commercial ice machine maintenance.
Cleaning and sanitizing, which cleaner, water filters, what to check before calling for repair, and what it costs. From the makers' own manuals.
Ice machine maintenance by brand.
Manitowoc, Scotsman, Hoshizaki and Ice-O-Matic: each maker's clean cycle, cleaner, codes, filters and manuals.
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How to clean a commercial ice machine.
Empty the bin, clean, rinse, sanitize, wash the bin and throw away the first batches. Every six months for most big makers.
Read the article Ice machines · CleanerIce machine cleaner: nickel-safe or not, and which kind to use.
Use the cleaner your manual names. Nickel-safe for a plated evaporator, any commercial ice machine cleaner for a stainless one. Never vinegar.
Read the article Ice machines · FiltersIce machine water filters: what they do, which kind, and when to change them.
Sediment, carbon and a scale inhibitor, usually in one cartridge. Change it on its date or its gallons, whichever comes first.
Read the article Ice machines · RepairCommercial ice machine repair: what fails, and what to check before you call.
Six checks before you call: power, the bin, the water, the room, the condenser and the code. What each symptom usually means.
Read the article Ice machines · CostWhat commercial ice machine cleaning costs, in-house or by a service.
About $150 to $300 a service visit, $44 of supplies in-house, or folded into a lease. Published prices, side by side.
Read the article Brands · ManitowocManitowoc ice machine maintenance: cleaning, codes, filters and parts.
The Indigo NXT clean cycle, Manitowoc's own cleaner, what safety limits 1 and 2 mean, and Arctic Pure filters.
Read the article Brands · ScotsmanScotsman ice machine maintenance and repair.
Not making ice: the checks. What F, H, B and the number codes mean. The Clear 1 clean, and the filters.
Read the article Brands · HoshizakiHoshizaki ice machine maintenance: cleaning, beep codes and the manual.
Hoshizaki's stainless evaporator takes any commercial cleaner. The KM clean, and what one, two and three beeps mean.
Read the article Brands · Ice-O-MaticIce-O-Matic ice machine maintenance and repair.
Nickel-safe cleaner and sanitizer, every six months but no more than monthly. Error code 7, and the reset.
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