Cold Room Refurbishment & Maintenance
Refurbishing Walk-In Cold Rooms with MTCSS
At MTCSS Retail we understand the importance of having an efficiently running cold room and how an inefficient walk-in chiller or freezer could negatively impact your business. We also know how important for your cold rooms to adhere to all the health and safety regulations of your industry.
That is why MTCSS not only offer new cold room installation, we also offer cold room maintenance and refurbishment on your existing walk-in chillers, freezer rooms and cold room doors.
However in some circumstances where we think your cold room is beyond repair, we many recommend a full cold room replacement – but we will always discuss the best solution for your business during the enquiry process.
What Cold Room Refurbishment & Maintenance Services Can MTCSS Provide?
Cold room maintenance and refurbishment is vital to ensure your business runs smoothly on a day to day basis. Inefficient or poorly functioning cold rooms can result in loss of products, increased energy usage and pose health and safety risks.
Cold room refurbishment can help avoid these issues and these services include:
• Cold room refurbishment and maintenance
• Cold room dismantling and removal / rebuild
• Cold room door refurbishment
• Removal and replacement of refrigerated and personnel doors
• Industrial door and high speed door refurbishment
• Cold room spares and parts
Would you like to know if we can refurbish your existing cold room? Get in touch with the MTCSS team! Fill in an enquiry form, call us on 01886 833381 or email us at sales@mtcss.flywheelsites.com
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After Cold Room Refurbishment
Why Should You Refurbish Your Walk-In Cold Rooms And Doors?
Refurbishing your existing walk-in chiller or freezer cold room and cold room doors is essential to ensuring your cold room continues to work efficiently and effectively. If your cold room is working inefficiently it can result in your refrigeration units working harder, meaning your energy costs may go up. It could also means loss and damage to your products. These are all costly outcomes if your business doesn’t upkeep your cold storage solutions to ensure they are in optimal condition.
Cold room maintenance and refurbishment is also vital to ensure the safety of your walk-in cold room – keeping your employees and those who use your cold room safe at all times. Poorly maintained cold room doors can result in injured team members, or personnel trapped within the cold rooms. These are all detrimental to your business, its day to day running and your employees.
Why Is Maintaining Cold Room Doors Key?
If the cold room door or gasket perishes, the door won’t seal correctly – then the temperature will escape through the door. This can make the refrigeration equipment work a lot harder than it was designed for, subsequently costing more energy to power and run which can cause your energy builds to go up.
In freezer cold rooms and walk-in freezers – where the cold air escapes the room and meets the ambient air, it can cause ice to form around the door frame. This can make your hinged or sliding cold room door difficult to open and close, which can lead to injury (eg. muscle strains and pulls) if your doors are being yanked open by staff members. The ice build up can also occur on the floor threshold which can lead to a potential slip hazard and causing injury.
If a cold room door handle breaks due to poor maintenance, there is potential that your employees could be trapped in the walk-in cold room – making it highly unsafe for operations and dangerous for employees, especially if an individual is trapped in a freezer cold room.
MTCSS Retail are experts when it comes to walk in cold room and cold room door refurbishment. We offer cold storage maintenance to ensure your cold rooms and doors are functioning optimally, to protect your process, products and people all year round.
Do I Need A New Cold Room Or Can I Refurbish My Existing Cold Room?
You may wonder whether you need to replace your existing cold room or whether you can opt for cold room refurbishment – MTCSS Retail explain what to look for to indicate you need a new cold room.
If the cold room panels have started to delaminate or shrink, then they are losing their insulation performance making the refrigeration equipment work harder and your walk-in cold room inefficient.
The ceilings will be under more stress if they have delaminated, increasing the risk of them collapsing – this is when you should think of investing in a new room.
If the cold room is damaged internally, affecting the aesthetics, or if the steel layer is ripped causing jagged edges etc – then consider a cold room refurbishment. We can install 5 bar aluminium up to 1200mm height inside and outside the room, or hygienic planking inside the cold room to improve the appearance and safety of the room.
What Is Involved In Refurbishing Walk-In Cold Rooms?
If you think your chiller or freezer cold room may need a new lease of life with a refurbishment by MTCSS Retail, here are the key elements of refurbishing your walk in cold room :
- Changing cold room door and sweeper gaskets
- Checking and changing door heater systems
- Repairing or replacing handles and door furniture
- Adjusting door operations
- Cold room floor and floor overlay installation / replacement
- Hygienic planking to internal cold room walls
- Fitting door and wall protection
If you would like to know if the MTCSS Retail team can refurbish your walk-in cold room, or if you would like a quote for cold room refurbishment / maintenance – get in touch with our expert team today! You can contact us by calling 01886 833381, via our email sales@mtcss.flywheelsites.com or fill in an enquiry form here – we will be more than happy to help with any of your questions and queries!
Frequently Asked Questions
We recommend refurbishing your cold rooms at least once every 6 months. However, there are several factors that could impact how often your cold room needs to be refurbished.
Certain questions you should ask yourself: how often does your walk-in freezer get used? How often are there forklifts/vehicles entering your walk-in cold room? Are there periods of the year where your cold room is utilised noticeably more?
As well as your cold room and its structure, you should consider investing in getting your refrigeration units checked/serviced regularly to prevent any complications with your temperature and products.
These factors will help you to determine how often your cold room needs to be refurbished.
Depending on what your cold room is used for and the elements that get used more often will determine the parts of your cold room that require refurbishing.
A general list of the parts of your cold room might need refurbishing are:
Cold room door
Cold room door accessories
Refrigeration systems
Cold room flooring
Cold room door and wall protection
Enquire with our team for more information on refurbishing your cold rooms and how they could benefit your business.
Refurbishing your cold room can provide a range of benefits for your business. The most common benefits are:
Improving your energy efficiency
Increasing the lifespan of your cold room
Preventing injuries and health and safety issues
Passing your upcoming audits
And more! Read our article for more information on refurbishing your cold rooms
Each cold room will be different, however some good indicators that your cold room requires refurbishing include:
If your cold room panels have started to delaminate or shrink
If your cold room is damaged internally, affecting the aesthetics
If your cold room doors aren’t sealing and you’re having difficulty opening your doors
If the steel layer in your cold room is ripped, causing jagged edges
Visual evidence of any cold room damages caused by automated vehicles
You’re experiencing ice build-up
If you’re unsure what parts of your cold room need to be refurbished, why not read our article about cold room maintenance reports here, or get in contact with our team today!
Cold Room Maintenance and Refurbishment Case Studies
Bert De Mooij, Bespoke Chiller Cold Room for Q Flowers Ltd 2021
From coming into contact with MTCSS to the finished product, has been a great and easy process.
The members of the team listened to our wishes and offered us exactly what we needed. From picking the type of cooler machines, the doors, the lights - everything was exactly adjusted to our wishes.
Even though through the COVID period where availability of materials were challenging, the cold room was finished on the date as was planned when signing for the order.
Very professional company from start to finish.
Catherine Hester Fenwick, Ambient storage at Brabourne Wines 2021
‘Brabourne Wine is a small, family run vineyard in Kent. In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a Conservation Area and with listed buildings, we needed to find a solution to store our wine without building afresh or making any material differences to the current buildings. MTCSS were amazingly flexible. They worked with us to develop a solution that fitted inside one of our outbuildings. Given the limitations on space and the requirement to have racking suitable for pallets, virtually everything about the project had to be bespoke but Darren never lost patience with the endless queries in the planning phase. Once on site, the team was professional, friendly, flexible and quick. They have delivered a solution which is perfect for our needs and exceeds our expectations. We are at the smaller end of their usual customer base, but we were never made to feel as though we were any less important than a major supermarket chain. We would certainly recommend them to anybody needing a controlled climate for storage (or any other reason)’
Chris Rudd, Frank Rudd & Sons
" From the initial enquiry to project completion, the team at MTCSS were both prompt and professional - delivering exactly to our requirements. " Chris Rudd, Frank Rudd & Sons Office Installation
Cold Room Refurbishment at Steve’s Family Butchers
Steves Family Butchers now has a fantastic refurbished cold room, which actually looks like a whole new cold room thanks to MTcss cold storage solutions. We found they responded in a very quick and helpful manner which meant that they communicated well with us and kept us informed well. The refurbishment was completed to a very high standard in a professional manner. We are exceptionally pleased with the service that we received.
Dual Compartment Cold Room Installation, London
From the beginning I found Gem’s customer service fantastic, out of all of the companies we spoke to for quotes she was the most responsive and attentive. Even when we were still finalising and it wasn’t confirmed if we were proceeding with MTCSS yet, she was always great with keeping in contact to see if we needed anything, and very responsive with emails, and also phone calls.
Andy and Nathan, have been great throughout the entire process. Both have been on hand for any queries we have had and very responsive again to all forms of communication. Everything has been handled promptly and efficiently both before, during and after the build. Any questions we have had they have always gotten back to us with an answer very quickly.
The gentlemen who completed the install here on site, where very friendly and mindful of business operations while completing work. Each day they would check in with who was here in the morning to explain what they would be doing, what access they required, and asked if and how this might affect our operations or customers. Again, they were very clear and open with communication and was happy to help find solutions when we had issues with the shelving.
Overall our experience with you has been very good and we have been left a happy customer. I would also just like to say a thank you to yourself Gem, Nathan and Andy as you have all been very great throughout our customer journey!