Refurbishing Walk-In Cold Rooms with MTCSS
At MTCSS, 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 it is for your cold rooms to adhere to all the health and safety regulations of your industry.
That’s why MTCSS doesn’t only offer new cold room installation; we also offer cold room maintenance and refurbishment for 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 may recommend a full cold room replacement, but we’ll always discuss the best solution for your business during the enquiry process.
Why Trust MTCSS with your Cold Room Maintenance?
MTCSS is a SMAS SafeContractor accredited company and holds both ISO-9001 and ISO-14001 certifications, reflecting our commitment to consistent quality, safety, and environmental management across every refurbishment and maintenance job we undertake.
With decades of experience refurbishing walk-in chillers, freezers, and cold room doors across the UK, our team knows what to look for during a site survey and won’t recommend a full replacement unless it is genuinely the best option for your business.
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What Cold Room Refurbishment & Maintenance Services can MTCSS Provide?
Cold room maintenance and refurbishment are 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? Complete an enquiry form, call us on 01886 833381 or email us at sales@mtcss.co.uk
What Does Routine Cold Room Maintenance Involve?
Keeping a cold room reliable isn’t only about refurbishment isn’t about only refurbishment when something goes wrong, regular maintenance plays a big part too. This covers three main tasks:
This won’t fix technical faults, but it keeps parts running smoothly and reduces grease and grime build-up. How often you need to clean depends on what’s stored, your industry’s requirements, seasonal demand, and even how exposed your cold room is to the weather.
As a minimum, most cold rooms should be cleaned at least once a month.
Carried out alongside cleaning, visual inspections help spot frost or ice build-up, condensation, and refrigeration performance issues before they escalate and confirm doors and curtains are being closed properly to avoid temperature fluctuations.
Gaskets, door handles, guide rails, heater systems, and top rollers are among the most commonly replaced parts, each playing a role in keeping refrigerated air in and access safe.
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 mean loss and damage to your products, both costly outcomes if your business doesn’t maintain your cold storage solutions.
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 room.
Reliability: Why Keeping on Top of Maintenance Pays Off
Keeping a stock of spare parts, or working with a partner who does, means:
- Business interruptions are minimised, since faults can be handled promptly rather than waiting on parts
- Small issues get fixed before they become larger ones, stopping further damage from progressing
- Temperature-sensitive stock is protected, reducing the risk of spoilage and further business losses
This is why MTCSS treats cold room maintenance and refurbishment as connected, not separate, services. Catching problems early keeps your cold room reliable and avoids the costs of letting issues build up.
Why is Maintaining Cold Room Doors Key?
If the cold room door or gasket perishes, the door won’t seal correctly, and 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 bills 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 formation around the door frame. This can make your hinged or sliding cold room door difficult to open and close, which can lead to injury if your doors are being yanked open by staff members. Ice build-up can also occur on the floor threshold, leading to a potential slip hazard.
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 in a freezer cold room.
MTCSS 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.
Cost Efficiency: Refurbishment vs a New Cold Room
Replacing a cold room outright is a significant investment, and in many cases, it isn’t necessary. If one or two components need repairing or replacing, this can usually be done without significant downtime as part of regular maintenance. It’s only when multiple components are at fault that a larger-scale refurbishment, rather than a full replacement, becomes the more cost-effective route.
Refurbishment lets you address the parts of your cold room that are genuinely at the end of their life (panels, flooring, door furniture, etc.) without the cost and business disruption of removing and reinstating the whole structure. It also reduces wastage from a poorly sealed or insulated room, which otherwise adds up in higher running costs over time.
We’ll always be upfront if we think your cold room is beyond the point where refurbishment makes financial sense, but in most cases, a well-timed refurbishment is the most cost-effective choice compared with a new temperature-controlled space.
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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 can help you identify what to look for to indicate you need a new cold room.
If the cold room panels have started to delaminate or shrink, they are losing their insulation performance, making the refrigeration equipment work harder and your walk-in cold room inefficient. The ceilings will also be under more stress if they have delaminated, increasing the risk of them collapsing. This is when you should think about 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, here are the key elements involved:
- 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 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 833 381, or via email at sales@mtcss.co.uk
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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, a general list of parts that might need refurbishing includes the cold room door, door accessories, refrigeration systems, cold room flooring, and door and wall protection.
Enquire with our team for more information on refurbishing your cold rooms.
Refurbishing your cold room can improve your energy efficiency, increase the lifespan of your cold room, prevent injuries and health and safety issues, and help you pass upcoming audits.
Good indicators include panels that have started to delaminate or shrink, internal damage affecting the aesthetics, doors that aren’t sealing properly or are difficult to open, a ripped steel layer causing jagged edges, visual damage from automated vehicles, or ice build-up.
In most cases, yes. Refurbishment lets you target the specific parts that need attention rather than removing and rebuilding the whole structure, which usually means lower costs and less disruption to your business.
A full replacement is generally only the more sensible option once damage is widespread or structural, which our team can assess during a site survey.
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