Cold Rooms – How Often Should They Be Cleaned?
Cold rooms, whether for your business or personal use, are an important for many. Which is why ensuring it stays as efficient, reliable and clean as possible is essential.
With a run-down, dirty cold room comes a greater likelihood of issues arising, which is why maintaining and cleaning your cold room regularly is crucial.
Let us help you understand more about cleaning your cold rooms, so you can help ensure your cold rooms will last the test of time.
How Often Should I Clean My Cold Room?
Before we begin, it should be noted that cleaning your cold room will not necessarily fix any technical problems you may have with your cold room or cold room elements – if you have any concerns, chat to our team about cold room maintenance/repair services!
For personal/non-commercial fridges and freezers-weekly, if not weekly. So why wouldn’t you do the same for your business?
It’s good practice to keep on top of cleaning your cold rooms throughout the year. However, if we had to give a figure on how many times you should clean your cold room, we would recommend at least once a month.
There are a few discrepancies though. For example: if you notice a leak or spillage in your cold rooms, then this should be cleaned immediately to prevent the situation from escalating.
If you’re looking to have your cold room professionally cleaned, we would recommend investing in this once every 6 months.
However, you should take into account that every cold room is, and will be, different – so these parameters will vary depending on various factors.
Factors Affecting Your Cold Room
As mentioned above, one size does not fit all cold rooms. Each cold room will have its own requirements and factors affecting it – therefore all requiring cleaning at different rates. The below are a few factors that can affect how often you need to clean your cold rooms:
• What your cold room is used for / the products stored – If your cold room is used for the preparation or manufacturing of products, then it’s likely you will need to clean your cold room more frequently to prevent contamination.
• Industry-specific cold room requirements – This relates to specific industries that require consistency and control over their cold rooms and cold room elements, for example the pharmaceutical industry.
Where greater control over all aspects of the cold room is required, the amount of cleaning necessary will likely increase. Especially if you’re trying to reduce contamination, cleaning will be done more frequently and intensely.
• The time of year – For most businesses there are certain periods of the year that are typically busier than others, such as Christmas and Easter. Naturally, your cold rooms will see an increase in stock levels and foot/vehicle traffic during these periods.
You can expect your cold rooms to require more frequent cleaning in these times, as spillages are more likely to occur and frequent personnel/vehicle access can result in dirtier cold room elements such as your floors and your walls.
• The geographical location of your cold rooms – Certain geographical locations can impact how often you will need to clean your cold rooms.
One main factor here is whether your cold room is external or internal – if external, you will need to clean your cold room structure more than if it were internal due to weathering.
Not only this, but if your cold room is close to the coast then erosion and rusting is likely to occur more frequently, so you should monitor this and clean where necessary.
This isn’t an exhaustive list but in general, you should aim to keep your cold rooms as clean as you think is required for your industry and product requirements. If you are unsure, speak to a member of the MTCSS team today.
Benefits of Cold Room Maintenance
Don’t know whether your cold room could benefit from professional cleaning? Why not invest in a cold room condition report from MTCSS?
Cold room condition reports can highlight which parts of your cold rooms could benefit from cleaning as well as elements that could benefit from refurbishing/replacing to allow your cold room to run as optimally as possible.
Cold room maintenance (following a cold room condition report) can also provide the following benefits:
- Reduce health and safety risks to your staff
- Help to reduce your energy expenditures/improve your energy efficiency, saving you money in the long run
- Improve the lifespan of your cold room
- Pass any upcoming audits
Cold Room Spares & Contact Us
Our E-commerce shop also holds a wide range of cold room spares that could help improve the condition of your cold rooms. From your cold room doors and ancillaries to your storage requirements, MTCSS have a cold room solution for you.
Browse our selection of products here. Don’t see the product you’re after? Contact our team today.
If you’d like more information on cleaning your cold rooms, or you’d like to enquire about cold room maintenance then get in touch with MTCSS’ experts today!
Email us at sales@mtcss.flywheelsites.com, call us on 01886 833381 or fill in an enquiry form below.
