Why you should refurbish your walk-in cold rooms before Christmas
Christmas is fast approaching, which can only mean one thing – increased business demand. With increased business demand, you need to know that your cold rooms are going to be able to withstand the increase in volume and demand without breaking. This is why cold room refurbishment is essential before the holidays.
Whether you work within the food & drink retail industry or warehousing and distribution, MTCSS understand the importance of ensuring your walk-in cold rooms are up to spec to allow you to withstand the Christmas rush.
Cold room refurbishment is a vital step for your business to allow it to run smoothly on a daily basis, but even more so in one of the busiest periods of the year. You want to be able to trust that your cold room solutions will be able to efficiently insulate, protect and chill your products during your busiest periods, and MTCSS is here to help.
Why should you refurbish your walk-in cold rooms?
By refurbishing your existing walk-in chiller or freezer cold room, it allows your cold room to work efficiently and reliably.
There are many important reasons as to why you should regularly refurbish/maintain your temperature-controlled storage, but here are just a few:
Inefficient Cold Room Refrigeration
If your chiller or freezer cold room is working inefficiently, this means your refrigeration units are working harder to try and maintain your desired temperature, which can lead to increased energy costs due to them having to work overtime.
Cold Room Safety
Making sure your cold room solutions are in optimal conditions also helps to protect your employees and keep them safe at all times.
If a walk-in cold room is poorly maintained, team members risk being injured or even trapped within the cold room. Not only is this potentially detrimental to your employees, but also to the functioning of your business.
Product Loss/Spoilage by a Broken Cold Room
If your walk-in chiller or freezer has a broken refrigeration unit, cracked cold room gasket, or damaged cold room panels, you risk losing your entire cold storage worth of products!
If you use your walk-in freezer to store food & drink products, but realise too late that it’s struggling to maintain its temperature, you could lose all of your stock and face health and safety breaches – which isn’t ideal at any point in time, but especially not at Christmas.
This not only puts your customers at risk, but your employees and the company at risk too.
Cold Room Door Maintenance
Your cold room might not be the only thing that needs refurbishing, it could be your cold room door solutions as well – refurbishing your cold room door solutions are equally as important as refurbishing your cold room itself.
If your cold room door or cold room door gasket breaks, cracks or has a fault in this results in your door not being able to close properly. A cold room door that can’t be sealed will result in your maintained temperature-controlled air escaping from your cold room.
This influx of ambient air combining with your refrigerated air will cause your refrigeration units to use more energy due to them having to work harder because of the increased internal temperatures. It can even lead to ice build-up in walk-in freezers, posing a potential slip hazard and injury to your employees.
What cold room refurbishment services can MTCSS Retail provide?
Our expert team can help to prevent these issues with your cold rooms by performing a range of different cold room maintenance services. These services include, but are not limited to:
- Cold room refurbishment and maintenance
- Cold room dismantling and removal / rebuild
- Cold room door refurbishment
- Removal and replacement of refrigerated and personnel cold room doors
- Industrial and high-speed door refurbishment
There are multiple elements of cold room refurbishment by MTCSS. Some of the key elements are changing cold room door gaskets and seals, replacing or repairing cold room handles and furniture, installing hygienic planking to internal cold room walls and so much more!
We also now offer cold room condition reports, so you can get an in-depth understanding of what exactly in your cold room needs to be replaced/refurbished. Read our article here for more information.
If you have a walk-in chiller or freezer cold room that stores products, we can also offer temporary cold rooms in order for you to keep your products stored at the correct temperatures whilst your cold room project is carried out. This means you won’t need to lose all of your stock!
Our temporary storage solutions are also the perfect solution to hold your increased stock volumes at Christmas! Don’t let your products suffer by damaging each other in storage – speak to our expert team today.
MTCSS’ Retail team can also check, repair, and replace your cold room spares and parts if required. For more cold room spares and parts, visit our e-commerce shop here. Don’t see the part you require? Contact us today, and we will always try to source the product you’re after if we don’t have it in stock.
So, no matter whether you’re a small business who’s going to be having their very first Christmas trading as a business, or a large company who’s been in the industry for 25 years – MTCSS can help you curb the cost of unnecessary walk-in cold room running costs before Christmas.
If you’d like to know if MTCSS Retail can refurbish your walk-in cold rooms before the festive period, or if you’d like a quote for a cold room refurbishment, get in touch with us today! Email us at sales@mtcss.flywheelsites.com, call us on 01886 833381, or fill in the enquiry form!