Cold Rooms for Commercial Cruise Ship in Cornwall
Garbage Cold Room and Dual Compartment Cold Room for Cruise Ship
Cold rooms are used in a range of industries, businesses, buildings, and locations – even on ships! Cruise ships and ships which require large amounts of food and drinks on board use cold rooms to store their produce and perishable goods. But there are more factors to consider when designing and building cold rooms on a ship – something that MTCSS recently experienced.
MTCSS’ customer required a range of cold rooms on their cruise ship to accommodate their storage requirements. One was for a chiller and freezer cold room for food and drink storage, the other was for a temperature-controlled room to store their garbage.
With several challenges to consider – including the unique shape, design and the risk of rust – the MTCSS team worked closely with the customer to deliver a cold room solution to adhere to their unique requirements and offer longevity.
The Cold Rooms
The first factor to consider in the cold room design was the risk of rust and cold room panel degradation. MTCSS designed the cold rooms with 304 class stainless steel cold room panels to negate this risk – which comes from proximity to salty sea air.
The shape and size of the cold room was completely bespoke to the customer’s requirements, detailed in drawings and a site survey. The cold room panels were cut to the correct sizes by MTCSS to fit with the existing structure of the cruise ship – following any angles within the walls and ceilings.
Access was another key element to consider when planning the project. The MTCSS team needed to understand the easiest and safest way to transport panels around the ship to minimise loss of time and disruption.
Garbage Locker and Dual Compartment Cold Room
The garbage locker was designed to suit the positive temperatures of a chiller cold room. It had an overall internal height of 2.1m and the panels were fitted to suit the 126° angle of the ship’s walls.
The cold room panels used to build both the garbage locker and dual compartment cold rooms – comprised of a walk-in chiller and walk-in freezer – were of 100mm thickness, and finished with stainless steel internally and white PVC externally. All of the cold room panels needed to be fixed directly to the ship’s wall to ensure there was no movement within the cold rooms or panels.
Within the walk-in chiller and walk-in freezer compartments, shelves were formed with the cold room panels for improved storage.
In the dual compartment cold room, MTCSS team included 100mm insulated base panels with 2mm thick stainless-steel overlay. These were bituthene taped to prevent water ingress and damage to the floor.
For access to the garbage cold room, MTCSS selected a hinged cold room door – size 700mm x 1800mm. In the dual compartment cold room, we installed two 700mm x 1900mm hinged cold rooms – one for chiller applications and one for freezer applications.
The freezer cold room door was also fitted with frame heaters to reduce the risk of ice build-up. All cold room doors were designed with a stainless steel internal finish and white external finish.
Cold rooms can be designed and built to suit different buildings, locations, applications and more. Whether you are looking for ‘standard’ rectangular cold room, or a completely bespoke cold room with sloped walls and ceilings – MTCSS are here to help!
Get in touch with the team by calling us on 01886 833381, emailing us at sales@mtcss.flywheelsites.com, or filling in an enquiry form below!
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!