Cold Rooms for Feltham Farms Cheese
Bespoke Cold Rooms for Artisan Cheese Maker
Cheese making is an art. But so is building a bespoke cold room. When Feltham’s Farm needed a cold room to start their own cheese making business, MTCSS were there to provide a solution to his requirements.
The Brief
Cheese maker Marcus Fergussoon required a make room and an ageing room within the free space of the living quarters of his home to begin creating his own artisan soft blue, washed rind cheese. MTCSS needed to install rooms within the pre-constructed space – around doorways, windows and electric boxes – whilst utilising the maximum space available.
The Plan
MTCSS’ solution was to build a 4400mm x 4600mm cheese making room and a smaller 3300mm x 1700mm ageing room, with the refrigeration unit fit through the wall to maximise us of the space to achieve the customer’s requirements.
To build the room we used Kingspan PIR panelling throughout, fitted with MTH semi insulated personnel doors for access between the two rooms. All internal junctions were fitted with antibacterial coving with sealed corners to prevent any dust ingress, ensuring the room adhered to health and safety standards.
The cheese making room require an ambient temperature, whilst the ageing room needed to be within a specific temperature range. To achieve this, MTCSS installed a single phase refrigeration unit through the wall – saving on space to be utilised elsewhere. The unit maintained the temperature of 10 to 12 degrees required for the cheese ageing process.
As the cold rooms were built within the living quarters of the house – windows were already installed which needed to be fit around. We panelled up to the windows and flashed them in to form a food safe seal all round – whilst allowing natural light into the room.
The Solution
MTCSS facilitated the building of both rooms – resulting in two cold rooms adapted from the infrastructure of the client’s home which utilised the space efficiently. With MTCSS’ solution, Marcus was able to start his own cheese making business and begin creating his very own unique style of cheese.
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!