Walk-In Fridge and Walk-In Freezer for Butchers in Hereford
Dual Compartment Cold Room with Display Window
Food and drink businesses are one of the industries that heavily rely on cold rooms and refrigeration all year round. A cold room can be the difference between providing fresh, high-quality products, or losing produce and revenue altogether due to poor storage. Cold storage solutions can also be used to display your products, not just in the form of refrigerated display cabinets, but in cold rooms too.
MTCSS recently designed and built a cold room with a display window for our customer in Hereford, a butcher that opened its doors in the 1950s, providing the highest quality meats and serving food in their café and deli – as well as food to go!
Our customer was looking for a solution to not only store their food products, but also to display them to the customers who visit their shop daily. MTCSS were able to design the perfect solution to optimise their temperature-controlled storage with a dual compartment cold room, and to show their meat produce off to the world.
Dual Compartment Cold Rooms
As the customer required both a walk-in fridge and a walk-in freezer to store food, but with minimal space available… a dual compartment cold room was the ideal solution. Maximising space with one cold room with a dividing wall formed from insulated panel, creating a chiller compartment and a freezer compartment.
Both cold room compartments were designed and built with an insulated floor with 5 bar aluminium overlay to offer optimal insulation and reduce slip-risks. The MTCSS team also fitted hinged cold room doors, manufactured by cold room door experts MTH, for access in and out of the cold rooms. MTH doors provide efficient sealing and optimal insulation to ensure the cold room would maintain internal temperatures.
The chiller cold room compartment also included a meat hanging rail with stainless steel hooks, to hang meat products and store them effectively within the cold room.
Cold Room Viewing Window
But, before the MTCSS team could begin the cold room installation process, we removed the existing insulated box and glass window that was used to display the butcher’s beef.
When MTCSS designed and installed the chiller cold room, our team included a 2450mm x 980mm viewing window with toughened glass to allow them to display the meat produce whilst storing it effectively.
Our team also supplied and installed cold room shelving for the chiller cold room compartment, to allow the customer to display their produce in the displaying window effectively and aesthetically.
Refrigeration Systems
In the walk-in freezer compartment, MTCSS installed split refrigeration systems, with an internal unit within the cold room and external unit outside of the building, to maintain the internal temperatures required. The refrigeration system utilised refrigerant R449A with a GWP of 1397 (65% lower than the previously and commonly used R404A), it is non-toxic, non-flammable and energy efficient.
In the walk-in fridge compartment, the MTCSS team fitted and commissioned a monoblock refrigeration unit supplied by the customer which was designed specifically for the process of dry aging meat.
So, cold rooms don’t just have to be in the back of your stores with your products hidden away – we can design cold rooms to display your products, whether that be food or flowers, and show off what your business can offer to your customers!
Get in touch with the MTCSS team to find out how we can design the perfect cold room for you and your business – call us on 01886 833381, email us at sales@mtcss.flywheelsites.com, or fill in an enquiry form here!
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!