Is Your Cold Room Freezing Up? Here’s How To Prevent It

Is your cold room experiencing issues with freezing up regularly? This suggests something in your cold room has gone wrong – understanding the potential reasons your cold room is freezing is important to prevent it from occurring again.

MTCSS are here to help you understand the causes of ice build-up in cold rooms, ways to prevent it and the parts you can invest in to reduce the likelihood of your cold rooms freezing up on the regular.

Causes of Ice Build Up in A Cold Room

There can be a multitude of reasons why your walk-in cold room is freezing up. We’ll explore these reasons today, and the solutions to help prevent this from becoming a regular issue.

Freezing in cold rooms can also be referred to as ice build-up. You’d commonly experience ice build-up on your cold room doors and frames, ceilings, walls, and cold room flooring.

One of the main factors resulting in ice build-up is caused by changes to the internal temperature of your cold room.

Changes to your cold room’s internal temperature can be a result of multiple factors, but most commonly – cold room doors being left open and cold room elements being broken.

However, external factors (such as the weather) can also impact your cold room’s temperature. With warmer external temperatures, it’s easy for moisture to build up in your walk-in cold rooms if they’re not correctly sealed. Once moisture has built up, it creates an environment to cause freezing.

If you notice freezing occurring on your sliding cold room doors, this suggests that the guide rails or guide shoes are either damaged or missing. Regardless of how your walk-in cold room experiences freezing, learning how to combat this issue is paramount.

Ways To Prevent Your Cold Room Freezing Up

It is worth noting that every walk-in cold room will have slightly different requirements, so may not need all these preventative measures.

There are several ways to help prevent cold rooms from freezing up, including:

• Regular maintenance of your refrigeration systems
• Understanding the implications of overstocking your cold room
• General maintenance of your cold room elements, such as your cold room doors and door furniture

Regular Maintenance of Refrigeration Systems – One of the easiest ways to ensure your cold room’s temperature isn’t fluctuating is to ensure your refrigeration systems, that control the temperature, are maintained and serviced regularly.

Whether you’ve got a monoblock refrigeration system or a split refrigeration system – investing in regular maintenance can mean the difference between having high-quality products for your customers, and products that are affected by improper temperatures or ice.

The imbalance of temperatures causes moisture to build up and freeze over extended periods of time – so preventative maintenance of your refrigeration systems could be beneficial for your business!

Overstocking Your Cold Room – Overstocking your cold room occurs . Therefore, it’s incredibly important to prevent because as soon as your cold room is overstocked with too many products, the airflow within your cold room becomes limited.

With limited airflow, your products don’t provide enough space for your refrigeration systems to effectively refrigerate the air.

Specific periods of the year are busier (such as Christmas) making it likely the amount of products stored in your cold room will increase resulting in overstocking – contributing to this limited airflow and ice build-up.

General Maintenance of Cold Room Parts –The best way to prevent ice build-up in your cold rooms is to ensure your cold room’s components are in good working order and replace them for where required.

The most common cold room parts that should be checked, replaced, or invested in to prevent your cold room from freezing up include (but are not limited to)…

• Cold room curtains – clear PVC strip curtains or insulated curtains
• Cold room doors
• Cold room door furniture (handles, gaskets, guide rail, guide shoes)
• Heater systems for your cold room doors
• Audible cold room alarms – to prompt employees to close the doors, preventing the temperature from fluctuating

Cold Room Spares by MTCSS

Our E-commerce shop has a huge range of cold room spares and parts available to purchase. Whether you require an insulated curtain, a new cold room door, or an audible cold room alarm – we’ve got a cold room solution for you!

Don’t see the part you’re after? Get in contact with our experts today, as we will always try to source any parts you require!

Email us at spares@mtcss.co.uk, call us on 01886 833381 or fill in an enquiry form here.