What Is A Modular Cold Room?

A traditional cold room fridge and freezer may be out of reach if your business is working with a smaller budget, location limitations, or advanced timelines.

However, that doesn’t mean you don’t have larger-scale options for temperature-controlled storage.

Why not consider a modular cold room? A fast, effective, and economical way to store a large number of goods at -20 to +10°C!

What’s The Difference Between a Modular Cold Room and A Traditional Cold Room?

The main difference between a modular cold room and a traditional cold room is the type of panel used – a modular cold room requires you to assemble the insulated cold room panels yourself, using cam-locks to create the shape.

A standard walk-in cold room, however, uses silicone instead of cam-locks to create an airtight room, meaning that cold room installation can be more complex.

Further differences include:

• The size of the room – modular cold rooms come in standard sizes whereas cold rooms can be more bespoke.
• The shape of the room – likewise, a modular cold room can have more shape or orientation limitations due to the use of standard sizing: walk-in fridge-freezers avoid this.
• The temperature capabilities – modular cold rooms can accommodate temperature ranges of around -20 to +10°C, while walk-in spaces can cover -40 to +30°C.

Who Is Best Suited To A Modular Cold Room?

A modular cold room might be highly beneficial for a range of businesses, including:

• Those who can’t add permanent features – for example, those renting business spaces
• That needs cold room capabilities much faster – ahead of a big order, business expansion, or key trading season, e.g. summer wedding season for florists, etc
• With an unchangeable footprint due to location or contractual constraints–  like a shop inside a pre-existing building
• That are smaller – for example, cottage industries or home-based companies 
• Those who are working with smaller budgets
• Which will be sharing outdoor facilities – such as market stalls or pop-up eateries, which may not have a designated building for stock storage

How is a modular cold room constructed?

One of the major benefits of a modular cold room is the increased rate of construction.

Unlike walk-in fridges and freezers, a modular cold room is built using cam-locked insulated panels that fit together into a specific shape and size – making it a similar idea to flat-pack furniture.

This means temperature-controlled spaces can be put up much more quickly than conventional built-in walk-in cold rooms – which have panels that can be used in almost any orientation or layout and need to be secured into place using silicone.

Traditionally, most modular cold rooms are constructed in the following order:

1. Floors
2. Walls, doors, and ceiling – using the correct insulated panels (which vary by thickness) for the preferred temperature range within is essential here.
3. Monoblock refrigeration systems, if required.
4. Accessories – including cold room curtains, ramps, and cold room shelving, depending on the needs of the business.

Looking for a temperature-controlled storage option? Or perhaps you need parts to refurbish your existing modular cold room.  

If so, why not speak to our team here at UK Cold Room Spares?  

With a wide array of modular cold room parts, including doors, floors, and accessories, and a product identification service that solves mysteries with a quick snap from your phone – we’re sure we can help. We can also provide supply-only modular cold room quotations!

Just call us at 01886 833 381 or email us at spares@mtcss.co.uk – your modular cold room will be up and running in no time.