Cold Room Doors – What Is The Most Important Part?

When investing in a temperature-controlled solution for your business, one extremely important element you should consider is your cold room door – cold room doors are the key to optimal insulation in your cold rooms.

Ensuring that you select the right cold room door for your cold room application is vital, as well as making sure that its kept in good condition. But what about the intricacies of your cold room door? Do you know what the most important part is?

If not, don’t fret as MTCSS are here to explain!

The Most Important Part Of Your Cold Room Door

Put simply, the most important part of your cold room door is the main structure of the door itself – also referred to as the door blade – including its insulation. But, why?

Now we know that the most important part of your cold room door is its structure (and insulation), we must understand the reasons for this.

Cold Room Door Structure & Insulation

Cold room doors can be manufactured in various ways, so what they are comprised of may differ slightly. However, the two main types of cold room door manufacturing processes used to create an efficient, insulated cold room door are:

• Foam Injecting
• Panel Wrapping

Foam injected cold room doors provide improved durability for your cold room door’s resistance and longevity – reducing the need for maintenance and service! Manufacturing cold room doors this way also allows for greater flexibility in customisation.

Panel wrapped cold room doors provide easy maintenance and high-levels of aesthetic and quality for your cold room, as well as being well-insulated with a robust design to suit a range of application sizes and thicknesses.

So, why is the structure of my cold room door the most important element?

Essentially, any damage to your cold room door will affect its insulation properties, which in turn can end up affecting more than just your cold room.

For example, if your cold room door has suffered from impact damage from cages or forklift trucks this will weaken the main structure and therefore how well it insulates your cold room.

If an older cold room door has been repaired multiple times, this may have an impact on the overall structural and insulative properties of the core of the cold room door. The older the door, the more the insulation value of the core will reduce over time – leaving your cold room door less effective.

In the case that your cold room door is damaged beyond repair, or you’ve repaired your existing cold room door multiple times, a new cold room door will have far better insulation properties and can provide many benefits.

Some benefits include: improved refrigeration operational efficiency, higher insulation properties, helps you to save energy (and money) in the long-run as opposed to using an inefficient door.

However, it’s worth noting that many aspects of your cold room door are essential to achieving the best efficiency and insulation qualities for your cold room and products.

Other important parts of your cold room door are:

• Cold room door gaskets – to ensure that your cold rooms are correctly sealed to avoid temperature loss
• Cold room door handles – for accessing your cold room, as well as helping prevent employees getting trapped inside your cold room
• Sliding door track carrier (for sliding cold room doors) – allows your cold room door to open/close giving you access to your cold room
• Cold room door frames – allows your cold room door to shut properly, working in conjunction with your cold room door gaskets
• Cold room door frame inner liners – protects your cold room panels

And MTCSS have a range of cold room door spares on the MTCSS shop to accommodate to your needs. Browse our cold room door accessories here!

Why Should I Replace My Cold Room Door?

There are several potential negatives associated with not replacing a cold room door (when required). Some of these include:

• Loss of internal cold room temperature – due to inefficient insulation elements, the internal temperatures of your cold room are compromised meaning your refrigeration system will be working overtime to achieve the temperature required
• Unnecessary increase in energy (and money) expenditure
• Employee and user health & safety risks – these risks can occur from various damaged cold door elements and can result in personnel get trapped or injured inside your cold room whilst operating the door

Which is why it’s extremely important to invest in high quality cold room doors and cold room door spares to prevent this from occurring.

MTCSS’ Cold Room Door Range

If you’re in the market for a new cold room door, or this article has made you wonder about the types of cold room doors that MTCSS offer – look no further!

Our cold room door range includes hinged, sliding, personnel, chiller, freezer, and atmospheric doors and are all available from the MTCSS Shop. Don’t see the door you’re after? Get in touch with our team today – we will always try our best to help source it.

If you’d like to understand more about the MTCSS cold room door range, or are looking to invest in a new cold room door but are unsure about what you require then contact our experts today.

Call us on 01886 833381, email us at spares@mtcss.co.uk or fill in an enquiry form here!