Cold Room Door Handles – Different Types and Considerations

Cold room doors aren’t just vital access and egress points for your cold room, but they’re also essential to maintaining the internal temperatures of your walk-in chiller or freezer. Which is why it’s important for your cold room door components, such as cold room handles, are maintained. 

If you’ve got a sliding cold room door or a hinged cold room door, you need to ensure it has a suitable cold room handle for your business requirements, door specification and your employees. 

Not only do cold room handles need to suit the application it’s being used on, but they also need to be sturdy and to offer a lasting high-quality finish.

Our experts here at MTCSS can help you find the correct cold room handle for your application. But it’s important to note that the manufacture of the cold room door you have can affect the type of cold room handle selected.

We have an array of handles on our shop, all of which have been manufactured to the highest quality. The different types of cold room handles that we have available include:

• Hinged Cold Room Door Handles
• Sliding Cold Room Door Handles
• Internal Cold Room Handles 
• External Cold Room Handles 
• Latch Handles for Cold Room Doors (for medium to heavy duty use) 
• Locking/Non-Locking Hinged Cold Room Handles 
• External Pull Handle 
• Internal Recessed Handle (cut into the inner part of your cold room door)

Benefits of Cold Room Handles

Cold room handles aren’t a choice, but a necessity – there are many different benefits that cold room handles can offer your temperature-controlled storage and cold room doors. Some of these are:

1 . Cold Room Accessibility

It sounds simple, because it is! The main benefit that cold room handles provide you is accessibility to your walk-in cold rooms.

Without a suitable cold room handle attached to your cold room door, whether that be a hinged, sliding or personnel door, you cannot access your cold room and products.

Therefore, its sole purpose and intent is to give you access to your temperature-controlled storage. However, the only time this won’t happen is if your cold room handles aren’t maintained!

2 . Correct Cold Room Door Positioning

Particularly with hinged cold room door handles, they play a key part in ensuring your cold room doors are kept in the correct closed position.

As well as ensuring your hinged door is in the correct position, hinged door handles also contribute to making sure your cold room door gaskets are sitting correctly against the door frame – which in turn develops the point above – helping you to prevent temperature loss from your cold storage.

3 . Staff Safety

If you have a broken or faulty cold room handle and fail to replace it, your risk your employee’s safety. If they enter your walk-in chiller or freezer and realise when closing the door behind them that the handle is faulty, they might not be able to get out.

Making sure your cold room door components are refurbished and maintained regularly helps to prevent this.

Cold Room Handle Considerations

The cold room handle type that will suit your requirements depends on the considerations you need to take into account. A few of these are: 

• Cold Room Door Type and Opening

Depending on which side your cold room door is, and which way it needs to open from, will determine the type of cold room handle you need.

If your hinged door is installed with a right-hand opening, then the cold room handle you need will be a right-handed handle.

You should also consider your employees when choosing cold room handles – choose an opening that works for the majority of your team.

• Locking

If your business stores high-value products or stock, you want to make sure that they’re kept safe to ensure you don’t lose profits or quality!

For example if you store frozen meats, you need to keep them locked away under maintained conditions to preserve their quality and freshness for your customers.

If your freezer cold room door gets opened, or left open due to a broken or damaged handle (causing your hinged door to not close completely), you risk losing your entire stock due to the change in temperature.

This is why our locking cold room door handles are the perfect solution – they can either be coded or require a key to access them.

MTCSS understand how important it is that your cold rooms and cold room doors work efficiently – which is why we sell a wide variety of cold room handles, as well as a huge range of other cold rooms spares, and pride ourselves on offering excellent quality products. 

For our cold room handles in stock, we can offer next day delivery*! (*When an order is placed before 1pm, stock levels apply).

Don’t see the cold room handle or part you need? Contact our spares team today and we will always try to source it for you.  

Get in touch with the MTCSS team today to talk about your cold room door handle requirements. Call us on 01886 833381, email us at sales@mtcss.co.uk or fill in an enquiry form here!