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October 14, 2024 | MTCSS
Spare parts – are they necessary for cold rooms and storage solutions?
How can spare parts protect your cold room and, by extension, your business?
The team at UK Cold Room Spares share our insight in this blog.
Although you might not consider it, cold rooms are made up of many smaller parts that require individual maintenance and replacement if the cold room is to cool effectively.
Just like changing parts on your car can keep it roadworthy for longer, the same is also true for cold rooms and cold storage solutions. By investing in cold room spare parts routinely, there can be many benefits to business owners – the biggest of which is a longer-lasting cold room.
So, if you would like your cold room to function for 15 years or more, depending on each individual cold room in question, spare parts are essential.
Cold room spare parts can help your business in many wide and varied ways. However, the biggest benefits include:
Cold room chillers and freezers are a significant investment for any business, but changing parts when they show signs of wear or break will help your cold room last for longer.
This makes your initial investment more economical and saves you money on buying future cold rooms.
Likewise, if your team can replace worn parts as soon as they start to degrade, your cold room freezer or chiller will remain in better condition – avoiding big, expensive repair bills further down the road.
Keeping more money in your business account and helping you to prepare for unforeseen bills or other emergencies.
Ensuring the full lifecycle of your investment with spares means you won’t need to scrap whole cold rooms before their time, which is especially important for reducing waste and saving money.
A maintained, well-running machine uses less energy to control the temperature within the cold room itself – which is beneficial for both the environment and your wallet.
Cold room spare parts can be very small and easy to store in a cupboard or workroom – perfect for daily access whenever needed.
The most popular cold room spare parts you should keep in stock, including those most likely to wear out first, include:
In a commercial environment, cold room doors and door furniture undergo especially heavy use, opening and closing tens of times a day. As such, doors and furniture, including handles and hinges, wear out faster or are more likely to sustain damage.
Which means they may need to be replaced more often.
Failure to replace or fix breakages on doors can reduce the effectiveness of their insulation factors and encourage temperature fluctuations, hotspots, higher energy bills, and in the worst cases, product spoilage.
Cold room protection parts are concerned with prolonging the life of many essential cold room areas, including floors, bumper box rails, and threshold plates.
Like walls, these areas are particularly susceptible to damage from day-to-day activities, so cold room protection elements are needed to help reduce this.
Creating the walls themselves, cold room panels are essential for maintaining temperature control and keeping ambient air out.
Unfortunately, however, they can be easily damaged by:
Scratched, chipped, or generally damaged panels can mean a loss of energy efficiency and small punctures or tears can develop into more extensive problems that are surprisingly expensive.
Keeping a stock of panels for quick repairs is an easy and simple way to stop this.
Cold room electrical components can control the temperature of the space and provide safety essentials like lights and temperature change or entrapment alarms.
If you don’t keep a stock of electrical parts, it can be unsafe to use cold room chillers or freezers or even increase the likelihood of future accidents and damage – all of which is your responsibility to prevent as the employer.
As such, we would recommend asking your maintenance team which electrical parts you use the most, including the essentials like lightbulbs.
Cold room ancillaries are the essentials needed to maintain the cold room itself and protect the barrier between the temperature-controlled space within and the ambient temperatures outside.
Typically, ancillaries can include:
Which can be used to organise or maintain the cold room itself to help reduce energy bills and stop goods from spoiling.
Renewing ancillaries regularly also ensures the cold air stays in and warm air remains outside while maintaining wipe-clean capabilities – essential for storing goods like food, drink, and pharmaceuticals.
The loss of a Monoblock essentially ends the refrigeration capabilities of a cold room – which can:
As such, it is critical that no matter what cold room refrigeration system you use, you fully check over it and all other cold room parts during regular maintenance and refurbishment.
This is the ideal time to note which parts need to be replaced, as staff will already be checking almost all of the cold room itself as part of their due diligence.
If you’re not sure on what you need to replace, fix, or even invest in to keep your cold room solutions running for longer, don’t be afraid to contact our experts.
We can give advice, answer questions, and even identify broken parts in your cold room that you may not have any idea where to start!
UKColdRoomSpares are here to support and benefit your business.
Whether you are an experienced cold room user or completely new to temperature-controlled storage, there are plenty of tips and tricks worth knowing to keep your cold room in the best condition – without the need for expensive emergency interventions.
To find out more, you can browse our cold room blogs or reach out to the team today by calling us at 01886 833 381 or emailing us at sales@mtcss.co.uk
October 14, 2024 | MCTSS
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