Should I Repair or Replace My commercial Refrigerators?

When to Repair Your Commercial Cooler

As you’d expect for an expensive bit of kit, almost anything in a walk-in cooler is repairable. Let’s take a look at the things you can repair fairly easily.

Doors and Hinges

A walk-in cooler’s doors and hinges take most wear and tear. After all, you open the door every time you take something out or add something. They’ll need replacing eventually despite manufacturers keeping this use in mind.

Luckily, this is a pretty easy job. Most models have hinges that can unscrew, allowing you to replace the entire door unit. A technician can do this in a matter of hours.

Walls and Floors

Like the door, walls and floors receive a lot of wear and tear. The floor is the most high-traffic area and might need replacing after a few years.

Walls can get rammed or dented if an employee isn’t paying enough attention. While many of these dings are superficial, big ones could compromise the walk-in’s cooling ability.

The floor is easy to replace: you could either rip the old one out or lay a new one over the top.

Walls are slightly harder to repair, but a well-designed cooler will make the job easy. Again, it should only take a few hours.

Refrigeration Systems

A walk-in cooler runs on a big HVAC unit. So, like any other HVAC unit, it loses refrigerant over its lifetime. You should get roughly 15 years out of a standard unit, as we mentioned earlier.

That said, commercial cooler repair is possible without replacing the entire walk-in unit. Providing the technician can access the cooling system, almost any issue is repairable without too much issue.

For example, replacing the condenser coils or evaporator (usually inside the fridge) takes a few hours. A broken fan might take an hour or so.

Even if the whole unit needs commercial cooler repair, a well-trained technician could install this industrial freezer in a few hours.

While most owners see a broken refrigerator unit as the end of their walk-in cooler’s life, this isn’t the case. An HVAC repair company can usually provide emergency freezer service for any brand.