Commercial Refrigeration in London: Installation, Repair and Maintenance

Commercial refrigeration in London, with 24/7 emergency callouts

Climate Flow Limited installs, repairs and maintains commercial refrigeration in London and surrounding areas: cold rooms and freezer rooms, cellar coolers, blast chillers, ice machines, display chillers and commercial fridges and freezers. We work for restaurants, pubs, shops, schools, gyms and other sites that rely on cold storage, and we offer 24/7 emergency callouts when a system fails.

This page lists each refrigeration service Climate Flow offers and where to read more about it. If a fridge, freezer or cold room has stopped holding temperature, call 020 3488 5452 and tell us what the equipment is doing.

Commercial refrigeration repair and troubleshooting

We repair walk-in freezers, display chillers and blast chillers, finding the cause and repairing or replacing the failed part. The refrigeration services we cover:

• Cold rooms and freezer rooms: a cold room is an insulated walk-in room kept cold by its own refrigeration system. We install, repair and maintain them; see cold room installation.
• Cellar coolers: a cellar cooler is a refrigeration unit that keeps a pub or bar cellar cool for beer and other drinks. See cellar cooler installation.
• Blast chillers: a blast chiller cools freshly cooked food quickly so it can be stored chilled. See blast chiller installation and repair.
• Ice machines, including Scotsman ice machines: repair, servicing and maintenance. See ice machine repair and maintenance.
• Commercial fridge and freezer repair: upright, under-counter and prep fridges and freezers.
• Display chillers and glass-door multideck chillers: a multideck is a display cabinet with several shelves, used in shops to show chilled stock.
• Beer, keg and line coolers, and wine coolers.
• Condenser and condensing unit replacement.
• Refrigerant leak detection and repair.
• Planned preventive maintenance (PPM).

Installation

From small prep fridges to full cold rooms, we handle the system design, pipework, refrigerant charging, commissioning and handover. At King's Cross St Pancras Station we installed a walk-in cold room and freezer for a food preparation area: read the King's Cross walk-in cold room and freezer case study, or see more refrigeration and air conditioning jobs on our projects page.

Repairs, maintenance and emergency callouts

A fridge or cold room that stops working costs a food business stock and trading time. We diagnose faults and replace parts, from compressor failures to refrigerant leaks and thermostat faults. 24/7 emergency callouts are available for every refrigeration service. The law is why a warm fridge is urgent: chilled food must be kept at 8°C or below in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the government's guidance is to set fridges to 5°C or below so food stays cold enough even if the temperature changes (GOV.UK food hygiene guidance on chilling and freezing).

Planned preventive maintenance (PPM) for commercial refrigeration systems

Planned preventive maintenance (PPM) means service visits booked in advance, so equipment is checked before it fails rather than after. Regular servicing of commercial refrigeration helps:

• catch worn parts and small leaks before they become breakdowns
• keep cabinets and cold rooms holding their set temperature
• keep service records, since leak responsibility is shared

Leak checks are a legal duty for many systems. Equipment holding F gas above the lowest threshold must be checked for leaks at least once every 12 months. Systems with a larger charge must be checked at least once every 6 months or more often, depending on how much refrigerant the system holds. Equipment holding F gas equivalent to 500 tonnes or more of carbon dioxide must have a leak detection system fitted (GOV.UK guidance on checking F gas equipment for leaks). Responsibility for stopping leaks is shared between the people who use the equipment and the technicians who install and maintain it, which is why an operator keeps the service records.

Why choose Climate Flow?

• F-Gas certified engineers.
• 24/7 emergency callouts.
• We install and service Foster, Williams, Polar, Atosa, Scotsman, J&E Hall, Danfoss (including Optyma), EASY Cold, Beer Master, Unicold / UNIDUO and Eliwell refrigeration, and we install and service Copeland, Tecumseh and Embraco compressors and Carel controls.
• A no-obligation quote before any work is priced.

F-gas work is regulated. Each person who works on equipment containing F gas must hold their own qualification, and on stationary refrigeration that covers installing, servicing, leak checking, recovering gas and decommissioning (GOV.UK on F gas qualifications). A company that services F gas equipment run by others must also be certified by an approved body (GOV.UK on company certification).

Industries we serve

Working refrigeration matters to any business that stores food or drink. We work across:

• Restaurants, commercial kitchens and hotels
• Pubs, bars and clubs
• Supermarkets, convenience stores and petrol stations
• Schools and colleges
• Gyms and leisure sites

Areas we cover

We cover London and surrounding areas, including Wembley, Edgware, Harrow, Stratford, Croydon, Watford, Slough, Ealing and Barnet.

Contact us for a no-obligation quote

If a cabinet is running warm, a cold room is icing up or you want maintenance visits booked, call 020 3488 5452 or request a quote. Tell us the equipment, the make if you know it and what it is doing, including any error code on the controller. Climate Flow Limited, 2 Engineers Way, Wembley, London HA9 0JS, handles commercial refrigeration in London and surrounding areas.

This guide is general information, not a survey or a quote for your site; every system is different, so an engineer needs to see yours before any work is priced.