Guides
Plain answers about cold rooms, display fridges and commercial refrigeration, written for business owners.
Finance options for cold rooms and commercial refrigeration
Hire purchase, finance lease and business loans for cold rooms, display fridges and shop fit outs: how each works, what lenders look at, how to compare offers and...
Buying and installing a cold room: step by step
Ten steps from deciding you need a cold room to the first weeks of running it: sizing, specification, comparing quotes, preparing the site, installation day and handover.
Serve over counters: what to know before you buy
Gravity or ventilated cooling, lengths and depths, straight or curved glass, temperatures for meat, fish, deli, cheese and cakes, plug-in or remote, and what affects the price.
Fruit and veg display fridges: choosing the right chiller
Temperatures, humidity and misting, open multidecks and tiered displays, what to keep out of the chiller, layout, energy and what affects the price of a fruit and veg...
Multideck display fridges: a buyer's guide
What a multideck display fridge is, sizes and temperature classes, open fronts against glass doors, remote against plug-in, energy use, installation and what affects the price.
Cold room chiller units and condensing units: how to choose
Monoblock chiller units, split condensing units and evaporators, how a unit is sized, controllers, refrigerants and the F-Gas phase-down, and when to repair or replace.
How to choose a cake display fridge
Static or ventilated cooling, humidity control, sizes, glass, lighting, plug-in or remote, and what affects the price of a cake and patisserie display fridge.
How much does a cold room cost in the UK?
What a walk-in cold room, freezer room or cold store costs in the UK, what moves the price, what a quotation should include and how to compare quotes...
