Cold Rooms & Walk-Ins

Cold rooms and walk-in refrigeration systems

A cold room or walk-in is a project rather than a single appliance: panels, door, floor, refrigeration system, controls and drainage have to be planned together for the space and the load. This family covers walk-in chillers and freezers supplied as modular systems, including walk-in formats used for bulk frozen storage and production. Heat load, panel boundaries and available site services decide the design.

Typical use

Bulk chilled or frozen storage in restaurants, hotels and catering kitchens.
Central kitchens and food factories that hold raw material and finished product.
Butchery, deli and food processing rooms with daily intake and dispatch.
Bakery and pastry operations storing ingredients, dough and finished frozen product.
Distribution and warehouse operations that need an overflow room or a staging room.
Walk-in freezer rooms that hold production batches before dispatch.

Confirm before ordering

Duty (chilled or frozen) and required holding condition
Internal dimensions, clear height and racking plan
Daily product load, entry temperature and turnover
Panel type, thickness and floor construction
Door type, opening width and threshold detail
Refrigeration arrangement, placement and pipe run
Voltage, frequency and refrigerant requirements
Drainage, defrost and condensate handling

Configurations we build in this family

Drawn from our own product catalogue. Final specification is confirmed per model and destination market.

Door / drawer formats	double door
Temperature classes referenced	-45 °C
Catalogue items in this family	2 (configuration confirmed per project)

How this family is configured

Heat load and capacity planning

Cold room sizing starts from the load, not from the room dimensions. List what enters the room each day, at what temperature, and how long it stays; product load is usually the dominant component and it changes with turnover and season. Then add the other components: transmission through panels, door openings and the air exchanged each time, people working inside, lighting, and any evaporator fan heat. Confirm the room ambient outside the panels, because a room built into a hot kitchen or an unshaded yard faces a different load from one inside an air conditioned store. State the internal dimensions, the clear height under the ceiling and the racking or shelving plan, since usable volume depends on how the room is filled. If the room will be expanded later, say so at the planning stage, because panel layout and system capacity are easier to allow for at the start than to change afterwards.

Panel, door and floor boundaries

The boundary of the room decides how well it holds temperature and how easily it is cleaned. Confirm the panel type and thickness proposed for the duty and the ambient conditions, and how panels join and seal at corners, ceiling and floor. For freezer duty, the floor is part of the insulation system: discuss whether an insulated floor with a vapor barrier is required or whether the room sits on an existing slab, because floor ice and heave are difficult to correct later. Confirm the door type, opening width and whether it is hinged or sliding, plus how the door closes and how the frame is heated on a freezer room. Check the threshold, ramp and any floor level change, since trolleys and pallets have to cross it. Ask how the room is cleaned and what the panel and floor finishes tolerate, and confirm which areas are sealed against water and pests. Panel build-up, door arrangement and floor construction are confirmed per project.

Refrigeration system, placement and drainage

Confirm where the refrigeration system sits before the room is built, because the decision affects noise, heat and pipe runs. An integral or monoblock arrangement keeps refrigerant inside the room package and simplifies installation, while a remote condensing unit moves heat and noise away from the room but needs plant space, pipe routing and site work. State the ambient temperature where a remote unit would stand, indoors or outdoors, and whether it is sheltered. Ask how defrost is handled for the duty, where melt water goes, and how the drain is protected from freezing. Confirm the pipe run length the manufacturer accepts between the evaporator and the condensing unit, and how pipes are insulated and supported. Plan service access to both ends of the system, including space to remove a fan or a coil. Refrigeration arrangement, refrigerant selection and electrical configuration are confirmed per model and per project.

Commissioning, handover and compliance

A cold room is handed over as a working system, so plan the commissioning steps and the records that come with them. Confirm how the room is pulled down to its set point, how door alignment and gasket sealing are checked, and how the controls are set so staff cannot change them without authority. Ask whether alarms are local only or can be routed to a person, and what monitoring the operator will keep. Confirm the handover document set: panel and door layout, electrical and refrigeration data, operating instructions and maintenance tasks. Plan the cleaning routine and the parts the operator should hold on site, including gaskets and filters. The document set for the destination market, refrigerant handling requirements and applicable compliance files are confirmed per model and per market, and warranty terms are confirmed per project.

Questions we ask before quoting

What enters the room each day, at what temperature, and how long does it stay?
What internal dimensions and clear height are available, and how will the room be racked?
Is the duty chilled, frozen, or two rooms with different conditions?
What ambient conditions exist outside the panels?
Does the site need an insulated floor, or is there a suitable existing slab?
Hinged or sliding door, and what width must trolleys or pallets pass through?
Can the condensing unit be placed remotely, and where would it reject heat?
Which electrical supply, refrigerant rules and compliance documents apply in the destination market?

Frequently asked questions

How do I know what size cold room I need?

From the load and the storage plan: what enters each day, at what temperature, how long it stays, and how the room is racked. Product load, door openings, people and transmission are all part of the calculation. Send those inputs and the room design is confirmed against them.

Can a cold room be assembled on site?

Modular walk-in rooms are normally delivered as panels, door and refrigeration components and assembled on site. Confirm the access route into the building, the ceiling height for panel handling, and who is responsible for assembly and for the electrical and drainage connections.

What temperature can a walk-in hold?

The holding condition is confirmed per project from the duty, the load calculation, the panel build-up, the ambient outside the room and the refrigeration arrangement. A single family figure is not published, because a chilled room and a freezer room are designed differently.

Can the room be customized and documented for our market?

Room dimensions, panel layout, door type and shelving can be customized, and market-specific voltage and plug configurations can be covered in an OEM project. Refrigerant handling requirements and compliance documents are confirmed per model and destination market, and warranty terms are confirmed per project.

Send the application and we confirm the model

Share the food or product being stored, target temperature, ambient conditions, available space, voltage, quantity and destination market.

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