Whether it is one bottle cooler or a cold room for a packhouse, our free service makes it easy to price cold rooms in Cape Town. Your request goes to a cold room builder serving Cape Town and nearby areas of Western Cape.
Cold Rooms in Cape Town
Cold room builders around Cape Town put up walk-in chillers and freezer rooms for butcheries, restaurants, farm stalls and packhouses. Summer heat in Western Cape makes the position and shading of the condensing unit important, so builders often want to see the site. Give the inside size and what you will store.
New to this? Read the cold rooms guide for the choices and the questions worth asking before you pay.
Cold rooms & commercial in Cape Town: local notes
Refrigeration technicians in Cape Town work on blast freezers and fish stores around the harbour and Paarden Eiland, cold stores and ripening rooms near the Epping market, and restaurant walk-ins in the City Bowl and Woodstock before the summer rush. Food businesses keep temperature logs, so ask for a written service report. For events at the Waterfront or wine estates, mobile cold rooms are often hired in from Montague Gardens.
What keeps Cape Town cold
Cape Town's refrigeration work stretches from the fishing harbours to the fresh produce trade. Fish processors and freezer stores around the harbour, Hout Bay and Kalk Bay depend on blast freezers and cold rooms, while the Epping market feeds a ring of cold stores, distributors and ripening rooms. Restaurants on Bree Street and along the Atlantic seaboard run walk-ins and under-counter fridges flat out in the summer season. At home, salt air on the seaboard and the False Bay coast corrodes condenser coils and fan motors, and the south-easter pushes dust and sand behind fridges on the Cape Flats. Restaurants, landlords with holiday flats, spaza owners and households ask most.
Typical cold rooms requests in the area come from:
- Households: a small walk-in chiller for game meat or a home catering business
- Restaurants, butcheries and caterers: walk-in chiller and freezer rooms for restaurants, caterers and butcheries
- Factories and cold stores: cold storage rooms for distributors, factories and food processors
Local tips for Cape Town
Common here: restaurant cold rooms in summer, and corroded coils on fridges near the sea. Ask each technician or supplier about this: ask for a coil clean and a corrosion check on any fridge or unit within sight of the sea. Where they work from: wholesalers and contractors in Epping, Montague Gardens, Paarden Eiland and Ndabeni.
Cold Rooms usually suits chiller and freezer rooms for food and farms, done like this: panels, door, cooling system and install. For households, the biggest group here, that usually means a small walk-in chiller for game meat or a home catering business. On the weather side: hot dry summers with a strong south-easter; wet winters bring damp to kitchens.
Service area: Cape Town and surrounds
Requests from Cape Town go to technicians and suppliers who already work in Century City, Woodstock, Epping, Montague Gardens, Paarden Eiland, Claremont, Salt River and the rest of the area. Mention a security estate, a shopping centre with set access hours or a farm road, because they change how the call-out is planned.