Walk-in users
Restaurants, caterers and pubs with a fridge that is never empty long enough for the team to wash it.
Cold Room & Storage Area Cleaning
Cold room cleaning covers walk-in fridges, freezers and dry stores in UK kitchens: shelves, floors, seals and spills under racking. Book it when seals are black, the floor is sticky, or stock sits in old spills. Say if the room can be emptied, by form or WhatsApp.
Description
Cold room and storage cleaning covers walk-in fridges, freezers and dry stores in UK commercial kitchens: shelves, floors, door seals and the spills that sit under racking. Book it when seals are black, the floor is sticky, or stock is being held above a dirty deck. It is not a refrigeration repair. Use the quote form or WhatsApp and say whether the room can be emptied.
Black seals, a sweet or sour smell, ice with debris in it, and split stock under shelving are the signs. A quick mop of the gangway leaves the seal and the floor edges untouched.
Who it is for
Kitchens that book this visit
Dry stores
Rooms where flour, oil and deliveries have left a film on the floor and the bottom shelf.
Shared storage
Sites with more than one unit, where a dirty fridge is cross-contaminating clean stock.
Setups
Ways this visit is booked
Walk-in chillers
Walk-in freezers
Reach-in fridges as part of the same visit
Dry goods stores
Cellars used as food storage, not as bars
Included
Included, and what this visit is not
Included
- Shelves, floors and coving
- Door seals and the frame
- Removal of loose debris and food spills
- A food-safe wash and dry before stock returns
Not included
- We do not fix temperatures, fans, gas leaks or door heaters
- Pest infestations need a pest contractor
- We do not dispose of condemned stock as a waste transfer unless that was agreed
How it works
How the work is done
Isolate the area, lift the soil, rinse food-contact surfaces, then write down what was reached.
1Isolate and look
Gas and power go off where we ask. We look at carbon, grease thickness and anything that cannot be reached, and we agree that list before chemical goes on.
2Degrease and rinse
Grease and carbon are lifted, worked, and rinsed off the food-contact surfaces on the quote. Water does not run while food is still on the same bench.
3Record and dry
We write what was cleaned and what is left for an engineer. The kitchen plates again only when those surfaces are dry.
After the visit
How long it holds
The next visit
A washed cold room can hold for months if spills are lifted the same day and seals are wiped. Leaving split milk or meat juices recreates the smell quickly. That is a process issue, not a reason for a weekly contractor by default.
What your team still does
Staff can and should wipe spills and shelves in the week. A contractor is for the full empty, the seals, and the floor under racking that never gets moved.
The wrong job
If the room is not holding temperature, call a refrigeration engineer first. Cleaning a warm fridge full of unsafe food is the wrong order of work.
Quote
What the price is based on
The quote
The price follows the number of rooms, whether they are emptied, and how soiled the seals and floors are. A running fridge we must work around is slower than an emptied one.
Before we arrive
Move stock into another safe unit or raise it so floors and shelves can be washed. Freezers need a defrost plan if ice is holding the soil. Tell us the temperature you must return to before food goes back.
Before you plate again
Stock goes back only onto dry, clean shelves. Check the door closes and the temperature recovers. Seals stay cleaner if spills are not left to dry on them each week.
Testimonial
What our clients are saying
Notes already published for this service.
Services
What we offer
Other kitchen visits booked the same way.
Compliance & Hygiene Certification
A written record of what was cleaned, what was reached, and what still needs another trade.
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Floor & Wall Cleaning
Kitchen floors and wall surfaces washed for grease and soil, including the edges equipment usually hides.
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Full Commercial Kitchen Deep Cleaning
A planned shutdown clean of the whole food room: cookline, prep surfaces, splashbacks and the grease daily wiping leaves behind.
View serviceAreas
Areas we cover
The same visit is quoted across the UK. Open a place for local access notes.
FAQ
Questions on this visit
Straight answers for this service.
Do we have to empty the cold room?
A proper floor and shelf clean needs the stock out or fully protected and moved. Working around loose food is how contamination happens.
Can you clean a freezer that is still iced?
Heavy ice has to be defrosted first, by the site or as a planned part of the visit. We do not chip ice off panels with tools that puncture them.
What about mould on the seal?
Black growth on a seal is cleaned. If the seal has split or the panel is wet inside, that is a repair, and we will say the clean has reached its limit.
Is a dry store the same job?
The soil is different: dust, flour and oil rather than condensate. It is still quoted on this page because the aim is clean storage, not a cookline degrease.
Will you sign a temperature log?
No. Temperatures are your record. We clean. We do not certify that a fridge is holding 5°C.
Quote
Quote this kitchen visit
Name the appliances or the extract run, the town, and when the kitchen can close.
