Exterior Protections For Walk-In Coolers or Freezers

July

Maintaining your walk-in cooler or walk-in freezer is absolutely crucial to ensuring that your restaurant and kitchen runs efficiently. There are several general check-up lists that we recommend in order to keep up with maintenance and repairs when needed. Keeping up with routine inspections is definitely the best way to ensure your walk-in unit is working efficiently and running at all times, but what about physical safeguards to help prevent accidental damage to the exterior of the unit itself? Damage to the exterior can lead to air leaks, malfunctioning equipment, and other headaches that can get expensive very quickly. 

For walk-in units that are in heavy foot traffic areas or ares with lots of boxes and other storage surrounding it, the likelihood of a physical accident causing damage to the exterior panels of the unit is likely. Wainscoting, or Diamond Plating, may be installed over the exterior walls to help increase the strength of the walls and protect from accidental damage. .....