Having to have your refrigeration repaired is often a costly and stressful time, and it’s frequently due to something that was overlooked: regular maintenance. Of course, you may be reading this and be thinking “my fridges/freezers are fine! I haven’t had it maintained in X months/years!”
Your Refrigeration System Probably Isn’t Fine…
It’s extremely likely that, if not recently maintained, your refrigeration systems have hidden faults that can be hard to notice by just looking at them. I know, maintenance means downtime. Downtime is something that you generally want to avoid. However, in this case, it is necessary if you want to prevent even more downtime in the future due to failed components.
Repair bills are often extremely expensive and can be stressful to pay. (Who knew that a few parts of a refrigeration system cost that much when needed in a hurry?)
Regular Maintenance To Improve Efficiency
When a system is not regularly maintained, it can stop being as efficient as it is supposed to be. This can cause issues if you are using it to store food that needs to be kept at a certain temperature. Your highly expensive frozen products could be defrosting due to a fault in your system and it may be difficult to tell until it’s too late.
Regular planned, preventative maintenance (PPM) can help sustain the efficiency and cost effectiveness of your refrigeration unit.
Regular Maintenance To Reduce Downtime
Repairs can also take a long time to resolve, with some faults being extremely quick to diagnose and resolve but others being more difficult. Of course, this is usually down to the situation.
Things that can change how long a repair takes can be:
- How common the fault is?
- If parts must be ordered in or not
- Site location
- The type and size of system
Of course, upon diagnosis, our team is up front and transparent about how long we think the repair will take – regardless of the time span. Under perfect conditions, larger faults in bigger systems can take 2-3 days to be resolved, but smaller systems can potentially be fixed in a few hours.
However, if you even suspect something is wrong with your refrigeration system, it’s better to call a repair team and make sure. If you were right, you just saved yourself a costly bill. If you were wrong, you still put to rest that worry in your head.
While a rapid repair service is essential if a fault is detected, you are still looking at downtime while the issue is resolved.
With regular PPM, a lot of common faults can be detected and resolved before they become an obvious issue, saving you money, inconvenience and downtime.
Planned Preventative Maintenance
Many large refrigeration systems, such as cold rooms, are extremely complex. This can lead to all kinds of faults if they aren’t maintained by a good company. Of course, issues such as built up dirt and overheating are hard to notice by yourself, that’s why we recommend planned preventative maintenance.
Planned preventative maintenance is a flexible maintenance service designed to keep your refrigeration systems in peak condition. It’s designed to be extremely cost-effective and can save you money on running costs and energy consumption.
In the end, the old saying is true. Prevention truly is better than cure. If you can get your systems regularly maintained, do so. It can save you a costly bill in the long run. So, to answer the title, yes. Yes, it is.
If you need advice on repairs or planned preventative maintenance, you can contact us through our main website or by calling us on 01296 428783!