Commercial Refrigeration Maintenance in Snellville, GA
Most refrigeration failures build for weeks before they stop service. Maintenance finds them while they are still small.
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- Measured firstBefore anything is recommended
- Snellville, GAGwinnett County and nearby
- 20 yearsOwner’s time in the trade
Pierre Refrigeration Services maintains commercial refrigeration for restaurants, convenience stores, grocery stores and schools in Snellville and Gwinnett County: walk-ins, reach-ins, display cases and ice machines. A maintenance visit cleans condenser coils, checks temperatures, defrost, door gaskets and refrigerant, and cleans and descales ice machines, because a dirty condenser coil raises running costs long before anything fails.
What refrigeration maintenance prevents
These are the failures that maintenance catches early, and that cost the most when they are found late.
- A compressor running hot behind a clogged condenser coil
- An evaporator coil icing over because defrost or airflow has drifted
- A door gasket letting warm air in, so the box runs constantly
- A condenser fan motor wearing out after months of running hot
- Ice output falling as scale builds on the evaporator
- A slow refrigerant leak that shows up as a box that will not hold temperature
What a refrigeration maintenance visit looks at
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Condenser coils
Cleaned. A dirty coil is the most common reason a system runs hot and costs more to run.
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Evaporator coils and drains
Checked for ice and kept clear so the box drains and defrosts properly.
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Temperatures and defrost
Each box checked against where it should hold, and the defrost cycle checked.
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Doors and gaskets
Gaskets, hinges and closers, where most warm air gets in.
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Refrigerant and electrical
Charge, signs of a leak, and the amperage and connections that show a part on its way out.
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Ice machines
Cleaned, descaled and sanitized; scale on the evaporator is the usual reason output falls.
Measured every visit, so nothing is replaced early
Each visit measures the equipment rather than just looking at it, so a unit that is drifting shows up before it fails. A drifting unit usually needs a part, not a replacement.
When a unit is near the end of its life, you hear about it while there is still time to plan the replacement, rather than the day it stops.
Want maintenance scheduled rather than remembered?
A maintenance plan puts these visits on a schedule, so nobody has to remember them.
Maintenance for how you operate
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Restaurants
Grease-laden kitchen air clogs condenser coils faster, so kitchen equipment needs cleaning more often than refrigeration in a store.
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Grocery and convenience stores
Cases and walk-ins that run every hour of the day, where a dirty coil shows up first on the power bill.
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Schools
Kitchen refrigeration often stands empty over the summer, and it has to be ready for the first meal period of the year.
What happens after you ask
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Tell us what you have
The equipment, roughly how old it is, and how many sites.
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A visit
Each unit is cleaned, measured and checked.
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Findings
You see what was found, unit by unit.
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Repairs only with approval
Anything that needs a part is quoted first; nothing is replaced without your say.
Where we work
Questions operators actually ask
- How often should commercial refrigeration be maintained?
- Condenser coils need cleaning at least twice a year, and in grease-laden kitchen air that is a floor rather than a maximum. Ice machines need cleaning and descaling on a schedule of their own, because scale builds whatever the season.
- Do you clean commercial ice machines?
- Pierre Refrigeration Services cleans, descales and sanitizes commercial ice machines as part of refrigeration maintenance. Scale on the evaporator cuts ice output in any season.
- What happens if a maintenance visit finds a problem?
- You get the findings and the options before any repair work starts. Most problems found on a maintenance visit are small parts, a fan motor, a gasket or a control, caught before they take a unit down.
- Is there a maintenance plan?
- Pierre Refrigeration Services offers maintenance plans for commercial refrigeration. A plan is set up around your equipment and number of sites, so the starting point is what you run.
Other commercial refrigeration services
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Commercial Refrigeration Repair
When something has stopped working: the symptom, the diagnosis, the repair.
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Commercial Refrigeration Installation & Replacement
Walk-ins, reach-ins, display cases and condensing units, supplied and installed, with the old system measured first.
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Commercial Refrigeration Preventive Maintenance Checklist
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Commercial Ice Machine Maintenance: Scale, Sanitation, and Falling Output
Before the next breakdown: talk to us about maintenance
Tell us the equipment and how many sites, and we will talk through what maintenance would look like.