Choosing between commercial refrigeration companies in Chelsea
Most Chelsea food and hospitality sites run their refrigeration in awkward places: basement prep kitchens beneath listed townhouses, rear lightwells with strict noise limits, and shop floors on the King's Road where plant has to stay invisible. That shapes what a refrigeration company has to be able to do here — remote condenser installs, acoustically treated plant, out-of-hours work in live trading premises, and engineers who can get in and out of SW3 without blocking a narrow service access.
We look after walk-in cold rooms and freezer rooms, blast chillers, undercounter and upright cabinets, multideck and serve-over displays, bottle coolers, cellar cooling systems and ice machines. Every engineer holds Category I F-Gas certification and the company is REFCOM registered, so statutory leak checks and refrigerant logbooks are handled properly rather than left for your EHO visit to uncover.
Labour is £120 + VAT per hour with a one-hour minimum and no call-out fee, and you get a written quote before any chargeable parts. Planned maintenance contracts cover quarterly or bi-annual visits with priority breakdown response — useful for Chelsea restaurants where a failed cold room on a Friday evening can write off a weekend of stock.
What we cover in Chelsea
Walk-in cold rooms & freezers
Modular panel cold rooms and freezer rooms built to fit Chelsea's tight basement kitchens and rear-yard plant spaces, including remote condenser runs where noise limits apply.
Display cabinets & multidecks
Serve-over counters, multidecks and patisserie cabinets for King's Road delis, bakeries and food halls — gas charge, thermostat, fan and glass work.
Cellar cooling
Cellar coolers and remote python cooling for Chelsea pubs, wine bars and hotel cellars, sized for deep Victorian basements with poor natural ventilation.
Ice machines
Hoshizaki, Scotsman and Manitowoc cube, flake and nugget machines — installation, descale, hygiene clean and same-day repair.
F-Gas compliance
Statutory leak checks, refrigerant logbooks and R290/R134a/R404A handling by Category I certified engineers, with REFCOM company registration.
24/7 breakdown cover
Round-the-clock emergency attendance across SW3 and SW10 when a cold room or cabinet fails and stock is at risk.
24/7 emergency
Out-of-hours refrigeration breakdown cover across SW3.
REFCOM registered
Statutory F-Gas company registration and logbooks.
£120 + VAT / hour
One-hour minimum, written quote before parts.