Cold Rooms · Commercial Kitchens · Mouille Point
Cold Rooms Leaking Water Repair for Commercial Kitchens in Mouille Point
When a cold room starts showing leaking water in Mouille Point, the stock behind it and the trading day ahead are both at risk. Because it is urgent, our Atlantic Seaboard technicians prioritise it, usually inside 60–120 min. A certified technician diagnoses the root cause on site and restores safe holding temperatures without guesswork.
Symptoms
What you may be observing
Water pooling under or around the unit
Ice melting and running off the evaporator
Wet floors creating a slip hazard in the workspace
Visible dripping from the cabinet base
Possible Causes
Diagnosed on site by our technicians
- C01
Blocked or frozen defrost drain line
- C02
Cracked or misaligned drain pan
- C03
Clogged condensate routing from debris build-up
- C04
Defrost cycle overflowing the drain capacity
The Reyds Solution
We clear and flush the drain line, repair or replace the drain pan, and verify the defrost cycle so condensate routes cleanly out of your unit — stopping the leak and the hazard it creates.
Industry context
Commercial Kitchens
For commercial kitchens, refrigeration reliability is a commercial requirement rather than a convenience. Centralised production kitchens running continuous cold loads. The repair is matched to the duty cycle your equipment actually sees.
Cape Town coverage
Mouille Point · Atlantic Seaboard
Reyds covers Mouille Point as part of our Atlantic Seaboard callout zone. Vans are stocked for the faults we meet most often in Mouille Point, so a repair rarely waits on parts.
Prevention
Stop the fault returning
Replace door seals at the first sign of perishing to stop the warm-air ingress that drives many leaking water callouts.
Book a service check ahead of peak trading so the cold room under the heaviest load is not the one that fails.
Keep a documented escalation path for temperature alarms so leaking water is answered in minutes, not noticed at close.
Schedule quarterly preventative maintenance on your cold room to catch wear before it becomes leaking water.
Emergency Dispatch
Refrigeration down? Speak to a technician now.