Cold Rooms · Food Factories · Mouille Point
Cold Rooms Not Cooling Repair for Food Factories in Mouille Point
In Mouille Point, a cold room affected by not cooling puts the cold chain of a food factory straight under pressure. As a critical fault it is dispatched ahead of routine work, typically within 60–90 min. Diagnosis, repair and verification are handled in a single visit wherever the parts allow.
Symptoms
What you may be observing
Unit runs but cabinet temperature keeps climbing
Product warming, condensation on packaging
Compressor may run continuously without effect
No cold air reaching the storage space
Possible Causes
Diagnosed on site by our technicians
- C01
Compressor failure or inefficient pumping
- C02
Refrigerant charge low from a leak
- C03
Dirty or blocked condenser rejecting heat poorly
- C04
Faulty thermostat or temperature sensor misreading
The Reyds Solution
Our technician arrives with manifold gauges and a leak detector, diagnoses the root cause on site, and restores cooling fast — recharging refrigerant, clearing the condenser, or replacing a failed compressor with a unit matched to your cabinet.
Industry context
Food Factories
A food factory has little margin for a cold chain that drifts. Process-scale refrigeration underpinning production lines. We keep the parts and refrigerant these failures usually need on the van.
Cape Town coverage
Mouille Point · Atlantic Seaboard
Mouille Point is a routine Atlantic Seaboard callout for our Cape Town-based team. Fast access matters most in Mouille Point, and our coverage is built around it.
Prevention
Stop the fault returning
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 not cooling is answered in minutes, not noticed at close.
Schedule quarterly preventative maintenance on your cold room to catch wear before it becomes not cooling.
Keep condenser fins clean and airflow clear — the leading preventable cause of not cooling in food factories cold chains.
Emergency Dispatch
Refrigeration down? Speak to a technician now.