Cold Rooms · Supermarkets · Camps Bay
Cold Rooms Leaking Water Repair for Supermarkets in Camps Bay
When a cold room starts showing leaking water in Camps Bay, the stock behind it and the trading day ahead are both at risk. Our Atlantic Seaboard team treats leaking water as urgent and responds in around 60–120 min. Our technician works through the electrical, refrigerant and airflow side of the fault in turn, then proves the repair.
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
Supermarkets
Supermarkets cannot absorb a long outage. High-footfall retail refrigeration protecting perishable turnover. Our technicians work to the tolerance your operation needs.
Cape Town coverage
Camps Bay · Atlantic Seaboard
Our Atlantic Seaboard technicians treat Camps Bay as core coverage rather than an outlying callout. Vans are stocked for the faults we meet most often in Camps Bay, so a repair rarely waits on parts.
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 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.
Keep condenser fins clean and airflow clear — the leading preventable cause of leaking water in supermarkets cold chains.
Emergency Dispatch
Refrigeration down? Speak to a technician now.