Walk in cooler repair in Port Aransas.

What Port Aransas does to refrigeration

Port Aransas equipment does a year of work in four months. A kitchen that is quiet in February is running flat out through the season, on the same salt loaded condensers as everyone else on the island, with the added problem that a parts run is a drive and a ferry. That is why we would rather find the failing part on a scheduled visit than at seven on a Saturday.

On the island a walk in is usually the only cold storage a kitchen has, and the season does not pause for a parts run and a ferry. We would much rather find the tired gasket or the weak defrost heater in February than in July.

What usually fails

In order of how often we find it: a fouled condenser that cannot reject heat, a defrost cycle that is not terminating so the evaporator ices over solid, door gaskets and heaters that have given up and are letting warm wet air in all day, a blocked or frozen condensate drain, and refrigerant loss, which is always a leak and never consumption.

Most of those look like each other from outside the box. A coil buried in ice and a low charge both show up as a room that will not pull down. The difference matters because one is an hour with a steamer and the other is a leak search.

What it costs while it is down

Product first, but the number people forget is the hours. A cooler down at open on a Friday can mean a shortened menu, a delivery you have to refuse, and a walk in you have to load into somebody else box across town. We work the call around that clock rather than around ours.

Calling from Port Aransas

Use the Corpus Christi number, 361-558-6946. It reaches the crew that covers Port Aransas rather than a call center in another state. Hours are Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm, Saturday by appointment, with after hours emergency service available for refrigeration.

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