Forrestfield's freight yards, shops and kitchens
Forrestfield has two quite different sides. On its western edge are the Forrestfield marshalling yards, part of the rail freight network that also feeds neighbouring Kewdale, along with the warehouses and transport businesses that cluster near the rail lines and Perth Airport. The rest of the suburb climbs toward the hills, with homes, local shopping centres, schools and the cafés and takeaways that serve them.
That gives Sam a wide spread of refrigeration to look after here:
- Freight and storage sites with chiller rooms and freezer rooms for goods passing through.
- Supermarkets and fresh food shops running walk in cool rooms, freezer rooms and open display cases.
- Butchers and delis with meat cool rooms where tight temperature control matters every hour.
- Pubs, clubs and takeaways using drinks cool rooms, prep fridges and ice machines.
The freight sites tend to run larger rooms with heavier plant and more door traffic, while the shops further up the slope usually have a single small room that the whole business depends on. Both need a technician who can read the system quickly and explain the fix in plain language.
Faults cover the full range: compressors that will not start, failed fan motors, refrigerant leaks, iced evaporators and controllers showing nonsense readings.
Cool room repairs Forrestfield owners can book direct
Forrestfield is about 14 km from the Perth CBD. Cool room repairs here are carried out by Sam Celesti, who has been in commercial refrigeration for more than 20 years and holds ARCtick licence AU55592. Commercial Refrigeration Perth is a single company that never subcontracts, so you deal with Sam from the first call to the finished job.
Talk him through the symptoms on the phone for free. After he has looked at the equipment you get a fixed price before anything is replaced, and jobs with stock at risk are put first, 7 days a week.
When the power drops and the cool room does not recover
Suburbs along the foot of the hills see their share of summer storms, and any business can lose power to a network fault or a tripped main switch. Most cool rooms come back on their own when supply returns. Some do not, and the problem is often missed until someone opens the door the next morning.
The things that go wrong after an outage are fairly predictable:
- Controllers lose their settings and reset to factory defaults, so the set point, defrost times or alarm limits are suddenly wrong.
- Pressure switches lock out and need a manual reset before the compressor will run.
- Compressors restart too quickly against unbalanced pressures, which can trip overloads or damage start components.
- Contactors and fan motors fail after a voltage dip or surge, especially if they were already worn.
Sam checks all of these, restores the right settings and makes sure the system has a sensible restart delay. If outages are a regular event at your site, he can talk through alarms that send a message to your phone, so a warm room is found in hours rather than overnight.
Your first half hour after a fault
Before you call, a few quick checks are worth doing. Make sure power is on at the switchboard and that no breaker has tripped. Read the controller and note the temperature and any flashing code. Then decide what stock is at risk: FSANZ guidance is that potentially hazardous food should be held at 5°C or colder, and total time between 5°C and 60°C of under 2 hours means it can be refrigerated again, 2 to 4 hours means use it straight away, and 4 hours or more means it has to go. Keep the door shut while you wait.
Related help in Forrestfield
A routine maintenance check tests contactors, start components and controller settings before the next storm season. After hours breakdowns go through the emergency repair line, and the wider service is explained under Perth cool room repairs.
