Sunday night: phone rings and my manger tells me the walk-in is 55 degrees and the coil is iced up. I hop in the car and drive over and sure enough, 2" of ice.
I turn off the roof top unit, climb up on a ladder in the walk-in with a hair dryer and start get the defrost project happening while the crew knocks out a big night and then transfers food to the various coolers around the place.
By the time the thing defrosts, we discover that the last time this happened, a couple of years ago, an employee chisled and scraped the ice off and hacked up all the fins! I never knew about it. (Train your crew! the little voice in my head reminds me!) The long and short of it is, we need a new coil.
So… I call the refridgeration guy and he comes out on Monday to have a look. Yep, we can get that part and take care of this early next week. In the mean time, the defrosted and cleaned up unit is working fine. I asked him to have a look at the HVAC unit on the roof, change filters etc and have a look at the oven exhaust too while he is up there.
HVAC is fine. New filter installed. But the oven unit needs a belt so we get that taken care of. On that same day, the 12 year old true freezer, which has only been holding about 5-10 above recently rises to 20 degrees… so “would you have a look at that too while you are here” After some poking and proding, it seems the compressor is fine and there is no refridgerant leak but it needs a defrost timer.
All in $3,000. Don’t you love owning a business? Too bad that money is gone. I will not be able to split it with the drivers!
I turn off the roof top unit, climb up on a ladder in the walk-in with a hair dryer and start get the defrost project happening while the crew knocks out a big night and then transfers food to the various coolers around the place.
By the time the thing defrosts, we discover that the last time this happened, a couple of years ago, an employee chisled and scraped the ice off and hacked up all the fins! I never knew about it. (Train your crew! the little voice in my head reminds me!) The long and short of it is, we need a new coil.
So… I call the refridgeration guy and he comes out on Monday to have a look. Yep, we can get that part and take care of this early next week. In the mean time, the defrosted and cleaned up unit is working fine. I asked him to have a look at the HVAC unit on the roof, change filters etc and have a look at the oven exhaust too while he is up there.
HVAC is fine. New filter installed. But the oven unit needs a belt so we get that taken care of. On that same day, the 12 year old true freezer, which has only been holding about 5-10 above recently rises to 20 degrees… so “would you have a look at that too while you are here” After some poking and proding, it seems the compressor is fine and there is no refridgerant leak but it needs a defrost timer.
All in $3,000. Don’t you love owning a business? Too bad that money is gone. I will not be able to split it with the drivers!
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