How are cellar cooling units maintained? Wine refrigeration experts from Arctic Metalworks follow a checklist of things to perform in a regular service plan. All the activities completed in the list are necessary to address common issues in wine storage cooling equipment. Wine cellar owners who subscribe to a service plan avoid unnecessary problems with their wine cellars, and they lengthen the lifespan of their cooling units.
Wine is a very sensitive beverage. It requires a climate controlled storage space, in order for it to age tastefully. You can be sure that you wine cellar is the ideal storage structure for your wine collection by keeping your cooling unit functioning properly all the time.
What is the Purpose of a Wine Cellar Service Plan?
Genuine wine enthusiasts understand the importance of subscribing to a regular maintenance plan for their cellar cooling system. A properly functioning refrigeration unit ensures the protection of their wines from spoilage.
Generally, cellar owners hire cooling experts to perform a regular maintenance service at least twice a year. The purpose is to clean the refrigeration unit’s condenser coil and to detect any problems in the system. Identifying problems through a regular service plan is necessary, so that the issues can be solved immediately.
A wine cellar cooling unit, like all other refrigeration systems, will get dirty over time. If left uncleaned, it will gradually stop functioning. To keep your wines safe from spoiling, make sure your cooling equipment by having it maintained by an HVAC professional. Read more about why a wine cellar cooling unit service plan is important. Click here!
Checklist of Standard Maintenance Service Activities
Arctic Metalworks is one of the most trusted wine cellar refrigeration experts in Orange County, California. We always make sure that we provide quality services to our clients, and one of the ways to do that is to make sure that we perform our work thoroughly. Our technicians follow a checklist of things to do when they provide cellar maintenance services. Each item on the list ensures that all the aspects of a wine cooling system is checked and maintained.
Arctic Metalworks has a checklist of activities to do when performing a maintenance service for their clients. This checklist ensures that the procedure is done thoroughly, so that all areas are checked and all problems are addressed. Find out about the most common issues that cellar owners complain about regarding their wine storage refrigeration systems. Click here!
The following issues are three of the most common problems addressed in most wine storage structures in Orange County:
Reducing Acidity Inside the Wine Cellar
Wine is very corrosive in nature, and it has a great deal of acidic value. This acidity is released into the air, which passes through the wine cellar cooling unit. Over time, the acid in the air damages the refrigeration system.
Arctic Metalworks helps preserve wine refrigeration equipment by reducing the acidity in the cellar air. Our HVAC technicians place activated charcoal inside the wine room. This absorbs the acidity in the storage structure’s atmosphere in order to keep it more alkaline. No other cooling unit service provider does this, and we proudly offer this to our clients.
Wine cellar refrigeration units are designed and built different from average air conditioning equipment. In order to make sure that you refrigeration system is properly maintained, you need to hire an expert to do it. Arctic Metalworks’ HVAC technicians are well-experienced in handling all kinds of wine cellar refrigeration systems. Contact them today!
Cleaning the Condenser Coil
A cooling system’s condenser is the part responsible for taking hot air out of the cellar and directing it outside. Since air passes through this area, the condenser coils inevitably becomes dirty over time. If left uncleaned, the refrigeration unit decreases in its efficiency to cool the room. A dirty condenser coil also forces the system to work twice as hard, and thus the energy consumption doubles.
Our technicians at Arctic Metalworks properly clean condenser coils using carbon dioxide and water, in order to effectively remove clogged up dirt. In cases where the coils are oxidized or rusted, we use a special chemical cleaner to effectively remove the oxidation.
Hiring a wine cellar cooling specialist to perform a regular checkup on your storage refrigeration unit is important. A service plan will allow concealed problems to be identified, so that a solution can be provided promptly. Read about a recent project where HVAC technicians from Arctic Metalworks fixed a wrongly installed cooling unit.
Removing Dog Hair and Other Debris
Finding dog hair clogged up in the cooling system is common. We have had many experiences of cleaning refrigeration units that have a significant amount of dog hair stuck in them. If you own dogs and they often get near the cellar unit’s condenser, you might also have this problem. Besides dog hair, other causes of clogging include dryer vents and weed blowers. Owners who have dryer vents near their cooling unit’s condenser complain of clogging up often. This is also true to owners whose gardeners use weed blowers close to the system’s condenser.
Most wine cellar owners have their cooling units maintained twice a year, while some choose to have it more often. An expert HVAC professional can give you advice on how often your refrigeration system should be checked. Consult a cooling specialist now! Click here!
Most wine cellar owners have their cooling systems maintained twice a year, but if their unit often gets clogged with dog hair or other debris, they might consider having their piece of equipment cleaned four times a year. HVAC experts at Arctic Metalworks can assess your refrigeration system so that you can determine how often your unit maintenance should be performed.
David Gype, the owner of Arctic Metalworks, has many years of experience with various kinds of wine cellar refrigeration systems in California.
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