REFRIGERATION
Hawkes Refrigeration Engineers Limited provide a full range of Refrigeration services from new installations to repair and planned maintenance of existing systems.
Hawkes Refrigeration Engineers
Hawkes have been involved with refrigeration since 1966. We are able to specify and supply a large number of applications to suit your requirements from fridges, freezers, display counters, cold rooms, blast cooling, process cooling, including full BEMS or stand-alone controls for monitoring and energy management.
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If we haven't listed it and you need it, please call or email us to discuss further as I'm sure if its temperature controlled then we can help.
Refrigeration
Refrigeration is one of the most energy efficient ways to cool any type of material whether it's space or liquid. Plant is used all around the world for a whole number of applications. Call us to find out more...
Refrigeration maintenance across Essex
Commercial refrigeration rarely fails without warning. It drifts — a degree or two at a time, over weeks — until a delivery gets turned away or a freezer full of stock has to be written off on a Saturday morning. A planned maintenance contract is how you find that drift while it is still a service call rather than a loss.
Contracts are written around your plant and how hard it works, rather than sold in tiers. A single cold room might want two visits a year; a production line running around the clock will want quarterly attention and a leak check schedule matched to its refrigerant charge. You get the same engineers each time, so whoever arrives already knows what is in your plant room and what it did last winter.
Condensers and evaporators cleaned
A blocked condenser is the most common reason a system stops holding temperature, and it is invisible until it does. Coils cleaned, airflow checked, fans and motors inspected while the plant is still running.
Temperatures and running pressures recorded
Suction and discharge pressures, superheat, subcooling and cabinet temperatures written down every visit — so the trend is there to read, and a compressor on its way out is something you hear about before it fails.
Refrigerant leak checks and F-Gas records
Leak testing at the interval your charge size actually requires, with the records kept per system and ready to hand to an auditor. How that interval is worked out is on our F-Gas page.
Controls, defrosts and alarms proved
Thermostats and probes calibrated, defrost cycles timed and checked to terminate properly, door heaters and alarms tested. Most temperature complaints turn out to be a control rather than a compressor.
Doors, seals, curtains and drainage
Cold room doors that no longer close, perished gaskets and blocked condensate drains cost more in running hours than almost anything else on the plant, and all three are cheap to put right on a routine visit.
Electrics and safety devices
Panels, contactors, isolators, high-pressure switches and phase protection inspected by NICEIC approved engineers, so the electrical side is covered on the same visit rather than by a second contractor.
Where our engineers cover
The vans run out of 2-6 Gibcracks, Basildon, which puts most of Essex inside an hour and the eastern half of London not much further. If you are in one of these towns, you are already on a route an engineer drives:
- Basildon
- Chelmsford
- Colchester
- Maldon
- Southend-on-Sea
- Brentwood
- Braintree
- Harlow
- Grays
The work goes well beyond that list — across London, Kent, Hertfordshire and Suffolk, and further again for clients with sites in several places. If your town is not named above, it is worth a call rather than an assumption: 01268 556663.
When something has already stopped
Breakdown cover runs alongside the maintenance contract, out of hours as well as in them. Tell us what the plant is doing and what is stored in it, and an engineer arrives with the parts most likely to be needed, rather than making a visit that ends in a second visit.
Compliance sits in the same contract. Leak checking, record keeping and the paperwork behind them are covered on our F-Gas page, and chillers and process cooling on the chilled water page.