Our client has used us several times in the past for equipment and now needed a large capacity fridge upgrade to their head branch facility. Having hands on experience with our fridges at their local mortuary and the experience they had with us over the years they approached us to offer a mortuary solution with the aim of 40 capacity.

Following the survey of a fairly challenging site with different floor levels, gradient in the floor for mortuary floor drainage, structural beams, existing waste services and other obstacles, we designed an initial proposal of 3 drawings to give our client a number of options to review.

After our client had selected their preferred choice we again attended for a secondary service along with our senior engineer to get the design watertight and 100% confident we could install our proposal in the tight confines of the space available, delays or reduction in capacity could not be afforded for this busy funeral home. A lot of effort and thought went into this project to ensure 100% success.

At phase 1 we installed a 4 bay x 4 tier fridge to increase capacity by 16. This gave the client vital capacity before entering phase 2 which started with removal of an old existing cabinet (images below) before replacing it with another 4 bay x 4 tier fridge 16 capacity fridge. On top of a 8 capacity fridge that remained we gave the client exactly what they wanted with 40 capacity.

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New mortuary pending building works finishes: Stainless steel chevron drainage trays on open modular stainless steel racking (for excellent airflow) with full width rollers to allow coffin storage fully height adjustable and lift out for double height space if needed. Installed with 2no. remote premium J&E Hall condensers with low profile searle evaporators. One of our cabinets was set on a steel plinth to raise the cabinet over the raised mortuary floor and raised to improve and maximise tier heights.

Old Mortuary:

Poor quality fridge removed, wood structural fridge with fair amount of water ingress, rotten and corroded fittings meant we have to cut out and force removal of  panels hence could not be salvaged/relocated.