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Now that the clocks have gone back and the nights are drawing in we are busy servicing our fleet of SMC TL90 lighting towers ready to be delivered to our customers.

We now boast a hire fleet of circa twenty Morris Machinery (SMC) TL90 9 metre metal halide tower lights for short term hire or long term rental.

Run time for our rental lighting towers in-between refuelling is 85 hours – 200 hours depending on metal halide or LED lighting heads.

We are currently supplying many Covid-19 testing stations, supermarket car parks, temporary lorry parking, on location, film and TV film sets.

Health and safety, security and ergonomic working conditions are a consideration when working outside.

We have a solution for most applications, either hire a lighting tower short term, rent a light tower on a longer term, lease, or buy outright.

There are two main suppliers of LPG gas that have cornered the market with take overs and buy-outs of smaller LPG gas distributors in recent years which has reduced the number of suppliers. The Coronavirus Covid-19 has created a high demand for more home use of BBQ, Pizza oven, and patio heater appliances. The gas canister or gas bottle life-cycle is such that each BBQ, pizza oven or patio heater that is purchased outright, limits the free market availability of the gas bottle required to operate those purchased appliances.

Our Client is Minna Hughes an up and coming young Pop-Up Caterer already with a lot of experience gained from sheer hard work working with her parents Lisa and Chris Hughes. Minna is 'a doer', she is working on this project with Jimmy Garcia another well-known pop-up catering entrepreneur. Chris was onsite building the structure in record time and tweaking the finer details.

Another successful Drive In Movie site at Hurstwood Polo Club running over a 14 day period.

Our brief was to take specific technical instructions and requirements from ADi.tv in the Netherlands for their 100 square metre iCONIC 100 LED screen hire.

Our technical department were able to set our 100kVA Ultra Silent generators up to accomodate the LED screen's accumilitive earth leakage parameters.

We chose a specific generator for this job for its low fuel usage and ultra quiet running pressue @ 7m.

When ordering the correct size generator there are several considerations to factor in.
Cost difference between hiring the correct generator output size
Waste of fuel oversizing the generator
Excessive smoke from oversize generator due to wet stacking
Risk of failure from over loading an undersized generator
Complications arising from not having the correct power outputs.
Many clients decide to DIY ordering a generator for important events such as weddings, parties, and emergency power outages.
There are a few important pointers you should research before you embark into the event power sector.
Does the emergency on call engineer answer the phone out of hours…..try calling it ?
Have you disclosed the amount of sockets needed by all the electrical appliances at the event ?

To Peter Stuart & TheFridgeCo.co.uk

A Thank-You Message from The Worshipful the Mayor of Harrow Councillor Nitin Parekh

On behalf of the Burgesses & my fellow Members of Council of the London Borough of Harrow may I extend my sincere thanks to you and the TheFridgeCo.co.uk for devoting so much of your time and hard work to support the supply and distribution of emergency food aid during the Covid-19 Pandemic. The wonderful work that the Harrow VCS Forum is carrying out to the benefit of Harrow’s local community in this time of need is truly admirable.

Thank-you!

Week 51 - Our Fridge Engineer Shawn is replacing a Humbaur fridge unit with an uprated FTM16 Rivercold Monoblock.

The new Rivacold unit can chill down 16,000 litres of fridge space to -5C / +5C

Our fridge department www.thefridgeco.co.uk has a fleet of freezer and fridge trailers for hire. Rented chiller trailers are leaving soon to support Covid-19 CoronaVirus hotspot locations around the UK.

With constant door opening and the summer coming up we needed to make sure the fridge unit would cope.

Our thanks to Parker Steel for urgently supplying stainless steel angle needed to enlarge the receiving aperture for the new chiller unit.

Fridge compressor repairs

Evaporator Repairs

Fridge Re-Gasing

Tel 03333 44 2062

Out of Hours 07391 604 110

Saturday 14th March our refrigeration division The Fridge Co is working through this weekend and standing by with a fleet of fridge and freezer units to provide additional food storage capacity in London during the CoronaVirus Covid-19 pandemic.

Sunday 09.34hrs we received a call from a local venue asking if we would be able to attend their venue with a 100kva generator to power up their 38 bedroom venue and catering kitchen. The venue had 200 guests for their wedding breakfast and entertainment thereafter.

Sunday 09.47hrs the venue manager confirmed that there was a 3 x 100amp 380v - 400v supply powering up the venue. The kitchen was mostly gas appliance 4 x Rational ovens and various gas fryers which would all be unusable if the power went down, due to the gas interlock shutting down under a power failure.

Sunday 13.36hrs the phone rang again, the power was still on, the wedding breakfast was almost finished. We stood down our electrical engineer from emergency status to standby.

We are proud to have recently supplied and delivered a very large quantity of Kitchen & Catering Equipment for a 2-week event taking place in the magnificent setting of Fort St. Elmo in Valletta, Malta.