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A refurbished upright freezer holds frozen stock on shelves at eye level, against a wall, in roughly the footprint of a doorway. A refurbished stand up freezer costs more per litre than a chest freezer, and what you get back is the time someone would spend digging through a box for what is at the bottom. The new commercial upright freezers range shows the same cabinets brand new.
Reconditioned upright freezers at REO come off showroom floors, out of demonstration kitchens and off supplier clearance lines. Each one is inspected, tested and verified in working condition before it is relisted for sale, and the scratches or dents on a given cabinet are described on its own product page.
Size the range by door count against 1 door commercial freezers, 2 door commercial freezers and 3 door commercial freezers. Where customers need to see the stock, commercial glass door freezers are the comparison; for bulk out the back, a refurbished chest freezer is cheaper per litre.
Spread the cost with Silverchef Rent-Try-Buy. The wider range is refurbished commercial freezers, and the chilled equivalent is refurbished commercial upright fridges.
These are the top FAQs for Refurbished Upright Freezers
How many doors should an upright freezer have?
Count how many sections draw frozen stock through a service rather than how much stock there is. One door suits a cafe or a single-section kitchen. Two or three doors suit a kitchen where the fryer station, the pastry section and the bar are all pulling from the same cabinet at once.
Splitting the volume across two smaller cabinets rather than one large one is often the better call in a busy kitchen, because each door opening costs cold air and a single cabinet opened constantly never gets a chance to recover. In refurbished stock you choose from what exists, so decide the door count first and let the brand follow.
What is the difference between a stand up freezer and a chest freezer?
Access and footprint. An upright cabinet puts everything on a shelf you can see and reach, in a footprint about the size of a doorway. A chest freezer is a top-opening box: cheaper per litre, better at holding its cold when opened, worse at letting you find anything.
The practical test is stock rotation. If frozen product is a handful of lines bought in volume, a chest freezer is the cheaper buy. If it is many lines picked from daily, an upright pays for itself in time saved and in stock that does not get forgotten at the bottom of a box.
Will a reconditioned upright freezer keep up if I load warm product?
No freezer of any age or condition is good at that. A freezer is built to hold product that is already frozen, not to pull warm or fresh product down, and asking it to do the second job raises the temperature of everything else in the cabinet while it tries.
If freezing down product is part of the job, that is what a refurbished blast chiller is for — it is designed to take product through the temperature range quickly, then hand it to a freezer for storage. Trying to use a storage freezer as a blast freezer is the most common reason a cabinet looks like it is failing when it is not.
What should I check on a used upright freezer's door seals?
Freezer gaskets have a harder life than fridge gaskets. They frost, they get pulled, and they take a set where the door has been shut on them for months in storage. Run a hand along the whole length looking for flat spots, splits and sections that no longer sit into the frame, and pay attention to the bottom corner.
Then do the paper test: shut the door on a sheet of paper and pull it out. If it slides free with no resistance, that part of the seal is not sealing. A fresh set of gaskets on an older cabinet is cheap and it cuts the running time noticeably, so plan on it rather than hoping.
Do upright freezers need a drain or plumbing?
Many do not, and most self-defrosting cabinets handle defrost water through an evaporation tray. Some models, especially larger ones, want a drain connection, and some manual-defrost cabinets simply need somewhere for the water to go when you defrost them. The product page for the unit states what it needs.
Check it before the cabinet is positioned, because a drain requirement discovered after a freezer has been wheeled into a tight corner is an expensive afternoon. Ask us about the exact model if the page is not clear.
Can I put a refurbished upright freezer in a garage or a store room?
A store room is usually ideal, provided there is air movement and the room does not get hotter than the cabinet is rated for. An unventilated space, a garage with a western wall, or a roof cavity will push a freezer well past what it was designed to work in, and the result is a cabinet that runs continuously and still struggles.
Look for a model rated for higher ambient temperatures if the room is warm, and leave the clearance the maker asks for around the condenser. Keep the cabinet off direct sun and away from anything that throws heat, and clean the condenser on a schedule — in a dusty store room that matters more than it does in a kitchen.
Can I rent a refurbished upright freezer instead of buying?
Often yes, and it is worth asking. Silverchef Rent-Try-Buy lets you rent the cabinet rather than buy it, so the cash stays in the rest of the fit-out and the payments are an operating expense. It suits a new site where the frozen volume is still a guess.
Once you know how much frozen stock the business actually turns over, you can buy the cabinet out or step up to a bigger one. Ask us which units in stock can go on a rental, because that depends on the individual unit.
