Refrigeration & air conditioning for commercial kitchens in Sydney
Walk-ins, prep fridges and blast chillers are the engine room — when one goes down, service stops. Active's ARC-licensed technicians repair, service and maintain the cold side of your kitchen, keep your temperatures audit-ready, and answer 24/7 when a failure can't wait for the next prep shift.
We answer 24/7 — talk to a real Sydney technician, not a call centre.
In a production kitchen, the cold side is the engine room — downtime stops service
Walk-ins, prep benches and blast chillers don't get a quiet day. When one fails, the cost lands three ways at once. Most faults are repairable same-day — start with commercial refrigeration repairs in Sydney and we triage from your symptom.
Lost stock
A walk-in full of proteins, dairy and prep is thousands of dollars. Once it climbs through the danger zone (5 °C–60 °C) for too long, it's a write-off — and you can't un-spoil it.
Stopped production
No blast chiller means no safe cool-down, and a dead prep fridge halts the line. In a kitchen running to a schedule, every hour down is service you can't catch back up.
Compliance & logging
Under the FSANZ Food Standards Code, cold food must sit at or below 5 °C. A failure with no temperature record is exactly what an EHO inspection and your HACCP program flag.
The cold side of your kitchen — serviced under one number
From the walk-in out back to the blast chiller on the line, here's what we install, repair and maintain for Sydney commercial kitchens.
Commercial Refrigeration Repairs
Cabinet or cool room not holding temp, short-cycling, icing up or leaking — the real fault diagnosed and fixed, same-day where we can.
Refrigeration repairs
Walk-in Cool Rooms
Walk-ins not holding temp, icing up or short-cycling — door seals, evaporators, controllers and gas faults sorted.
Cool room repairs
Freezer Rooms & Blast Chillers
Frozen storage and rapid cool-down kept in spec — defrost faults, frost build-up and blast-chill cycles that won't pull down.
Freezer room repairs
Prep & Under-bench Fridges
Sandwich and pizza prep benches, undercounter units and condensing units — repaired, regassed and kept in spec.
Refrigeration units
Kitchen Air Conditioning
Make-up air and split, cassette or ducted systems that keep the line bearable when the exhaust is pulling hard in summer.
Air conditioning
24/7 Breakdown
Mid-prep or after-hours failure? We answer around the clock so a dead walk-in doesn't stop your service.
Emergency serviceA scheduled maintenance plan — coil cleans, gas checks, seal and drain inspections — catches the faults that fail mid-service, and keeps an audit-ready temperature record for your HACCP food-safety program.
Compliant temperatures, logged, on a response time you can plan around
We work to the realities of an Australian production kitchen — the food-safety code, your prep schedule and the cost of stock on the line.
- Cold-holding kept at or below 5 °C (FSANZ Food Standards Code); freezers at or below −18 °C as industry practice
- Written temperature record after every visit — evidence for your HACCP food-safety program and council inspections
- Same-day metro response where we can for breakdowns, genuine 24/7 emergency line for after-hours failures
- ARC-licensed refrigerant handling (L057415) & NSW contractor licence 330089C — legal, traceable gas work
- Upfront pricing approved before work starts; quality workmanship, genuine parts
≤ 5 °C
Cold-holding target for safe food storage.
≤ −18 °C
Freezer target to keep frozen stock frozen.
24/7
Real after-hours emergency response.
Records
Audit-ready temperature logs every visit.
Refrigeration built around your business
Commercial kitchens are one of eight sectors we look after. Different sites carry different risks — pick yours to see how we tailor the service to what downtime actually costs you.
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4.9 · 12 Google reviews — the detailed reports, fair pricing and tidy work Sydney kitchens describe below.
Prompt, documented and explained — the way a kitchen needs a service done
"Chris arrived promptly… provided a detailed report. The price was fair… technicians were polite and professional. Even took the time to explain how to better use the system. Cleaned up after they'd finished."
— Melissa Jones, 5★ Google review
"For over 8 years these guys have helped me avoid replacing by regular maintenance. Quick response to call outs and always sending experienced, efficient, polite and tidy staff."
"We use the team at Active for our 50 retail sites… always available in an emergency, excellent communication and scheduling and the best price!"
"I can not recommend Chris and his team highly enough. I have used Chris for years… so much knowledge and professionalism… There is no job too big for active fridge and air."
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Servicing kitchens across Greater Sydney
From the Hills to the Inner West — same-day where we can, 24/7 for breakdowns. Tell us your suburb and we'll confirm timing.
See all service areasCommercial kitchen refrigeration questions
My walk-in is warm — what should I do right now?
Can you repair a blast chiller that won't pull down?
How fast can you respond to a breakdown?
Do you provide temperature records for compliance and HACCP?
Do you offer maintenance plans for kitchens?
Are you licensed, and do you give free quotes?
Walk-in, prep fridge or blast chiller stopping your service?
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