MaintScope · Florist
Florist cool room service
Almost no florist has a service agreement, and almost every florist cool room is set for food rather than flowers. Too cold damages petals and costs more to run; too dry shortens vase life and gets blamed on the supplier. Both are fixable in one visit.
And if it's still running
Know what it's going to cost you — before it costs you
A licenced tech goes through every bit of air conditioning, ventilation and refrigeration you've got, and writes down what condition it's in, what needs doing and when, and what it's realistically going to cost you over the next year and the next five. Plain English, one PDF.
When this equipment stops, stock starts dying the same day.
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What the report actually says
What you’ve got
| Equipment | Age | Condition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walk-in cool room | Unknown | Action | Running colder than it needs to, no humidity control |
| Display fridge (glass door) | ~6 yrs | Serviceable | Door seal on the left showing gaps |
| Shop split system | ~7 yrs | Serviceable | Filters never cleaned |
Needs attention now
- Your cool room is too cold. Most florists run 2–4°C because that’s what the fridge came set to. Cut flowers do better at 4–6°C with humidity up. Too cold damages petals on tropicals and costs you more to run.
- No humidity management. A cool room drying your stock out is shortening vase life, which shortens the life of your reputation.
- Door seal on the display fridge. Cheap fix, immediate power saving.
Your service year
| When | What |
|---|---|
| April | Cool room service — coils, gas, defrost cycle, calibrate |
| Sept / Oct | Second cool room check before summer |
| 6-monthly | Split system filter clean |
| Annual | Display fridge service, seals |
What it costs — next 12 months
| Item | Low | High |
|---|---|---|
| Cool room service, 2 visits | $500 | $900 |
| Display fridge service | $180 | $380 |
| Split system service | $180 | $280 |
| Seals and minor parts | $150 | $350 |
| Total | $1,010 | $1,910 |
Coming in five years
- Cool room compressor — $2,800–5,500 if it’s an older unit
- Display fridge — usually replaced whole rather than repaired: $1,800–4,500
- Refrigerant — older cool rooms on phase-down gas will get expensive to top up
Quietly costing you money
Two things, both invisible. Running 2°C colder than you need costs roughly 5–8% more energy per degree. And stock loss from dry air — if you’re binning flowers before they sell, that’s a humidity problem, not a supplier problem.
What I’d do first
- Get the cool room temperature and humidity set for flowers, not for food
- Service and calibrate — most florist cool rooms have never had a gauge on them
- Seals on the display fridge
How it works
$150 to come out. Everything else depends on what's there.
- I come out — $150.I go through the lot: what you've got, how old it is, what condition it's in. Takes an hour or two depending on how much is in the place.
- You get it in writing within 48 hours.One PDF. What's there, what needs doing and when, what it should cost you over the year, and what's coming further out.
- Anything that needs fixing, I quote on what I find.I can't price a service off a website — it depends on the unit, the access and what turns up when it's open. You'll get a real number, not a guess.
- If you'd rather not think about it again, I'll handle it.Scheduled servicing across the year, timed around your trade. No lock-in — plenty of people take the report and go it alone, and that's genuinely fine.