As energy prices continue to rise seemingly day by day, people are always looking for ways to cut energy costs. If you own a walk in cooler or freezer, strip curtains can be a quick and relatively inexpensive option that will greatly reduce the amount of energy needed to cool your unit due to decreasing the amount of cold air lost while having the door open.
Strip curtains can be purchased for both walk in coolers and walk in freezers. Strip curtains for walk in coolers are referred to as “normal temp” while strip curtains for walk in freezers are referred to as “low temp”.
As previously stated, the purpose of strip curtains is to significantly decrease the amount of cold air lost while the door of the walk in cooler or walk in freezer’s door is open. These clear strips of vinyl overlap the entire length of your door opening and do an excellent job of not letting cold air escape.
Think for a second about driving your car on a warm summer day, your air conditioning is running and your car is a nice cool temperature on the inside.
You stop to get gas and the minute you open your door, the entire cabin area heats up and it’s like you were never running your air conditioning in the first place. This is a similar situation with your walk in cooler or freezer.
You’re allowing room temperature air to invade your cold walk in cooler or freezer and significantly hinder its performance. This is where strip curtains become important, especially on a unit that sees a lot of foot traffic.
Count on O-Reps, your online source for the best selection of walk-in cooler parts, when you’re looking for strip curtains for walk-in coolers, warehouse door openings, and cold storage rooms.
Save on energy buy PVC strip curtains for your refrigerated walk-in coolers and freezers, cold storage rooms. O-Reps your source for commercial walk-in parts and commercial freezer parts.
Strip curtains maintain temperatures inside the unit and significantly reduce energy consumption when walk-in doors are left open.
Strip curtains can be purchased for both walk in coolers and walk in freezers. Strip curtains for walk in coolers are referred to as “normal temp” while strip curtains for walk in freezers are referred to as “low temp”.
Think for a second about driving your car on a warm summer day, your air conditioning is running and your car is a nice cool temperature on the inside.
You stop to get gas and the minute you open your door, the entire cabin area heats up and it’s like you were never running your air conditioning in the first place. This is a similar situation with your walk in cooler or freezer.
You’re allowing room temperature air to invade your cold walk in cooler or freezer and significantly hinder its performance. This is where strip curtains become important, especially on a unit that sees a lot of foot traffic.
Count on O-Reps, your online source for the best selection of walk-in cooler parts, when you’re looking for strip curtains for walk-in coolers, warehouse door openings, and cold storage rooms.
Save on energy costs when doors are left open, these curtains and doors have a variety of uses, such as wind barriers, sound barriers, controlling dust, and dividing areas of your cooler.
We provide PVC material in bulk rolls and cut vinyl strips, as well as impact and Clear Vu vinyl doors. You can use our vinyl curtains and doors for your kitchen, bakery, produce cooler, and meat departments.
For your peace of mind, we offer heavy-duty impact doors that are perfect for departments with frequent dolly or handcart traffic.
PVC Strip Curtain kits for Walk-ins
For your peace of mind, we offer heavy-duty impact doors that are perfect for departments with frequent dolly or handcart traffic.
PVC Strip Curtain kits for Walk-ins
Save on energy buy PVC strip curtains for your refrigerated walk-in coolers and freezers, cold storage rooms. O-Reps your source for commercial walk-in parts and commercial freezer parts.
Strip curtains maintain temperatures inside the unit and significantly reduce energy consumption when walk-in doors are left open.
When you lower the thermostat to keep perishables colder, you raise your energy costs at least 6% per degree! Installing PVC strip curtains will also extend product shelf life by maintaining a more consistent temperature inside coolers and freezers.
Green experts’ claims that air curtains installed on walk-in cooler entrances save significant energy and refrigeration equipment wear-and-tear is now proven as correct by a fast food restaurant franchisee’s recent in-house energy test.
After outfitting the walk-in cooler entrance with an air curtain, the results state the refrigeration circuit’s compressor ran 1.75- hours less during one week–a 27-percent reduction in compressor run-time and equipment wear-and-tear.
The improvement results in nearly 100 fewer operating hours per year for an estimated annual savings of $447 and a 1.6-year payback on a walk-in cooler entrance air curtain.
Aside from operational savings, the test results are important for restaurateurs, foodservice operations and food retailers faced with the new Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) (Section 312) compliance.
The code mandates air infiltra- tion reduction methods, such as strip curtains, spring-hinged swinging vinyl doors or other options, for all walk-in coolers manufactured after Jan. 1, 2009, but doesn’t specify which is the most efficient.
Air curtains undoubtedly require less mainte- nance, have longer life spans and are safer for employee passage than the alterna- tives. Now, the Arby’s test proves the assumed energy efficiency of air curtains.
“We’re one of Arby’s higher volume stores, and we’ve now proven that installing an air curtain on a walk-in cooler reduces energy and wear-and-tear,” said Doug Cygan, vice president of operations, Donoghue & Pivirotto Enterprises.
“Larger, higher volume restaurants, especially those with the newer design trend of freezer-cooler combinations that result in double the weekly door cycles, would no doubt save more than 27-percent using this technology approach,” said Cygan, a 10-year refrig- eration industry veteran who has an HVAC/R vocational technology degree and also operates a mechanical contracting company, ICA Mechanical LLC, Butler, Pa.
Other options Cygan considered were strip curtains and hinged vinyl doors, neither which seal a doorway as well as air curtains and both impede employee ingress.
“They’re instructed not to, but employees eventually tie the strip curtains out of the way to a piece of conduit because they’re impeding and not very user-friendly,” said Cygan.
The test compared one week of unaltered operational statistics of a 26-year-old, two-ton walk-in cooler manufactured by Kolpak, Manitowoc, Wis., to another week’s results after installing a E/K-Zone air curtain by Berner International.
The test recorded five variables: temperatures in the back interior and at the door entrance of the walk-in cooler, kitchen temperature, and amp draw of both the compressor and the air curtain.
Green experts’ claims that air curtains installed on walk-in cooler entrances save significant energy and refrigeration equipment wear-and-tear is now proven as correct by a fast food restaurant franchisee’s recent in-house energy test.
After outfitting the walk-in cooler entrance with an air curtain, the results state the refrigeration circuit’s compressor ran 1.75- hours less during one week–a 27-percent reduction in compressor run-time and equipment wear-and-tear.
The improvement results in nearly 100 fewer operating hours per year for an estimated annual savings of $447 and a 1.6-year payback on a walk-in cooler entrance air curtain.
Aside from operational savings, the test results are important for restaurateurs, foodservice operations and food retailers faced with the new Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) (Section 312) compliance.
The code mandates air infiltra- tion reduction methods, such as strip curtains, spring-hinged swinging vinyl doors or other options, for all walk-in coolers manufactured after Jan. 1, 2009, but doesn’t specify which is the most efficient.
Air curtains undoubtedly require less mainte- nance, have longer life spans and are safer for employee passage than the alterna- tives. Now, the Arby’s test proves the assumed energy efficiency of air curtains.
“We’re one of Arby’s higher volume stores, and we’ve now proven that installing an air curtain on a walk-in cooler reduces energy and wear-and-tear,” said Doug Cygan, vice president of operations, Donoghue & Pivirotto Enterprises.
“Larger, higher volume restaurants, especially those with the newer design trend of freezer-cooler combinations that result in double the weekly door cycles, would no doubt save more than 27-percent using this technology approach,” said Cygan, a 10-year refrig- eration industry veteran who has an HVAC/R vocational technology degree and also operates a mechanical contracting company, ICA Mechanical LLC, Butler, Pa.
Other options Cygan considered were strip curtains and hinged vinyl doors, neither which seal a doorway as well as air curtains and both impede employee ingress.
“They’re instructed not to, but employees eventually tie the strip curtains out of the way to a piece of conduit because they’re impeding and not very user-friendly,” said Cygan.
The test compared one week of unaltered operational statistics of a 26-year-old, two-ton walk-in cooler manufactured by Kolpak, Manitowoc, Wis., to another week’s results after installing a E/K-Zone air curtain by Berner International.
The test recorded five variables: temperatures in the back interior and at the door entrance of the walk-in cooler, kitchen temperature, and amp draw of both the compressor and the air curtain.
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