Build a maintenance and defrost rota your team can actually follow.
Pick the equipment, set how busy the site is, then print a service-ready plan. It turns Craven’s troubleshooting checks into a wall schedule and tells you when the job has moved from staff maintenance to engineer work.
01 / Choose equipment
The rota changes by equipment type. The engineer interval is deliberately editable because site contracts and risk levels vary.
02 / Staff tasks
Switch off anything that does not apply. Keep F-Gas, electrics and persistent faults for the engineer brief.
Plan signal
Staff rotaThis fridge plan uses Craven’s two-month prevention rhythm for condenser cleaning, drain flushing and door-seal checks.
Live thermometers and monitoring
Category 3751 helps keep the rota tied to real temperature records.
Printable maintenance wall sheet
Use this as a staff record and an engineer handover note. It is built to make the next service call shorter.
This is an operational planning tool. It does not diagnose faults, set a legal F-Gas interval, or replace a service contract. Refrigerant and electrical work belongs with a competent engineer.
Email me this schedule or get a quote
We can email your maintenance plan and quote servicing, monitoring or replacement kit from live Craven stock.
Grounding
- Craven’s fridge troubleshooter says condenser cleaning and drain flush belong on the rota every 2 months, monthly in a busy kitchen, with the door-seal paper test while you are there.
- The same troubleshooting material says commercial fridges auto-defrost 2-4 times a day for 15-20 minutes, and emergency manual defrost is temporary 2-4 hour relief.
- For ice machines, Craven’s troubleshooter says water filters should be changed every 6 months, more often in hard-water areas like South Wales.
- Live rails use Store API categories 3751 thermometers and monitoring, 3945 cleaning chemicals, 3873 canopy filters and spares, and 765 upright fridges.