Space is always a premium in any industry, and cold storage is by no means an exception. With residential and commercial areas jostling against each other for room, it’s perhaps unsurprising that suburban homes can sometimes be found wall-to-wall with entire industrial units. Needless to say, industrial units make noisy neighbours. Yup, there is such a thing as noise pollution too! This refers to the amount of ambient noise a given building or business makes that can disturb nearby residents if the business is in an urban or suburban setting, or the local wildlife if a company is out in the sticks. Fortunately for those looking for cold storage space, quiet cold rooms are indeed a possibility and perhaps even a Godsend.
The rise of quiet cold store
The relationship between your business and your community should really be as harmonious as possible. It is, after all, simply the polite and neighbourly thing to do to be mindful of those who live around you. Willingly allowing noise to disturb nearby homes does not at all reflect well on your or company.
An actual example of how quiet cold rooms that run quietly can help integrate a cold storage unit into the surrounding neighbourhood more amicably can be found in Fenelon’s Butchers in Stillorgan. Upon opening a cold storage unit within a residential area, the owner of the company was very concerned about complaints of noise were he to use a conventional unit. Approaching CRS Cold Stores, he was able to acquire for himself a quiet cold room capable of keeping his products chilled without disturbing the neighbours. In response, they provided him with an exceedingly quiet Zanotti unit, which they were also able to later stack with another unit to double his storage space. Sure enough, after a year, the company received not one complaint about noise.
Using the Zanotti as a case model, a quiet cold room typically generates around 47 decibels (dBAs) of noise. To give a point of comparison, 45 dBAs is about the amount of noise a living room typically makes with a radio or TV on in the background. 60-65 dBAs is about the amount of noise an average conversation makes and 70 dBAs is about the amount of noise you’d hear living next to a fairly busy main road. With this in mind, 47 dBAs is actually fairly quiet indeed.
Of course noise travels more at night, however at a mere 47 dBAs the noise generated can easily be blocked out with a decent set of double-glazed windows. Nothing at all for you or your neighbours to lose sleep (literally) over.
Another bonus with using quiet cold stores can be found in the allowance of storing things outside your buildings. As it’s not going to be disturbing anyone soon, why not? Quiet cold rooms will therefore free up space to be used to other ends, such as finishing goods or display. To find our more about our Zanotti cold rooms - visit the quiet cold rooms page or give us a call on 1890 929 824 or fill in a contact form.
