Building A Walk In Meat Cooler

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Building a walk in meat cooler.

Build your frame out of your 2x4 wooden planks remembering to measure a space for your wooden door. We can answer questions if it s not explaine. A standard 8 x 8 x 8 foot walk in freezer when purchased as a package with all the refrigeration equipment shipping and installation costs about 15 000. 10 000 btu 6 x 8 x 8 12 000 btu 8 x 8 x 8 15 000 btu 8 x 10 x 8 18 000 btu 8 x 12 x 8.

One thing you may not know about a walk in cooler is you can make it portable. Building a walk in cooler for justin rhodes. Enjoy a hunt without worrying about a long wait at the processor on the way home. Build an affordable walk in meat cooler with a coolbot and a standard air conditioner and take control of your harvest all the way from the field to the table.

A place for the refrigerator unit is also important to ensure the cooler will stay at a constant temperature. Today we are insulating walls and cutting a hole in the wall. It also comes with controls to operate the freezer. After building the rest of the walk in cooler we added our window unit.

Your walk in cooler should have its own breaker because it will use a great deal of electricity. And the savings don t stop there. Since it uses roughly 40 less energy than a. The hunter s answer to cold storage.

The size of a c you need will depend on the size of your room. Hunters meat processors outfitters and lodges use coolbots for their walk in coolers. The key to building a walk in cooler is using the proper insulation and sealing any leaks. You will need to use rigid foam or a spray foam for the insulation.

Size of air conditioner dimensions of the walk in cooler. Building a walk in cooler first comes the framing of course. That 3 000 includes all equipment and insulation. Good building practice calls for pressure treated lumber on the bottom against the concrete and i think untreated lumber should be ok for the rest of it.

In this video we share how to make your own refrigerator or cooler and maintain whatever temperature is desired. A walk in freezer consists of the insulated box of the freezer the compressor and evaporator to do the work of cooling. For additional savings many farmers repurpose lumber and insulation which allows them to build their cooler for less than 1 000.