Service / Walk-In Freezers
Restaurant back-of-house freezers, grocery store freezers, and industrial cold rooms engineered for –10°F and below. WFE designs, builds, and installs every commercial walk-in freezer. Family-operated across Ontario and Canada since 1995.
Built for −18°C
Sub-zero operation changes every spec. Four things we will not skip on a WFE walk-in or industrial freezer build.
High-density polyurethane and QuadCore cores from Norbec and Kingspan, factory-insulated with vapor-tight cam-lock seams at every joint. Standard small freezers go up on 4″ panel; larger or harder-working rooms step to 5″ or 6″, up to R-54, so the box holds set-point with the door cycling 200+ times a day. FM-approved assemblies, ASTM E84 and CAN/ULC-S102 fire-rated.
We spec the floor to the traffic: an insulated panel floor with aluminum tread for pedestrian use, or a machine-rated build with ½″ structural plywood and welded ¼″ aluminum chequer plate for forklift and pallet-truck loads. On slab-on-grade we add a heated glycol underfloor loop so frost heave never cracks the concrete from below. A cooler can skip this; a freezer cannot.
Coldmatic 4″ freezer door with a heated perimeter frame and threshold, so the gasket never freezes to the jamb and the sill stays ice-free. Kason hardware and cam-lift hinges self-close it after every pass, and a pressure-relief vent breaks the vacuum lock when it shuts. Diamond-plate kickplate for pallet-jack traffic, with a double-gasket upgrade available for extreme low-temp rooms.
Heatcraft low-temp evaporator sized for a –18°C set-point at your worst-case ambient. Scheduled electric defrost with drain-line heater traces. Low-temp compressor quoted both ways, self-contained or remote condensing, with the math written down.
Cooler or Freezer?
Not sure which you need? The shortest version is below. Many projects also run both side-by-side as a combo build. We quote them together.
Still unsure? Read the cooler page or call us at (289) 813-5293.
What's Included
The same scope sits on every WFE walk-in freezer quote: single 8×10 back-of-house unit or 40-foot industrial cold room. The box specs are above; this is what we do around the box.
Phase 01 · Plan
We measure the space, document the access path, confirm slab condition, and check available electrical service before quoting.
Floor plan, panel layout, door swing, evaporator placement, refrigeration line routing, defrost drain path.
Phase 02 · Build & install
Electrical and refrigeration permits filed and tracked through inspection sign-off. You sign once.
WFE's own crew installs every freezer. Same team that designed it. One point of contact from quote through commissioning.
Phase 03 · Commission & support
Pull the box down to set-point, dial in superheat, verify the defrost cycle, document final operating parameters.
WFE labour warranty layered on manufacturer warranties: panels, compressors, evaporators, controls.
Before / After
Ontario meat-processing build. Same room photographed during the November install week and again in January after panel installation, refrigeration commissioning, and final pull-down.
Operational · Jan 
During build · Nov Sizing
Three typical archetypes from our install book. Real sizing depends on your frozen product mix, delivery cadence, and floor plan. But most freezer projects land in one of these three buckets.
Proteins, ice cream, par-bake
Backstock + ice cream room
Distribution / processing
Not sure which fits? Call us at (289) 813-5293 and we'll size it from your floor plan.
From the Field
Three views from one Ontario meat-processing build: low-temp evaporator detail, the heated-frame sliding door from the dock corridor, and the operational freezer interior at −18°C set-point.
Heatcraft low-temp evaporator with electric defrost. Drain line heat-traced through the panel penetration.
Insulated swing door with heated perimeter frame, pressure-relief vent, and diamond-plate kickplate. The vapor seal here is what holds a –10°F set-point through a 30°C Ontario summer.
Freezer at −18°C set-point with industrial pallet racking and product loaded.
Deep Dive
Expand any section for full detail on terminology, sizing, refrigeration, used-vs-new decisions, and combo cooler-freezer envelopes.
Customers ask for a walk in freezer, a commercial walk-in freezer, a commercial freezer walk-in, or an industrial freezer. The terms describe the same equipment: an insulated room held below 0°F (typically −10°F for general frozen storage, −20°F for ice cream or seafood).
What changes the build specification is the operating temperature, the door-usage profile, the racking layout, and the ambient conditions outside the freezer wall. The noun on the purchase order doesn’t. We build to spec either way.
Deciding between the two? Our walk-in cooler vs walk-in freezer guide compares temperature, panel thickness, and energy use side by side.
A walk-in freezer for sale from WFE is built to your floor plan, not pulled off a shelf, with low-temperature refrigeration sized to hold -10°F even when the door cycles hard.
We build walk-in freezers for restaurants, bakeries, and meat processors across Ontario. Custom takes about 2 weeks, and the freezer fits your space, the racking clears the door swing, and the warranty goes through the people who built it. Contractors who only need the shell can order walk-in freezer panels supply-only.
A commercial walk-in freezer is not a catalog purchase. We size the low-temperature refrigeration to your product load, door-cycle frequency, and target hold temperature.
An industrial freezer serving meat-processing or distribution needs a bigger refrigeration plant and a different defrost cycle than a restaurant freezer or grocery store freezer at the same footprint.
When we quote commercial walk-in freezers, we ask what goes in it, how warm it arrives, how often the door opens, and whether you need a commercial grade freezer for a small operation or industrial walk in freezers for full-scale processing. The BTU rating follows from your answers.
Most WFE walk-in freezer installs are new builds, custom-sized to your floor plan with factory-warrantied low-temperature refrigeration. We also keep a rotating stock of refurbished used walk-in freezers at the Mississauga warehouse, tech-checked and sold with a 3-month warranty. A second-hand commercial freezer off the open market, by contrast, often needs refrigeration work before it holds temperature and typically sells as-is with no warranty, so vet it carefully before you pay.
If you are replacing a failing unit, a trade-in credit against the new build often closes much of the gap. See our walk-in coolers and freezers for sale page for current stock and a checklist for vetting used listings.
Building a freezer box from used or surplus parts is also an option. On the floor now: a used walk-in panel kit with door, a new-surplus Norbec panel pallet, a used Coldmatic 34x78 walk-in door, and a used KeepRite three-fan unit cooler. Low-temp refrigeration for the box is sized and quoted separately.
Most Ontario restaurants and small grocers don’t need a standalone freezer. They need walk in cooler and freezers built together as a combo: a single insulated envelope, a shared wall between the 36°F cooler and the −10°F freezer, one shared evaporator service corridor, and a single permit package. Some operators search for a “walk-in freezer cooler” combo. Same equipment.
Combo walk-in coolers and freezers take up less floor space than two separate boxes and consolidate the refrigeration plant into one rack.
We build combo cooler-freezers across Ontario. Call and we’ll size it from your kitchen plan. See also the walk-in cooler installation page for above-freezing applications.
WFE installs walk-in freezers Canada-wide on a scheduled basis: full Ontario coverage as standard service, plus project-by-project work in Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Atlantic provinces when freight and crew scheduling line up.
The build process is identical to a GTA install: site visit, CAD drawings, panel supply and staging, WFE crew dispatch, freight and lodging worked into the quote. Operators outside Ontario looking for a custom-build shop can send us the floor plan; we quote and tell you whether the project fits our scheduled-install calendar.
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Free Quote — No Obligation
Tell us what you need. One of our senior project advisors will personally review your requirements and respond within one business day, with a ballpark number, not a runaround.
Free Site Assessment
We visit your location and measure. No assumptions, no surprises.
In-House Crews Only
Our long-tenured in-house team does the install. No third-party subcontractors.
Custom-Designed to Your Floor Plan
Every unit engineered to your exact dimensions, not pulled from a catalog.
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