Adding refrigerated warehouse space in a food facilities building.

Adding refrigerated or freezer warehouse space within a food facility building. Refrigerated food processing and refrigerated food distributors need additional cold storage space can convert part of their food facility building into freezer warehouse space. This requires modification of the existing dry warehouse space into freezer warehouse storage space. The modification is necessary because of the moisture in the soil underneath the cement of the dry warehouse floor will freeze, and then expand and eventually begin to raise the floor upwards. Installation of an under floor heating system is an extensive and costly modification to the food facilities building. The concrete from the original warehouse floor has to be completely removed. Then the installation of the in floor heating system is possible. The actual heat can come from an electrical heating system or from forced air ventilation. The electrical heating system is basically electrical heating tape within a specially designed pad. The forced air ventilation is basically PCV pipes that have ambient warehouse air circulated through the piping system. The electrical or forced air systems are underneath the 6 inch urethane insulation that is between the surface of the ground and the cement of the warehouse floor. When the conversion of the food facilities dry warehouse floor space into freezer warehouse floor space requires the installation of three components which are under floor heating system, specially designed urethane flooring insulation and new concrete. This will provide a stable protection from the expansion of subsurface moisture against the bottom of the new warehouse floor.Freezer warehouse services at the building are then at a larger capacity. Hawk Distribution Services LLC www.hawkds.com is a refrigerated building real estate broker familiar with adding freezer warehouse space in food facilities. Jim Cronin, broker 314-994-0577 or j.cronin@hawkds.com