“Wessex sets the standard with Amazon-level speed, IKEA-like simplicity, and German-quality engineering.”
We support customers needing cold storage, from pharmaceutical firms to festival organizers and businesses with freezer issues. We provide fast delivery and reliable 24/7 service.
What We Do
At Wessex Refrigeration Hire, we provide temporary and semi-permanent cold storage solutions across the UK. Our flexible cold room hire options are designed to scale with your business, allowing you to increase or reduce storage capacity as demand changes.
To help businesses avoid heavy upfront investment, we also offer a cost-effective lease-to-buy option, giving you access to high-quality walk-in chillers and freezer rooms whenever you need them, without the capital expenditure.
Rapid response freezer rentals to protect critical stock during breakdowns or power cuts.
Nationwide leasing of walk in coldrooms and freezers, providing flexible terms, and 24/7 support.
Cold storage fridge rentals for weddings, events and additional capacity.
Our Promise
We are so much more than a rental company, we’re your refrigeration partners, ready to assist when you need us most.
Popular Hire Options
Perfect for trialing new product lines without the risk. From £12+VAT per day for a 2x2metre walk in fridge, including delivery and installation.
High-turnover capacity for food and drink vendors, featuring our unique full-width pallet loading system.
The ultimate convenience for weddings and private events, from £220 per week (plus delivery) which includes racking and lockable doors.
24hr mobile freezer support, protecting your assets when the unexpected happens.
Pest control without chemicals. Collect and return service to quickly treat cloth moths, bed bugs, and carpet beetles.
Customer Focused
Sectors
Secure, monitored storage for high-value drugs and vaccines.
Keeping the beer cold and the food fresh at major UK festivals.
Extra prep space and blast freezing capabilities.
Chemical-free freeze treatment.
Help Centre
Hiring refrigeration can seem complicated. We've put together answers to the most common questions we hear. If you can't find your answer here, just give our team a call!
We offer two main types of refrigeration rental:
We serve a huge range of industries including Food & Drink Manufacturing, large-scale Events & Festivals, Weddings, Butchers, Florists, Pest Control, Smokeries, Dry Ageing, Commercial Kitchen Refits, Retail, Mortuary Storage, Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals, and specialist applications like chemical storage and moth freeze treatment.
We are based in Somerset! For our modular walk-in cold rooms, we offer a full nationwide delivery and installation service across the UK. Our refrigerated trailer hire is focused on Somerset and the surrounding local areas to ensure a rapid, personal service.
For most of our builds we use German-manufactured GOVI mono block units. These are extremely compact, reliable, and efficient — and they uniquely plug into a standard single-phase 3-pin plug. Their peak power draw is just 7 amps / 1,200 watts.
If you have bespoke requirements, or where our monoblock units won't suit, we are happy to provide and install a split system. We'll provide a bespoke quote once we've visited your premises.
Absolutely. Our trailers and cold rooms are all water-tight and built robustly to withstand the most extreme UK weather.
Racking is included in our trailer rentals, and is also available as an extra in our cold room builds.
Yes — we provide premium Fermod door handles which provide secure storage for your valuable items.
Our rooms actively extract heat out of the items you put in, and get started on their job within 15 minutes of plugging in. They're ready to load immediately.
For most freezing applications we recommend -15°C, which is an energy-efficient temperature used across the cold chain sector. For fridges we normally set them at 3°C. Our standard rooms all have a temperature range from -20°C to +10°C.
Yes we do! Contact us for more information on our blast chiller and blast freezer rental options.
Our prices are designed to be flexible! For example, a 2.2m × 2.4m walk-in cold room starts from just £84 per week on our popular 3-year lease-to-buy plan. Short-term event rentals and refrigerated trailer hires have different pricing. For a fast, accurate price, visit our Pricing / Get a Quote page or call us!
It's the smartest way to own a cold room! You rent the unit for a 36-month term, during which we handle all service and maintenance. At the end of the term, the cold room is yours to keep — with no large final payment. It provides total peace of mind and is a great way to manage cash flow.
Our pricing is transparent! For walk-in cold rooms, the price includes delivery, professional installation, an annual 47-point service, full parts and labour warranty, and 24/7 breakdown cover.
Absolutely. Our installations can be qualified to WHO standards, and we offer advanced features like 24/7 real-time temperature monitoring, comprehensive audit trails, and customisable alert systems to ensure you maintain full regulatory compliance for your high-value drugs.
We pride ourselves on our speed! We normally have a large stock of rooms in our warehouse and can offer immediate delivery — often with a modular cold room built and running on your site within 24 hours of your order.
Our expert teams can assemble a standard room in just 3 hours upon arrival.
Yes! Call our 24/7 emergency line immediately on 01458 552 323. We offer a rapid-response service with a 4-hour target response time for urgent needs. We can dispatch an emergency refrigerated trailer to protect your stock while a more permanent solution is arranged.
Your hire agreement includes 24/7 breakdown cover. If you ever have an issue, just call us — day or night — and our on-call engineers will help solve the problem right away. Your operational uptime is our priority.
We're here to provide clear, expert advice. Whether you're planning a project or facing an emergency, our team is ready to help.
