Building out a restaurant is expensive. Just designing and finishing an eatery can cost between $100,000 and $300,000. Because startup restaurants are often strapped for cash and face large expenses, they often try to reduce their build-out costs any way they can. One way they often lower their expenses is by opting to use G90 galvanized steel fridges rather than other types of commercial fridges. If you're purchasing a restaurant that has G90 galvanized steel fridges, have a refrigerator repair service paint them so they'll last for a long time.

G90 Galvanized Steel Refrigerators Are Inexpensive

There are four different kinds of metals used in the exteriors, or "skins," of commercial refrigerators:

• Stainless steel, a strong and rust-resistant metal, but one that's expensive
• Galvalume, a strong metal, but one that's susceptible to rust and expensive
• Aluminum, a rust-resistant and affordable metal, but one that's susceptible to dents and scratches
• G90 galvanized steel, an inexpensive and strong metal, but one's that susceptible to rust

While all of these metals have advantages and disadvantages, the choice is clear for many new restaurants that have tight budgets. The low price of G90 galvanized steel outweighs its susceptibility to rust. Because restaurants don't upgrade their refrigerators regularly, many restaurants still have these refrigerators in their kitchens if the restaurants are sold.

Paint Will Stop G90 Galvanized Steel Skins from Rusting

While rust might not be the foremost consideration when building a new restaurant, it should be on your mind if you're purchasing a restaurant. You'll want the restaurant's refrigerators to last a long time, which requires preventing any rust. Because the refrigerators have already been used by a restaurant, they'll rust more quickly than new ones. Painting provides an affordable way to stop G90 galvanized steel skins from rusting.

As Fred Sense details, rust forms when iron (which is in steel) comes into contact with water. The iron and water undergo a chemical reaction and iron III hydroxide is formed. When iron III hydroxide dries, it forms iron III oxide, or rust.

Putting a layer of paint on the metal skins forms an impermeable barrier that water can't penetrate. Because the water isn't able to come into direct contact with the iron in the steel skins, the chemical reaction that leads to rust can never take place.

You Can Have Refrigerators Painted When Transitioning Ownership

For many restaurants, having refrigerators' skins painted isn't practical. It would require shutting down for at least a day so that a crew could come in and paint the refrigerators without interfering with kitchen operations. Additionally, the refrigerators would need to be emptied of food while they were being painted. When the food was moved out of the refrigerators, it would spoil.

Even if a restaurant had multiple refrigerators so that they could be painted one at a time, and food could be rotated between them, painting different refrigerators on different days would require closing operations on multiple days.

Restaurants simply can't afford to lose a business and all their chilled inventory, so many can't afford to have their refrigerators painted.

If you're buying a restaurant, though, you'll have an opportunity to have the restaurant's refrigerators painted. The current owner will reduce their inventory as much as possible, so there won't be much food to spoil, and there will likely be at least a few days when the restaurant is closed during the transition of ownership. This is the perfect opportunity for a refrigeration repair crew to come in and paint the refrigerators' skins. They'll be able to apply paint and let it dry before your restaurant opens, and the G90 galvanized steel refrigerators will be protected from rust for a long time.

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