I purchased a commercial freezer for our home basement. We feed our dog raw and a shelf fully loaded with frozen cubes of meat can weigh a considerable amount.

I purchased a commercial freezer for our home basement. We feed our dog raw and a shelf fully loaded with frozen cubes of meat can weigh a considerable amount. I was skeptical that a consumer grade plastic freezer could hold the weight so I picked up a Williams A400 Commercial Freezer: https://www.williams-refrigeration.co.uk/products/cabinets/amber/A400 https://www.williams-refrigeration.co.uk/products/cabinets/a... About £1800 retail, fortunately I found one on eBay for considerably less. Firstly the thing weighs a tonne, it’s noisy, and it also requires a large ventilated space all around otherwise its efficiency drops through the floor. We ended up having to point a pedestal fan at the rear of the unit to keep the compressor and radiator cool. Service costs were high at £90 just to have someone look at it and replacement parts a minimum of £120. So whilst it can be serviced it isn’t cheap. It also ate 4-5x as much electricity as a consumer freezer of similar size. What you get when buying a commercial freezer or appliance is a device that can take a beating and can be serviced. They cost nearly an order of magnitude more over the course of their lifetime vs their domestic counterparts. So yeah they’re well made but at a very high price.