Moving a fridge

[crossy67]

I am going to be moving a large commercial fridge in a couple of days, the restaurant is open and functioning so we will be needing to get the new fridge up and running asap. Is this thing of leaving them to settle an old wives tale or true? Any HVAC engineers able to confirm or dismiss this please.

Ta all.

[crossy67]

It's going to have to be taken on its side up a flight of stairs. Really looking forward to it, it's a 2m x 1.4m stainless fridge unit and it's very heavy.

[crossy67]

A couple of hours is no problem, we can probably spare 12 without too much hardship. I was a bit confused as to how a gas would need to separate, it looks like that's bull but the compressor has oil in it what would need to settle if it leaves the sump.