In the midst of a heat wave in Paris, Dany Boudjema, cooling, continues interventions. It works up to “16 hours a day” to absorb the high demand for repair and maintenance of refrigerated systems, even in hospitals.
Dany Boudjema, 32, cooling in Paris, arrives “already hot” in front of the Gustave Roussy hospital in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne), where the outer temperature reached Tuesday 38 ° C.
The cancer control center is not usually part of its customers, but accepts new interventions “to absorb the application.” When taking the elevator, his phone does not stop vibrating: “It’s all day.”
Danny Boudjema must be activated so as not to be late in his next interventions. The sun hits the roof where it goes up to inspect the machinery. Heat makes his work “more exhausting.” “It’s rare for us to be in the cold rooms.”
The refrigerated windows of the hospital dysfunction staff. “It is complicated without, because it allows the maintenance of sandwiches in the refrigerator. Here, we feed 3,500 people,” explains Cyril Fourdrinier, hospital staff manager.
Restaurants, “The greatest amount of hurry”
With the episode of the heat wave experienced by France, other refrigerators see the increase in demand. “It explodes. I have more than 50 calls per day for repairs, appointments …”, testifies to José (I did not want to give his last name), 40, also a cooling in Paris.
“They harass us when the cold room is broken,” confirms Dany Boudjema, understanding: “Without cold, we cannot keep the food.”
The refrigerator is returning to its next appointment: the refrigerated window of a butcher shop in Surresnes (Hauts-de-Seine) that no longer works.
Along the way, he gets angry: “My client I will see, I know very well that he didn’t keep enough.” For the professional, lack of maintenance is the main cause of air conditioning and cooling failures in summer.
The temperature rises in the South Carnage store when Mr. Boudjema arrives. “As soon as it’s hot, he suffers. And there, he could lose goods,” said Mohammed, the manager, who pressed the fridge a few minutes before by phone.
The air conditioning application explodes
The refrigerator sector, which met in 2022, almost 14,000 companies in France, is also requested to install air conditioning in companies as in people.
Given this abrasing episode, installation requests explode.
Engie Home Services, specialized in energy equipment, has told AFP that you have seen your number of price requests increasing considerably in recent weeks.
The Group registered 8,374 applications in June 2025, against 2,931 in the same month last year.
Source: BFM TV
