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Originally Posted by Rc Moser
Haer in okieland  temps reach actual 110 degrees or more in the summer  . So garages are nice and toasty. Only thing I can recommend would be to semi-annually (about twice year) remove the back cover and the front vent cover and blow the dust bunnies out from the fan and coils. Dust build up reduces air flow and over time will cause you ref. and maybe freezer over heat (most freezers are sealed better with no visual vent opening) run hotter than normal and may cause it to stop cooling which would be the first thing I would check it that happens  . |
Excellent advice. Do follow it (those of you , like us, with freezers and refrigerators in the garage).
This past summer was VERY HOT up here, long string of days and weeks in the mid to high 90's with very oppressive, unrelenting humidity.
Not like the Vermont summers of old when you might get a very short "heat spell" and it was gone........
Unlike our home interior, which is airconditioned, the garage is NOT.
For those of you who say it is NOT hot in The Villages, we must have switched weather patterns , for sure.
Anyway, we had hoped to get some more life out of our tall upright freezer; the side by side refrigerator / freezer was good, having come from our kitchen when we bought the new S/S appliances.
The freezer started acting up......my husband noticed that his ice cream was softer than it should be.......long story short........he did all of the things that RC Moser advises to do (above post). I kept my fingers crossed as the last thing we wanted to buy now was a new freezer for the garage......when we had plans of selling the home.
We called our "go to" appliance repair guy; he did the same thing my husband did.........no luck when he returned a few hours later.
Long story short, we ended up buying a brand new freezer (which we will move with us to THE VILLAGES).........it's great. That other one didn't owe us anything as it was twenty years old......and in a VERY HOT garage in Vermont. The new one has survived out there middle to end of summer and now autumn which had a lot of Indian summer heat days.
I have a big capacity French door refrigerator freezer in the kitchen, but couldn't survive without the extra storage that the garage freezer provides as we do stock up. That would have been the one time that it would NOT have been a good idea to stock up......as we would have lost all of our frozen meats, veggies, ice cream, etc. But, it was the first time it's ever happened.......probably just on it's "last leg" as they say......it always survived the summer heat other years...........