[Polar Bear]

If it's already been discussed, I apologize. Just point me in the right direction, but I'm wondering how well a freezer...or possibly even a refrigerator/freezer...works in a hot garage. Seems like it should work okay as long as it's fully sealed and all, but it gets VERY hot in the garage in the summer!!

Would it work well? And even if it would, would it use a lot more electricity than I might want to pay for??

Any input appreciated.

[kittygilchrist]

and just in case you weren't aware, the freezer will create more heat...

[Bogie Shooter]

Mine keeps my Yuengling very cold. In the grand scheme of things I don't worry about what little extra electricity the fridge might use. Remember, we only go around once!

[George Bieniaszek]

I have a west facing garage door in my CYV and I insulated my door by installing sytrofoam panels. It definitely made a difference in reducing the heat buildup in the garage and I am sure that it will help in the operation of your freezer if you choose to keep it in your garage.

[Polar Bear]

Thanks. Kind of what I expected wrt a freezer. How about a refrigerator...is that viable too?

[gomoho]

We have had a fridge in our garage since we moved in so I have no idea how it affects the electric bill. I can tell you it is a godsend for beverages and during holiday entertaining.

[jnieman]

Love having our extra frig in the garage. It's one of the smaller ones but just the right size for our sodas, water, gatoraid, etc. Always full for us and for company.

[villager]

We have both a freezer and a refrigerator in our garage and have for years. Haven't had any problems and love having the extra space in both, especially during the holidays.

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by villager

We have both a freezer and a refrigerator in our garage and have for years. Haven't had any problems and love having the extra space in both, especially during the holidays.

Ditto. Although I realize the difference between Florida and Vermont heat, our big upright freezer is in the garage and next to it is our side by side refrigerator freezer.......it gets hot and humid in our garage during the long summer months.......but would not do away with either.

As you mention, the extra space is always needed....during the holidays and during summers when family and friends get together here. I can't imagine doing away with the extra storage. In TV, if we could, and if they would fit, we might keep a freezer in the laundry room...........if not, we'd definitely put it in the garage.

[Cantwaittoarrive]

Please it doesn't get that hot here. We used to have a fridge and freezer in our garage back home and it did fine in 100+ heat. I don't see a difference in the electric bill in TV with my fridge in the garage

[PaPaLarry]

We also have refrigerator/freezer in garage, and has done very well for 3 years. In fact, lawn people, keep saying how nice and ice cold the beer is!! Takes the heat real well. Gives us much more room in new refrigerator we just bought.

[Topspinmo]

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.

[senior citizen]

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...........