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freezer qustion

geegerbee — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:44:36 GMT

My basement upright freezer died. To save money, I bought a smaller chest freezer for the garage. i live in Cleveland, OH. Someone just told me it shouldn't be put in the garage because it is too cold during the winter in an unheated attached garage. Does anyone have any experience with this...a freezer in the garage failing etc?

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Mz iMac — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:50:20 GMT

My parents who lived in N.J., kept a chest freezer in the garage for over 30+ years. Never an issue. The person they sold the freezer to keeps it in their garage too.

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jackthebear — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:52:55 GMT

Garage has temperature extremes makes it work

harder in summer and cold can’t be good either

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blackhole99 — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:53:49 GMT

Yes, I was told the freezer will have to work harder if the outside temp is too low or the inside temp is too hot. I have my Kenmore chest freezer for 40 years, it's in my basement which is usually 62 to 71 degrees year round. I only have to defrost it once a year and it takes about 20 minutes.

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x Hedge — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:58:04 GMT

yeahhhh ... I dunno about that.

Refrigerants are different these days. Might not be so tolerant of extremes in ambient temps.

I'd check at the manufacturer's website for a FAQ or 'ask us' section.

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Nightowlz — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 01:59:40 GMT

We have an upright freezer in the garage. If it's not full we put water in milk jugs to put in there. Your freezer works better when it's full. We have some milk jugs of water right now since we just defrosted it this past weekend.

It gets in the 100°'s in the summer & can get down to 0° but not often in the winter.

My dad had a refrigerator freezer in his garage that did not last long at all. It said in the book that came with it not to put it in the garage.

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Foxxee — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 02:08:03 GMT

We had an upright freezer in the garage. It died at 7 years. We think it was because the garage frequently heated over 90 degrees in the summer and it ran all day.

We keep our garage heated to between 33 and 35 degrees in the winter so I don't know how a freezer in freezing temperatures would be effected.

We think the high summer temperatures shortened its life.

But, there is an old 1950's refrigerator in the garage with an old style freezer sitting at the outside wall where it might be subject to freezing, definitely, very hot temps. It is still working.

The only thing I can say is, they don't make them like they used to.

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Mom2Dogs — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 02:08:19 GMT

I have a small chest type freezer in the garage, I live in midwest. Garage is unheated, I have not had any issues in the 10 years I have had it.

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Kachina624 — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 02:13:17 GMT

Google it.

http://thehtrc.com/2015/faq-where-should-i-place-a-stand-alone-freezer

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panda1234 — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 02:35:18 GMT

Had mine in the garage for 24 years and everything is ok

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deeva — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 02:43:34 GMT

My manual defrost chest freezer was kept in our garage in Chicago for 19 years without any problems. That freezer lasted 28 years.

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J Town Girl — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 02:56:06 GMT

We have both a smaller upright freezer and a small chest freezer in our garage and have had them for years without any issues.

We did try to put an extra refrigerator in our garage and it did not work well at all. We could not get the temperature to 38 degrees. It stayed very warm. It was a new refrigerator that we had bought for extra beverages and extra food.

After trying it for a few weeks and even having Sears take it back and bring a new replacement it still didn't work. We finally gave up and just had Sears pick it up and return it to the store.

We were told by several people that had it been an older refrigerator it probably would have worked in our unheated garage but the newer ones just need to be kept in a heated environment.

For some reason, the freezers seem to work okay in an unheated garage.

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deeva — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 16:08:12 GMT

I was told by a refrigerator repair man that frost free freezers don’t last long in a garage.

Something about the fan used for defrosting runs constantly in a garage and burns out.

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AuntG — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 18:39:00 GMT

We had a 10 cubic foot freezer in our garage for 15 years. Live in a colder climate than you. Never had a problem. I've been told cold garages are harder on refrigerators because they keep things above freezing whereas a freezer is below zero. Oh, and ours was a manual defrost which only had to be done once a year.

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jannabelle1 — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 23:28:43 GMT

DH had an upright freezer when we got married and moved to our town home. We don't have a basement, so it went in the garage. That was 12 years ago and it's still working. I'm not sure if the extreme hot/cold in the midwest is good for it, but we'll keep it until it decides to shut down!

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ID2 — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 09:47:17 GMT

My (2) garages are heated so no problem here with my frigs/freezers out there.

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novamc1 — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 11:17:31 GMT

Before moving down South to a cheaply built new home with no insulation in garage doors or walls, we lived much further north in a house where the garage was often warmer in winter than elsewhere in the house and cooler in the summer..........all because of good insulation and quality of construction, including insulated garage doors that we eventually installed.

I'm now trying to figure out how some of my nearby neighbors in this relatively new community are keeping fridge-freezers in their garages. I wouldn't dare try. No insulation worth mentioning is anywhere here.

Our garage is freezing cold in winter and warm or warmer than outdoors in summer.

So I guess it all boils down to quality of insulation in a garage and what the appliance factory says about the issue. I've seen small-appliance manuals advising against storing the gadget in a garage, because electrical cords can deteriorate from freezing and overheating.

Compressors and refrigerants supposedly don't work well for long under exreme temperatures, either.