Rob Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 I want to put my fridge freezer in the garden shed, it's uninsulated of course. I can turn off the upper fridge section independantly of the freezer. I need to wire in power and build a platform to raise it off the floor and do somethig to prevent mice getting to it. Will it thaw out in colder weathers? I have considered building an insulated enclosure for it, with the smallest air gap possible at the top, to allow the motor and heat exchanger to heat up the space. I can't afford to insulate the shed though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyT Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 No need to insulate mate. The compressor and evap will kick out enough to keep ambient heat up enough to allow for defrosting in colder weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnA Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 I've got one in my shed and it hasn't clapped out yet. Make sure that the freezer can operate in extended ambient temps though, some *have* to be at room temperature. Also make sure that no mice/rats can get in the shed, they can eat the insulation of the cables and create a short circuit. Fitting an RCD can help, but make sure it is always reset after a powercut (otherwise your stuff will defrost and will have to be thrown away) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted June 18, 2007 Author Share Posted June 18, 2007 Cables will be up high, but I suppose mice get everywhere, and there are defintiely mice in there as they ate all the fish food. This is all my wifes fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitesupraboy2 Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 and there are defintiely mice in there as they ate all the fish food. They like Ben and Jerry's ice cream too! smart mice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supragal Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 I had my giant lovely fridge/freezer in my shed waiting until I re-did the kitchen so I could fit it in. Sadly the power to the shed tripped and I didn't realise for ages. There was chicken in the there. It has to be thrown away. But before that irritating expensive disaster then it was fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 Life is a long series of irritating expensive disasters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 I have a freezer outside, literally, bare to the elements. Not blown up yet....Looking a buit rusty though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnA Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 Cables will be up high, but I suppose mice get everywhere, and there are defintiely mice in there as they ate all the fish food. This is all my wifes fault. I've used ducting for cables, wherever possible. They still ate their way into the shed, I had to use rat poison to smoke them out. They died and partially decomposed. One was almost as large as my cat. Not cute. Now I've used steel/aluminum strips wherever needed (they can only leverage and eat at specific points) and troubles are no more. If there's food, they'll get to it. They'll even eat through plastic bags to get to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith C Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 I just put ours in the shed and turned it on. Keeps beer chilled and BBQ supplies frozen, hot or cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARTIN R Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 should be fine:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted June 18, 2007 Author Share Posted June 18, 2007 Cool. Although I'm sceptical that John A had a mouse as big as a cat, I suspect it was actually a cat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangerous brain Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 Erm actually it will be cheaper to run in the colder environment as its not trying to cool stuff from as high a temperature. Lets face it if the freezer fluid don't freeze at internal freezer temps of -20 then it may not freeze at shed temps of -5 ish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnA Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 Cool. Although I'm sceptical that John A had a mouse as big as a cat, I suspect it was actually a cat. It was a freaking rat, it's body was a bit bigger than a SKY remote. The hole they had created for entry could barely fit two fingers, so it must have been very flexible to fit through (maybe it was young and grew large from eating all the food, who knows...) There were 5-6 mice dead as well (I sealed the holes and fed them rat poison, so they all died. I hated doing this:( , but they just wouldn't be flushed out, they are very intelligent creatures) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted June 19, 2007 Author Share Posted June 19, 2007 Mice are the most intelligent creatures on earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnA Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 That's why poisoning them is a bit un-sportsmanlike. Not cricket. I did try to lure them out but most stayed hidden. They had made a big mess and just wouldn't stop eating the shed ffs... Anyway, their bodies ended up in the incinerator and the ashes have been used in the trees, so their spirit lives on. If they re-incarnate as something big I'm in trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangerous brain Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 Unsportsmanlike??? You are having a laugh matey. Unsportsmanlike is some little sh*t head waking you up on que at 5 am every morning scratching on your ceiling having gotten into your attic. Being clever enough to not fall for any of the traps the council put down at the cost of a days holiday and £30 fees a time and laughing in your face when you catch the big assed mo fo halfway down your ivy and have no bat/implement to whack his smug ass with. Don't feel sorry for these harbingers of disease, stamp on their overly intelligent, smugness smugnesson asses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnA Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 We have taken away their habitat, concreted over the land, fenced everything, cut down the trees and keep the produce to ourselves. Same with birds, foxes and all other natural inhabitants of this planet. The least we can do is try not to kill them for stealing back the food. (yeah, I used to burn ants as a kid, and shoot cats/birds with my airguns and BB guns. Does this make it right?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangerous brain Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 Yeah but look how many sewers we've given them to play in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnA Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 True. A feast of a labyrinth, all to themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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