Freezer won't work in Garage

Hintza

Interesting post.

Just to say we currently have the fridge, freezer and washing machine in a container.

The washing machine has given up the ghost and if it is plugged in trips all the electrics (hairdryer helped stop the short but it still isn't feeling too good.

The fridge might have given up the ghost but it is still too cold to know for sure.

And last but not least the freezer seems fine (touch wood).

My thoughts over the last month or so is these low temperatures and the damp are just no good for home appliances.

Just an after thought the boss has always said she hated he washing machine and wants a new one when the new house is ready which might have some bearing on its demise

kazzah60

my dear brother who is well known in the family for his miserly ways ( well beyond money saving!)
has his fridge freezer in his spare bedroom

that stopped working too - it's a bosch ( he does pay for "premium" appliances - I buy cheap myself)
he was stunned when the engineer told him it wouldn't work at temperatures below 5

yes - that is how cold his flat is !!!!!!!!!!!
he now puts the central heating on a "little higher" and for a "little longer" to keep the FF working !

as for himself- well he sits with a sleeping bag round him !

ariba10

We have had a freezer in a detached unheated garage for the past 14 years. No problems.

We have had night time temperatures of -7 deg C this winter.

aliasojo

ariba10 wrote: »

We have had a freezer in a detached unheated garage for the past 14 years. No problems.

We have had night time temperatures of -7 deg C this winter.

Lucky you, we've got as low as -21 on the coldest nights.

RoseRed

Bit of a pain but it is normal with a lot of fridge freezers that the freezer stops working in low temps. Our FF is in our kitchen but we have coal fired central heating and so obviously can't set it to come on when we are away. Running down and emptying the freezer is part of the rigmarole we have to do before going on holiday in the winter, its a real pain. Its always started running perfectly once we get some heat through the house again.

Foggster

To be fair to Argos when you go to their site and look for F/F they are found under "kitchen and laundry" and not "kitchen laundry and garage"! Sorry thats no use whatsoever but it could well be what they come back with. I have purchased many things over the year that have some strange "foot note" which I never thought about when purchasing. Recently I bought some saucepans, in this day and age you would have assumed they were dishwasher safe, they never said they were or werent but when I read the small print they have to be washed in *goats milk and not to be stored near common cheap utensils!!!


*this is not true but it might as well be because they are particularly delicate!

trisontana

DonnySaver wrote: »

I've got a freezer in the garage - it's a Bosch. It works fine, even during the really cold recent weather when it got below -5 inside the garage!

Is it a fridge freeze or just a freezer? That's the difference. As has been stated on here, a freezer will work in very low temperatures, but you have to have special thermostats for the fridges to work at low ambient temperatures.

pinkshoes

My parents have a fridge in their garage.

Obviously, a fridge is designed to keep things CHILLED i.e. reducing temperature. If the ambient temperature is below that of the required chilled temperature, then the fridge won't work, as that would be HEATING, rather than chilling!

But then if the temperature is below the 5C requirement, why not just put the stuff in the fridge and leave the door open, as no chilling required!?

(my parents only turn theirs on in summer when temperatures are above 5C!)

Esqui

It's more to do with the freezer rather than the fridge. Most F/Fs have a single thermostat and cooling system, which has its sensor in the fridge - hence, if the temperature is too high, it turns the whole lot on and cools both fridge and freezer.

If the outside temperature is below 5c, then the sensor in the fridge thinks it's at temperature, and so doesn't turn on the cooling - which means the freezer isn't cooled, and that warms up to the air temperature, melting everything.

Catherine12

Coomon story here i'm afraid. I work in insurance and people are always ringing up saying freezer doesn't work. When asked hwere it is they said the garage. Freezers aren't supposed to work in here, they are kitchen appliances, for inside your house. They often breakdown when the temp in garage is colder then the pipes round the back.
Moral of the story... garage for the car.... Freezer for the kitchen...Bed for the bedroom yada yada!