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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Can you keep a refrigerator in the garage in areas where it gets very cold? Will it function properly?
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
In a non-heated garage? If the temperature in the garage gets too cold? No. The refrigerator has a thermostat, and if the external temperature (around the refrigerator) gets too low, it'll shut off. Ask me how I know. | |||
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Garage refrigeration. https://garagetransformed.com/garage-refrigerator/
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Gadfly |
I guess it depends. My neighbors have had a refrigerator in their garage since I've known them. It's an unheated garage but it does have an attached workshop that they do heat (with a woodstove, only when working out there) so it may not get as cold as a completely unheated garage. If your garage is attached to your house, it will get some heat just from transference from the house and you should be able to run a fridge just fine. I know a lot of people (including my mom, in the Poconos where I grew up) have fridges in their garage and I've never known anyone to have a problem. Maybe they've been shutting off like Quirt says but I guess if it's cold enough to shut off the fridge, it's cold enough to preserve the food until the fridge decides to kick on again. | |||
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
We live in a very cold climate with an insulated garage, (house on two sides of it) with many things that should not freeze stored in there (we have no basement) - so during the worst cold snaps, I turn on a small portable heater to keep things above freezing - amazingly, it’s not that many days that I have to do that. My plan is to put in a slightly bigger heater on the ceiling with a thermostat so it’s automatic (and keeps things above 40 degrees) - could you do something like that? (Unless you have a better place to keep the extra fridge)
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JodiMinor Deity |
I had one for several years with no issue. Now we just have a freezer.
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| Foregoing Practicing to Post Minor Deity  |
We have a non-insulated attached garage. No fridge in there, but we do use the garage itself to keep some items cold during the cold months. We have a fridge in the adjacent room where ambient temp is 55-60 in winter. But we have little use for it now that the kids are gone.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
The garage is insulated and shares two walls with the house. It already has a little electric heater that I hadn't intended run (cost?), but maybe I'll set it to 35 or something and see how it goes. If it doesn't work out I suppose I can put it in the basement.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
I have one of those Accu-rite wireless digital temperature sensor tings that sits on the counter and has three sensors that you place outside, I have one in the trees, one on the porch and one in the garage near the things that cant freeze so I can always check and see if I need to turn the heater on (or off).
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
It depends on how cold it gets. And remember that the fridge is insulated. So, when it shuts off, things slowly warm up. When we had a few negative degrees days in a row in Massachusetts, I lost some food. And, even in Oklahoma, we had to run a space heater near the fridge for a short period of time. | |||
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| Unrepentant Dork Gadfly  |
There is an attachment they can add so it’s ok in a garage. We have an unheated garage and thought our freezer was broken. Repair guy came and added the attachment and we were good to go. ETA: something like this https://www.amazon.ca/Frigidai...erator/dp/B005B9EABU
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