On Mar 29, 10:45*am, "cshenk" wrote:
"professorpaul" wrote

You can run a frig in a cold garage. You need what is know as a
"garage kit." This fools the frig into thinking it is in a warmer
room. However, I have shut them down in a summer place I had. Just
prop the door open slightly so it drys out. A good opportunity to
clean it out, etc. Never had a problem.

No problems here either and no fancy 'garage kit'. *It helps warm the garage
a bit to protect the pipes.

It's true they dont run as 'efficiently' in a garage in the cold, but chest
freezers often come with settings to handle it. *Thats what I have. *A big
chest freezer.

What have heard is that the 'freezer' section of the fridge (if so
equipped) may not get cold enough to keep goods frozen?

The explanation seems to be on the lines of; the fridge doesn't run
very often during the cold winter. The thermostat is usually in the
'cooler' part of the fridge (not the freezer).

Therefore the freezer compartment doesn't get enough cold air to stay
frozen; even though the main part of the fridge is switching on
occasionally whenever it gets warm enough to do so in the cold garage.

Made sense to me, and we had two old monsters working that way for few
years in a cold unheated attached storeroom. The defrost didn't work
on either of them but they performed keeping food cool until we
eventually scrapped them.