"Edgar Iredale" wrote in message
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I have just bought a Frigidaire upright freezer. Reading the booklet I
discover it is only intended to operate in ambient temperatures between
16degC and 32degC. I have never seen such a restriction before and have
used freezers in unheated undercover outside spaces - garages and utility
rooms etc. without trouble. Should I have known of this restriction?

First can anyone explain just what happens if I run it in a colder space?

Secondly should the shop I bought it from (Currys) have told me this
before
I bought it? And should they accept it back and refund the full price? The
unit was delivered, unpacked and positioned by their agents. Apart from
opening the door to find the operating booklet nothing has been done to
the
unit. It hasn't been plugged in.

Thirdly is there a way of overcoming the low temperature ambient problem.
I need an upright freezer and it has to go in a utility room merely kept
frost free.

Fourthly are there any upright freezers available that will run in 0degC
ambient? It doesn't seem much to ask as many people must use freezers in
these conditions - for example in kitchens when they go on holiday.

BTW Currys telephone Customer Services said, in other words,"Oh dear. The
manufacturers won't honour the guarantee.Talk to the branch.". The branch
said "It'll work, but the manufacturers probably won't honour the
guarantee
if they know.". They did offer the take back the unit but only at a
reduced
price "because it's your fault.".

I thought it was quite common knowledge that fridges/freezers don't work in
cold places, fridges usually being the worst. You can get freezers that work
in low temperatures my friend recently got a chest freezer as a replacement
in his shed and it copes to -10C. The place he bought it from (not a big
shed) knew the model to choose, based on location. Don't know if this
applies to fridges as well.