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Making Ice in the Summertime....
Aug. 23rd, 2021 09:19 pmThe day finally arrived for our dead outdoor freezer to be serviced. We were on our own to pay for the call, because we never heard back from the previous warranty company where the thing expired, yaknow, about a month before the temperature in there went up and never came back down. I was on my own just before the appointment (except for the dog), to prepare for his arrival because Eleanor was back at her doctor's to get her official and generally good colonoscopy report from a week or so back.
The tech had no idea about that, and so he called her, who texted me, to make sure the old beast was powered back on before the guy got here. I did so a bit before his arrival. His initial diagnosis was inconclusive: it seemed to be running, but only time would tell if the previous problem had been the compressor, the fan, or something else. Compressor would mean getting a new freezer, since that part would cost more than a new freezer would. The fan would prove to be a better choice of suspects, pricewise. And there were other potential causes that you can read about online. Among them? In some cases, an overtaxed freezer will frost up, ice then blocking the airflow and/or gumming up the fan to the point where it stops freezing; then, when the frost melts, it starts to work again.
It started to work again.
After Eleanor got home from her adventure and I went to work, she started recording the temp inside:
64F at 11:04 a.m.
54F at 11:10
13 F at 12:03 p.m.
-1 at 1:20
.... and it's a nice chillywilly 4 degrees in there as I write.
I also resorted to an old trick I learned from a Car Talk Puzzler ages ago: I put an ice tray in there upside down, so if a part fails sometime in the night and comes back on, we'll see the empty tray and the puddle, frozen or not, on the bottom of the unit and know it happened. Dude is coming back tomorrow to check on whether he is doing a repair. I am checking with the warranty people to see if they'll have us back for future disasters.
And our Refi II loan closes Wednesday morning, which will take care of any issues with our heating and air conditioning, among other repairs, improvements and payoffs.
Chill, y'all.
The tech had no idea about that, and so he called her, who texted me, to make sure the old beast was powered back on before the guy got here. I did so a bit before his arrival. His initial diagnosis was inconclusive: it seemed to be running, but only time would tell if the previous problem had been the compressor, the fan, or something else. Compressor would mean getting a new freezer, since that part would cost more than a new freezer would. The fan would prove to be a better choice of suspects, pricewise. And there were other potential causes that you can read about online. Among them? In some cases, an overtaxed freezer will frost up, ice then blocking the airflow and/or gumming up the fan to the point where it stops freezing; then, when the frost melts, it starts to work again.
It started to work again.
After Eleanor got home from her adventure and I went to work, she started recording the temp inside:
64F at 11:04 a.m.
54F at 11:10
13 F at 12:03 p.m.
-1 at 1:20
.... and it's a nice chillywilly 4 degrees in there as I write.
I also resorted to an old trick I learned from a Car Talk Puzzler ages ago: I put an ice tray in there upside down, so if a part fails sometime in the night and comes back on, we'll see the empty tray and the puddle, frozen or not, on the bottom of the unit and know it happened. Dude is coming back tomorrow to check on whether he is doing a repair. I am checking with the warranty people to see if they'll have us back for future disasters.
And our Refi II loan closes Wednesday morning, which will take care of any issues with our heating and air conditioning, among other repairs, improvements and payoffs.
Chill, y'all.