Indesit Fridge Freezer in garage

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So am I being unreasonable to be unhappy to find out the freezer section of my FF will STOP WORKING! when the temperature falls below 10 degrees (it is in my garage as a back up FF) and that I should keep in the house! Engineer came out today to 'fix it' but I was told it should not be in the garage! A warning to you all. One of my worries is that these fridge freezers are therefore defrosting and freezing without us even knowing!

can't you put a heater out there?

I thought it was pretty common knowledge about freezers in outhouses, I've a big chest freezer in the wash house but we checked it'd be okay out there before we bought it

We do have a small space heater behind the washing machine though....few years back we had a terrible cold snap that it froze the machine up and it took a week to defrost!!

Yanbu - they never really tell you that little detail unless you ask specifically which I think is a bit underhanded!! Unless you go to John Lewis who, when I was looking into getting one (like you, a back up in the garage), asked me where I would be putting it then and made this point clear. Their own-brand chest freezer is one of the few built with this in mind.

Okay thanks Cora, my previous one had worked fine out there for years (or so I thought, maybe not in hindsight!). Della thanks but no, I don't need to heat my garage, I will just have to avoid using it around Christmas time then (if we ever get cold Christmases again!) I bought it with the idea of stashing extra food as the need arises. Will have to rethink. Shame though about all the food that I had to ditch this week ...

I knew that some fridge freezers don't work properly at low temperatures, but it seems counterintuitive and probably something that a lot of people are not aware of.

Certainly nowhere near as obvious as lots of other things that many people go through life totally unaware of.

Apparently Beko fridge-freezers are fine for use in the garage.

Just as well as I doubt the temperature in the flat today is above 10oC.

We've had an old (as in around 15 years) Indesit one out in our garage for the last 12 years - it's never defrosted in that time

indesit and hotpoint fridge freezers are crap anyway. (at least the newish design) mine has a fridge temperature of 15 degrees on some days and below freezing on others whatever I set the dials to.

the old hotpoint fine. new one bloody useless. never a-bloody-gain

This is standard. Beko freezers are built for outhouses and tested at - something or other. Normal fridge freezers are not meant to be kept in rooms below 16 Celsius eg. Outhouses. Manufacturer's instructions do usually state this.

YABU.

Hotpoints used to be quite good until they were bought out by Indesit a few years ago and their UK factories closed. Modern Hotpoints are re-badged Indesits.

There are a few brands out there that have a freezer that work in cold temperature you just have a trawl through the recommended temperatures. Bit of a pain but worth it if you're buying a new one.

Our fridge-freezer is a Hotpoint that is probably 18 years old - it says 'Made in Britain' on the front of it.

It has never needed defrosting and has worked solidly apart from a wobble one high summer when I thought it was going to die. However, DP vacuumed all the vents only time it has ever been done and it was right as rain within 24 hours.

I quite fancy a new one as it has a few dents and is probably not very energy efficient, but now I need to know exactly how long it will keep going if we let it. Will it make it to 20/21/25?