Home made walk in Cooler?
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RE: Home made walk in Cooler?
In your shed build a room with well insulated walls with the freezer compressor built in. I know a guy who built a cooler like this for his bar. Just make sure you insulate and build the walls opposite of the way you would a house wall, think of the freezer as the exterior space. Let the inside (cold side) of the wall breath and the outside (warm side) wrap in plastic. Possible combination would be:
Freezer Space
1/2" plywood
Tyvek
1" styrofoam insulation
2X6 studs with 5 1/2" bat insulation
1" styrofoam insulation
plastic wrap
1/2" plywood
Exterior Space
If you build it with the warm side able to breath, I believe you'll end up with moisture problems, you may either way, but the cooler space should be dryer air so it shouldn't be as great of a problem.
Good Luck, it's just an idea.
Paul
Freezer Space
1/2" plywood
Tyvek
1" styrofoam insulation
2X6 studs with 5 1/2" bat insulation
1" styrofoam insulation
plastic wrap
1/2" plywood
Exterior Space
If you build it with the warm side able to breath, I believe you'll end up with moisture problems, you may either way, but the cooler space should be dryer air so it shouldn't be as great of a problem.
Good Luck, it's just an idea.
Paul
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RE: Home made walk in Cooler?
I don't see why that wouldn't work. Would just be a matter of having enough reinforcing to support the extra weight of materials and the 200 plus pound bucks you'll be hanging in it. Good luck, let me know how it turns out.
Paul
Paul
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RE: Home made walk in Cooler?
I know a person that built a cooler off his garage using a large air conditioner. I know, because I helped him build the thing. We build the cooler part with R-30 in the walls and ceiling. Then he mounted a 15,000 BTU air conditioner in one outside wall. On the ceil is a large rail that leads to the main door of the thing. The door was also special built to be extra thick and insulated.
He guides bear hunters in September and it can get a little warm in Wisconsin even then, so he hangs the bear off the ceil rail which you can almost back right up to. They have a scale there also, and a cement floor that he can hose down. He said you put that bear in that room and crank the air conditioner on, and it will cool the room down plenty to keep the animals. I never actually asked him how cold it got in there, but the idea did seem good at the time.
Just in case you have a large air conditioner.
He guides bear hunters in September and it can get a little warm in Wisconsin even then, so he hangs the bear off the ceil rail which you can almost back right up to. They have a scale there also, and a cement floor that he can hose down. He said you put that bear in that room and crank the air conditioner on, and it will cool the room down plenty to keep the animals. I never actually asked him how cold it got in there, but the idea did seem good at the time.
Just in case you have a large air conditioner.
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RE: Home made walk in Cooler?
Hi i work in the refrigeration industry and like your idea. It should get you by in a pinch, but i wouldn't trust it for too long. Increasing the volume of the cooled space makes the compressor undersized, so it may very well never get down to its original operating temp, and it may run for all day. But if it gets you by, then thats good enough for me. Also caulk all the seems and i wouldn't recomend tipping the compressor on any side other than what it was origanlly. Good luck.
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