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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You obviously don’t cook, or appreciate the value of food storage. Having a freezer means that you can take advantage of food specials, etc., and minimize the use of the automobile to go on grocery shopping trips. If you were mine, I would lock you out of the basement and keep you away from the new freezer. It also gives you a place to store the harvest of the fruits and vegetables that you can grow on your own land, if you are so inclined. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Those are my thoughts. Kathy Cochran<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=46 height=46 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.png@01CB9468.83396F00"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org [mailto:greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Reuben Deumling<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 05, 2010 8:15 AM<br><b>To:</b> Doug Kalmer<br><b>Cc:</b> greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Greenbuilding] finding coils inside (new) chest freezer<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Doug Kalmer <<a href="mailto:sunart@netease.net">sunart@netease.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Forget tearing into the walls, most chest freezers have the coils near the outer sheetmetal in front and both sides, you would just make a mess of a new freezer. Doug<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Doug,<br><br>tell me more about the coils being found spread across three walls. How do I find out if that is so with all of them? Is there any hope of accessing technical drawings that show the location/distribution of the coils for these freezers? I've learned that freezers sold here have for the most part been made by one of three companies: WC Woods, Haier, and Frigidaire. I have so far only come up with one strategy for determining this, which involves going to the appliance dealer equipped with my infrared thermometer gun and ask them to plug in the chest freezers I'm interested in. That *could* work out well, or it could be a pain.<br><br>As far as 'making a mess of a new freezer' that is my goal. I'm not buying a freezer to display it prominently for my guests. I'm reluctantly letting another kWh-sucking appliance into my basement and plan to do whatever I can to minimize its real-world consumption of electricity. I'll be adding blocky panels of rigid foam to the exterior walls that lack coils anyway, so the 'new freezer' look is already shot. <br>My plan to remove the sheetmetal which obscures the coils is motivated by the hope that in so doing I could increase the amount of insulation that resides between these coils and the interior wall of the freezer--to overcome one more crummy design aspect of an appliance category.<br><br>Thanks for your thoughts.<br><br>Reuben Deumling<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>