Would this cause any harm? I have nothing in my freezer at the moment.
2007-08-12 13:38:55 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Refrigeration systems don't "make things cold." They "take away heat." Your home air conditioner takes heat from inside the home and puts it outside. Your refrigerator takes heat from inside your fridge and puts it to the outside of it. Unfortunately, that is into your kitchen. So any cooling you get from your fridge's interior, will be canceled out by the condensing coils on the outside.
2007-08-12 13:49:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. While the cold from the freezer is coming out the front by the open door, all the heat that was needed to create that cold is coming out the back of the freezer. And since the freezer is not 100% efficient more hot air is going into your room than cold air. The result is you will get even hotter.
2007-08-12 13:50:18 · answer #2 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, don't do this. Refrigerators are meant to cool food, not large spaces. If you leave the freezer door open, not only will it not cool your apartment, but condensation will collect, building up ice on the inside of your freezer. As ice forms in your freezer, it diminishes the cooling capacity of the unit, which ultimately could, in turn, ruin your refrigerator.
Buy a fan or an A/C unit. They even sell self-contained, one-room only air conditioners now, that stand upright, rather than placing it in a window. Plus, you won't be paying more to run this extra unit, either.
2007-08-12 13:53:08 · answer #3 · answered by Flaca 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems that you could, but it doesn't work like that. The freezer will only move heat from the inside to the outside of the freezer. If you leave the door open, it will be cold on the inside but the outside will be hotter so you will have no gain of cooling. In fact, with the heat generated by the compressor of the freezer, you would have a heat gain instead.
2007-08-12 13:45:51 · answer #4 · answered by Fordman 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, you will shorten the life of the freezer with the motor running continously. If the utility bill is fixed, buy a portable room a/c from one of the Korean company.
2007-08-12 13:51:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell no. First of all your freezer will not cool your house. Second of all you can kill a freezer like that. Third of all it will just frost up because it's not designed to handle the humidity of a home.
2007-08-13 02:50:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will burn up the freezer motor/compressor if it runs all the time
2007-08-12 13:45:26 · answer #7 · answered by mar m 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋