2026-07-30 07:50 UTC
@afewbugs@social.coop And our home fridges and freezers will suffer the same fate too. I'd never even thought about the range of temperatures my fridge freezer is designed to operate in, because, well, you just assume the ones sold in the UK deal with the usual UK temperature range. But the "usual" has changed forever. I just looked at a few fridge freezers on Argos, and their max operating temperatures were 38°C. So if you can't keep your house under that - in the kitchen no less - it could fail
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@suearcher@toot.wales 2026-07-30 07:59
@beecycling@wandering.shop @afewbugs@social.coop My hoarding tendencies mean I love having three freezers, but I live in fear of them all breaking down - mainly due to a prolonged power cut, but it looks like heat is another thing to worry about. Power cuts can be mitigated by having off grid batteries, which we'll certainly look into when we move, but heat is harder. Perhaps we all have to relearn the arts of keeping stuff chilled without power, at the very least.