Recommendations for installing a freezer

Installation requirements

The first thing you need to talk about is what are the requirements for installing a freezer and connecting to electricity in the house. To properly install, you must observe the following points:

1. It doesn’t matter how you decide to install the enclosure - in a niche, in the kitchen or next to the wall. In any case, it is necessary to take care of the air gap from all sides. The minimum distance from the side walls of the case to the partitions should be 5 cm. From the bottom, the gap should be 5-8 cm, and from the back wall not less than 5 cm.
2. Installing an integrated freezer under the hob is strictly prohibited. If you want to install the housing in one of the lower sections of the kitchen, do it as shown in the photo - on the opposite side of the stove.
3. The freezer can be installed in a cold room, which cannot be said about refrigerator installation. However, anyway, if you decide to place the equipment in an unheated room, for example, on the balcony, be sure to read the technical passport, which indicates the climate class (permissible operating temperatures).
4. Make sure that the wiring can withstand the load when connecting the freezer. As a rule, in old houses and apartments the network is old, maybe even without grounding. You must definitely use powerful wiring with a grounding circuit. For this, you may even have to replace wiring in the house to a new one.
5. If the model of your choice does not have the function of automatically closing the door, use a trick such as twisting the two front legs. A slight skew of the case back will not allow the door to open if you have not completely closed it.
6. If the cord does not reach the connection point, it is better totransfer socketrather than using an extension cord. Connecting the freezer to the network through the so-called “carry” is not recommended, because they are extremely unreliable.

That's all the requirements for installing a freezer in the house. As for the do-it-yourself installation process, it is quite simple, as you will now see.

Main process

You can’t say much about how to properly install and connect a freezer with a traditional case, as shown in the photo. Considering all the above requirements, it is necessary to unpack the purchase, choose a suitable connection place for it, so that the socket is always nearby, and put the case in level.Any skew can negatively affect the work and life of the equipment, so it’s better not to joke with this moment.

It’s a little harder to install a built-in freezer in the kitchen. To do this, you also need to take care of the proximity of the outlet, screw special fasteners into the furniture (if necessary), and carefully install the freezer under the countertop.

There are also modern models of freezers for the home, which are represented by traveling drawers, as shown in the photo. This option is very convenient, but at the same time expensive. Installation and connection are similar to the built-in option - the equipment is mounted in a special niche and connected to the mains.

You can clearly see the installation process of embedded equipment in the video below:

Here, using this technology, the freezer is installed and connected to the network with its own hands. As you can see, everything is quite simple and even a person who does not have experience in assembling furniture and electrics can handle such a process!

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