Advice The Home Improvement/Automation Thread

[wetwillie]

Yeah, no.

This specific kit gets you to about R4, as expanded polystyrene is about R4 per inch of thickness.

But go on with your bad self. I'm sure you've got a long post queued up about how I'm wrong and you're right and I don't know shit about shit.

Generally that's how it goes man - you shut down badly. 6R /inch. Polysterene is crap imo - unless you are buying exterior grade like for under stucco, it shrinks badly. Kinda a fire hazard.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Super-T...-4-ft-x-8-ft-Foam-Insulation-267642/100322372

 

[fly]

this shit?

Ahhh, okay. That won't work for me.

 

[Jehannum]

Ahhh, okay. That won't work for me.

Considered some spray-in expanding foam? That way you get to avoid hauling around a bunch of styrofoam panels and the hassle of cutting them up.

 

[wetwillie]

Considered some spray-in expanding foam? That way you get to avoid hauling around a bunch of styrofoam panels and the hassle of cutting them up.

@fly could probably use one of the contractors cans(look like 20lbs. of propane) with all the koolers and stuff he builds.

 

[Valve1138]

Considered some spray-in expanding foam? That way you get to avoid hauling around a bunch of styrofoam panels and the hassle of cutting them up.

It’s for his keezer collar.

 

[Valve1138]

Hey @fly

https://www.reflectixinc.com/products/double-reflective-insulation/

 

[Jehannum]

It’s for his keezer collar.

Yeah, I got that part.

 

[HipHugHer]

So, Some kind of blown in insulation and an insulated but vented door would be ideal. But!

I should have explained much better.
I live in a "Townhouse". It's attached on both sides to the next guys house.
My kitchen is above my garage.
The house looks like 3 stories out back and 2 our front.
I actually have a shared wall on both sides.
So I gave very limited options.
Or at least a limited imagination on what to do with it.

I'd start with Ed's double wall deal on the common wall and see how far that gets you. The dead air space between is where the magic happens. Decouples the inner wall from the outer so the sound doesn't resonate and transfer through as easy.

 

[wetwillie]

@fly - I was looking at keezers(new to me) and ah, it's the lid of the freezer you'r replacing with the keezer cover. Without a pic we're all just arm-chair quarterbacking this.

 

[APRIL]

@fly - I was looking at keezers(new to me) and ah, it's the lid of the freezer you'r replacing with the keezer cover. Without a pic we're all just arm-chair quarterbacking this.

Buy deep freezer, build a collar with insulation and place between lid and freezer, install taps on collar.. That's the high level gist.

 

[wetwillie]

Buy deep freezer, build a collar with insulation and place between lid and freezer, install taps on collar.. That's the high level gist.

That's what I thought. So.....
Build nice decorative lid about 2" bigger than freezer, with about a 3" lip hanging down. Line all with high-quality, not polystyrene, foam board of a thickness that makes it a nice press fit over said freezer. Sounds kind of like one half of a square-ish bass guitar case.

 

[wetwillie]

Buy a deeper freezer?

 

[APRIL]

That's what I thought. So.....
Build nice decorative lid about 2" bigger than freezer, with about a 3" lip hanging down. Line all with high-quality, not polystyrene, foam board of a thickness that makes it a nice press fit over said freezer. Sounds kind of like one half of a square-ish bass guitar case.

So here is ours. The lid is what came with the original freezer.



Inside of the collar (just wood frame with insulation glued to it):


More images of our random brewing stuff here: https://www.instagram.com/dickcreekbrewery/

 

[APRIL]

I think this is the freezer we bought, converted, and painted: https://www.amazon.com/Danby-DCF072A2WDB-3-DCF072A2WDB1-Chest-Freezer/dp/B00O9ZKZHU

Really any size will do as long as it fits as many kegs as you want to put in it.

 

[Amstel]

Buy deep freezer, build a collar with insulation and place between lid and freezer, install taps on collar.. That's the high level gist.

You know, for a few peeps here, you'll need audio, pics, and some sign language, right?

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

What, if anything, do you have other than kegs in there?

If you cant increase the R value, you may be able to increase the amount of "cold" that you retain within the keezer.

 

[APRIL]

You know, for a few peeps here, you'll need audio, pics, and some sign language, right?

Those folks are on their own.

 

[APRIL]

What, if anything, do you have other than kegs in there?

If you cant increase the R value, you may be able to increase the amount of "cold" that you retain within the keezer.

CO2 bottle, dehumidifier thingy, a fan to move the airflow.... I really don't understand what the second part of your post is about.

 

[Strings]

So here is ours. The lid is what came with the original freezer.

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Inside of the collar (just wood frame with insulation glued to it):
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More images of our random brewing stuff here: https://www.instagram.com/dickcreekbrewery/

I wrote a story a ways back about a guy who kept his abusive father's head in a hat box above a freezer just like that one.
He kept bodies in the freezer and would make molds from them to make statues.
All while the father verbally abused him from the box. He even looked a little like fly.
The guy not the father.
Not sure why I shared that but there ya go.

 

[HipHugHer]

CO2 bottle, dehumidifier thingy, a fan to move the airflow.... I really don't understand what the second part of your post is about.

Fill the freezer with stuff so there's cold mass in there instead of empty space/air. Will run more efficient, and keep itself cold longer if the power goes out.