One of the "lovely" perks of our new house was an old box freezer left in our storage room. It would have been really nice if it was functional and clean, but it was neither of those descriptions. We wondered why the last owners left it in the house until we realized it was too wide to take out of the storage room. The freezer measured about 25 inches wide and the door to the storage room was only 23.5 inches wide at the widest measurement.
After measuring the freezer again, I thought it might be a chance that I could get the freezer out if I took off the back coil. I tried to do that but the coil and coolant lines were still attached. Even with cutting the coolant lines and taking off the entire air compressor assembly, the outside frame of the freezer was still 24 inches wide, still too big.
Luckily my parents had a sawzalll that we borrowed about a month ago. The plan was to cut the freezer in pieces to get it out the door. I was able to cut off the front panel of the frame which made the freezer just narrow enough to fit through the door with about 1/4" clearance on both sides. I let out a huge cheer!
What I thought would be a hour long turned into 3 hours. The freezer is now sitting in pieces on the driveway waiting to be hauled off to the county dump. That will have to be another weekend project.
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| Positioning the freezer to carry up the stairs. |
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| carrying the freezer and parts up the stairs. |
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