# Is a walk-in freezer room a viable idea?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-a-walk-in-freezer-room-a-viable-idea/27115
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [October 1, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-a-walk-in-freezer-room-a-viable-idea/27115 "2021-10-01T21:33:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@Lomax](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Lomax)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-a-walk-in-freezer-room-a-viable-idea/27115/1 "2021-10-01T21:33:24Z")
Can anyone save me the time of building one to test and tell me whether I can cool down a small (say 2x3) room on my death-mobile to freezing temperatures with vehicle mounted coolers?
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### Author:  [@Valase](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valase)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2021, 9:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-a-walk-in-freezer-room-a-viable-idea/27115/2 "2021-10-01T21:50:13Z")
The forum search is your friend:
> [@What to do next?](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-to-do-next/23719/2):
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> I recently built a walk in freezer using vehicle coolers, so you could do that as well.
So it’s probably save to assume that it’s possible.
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### Author:  [@Lomax](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Lomax)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2021, 10:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-a-walk-in-freezer-room-a-viable-idea/27115/3 "2021-10-01T22:05:03Z")
Thank you - making room for a 1x3 freezer room where I otherwise would have put six mini freezers. A couple of cargo carriers in there will provide twice as much space for frozen food (6x75=450 L, 2x500=1000 L).
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### Author:  [@Mantar](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mantar)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-a-walk-in-freezer-room-a-viable-idea/27115/4 "2021-10-02T16:40:12Z")
I don’t think it will work on a death-mobile, because the walls aren’t sealed. It may work when parked, though.
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### Author:  [@Lomax](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Lomax)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2021, 6:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-a-walk-in-freezer-room-a-viable-idea/27115/5 "2021-10-02T18:09:40Z")
Oh. I’ll finish mine anyway and do some testing - which will be somewhat complicated as it’s the middle of winter where I am…
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### Author:  [@Valase](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valase)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2021, 6:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-a-walk-in-freezer-room-a-viable-idea/27115/6 "2021-10-02T18:32:33Z")
> [@Mantar](#):
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> I don’t think it will work on a death-mobile, because the walls aren’t sealed.
It should work, as car walls, roofs and doors do seal against temperature.
Although you are probably right that a moving car will probably not keep its temperature. I guess that shouldn’t be that much of a problem, as food only slowly defrosts and will freeze again over night.
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### Author:  [@Purdurabo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Purdurabo)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2021, 12:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-a-walk-in-freezer-room-a-viable-idea/27115/7 "2021-10-03T12:24:30Z")
I think that vehicle coolers are only aircons now instead of freezers.
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### Author:  [@ThinkSome](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ThinkSome)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-a-walk-in-freezer-room-a-viable-idea/27115/8 "2021-10-03T18:03:49Z")
I managed to get a few tiles in basement to -4’C. Pending more parts to test if coolers will stack (needs to be -18’C or something to stop spoilage?).
Otherwise, the accepted way for storing a lot of frozen goods seems to be an ice lab.
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### Author:  [@A\_Travesty](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/A_Travesty)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2021, 1:22pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-a-walk-in-freezer-room-a-viable-idea/27115/9 "2021-10-04T13:22:53Z")
You could double layer the walls to keep it sealed while turning
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### Author:  [@ThinkSome](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ThinkSome)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-a-walk-in-freezer-room-a-viable-idea/27115/10 "2021-10-04T17:51:49Z")
This is not actually a problem. You are driving for just a fraction of all the time, so there’s no need to worry about the cold briefly escaping.
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### Author:  [@Lomax](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Lomax)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2021, 7:40pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-a-walk-in-freezer-room-a-viable-idea/27115/11 "2021-10-04T19:40:47Z")
Taking the bulkheads out and going with original plan of having six minifreezers instead; I’ve already got seven of them humming away in my underground lair, full of meat, cheese and chocolate bars(!), so have some experience of deploying them at scale 🙂
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### Author:  [@ThinkSome](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ThinkSome)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2021, 3:45pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-a-walk-in-freezer-room-a-viable-idea/27115/12 "2021-10-05T15:45:47Z")
Ah, yes: If you aren’t hording tainted fat to make biodiesel, then your freezer storage requirements are very low. You can smoke/dehydrate the meat with portable smoking racks and then store it in the open. Chocolate already lasts a very long time on its own.
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### Author:  [@ThinkSome](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ThinkSome)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2021, 2:36am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-a-walk-in-freezer-room-a-viable-idea/27115/13 "2021-10-17T02:36:38Z")
Yes, it seems to be: [Vehicle cooler kinda useless? - #17 by ThinkSome](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-cooler-kinda-useless/23985/17)
You can use this as a big freezer in the winter and refrigerator in spring/autumn. This is because the cooler only drops temperature by 10’C. They do not stack.
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### Author:  [@PALU](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/PALU)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2021, 7:53am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-a-walk-in-freezer-room-a-viable-idea/27115/14 "2021-10-17T07:53:40Z")
Well, if the temperature is dropped 10 degrees it should result in underground coolers bringing the temperature below freezing (although not nearly as low as the recommended temperature for freezers, but it still ought to help, and I’m not sure the game makes a distinction as long as the temperature is below freezing anyway). In that scenario you’d need an additional underground room for the heat to go into, though.
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### Author:  [@ThinkSome](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ThinkSome)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2021, 12:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-a-walk-in-freezer-room-a-viable-idea/27115/15 "2021-10-17T12:46:22Z")
If you had read what I wrote there, you would find answers to everything you have said here.