They were mostly hiding under the door seal.
I’m not a quitter tho. I washed it with bleach then doused it with ortho bug killer and left it in the sun for a few days.
It works great btw
lmao i misread that as garbage ready, especially given it was next to a dumpster.
Free fridge AND free pets. RESULT!!
Not just pets… Super chill pets!
Careful, those were certainly German Cockroaches and they like to get in little cracks and crevices especially near heat sources. Look inside the mechanical section and make sure you’re not installing an infestation in your shop. Make sure there is no food/grease nearby to sustain them and be ready to deploy countermeasures if needed.
OMG! I moved into a place with German cockroaches and the sort story is I lost the battle and I now have slight PTSD about cockroaches. Careful.
Yep. Lived above a restaurant so I wasn’t getting rid of them. All the caulking, glue traps, diatomaceous earth and poison I could afford wouldn’t get rid of them. It’s been two years and I still think I see them when something moves at the corner of my vision. I have nightmares about turning on the kitchen light.
Yep that’s sound familiar. We need to firm a support group. 😂 😆 😢😭
Im pretty sure I poisoned the shit out of them. Every crevice top and bottom.
I’d double tap it: add a lot of bait and trap stations too, and set it up and run it a good long while without food in it. Sealed beverage bottles/cans are fine.
Just set a reminder for a week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks and a month, to check traps and refresh if necessary. Then add food if it’s all clear.
Advion gel will wipe them out in a few days and it will remain active long enough to catch hatchlings.
Don’t use this for food for a while, as you used strong poison. It is generally a bad idea to use poison unless absolutely necessary, as it also affects other organisms and should be only the last measure. Just cleaning it properly and using acid/chloride/alcohol is enough to get rid of anything that was living there.
Other than that, appliances like that are always awesome so good catch!
Thanks for saving electrical equipment that is still functional :)
Nice!
Any idea the running wattage? I’ve been looking to add a mini fridge to my basement but would want to run it from the solar system I’m putting together. My big kitchen fridge is 100-400 watts depending on the cycle, so I’d guess maybe 50-100 watts for a fridge that size?
You can go the the Energy Star website for mini-fridges (that link is sorted by most efficient first). Then filter by whatever size fits your space best, preferred manufacturers, etc.
Yeah, I was just hoping for something a little more granular than KWh per year.
If you hit up some sources for the wattage details for something in your size, you’ll notice that the energy star annual use matches, so you can just grab one around whatever energy star energy use rating that fits your needs.
It’s just a basic general conversion, but not all manufacturers are up front about wattages.
Also, remember they pull more power when the compressor kicks on, so make sure what power source you have can hit that max easy enough.
There’s something called an “appliance soft start” that anyone with a small scale power system should be familiar with, capacitor or something in there to soak up those load spikes. My freezer usually pulls ~100 watts but spikes over a kW on startup and will absolutely pop my inverter without one if there’s anything else running
Wattage is going to be pretty low. I could test it but I probably wont bother.
I recently posted our mini fridge we got from a hotel. Ours looks roughly half as tall as the one in OP’s post, but I just checked the label on the compressor and ours says 77 watts.
Check out refrigerator coolers for RVs/cars. There’s some good sized ones and they run right off 12v systems so it can connect directly to your solar and batteries. They are all <100w, usually 40-60w when running.
Are you sure that is sufficient for getting rid of them? I would be deadly afraid of tracking some in and would probably need to leave it out for a winter to feel safe.
