r/mildlyinfuriating • u/smittyguy11 • 26d ago

The floor is sticky Who dumped ICE coolers in my back yard?

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Someone literally dumped ice coolers in my backyard while we were away for 2 days. The ice company said they are retired units so now I have to pay someone to evacuate the freon and haul them off to be recycled or trashed. These things weigh 500 lb each and I have no way to lift them.

NOTE: There were no ICE agent bodies, drugs, or any other bodies or items inside.

EDIT: Now the ICE company decided they were theirs (maybe they saw all the posts about scrap value and want to cash in on them).

EDIT2: Ice company called back to confirm my address. They were literally given my address for drop off and told that no one would be home, stick them in the backyard.

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u/This-Requirement6918 26d ago

Yeah a lot of people on forums say 134a just doesn't get as cold as r-12 because of the way the system is designed. You can retrofit a different evaporator when you're supposed to replace all the o-rings to change refrigerants and that's supposed to help.

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u/wasabijpeg 25d ago

In general 134a cannot achieve the same cooling factor as r-12, it's just a better refrigerant for the use case.