We were surprised with a call yesterday from Mando telling us our RV fridge had arrived from Dallas and they would be here to install it in about an hour. It was two to three days early! Mando's business involves his family and we were very impressed with their efficiency. They arrived at about 3:00 pm and by 5:00 they were finished with the transfer. It was an amazing thing to watch! Great care was taken at each step and each person knew their role. It is so satisfying to see people work like that! Especially when it is your stuff they are working on.
We had a "guy" we called on when we were in the other park but he no longer comes to the valley so we had been searching for someone we could count on and feel comfortable with and it looks like we have found him. Mando was recommended by our friend Alex. Isn't it amazing when the right things happen and it all falls into place?
So today we will be getting our food back into close proximity making meal prep much easier. A big "THANK YOU" goes to all the folks who helped us out on this endeavor.
Another part of this was the reinstallation of the additional fan we use in the RV Fridge. Here is one that is similar on Amazon. In our opinion, it is well worth the money. It makes our RV refrigerator as good as any residential one we have ever had. Ice cream stays frozen and it increases the life of produce extremely well.
The original company we purchased ours from is no longer in business. So I looked it up in the blog and we had ordered our fan in 2016. Fortunately, you can buy one like it from Amazon and I will also tell you it is much less money now than then.
Here is what I posted in 2016 about the fan and it all remains true.
Original post about the RV Fridge Fan in 2016:
On our way south we stopped in Carthage MO for a week and while there, parked at Coachlight RV Park where we visited with Alan, a friend we met at Coachlight way back in 2002. We always talk all stuff RV with Alan every time we meet up and this time was no exception. So we talked about refrigerators. RV refrigerators are notoriously inefficient. They are fine for camping trips and other ventures but they are far from the same as a residential fridge. But over the years we have learned to get by. It is a given that things do not stay as cold and thus does not last as long. Ice cream may not be liquid but is close to it and you can dish it up straight from the freezer with an ordinary spoon. Milk must be used promptly as it will sour quicker. Over time you do get used to it. We purchased a small battery-operated fan that takes two big ol' D batteries and lasts about a month. It was a moderately useful step. It circulated the air and increased the efficiency a tiny bit. We are on our second fridge in the RV because our first stopped working. We had made up our mind that if it happened again we were going to replace it with a residential one and that is still the plan.
But now we get to the good part. Alan told us about a fan he installed in his RV fridge that totally changed things. He said he turned the fridge down from 5 to 3 and everything kept colder longer. He didn't have to defrost it nearly as often and on and on about how good it was. We were impressed and decided if all was true it would be worth doing. So we ordered one and we installed it last Wednesday. It is a bit of a deal to install and takes time, patience, and a bit of study. But if a person is handy at all and Butch certainly is, it is a piece of cake. We had been running ours on 5 and we are down to 3 and may need to go lower if possible. Our temp is staying steady at 32 degrees but not freezing. Last night we had to use an ice cream scoop instead of a spoon to dish out ice cream. Whoo Hoo we are impressed!
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