Classywolf
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Hello everyone. Im excited to share an upcoming build with you all.
The plan:
Building a man cave and I’m going with a through the wall tap system. I have a bar room with a utility room adjacent that will be perfect for hiding a refrigerator directly behind the taps/shanks. As you can see from the photos and (very bad) drawing. My thought is to have a recessed area where the taps will live, with a drip tray underneath.
Need your help:
My ‘Plan A’ is to push the back of the refrigerator directly up against the back side of the recess. I would buy long enough shanks to go through the bar wall recess and into the back of the fridge. This I believe would eliminate the need for extending the lines out of the fridge and having to cool them. The main problem with this plan is drilling 4 holes in the back of the fridge. Looking at schematics of different refrigerators, it seems ‘bottom freezer’ units have the most dead space on the back. Does anyone have examples of drilling into the back of a bottom freezers or any other fridge?
I can’t orient the fridge any other way because of future room needs.
I guess ‘Plans B and C’ would be cutting into the top or sides and routing lines around and trying to keep everything cold. I’ve seen examples of that on here. But a lot more moving parts, so not ideal.
And ‘Plan D’ would be a kreezer, this would sit under the recess. So I would have to run the lines out of the collar and up to an insulated box. Again, not ideal.
TLDR. Any good refrigerators to drill into the back of?
The plan:
Building a man cave and I’m going with a through the wall tap system. I have a bar room with a utility room adjacent that will be perfect for hiding a refrigerator directly behind the taps/shanks. As you can see from the photos and (very bad) drawing. My thought is to have a recessed area where the taps will live, with a drip tray underneath.
Need your help:
My ‘Plan A’ is to push the back of the refrigerator directly up against the back side of the recess. I would buy long enough shanks to go through the bar wall recess and into the back of the fridge. This I believe would eliminate the need for extending the lines out of the fridge and having to cool them. The main problem with this plan is drilling 4 holes in the back of the fridge. Looking at schematics of different refrigerators, it seems ‘bottom freezer’ units have the most dead space on the back. Does anyone have examples of drilling into the back of a bottom freezers or any other fridge?
I can’t orient the fridge any other way because of future room needs.
I guess ‘Plans B and C’ would be cutting into the top or sides and routing lines around and trying to keep everything cold. I’ve seen examples of that on here. But a lot more moving parts, so not ideal.
And ‘Plan D’ would be a kreezer, this would sit under the recess. So I would have to run the lines out of the collar and up to an insulated box. Again, not ideal.
TLDR. Any good refrigerators to drill into the back of?
