Please help me adapt a freezer into a fermentation chamber...

[BubbaMan]

Hello friends,
I am going to use a small chest freezer as a fermentation chamber.
I will be using it with a 5G FastFerment, controlled by Inkbird 308.
Length and width are fine but I need to add about 20" of height to the freezer.
What's the best way to go about this?
Thanks!

 

[divrack]

Hello friends,
I am going to use a small chest freezer as a fermentation chamber.
I will be using it with a 5G FastFerment, controlled by Inkbird 308.
Length and width are fine but I need to add about 20" of height to the freezer.
What's the best way to go about this?
Thanks!

I got some space blankets and taped them onto the lid and around the sides for when I need to use my tall fermenter. Cheap and easy. Otherwise you have to basically make a timber frame and insulate it with roofing insulation I guess.

 

[BubbaMan]

Here's what I went with.
I simply built a "riser" to sit on top of my chest freezer, made out of the sheathing that is used for basements. It comes in 1"x4'x8' sheets and one sheet was plenty. It's made out of some sort of foam which cuts very easily. I used aluminum tape to hold it together and it seems solid enough.

 

[divrack]

Looks good. Are the sheets reasonably insulating?

 

[BubbaMan]

Yes, it's 1" thick and is like a dense Styrofoam type material.