Clear the ice buildup out of a manual-defrost freezer, a resident's own home near Mesquite Street, Jourdanton, TX 78026 (own-home, best-estimate location near the town center).

Ice has built up on the inside walls of this manual-defrost freezer compartment until the layer itself is acting like a blanket of insulation, forcing the compressor to run far longer to hold the same temperature.

Where

a resident's own home near Mesquite Street, Jourdanton, TX 78026 (own-home, best-estimate location near the town center) · Open the map

Pay

$30 proposed

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Proof

before/after ice-buildup photos + food-relocation time log + returned-food photo + GPS

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-09-13

Posted by

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How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. confirm with the resident whether the freezer section is a true manual-defrost type (no auto-defrost heater cycle, no self-defrosting label) before starting, then, before unplugging, move all food to a cooler packed with ice packs or to a second working freezer, noting the time it left the unit so nothing sits out longer than roughly two hours.
2. Unplug the unit from the wall outlet, prop the freezer door open, and line the floor beneath it with towels to catch melting water.
3. Let the ice melt on its own, speeding it along only with a bowl of hot water set inside away from the walls and a fan aimed at the open door; never use a knife, ice pick, screwdriver, or any other sharp or pointed tool to chip, pry, or scrape at the ice, since doing so risks puncturing the sealed refrigerant lines behind the wall.
4. Once the walls are clear, dry the interior completely, plug the unit back in, let it reach temperature before returning the food, and photograph the cleared walls and the returned food with the return time noted.

What counts as done

• Confirmation that the freezer section is a true manual-defrost type before the rung was performed
• Before photo of the ice buildup on the freezer walls
• Food-relocation time log showing food left the unit and returned within a safe window
• Confirmation that no sharp or pointed tool was used to chip, pry, or scrape at the ice, and that the sealed refrigerant lines were never touched

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Energy Efficiency Audit. Energy efficiency work begins with the walkthrough audit, the kind the ASHRAE standard describes: a trained eye moving through a building, reading the bills, the walls, the lights, and the equipment, and coming out with the short list of fixes worth doing first. Mastery looks like an auditor who can feel where a building is bleeding money within the hour, and prove it on paper. That instinct is trained by repetition on real buildings. This packet is one repetition: one system observed, one reading taken, one finding recorded the way the standard asks.