Product storage temperature... How important?

SuperBee364

SuperBee364

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First summer in this house. The garage door is not insulated. It becomes a 16X8 radiant heater in the afternoons. I bet my garage is over 100 degrees for most of the day.



I just noticed on the side of one of my Menzerna bottles that it says to store it between 59-77 degrees F. I do keep my carnauba products in doors, but how important is it to keep polishes/compounds/sealants/glazes out of the heat?
 
I'd say it's ideal to store all products 55F - 70F year round. Avoid the big extremes - - they can do the products no good.
 
hi temps can cause products to seperate fast...I store every thing in a cool cellar....I left a bottle of Meg's 21 in storage box on my truck last year and after 2 weeks of heat it was toast...looked like cottage cheese...would not remix



Al
 
i've been thinking the same thing. i keep my polishes, waxes, etc.. in the corner of my room in gallon totes with the snap lids (have no where else to store them as my sister takes all the room in the house). i would put them in the garage, but like most on here the temps exceed 100+ in the garage, and that's not to mention its 95+ most days in the summer! :mad:
 
I always kept all my products in the house, the money that one spends on products is not worth it to me to throw out when it's ruin.
 
Does your garage get really hot, Josh?



I'm thinking I might bring the stuff in the house. Boy, is the wife gonna laugh at me...
 
My garage is in FL, and during the summer sure does get very hot...But I have some stuff in there that has been in there for a couple of years, and it still works fine.
 
SuperBee364 said:
Does your garage get really hot, Josh?



I'm thinking I might bring the stuff in the house. Boy, is the wife gonna laugh at me...
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If you really love your Zymol like me, you'd buy a refrigerator to put in your garage for Zymol storage. My family thinks I'm an idiot :grinno:
 
joshtpa said:
I have kept all of mine in the garage (in fl), and have yet to have a problem with anything.
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Similar experience here. My previous shop got so hot in the summer that the overhead door motors wouldn't work, but the only product that ever went bad was some Meg's #34. I'm still using some of the products that had been stored in that shop and they're still fine seven years later.



Yeah, it's smart to avoid the extremes, but IME these products aren't always as fragile as the manufacturers (and their lawyers ;) ) would have you believe. Can't blame them for erring on the side of caution though, it's sorta like the shelf-life issue.
 
Vintage said:
If you really love your Zymol like me, you'd buy a refrigerator to put in your garage for Zymol storage. My family thinks I'm an idiot :grinno:
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I have a fridge in the garage, but power outages concern me. The basement of our Rambler style house is always cold. Even on the hottest summer days, the basement never reaches more than 68 or so. So my Vintage is resting comfortably on the cold cement floor in the basement. Totally power-outage proof. :)
 
Fridge?? Fridges are for fudge!!!! J/K it would be ideal to refrigerate the wax; Unfortunatley I don't have the luxury of a small box fridge, and that harness of wax is really too big for my regular refrigerator. I have had no problems keeping the wax at room temperature, however.
 
lbls1 said:
Fridge?? Fridges are for fudge!!!! J/K it would be ideal to refrigerate the wax; Unfortunatley I don't have the luxury of a small box fridge, and that harness of wax is really too big for my regular refrigerator. I have had no problems keeping the wax at room temperature, however.
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Actually you should not refrigerate fudge...It will crystalize....lol
 
Oh ok, didn't know that........then fridges are for........fruitjuice and frozenfriedfishsticks!! lol!!!
 
I know, but couldn't resist that one. It went so well with fridge. Maybe homefried fish sticks..........not good for cholesterol, however.
 
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