Our 3 month old fridge lived in the garage for about 2 years because the fridge hole in our new house was about 1/2" too small. When the time came for it to come indoors into the new kitchen it was just fine.

Understand the warranty starts the day you purchase - so if you have them in the garage for an extened period of time, your warranty period will be shortened.

We stored our dcs range in the box on a pallet in the garage for a year with no ill effects. The warranty started at installation rather than at purchase.

The only problem might be inspection --- if there is damage it would not be seen/documented immediately which is important to do.

This post was edited by rococogurl on Wed, May 14, 14 at 11:40

Thank you all for your answers. Very helpful indeed.