Plot: Pulling Your Hands

When arranging a country or homestead plot, much attention is paid to the pleasant little things that create the most unique coziness that no one else has. The cellar is not an exception.

Of course, you can completely do without it - in every family there is some refrigeration equipment. But only when you build a cellar with your own hands, then you will understand that no complicated home appliances can replace it, and you will be surprised how you have lived without it ...

First, and try to figure out what is the whole charm of the cellar. The most important is its dignity - a stable temperature. On the street there may be severe frost or terrible African heat, but in the cellar it will always be cool and the temperature is maintained, ideally suitable for storing vegetables from one to four degrees of heat.

Why is that? Probably, many of us, maybe even in childhood, for some reason having got into the hole, accidentally or intentionally, noticed that even in the hottest weather there is cool. So in a cellar dug in the ground, there is a constant temperature. And since if you know well how to make a cellar, zaglub his meter by two, the push of freezing of the earth will be higher, then the cellar itself will not freeze even in the coldest winters.

As soon as we find out how to build a cellar, it will be possible to proceed directly to construction, choosing the most suitable place for it. The cellar itself is best built on the site a little sublime, so that the rainwater drains from there, without lingering or soaking into the ground.

An interesting option how to build a cellar can be his device in the country house or under the summer kitchen. On the advantages of this option to argue does not make sense - they are obvious. Only you need to carefully monitor that the cellar so constructed does not weaken the foundation of the structure. For some guarantees it is better to immediately build it separately and do not take chances.

First dig a foundation pit to a depth of two to two and a half meters. Dimensions are selected in accordance with specific requests. So in the future cellar you need to provide a place for canned foods, for vegetables and fruits separately. And when choosing the size, you can follow the rule: the larger the family, the larger the cellar. There are no standard sizes, but practice shows that a cellar measuring 4x2 meters is enough for an average family.

After leveling the bottom, spread the walls. For this, stone, concrete rings and blocks, brick and wood are used. You can leave the walls and just earthen or plastered on the grid, but this is if the soil is uniform and dense. But for reliability, which was always in honor in Russia, the walls are still better laid out, while not forgetting about the careful waterproofing.

If so-called construction debris is formed, it is better not to throw it out, but to compact it in the ground so that the floor in the cellar is always hygienic and dry. For this purpose, pour small gravel and sand.

The erected walls of the cellar need to stand a little, after which the cellar should be covered with its own hands and poured over the layer of earth necessary for thermal insulation. How to make a cellar? There are some secrets. So the cellar, the entrance to which is located on the side, becomes a solid overlap, and when you enter from above in the overlap a window is cut, and in it a powerful box is arranged, covering it with a lid. Overlapping is arranged with wood - from timber or logs. In this case, two-sided waterproofing is arranged.

It is mandatory to provide exhaust ventilation. After the completion of earthworks, it is quite logical to build a small building for household needs over the pit. The cellar itself can be made completely exclusive ...