How to build a cellar at home

After autumn harvesting in her garden or in the garden, the main problem becomes preservation of vegetables, fruits and various billets. This process requires a temperature of everything from +4 to +6 degrees of heat. Without a cellar, it's just not to do. In this article we will tell how to build it under our own home. To work, you will need: sand, crushed stone, gravel, clay, cement, brick, plastic film, bitumen.

The storage device needs to determine the depth of soil water in front of the station. If it is highly high, then construction is canceled. In the spring, the cellar will probably be flooded. The presence of urban communications near the house can also prevent the construction site. Only in the absence of these obstacles can be safely proceeded.

Initially, the pitt rolls with the dimensions of the future cellar plus at 0.5 m with each side for the possibility of concreting and installing isolation.

H) then hesitates and the bottom of its bottom. Further, layer-by-layer preparation of the floor with rubble, gravel and sand. The thickness of this pillow is up to 10 cm. Then it will be tamed and soaked with melted bitumen. After it is frozen, the bottom is covered with a waterproof film from polyethylene.

On the base prepared in this way, a 30-centimeter layer of concrete is poured. After its hardening, the floor is ready.

The walls of the cellar are made of brick or concrete. For external waterproofing of walls, clay is used with a layer thickness of 10 cm or rubberoid. The sinuses between the pit and the cellar wall fall asleep soil and tamper. The inner surface of the walls is placed by cement mortar, a layer thickness of 1 cm.

The cellar is covered with reinforced concrete slabs. Lases are cut in one of them, the size of at least 80x80 cm. The door to it is made double with felt insulation.

The ventilation holes of the cellar are placed in opposite corners. For air ducts emerging, tubes are used, with a diameter of 100 mm, made of plastic.