If you have owner-occupied dwelling even with the small adjacent site, then you by all means need cellar. This practical and convenient location for storage of product stocks which is independently quite simple for constructing.
With growth of construction of private households more often owners began to pay attention to additional functional constructions in the territory of the site. To it belongs and has buried, just 100 years ago it was the necessary room for storage of products, especially for lack of fridges. But, as it turned out, preservation of products in cellar, is the best option, than to freeze them or to keep in special fridges with optimum temperature. Correctly built cellar will ensure to you reliable safety of your harvest and at the same time all vegetables and fruit will keep the useful elements and initial taste.
What needs to be known to be engaged in construction of cellar on own parcel? As experts advise, the best materials can be considered tree, concrete and brick, it is not recommended to use metal equipment, though there are integral metal cellars which best of all protect from moisture. But they cannot provide preservation of constant temperature condition and sufficient ventilation. As well as any other construction, construction of cellar begins with soil inspection, both the location and methods of waterproofing of the room will depend on its structure.
It should be noted that cellars can be and separate on the site, but the majority plan their availability already at construction of the house, in its underground part. The qualitative cellar has to pass several stages at construction in that and other case. The ditch under this room should be dug more deeply on half-meter from the planned height, then the prepared bottom is filled up with crushed stone mixed up with beaten brick. All this should be stamped and filled in with hot bitumen, it will provide water tightness. Floor and walls of cellar are carried out from dense aggreate concrete monolithic, at the same time the steel wire or rods is added. After concrete has stiffened, the timbering is dismantled, the surface of walls needs to be plastered cement peschannym solution, its thickness has to be not less than 20 mm.
If the cellar is under construction directly under the house, then in upper part of the room it is necessary to lay roofing material in two layers. Further walls of cellar should be sheathed sheets of asbestos-cement, they fasten to timber frame construction, the processed anti-septic tank. For full ventilation the metal pipe, 15/15 cm in size is inserted, it has to be separated down into two half, it will provide intake of fresh air on one channel and its exit in a different way. In practical construction of options of arrangement of cellar exists a little. What of options to choose, each owner solves independently.