I saw the following video for the "Easy Cellar". Has anyone read this book? Easy Cellar They seem to make it particularly difficult to get a hold of. I tried to find it on Amazon and Abebooks but I couldn't find it. I don't like giving my information to companies like this, because I don't know what they do with my information. I'd gladly pay the price for the book, but I don't want to give my cc information and personal information to some weirdo company.
A web search on "easy cellar book" shows a myriad of fake websites with "reviews". I'd be cautious dealing with them.
Yes, you're probably right. I'm wondering if there is some nuggets of truth in this video though. Are root cellars easy to make? What are the pros and cons? If they are so wonderful, is there a good book out there on how to make one that isn't a scam? He does have an interesting point about the Vietnamese tunnels. They were very effective and probably one of the main ingredients that allowed them to win the war.
Get you a prepaid credit card. Ive used them before,, don't have to worry about them getting your info that way.
Are you making a root cellar or are you making a bomb shelter/hidey hole? If just a root cellar then it's no big deal. My Grandmothers was just a basement she accessed via a trap door then covered up some stairs. Root cellar - Wikipedia "Common construction methods are: Digging down into the ground and erecting a shed or house over the cellar (access is via a trap door in the shed). Digging into the side of a hill (easier to excavate and facilitates water drainage). Building a structure at ground level and piling rocks, earth, and/or sod around and over it.[1] This may be easier to build on rocky terrain where excavation is difficult. Most root cellars were built using stone, wood, mortar (cement), and sod. Newer ones may be made of concrete with sod on top.[3]" Bomb shelters and hidey holes are a bit different and much more involved.
If you want info in building a root cellar, try your county extension service. They may have exactly what you are looking for. They have an incredible amount of information on all kinds of subjects, that you have already paid for. So use it!
I didn't read a book.....seemed like fairly common sense if you know anything about construction. Mine was fairly "easy" to make. (easy being a relative term I guess..... ) North side of our attached garage is built into the mountain side of our place. I built an 8' high cinder block wall originally (1984), that has around 7' of dirt/shale against the outside. About 15 years ago, I decided to build a root cellar on that side, and had a guy here doing some other work with an excavator dig me out a hole in that bank. I sawed a doorway in the block wall, and built the cellar into that hole. Then hand poured a footer for an 8x10 room. Laid 8" block for the walls. Put some temporary wood underneath to support concrete roof pour. Pumped 6" of concrete on roof and filled the block walls, removed the temporary lumber underneath after it cured a few weeks. Draped a large sheet of thick roofing vinyl over the whole thing, put 4" of foam on top that, then back filled with as much dirt as I could mound up over the top. Finished room inside. Have two 6" PVC pipes for ventilation. One has a small 'duct booster' fan on it to draw air in the other....on a timer so it runs from midnite to 6m to draw in the coldest air to help chill the room during cold weather. Like last night, it was 24 degrees, so the fan drew in really cold air, making the room temp in the upper 30's. Don't run fan in summer. We store mostly our potato crop in there on wood screens I built just for that purpose. The bags on the wall are the really little ones we'll save for seed potatoes. Wife keeps her eggs on the shelving before they get sold, that type of thing. I built an insulated door out of red cedar with foam board core.
