🏠 Storage of vegetables on the balcony: homemade and factory solutions

Our grandparents and parents always tried to stock up for the winter, not only conservation, but also potatoes, cabbage, onions and other vegetables. All these need to be stored somewhere, and at a certain temperature. If the villagers with the same problems did not arise, since in every house was roomy basement, Then the citizens they are present. Someone may stored reserves in the country or in garageBut what about the rest? Here it is time to think about the balcony, which is often cluttered. With the right approach, it can be used for arrangement of storage space for vegetables. In this review HouseChief will explain how to make an ordinary balcony cellar, what designs are and what to choose.

The urgency of resettlement cellar on the balcony

Creating a vegetable stock for the winter has its advantages. Most importantly - savings. Lowest cost of potatoes, onions, carrots, etc., as a rule, observed immediately after the harvest and the winter is significantly elevated. In addition, with the advent of cold weather there is a risk of buying frozen vegetables, already deprived of vitamins and minerals, and which reduced shelf life. It is therefore desirable to fall to make the necessary supply of food, however small. If stored properly vegetables "survive" until early spring.

To vegetables that you have decided to prepare for the winter, not deteriorated, you must create them with appropriate climate. Typically, the temperature at the storage location must be within ± 1 ° C... + 5 ° C, relative humidity - no more than 90%. These ideal conditions can only be achieved in a traditional cellar, but what about those who do not have home ownership or garage? You can choose arrange storage space on the balcony or use the factory solution. Domestic manufacturers, focusing on the needs of the population, offering customers storage systems for small stock of vegetables. Consider options for resettlement home cellar, which can arrange on your balcony.

Storage of vegetables in a container

The container can hardly be called a cellar, but it is the easiest option for storage of vegetables and thus requires minimal cost. However, it is only suitable for glazed and insulated rooms. The basic material for vegetable storage chamber - plywood or DSP, as well as wooden beam with section 25 × 50 mm. You also need hacksaw, screwdriver or drill, screws and loops.

The first step is to make measurements of the place where the storage container will be installed, and to make a drawing, which can be implemented independently or on the Internet.

Having prepared everything necessary, follow the following algorithm:

1. Cut plywood or Particleboard into pieces of appropriate size for the front wall, bottom and lid. Lumber sawed 8 8 short and long lengths (lateral and transversal).
2. Raschertit joints of all the details and drill the holes. At first, make a back wall, and then the sidewall.
3. Making the bottom of the frame and fills it to the board, leaving between them gaps for natural ventilation. If you are using Fibreboard or plywood, the material pre-drilled holes.
4. Putting all the structural elements together by means of screws and sew up the facade wall.
5. Making the cover of boards and plywood boards or chipboard.
6. Connect the cover to the container by a hinge.

The result is an excellent vegetable container that will maintain the proper temperature and ventilation.

Termopogreb

For manufacturing you need the same materials as for the previous version, as well as polystyrene, polyurethane foam. Making the outer and inner container in the same manner as described above. In the manufacture of smaller volume should be considered that between the walls of both containers distance equal to the thickness thermal insulation material. If the assembly formed gap, then they need to be repaired using the foam. The result is a container with properties thermos.

Factory solution: oven 'Cellar "

A good solution for the proper storage of vegetables offered to the Russian industry, releasing the oven 'Cellar ". It warmed metal box with tray on legs. The housing cabinet made of regular steel, and storage containers - stainless steel or galvanized.

"Cellar" is equipped with a remote thermometer, temperature controller connected to the heating elements and a temperature sensor. All this equipment allows to maintain the temperature of + 2 ° C... + 10 ° C and provide long-term storage of vegetables, without user intervention. To maintain the necessary humidity level of the oven is equipped with ventilation system.

Flexible cold box "balcony cellar"

Another factory solution for the storage of vegetables, which is perfect for small terraces owners. Thermocontainer represents a big bag whose walls are made of dense two-layer fabric with a water repellent impregnation. As the heat insulating material is used sintepon.

The optimum temperature in the container is provided with a wire heating element digital temperature. Flexible cold box stores vegetables at ambient temperature of from -40 to + 50 ° C. After reaching the required temperature, power consumption is reduced to a minimum level, which prevents temperature fall below the set value.

Cellar under the floor

Often balconies are small, which makes it difficult to install a stand-alone container for storage of vegetables. However, here you can find a way out - arrangement of the cellar in the underground space. This of course will require physical and material costs, but the result will justify.

First you need to calculate the height to which you are willing to raise the floor on the balcony. After work is needed to insulation of walls and floors using foiling polypropylene and perform installation infrared film. Cut into thick wooden beam and make the crate, which will be held outdoor flooring. For finished floor should be chosen thick boardsThat will not sag under the weight of a person walking, or chipboard or thick plywood, but in this case will have to make a crate with a fine pitch. The flooring makes tilting or sliding roof for loading or unloading vegetable preservation or tool. As you can see, the underground system is suitable for storing everything.

cellars arrangement under the balcony

cellars device under the balcony or balcony of the first floor - the most popular, as well as energy and materialnozatratny option that pays off. storage is typically built in the basement of the building (between the lower level overlap balconies and foundation). True there are some difficulties, namely the need to obtain a permitAs cellars improvement equates to redevelop. If it is not, you can be fined a decent amount and force to dismantle the structure.

So you've got permission, prepared the necessary materials and tools, and you can now proceed to the immediate arrangement of the cellar. If this is the balcony, then we act according to the following algorithm:

1. To get started on the perimeter of the balcony you need to remove the blind area. Next, dig a hole, taking into account the fact that in the basement of a man must stand tall and do not forget to fill the thickness of future floor.

   

2. Along the perimeter of the foundation pit dig depth 300-400 mm (under brick or block masonry).
3. In the balcony floor slab cut by the hatch aperture with dimensions of 500 × 500 mm. You will need hammer and Bulgarian.

   

4. Lay on the bottom of the trench waterproofingWhich in this case should go to the floor surface. It is desirable to weld individual gas burner strip of waterproofing material in the whole web.
5. Concrete solution to fill the trench. After drying put on it and the floor waterproofing and again walk on it a gas burner.
6. On waterproofing create sand and crushed stone pad is not more than 100 mm and its ramming well. Put on the mound reinforcing mesh or metal rods and do 60-10 mm screed concrete solutions.
7. After hardening screed perform masonry walls of brick, cinder block or foam. The wall is insulated, fasten on it and reinforcing mesh plaster on both sides.

   

8. In the top corner of one of the walls need to leave hole for ventilationIt must be protected. Often this grille with louvers or tube with mesh and galvanized steel cone.

   

9. Of the metal angle or wooden beam frame do hatch and attach in or over the opening. Of thick plywood or sheet metal cover fabricate and connect it with an aperture through the loops.
10. Of the metal angle or boards to produce a solid ladder and mount it under opening. Inside the cellar insulate the walls, perform finishing and lay floor tiles. make-wall racking and boxes that will allow the best use of a useful area.

A few words in conclusion

Creating cellar will allow you to expand the storage space for storing blanks and vegetables on the balcony. Because of this you will forget all about frozen potatoes, onions, carrots, etc. Make any of the cellar the above methods will not be difficult, besides the Internet a lot of very different designs - will choose most suitable. If our article was useful for you, then share your opinion in the form of comments.