http://www.livingoffgrid.org/instant-cheap-easy-root-cellar-roll-in-place-and-cover-with-dirt/ Info for Off Grid Homes Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:08:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.livingoffgrid.org/instant-cheap-easy-root-cellar-roll-in-place-and-cover-with-dirt/comment-page-1/#comment-2465 Maureen Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:07:39 +0000 http://www.livingoffgrid.org/?p=300#comment-2465 Easier than concrete culvert would be a piece of large diameter CMP (corrugated metal pipe) Much lighter and easier to handle. Ideas for filling in the ends: ferrocement covered with that super sticky 3' roll tar roofing used in roof valleys OR (my personal favorite) the underground building systems used in the "$50 and up underground house book" (uses posts, boards and heavy builders plastic). Or just use the technique for the whole thing and forget the thing and forget the pipe. Or if they are cheap in your area, you could buy a steel shipping container and bury it. Better coat the outside with tar paint first. All buried steel should be coated before burial. I don't know what soil loadings would be acceptable for the square sides of a shipping container, but it's a lot less than a round, corrugated pipe. Any of these would may a dandy compost worm/mushroom growing shed/potato storage/fallout shelter. Easier than concrete culvert would be a piece of large diameter CMP (corrugated metal pipe) Much lighter and easier to handle. Ideas for filling in the ends: ferrocement covered with that super sticky 3′ roll tar roofing used in roof valleys OR (my personal favorite) the underground building systems used in the “$50 and up underground house book” (uses posts, boards and heavy builders plastic). Or just use the technique for the whole thing and forget the thing and forget the pipe. Or if they are cheap in your area, you could buy a steel shipping container and bury it. Better coat the outside with tar paint first. All buried steel should be coated before burial. I don’t know what soil loadings would be acceptable for the square sides of a shipping container, but it’s a lot less than a round, corrugated pipe. Any of these would may a dandy compost worm/mushroom growing shed/potato storage/fallout shelter.

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