nucjd
Cove Springs Farm
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Hey guys. Thought I would post up some pics and info about my cellar I built.
First our house ( on our horse farm) had a storm shelter built into the basement that is 12 ft tall 20 feet long and 6 feet wide. It was drab and I decided when I started my vineyard to turn it into my cellar. It is set into the ground on three walls with a concrete roof with reinforced steel and a concrete floor. The wall adjoining the basement is reinforced cinderblock with a veneer of brick and mortar on the inside. The door is a heavy steel reinforced door that is air gapped and sealed.
So I cleaned out the space and treated the concrete and steel then painted the ceiling, walls and stained the floor. Then I re ran the electrics and lights. I made a work table/tasting table out of concrete and polished it smooth and mounted it to the wall with reinforced steel. Finally I sealed the door way with an o-ring. Then I demolished a 1.5 foot bu 2 foot rectangle in the wall (reinforced with header boards ) and installed a breezair wine cooling unit. I then installed wine bins and racks to hold about 1000 bottles. It gets to about 60 degrees in the heat of the summer and lowest to about 50 degrees in the dead of the winter with an average of about 55 degrees. Hope you guys like it.
First our house ( on our horse farm) had a storm shelter built into the basement that is 12 ft tall 20 feet long and 6 feet wide. It was drab and I decided when I started my vineyard to turn it into my cellar. It is set into the ground on three walls with a concrete roof with reinforced steel and a concrete floor. The wall adjoining the basement is reinforced cinderblock with a veneer of brick and mortar on the inside. The door is a heavy steel reinforced door that is air gapped and sealed.
So I cleaned out the space and treated the concrete and steel then painted the ceiling, walls and stained the floor. Then I re ran the electrics and lights. I made a work table/tasting table out of concrete and polished it smooth and mounted it to the wall with reinforced steel. Finally I sealed the door way with an o-ring. Then I demolished a 1.5 foot bu 2 foot rectangle in the wall (reinforced with header boards ) and installed a breezair wine cooling unit. I then installed wine bins and racks to hold about 1000 bottles. It gets to about 60 degrees in the heat of the summer and lowest to about 50 degrees in the dead of the winter with an average of about 55 degrees. Hope you guys like it.
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