Walk-In Cold Storage Room in Your Basement - DIY Root Cellar

by Pascal Tremblay

$600

6 Months

Medium

In 2003, I decided to build myself a cold storage room in my home basement. Homesteaders name this a Positive Cold Room.

The goal was to store garden kitchen vegetable, canning, canned food and beverages. Of course, one of my wishes was to be able to walk in the cold to access to the shelves (Walk-in Cold Room).

I built removable shelves inside and wooden vegetable bins.

For detailed building instructions: ---> Build a Cold Room in Basement
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Gravity ventilation system.

Cold Room shelves to store canning. See how to build it: http://www.usa-gardening.com/cold-storage/cold-storage-room.html

Shelves design.

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Idea for food preservation.

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How to build a vegetable bins in a positive cold room.

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M.laudy on Jul 17, 2016
Is there a preference between pvc pipe or aluminum for the cold air ducts?

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S. on Nov 18, 2019

Any problem with rodents?

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EricColbert on Nov 04, 2014
That's a gorgeous set-up for pantry storage! And looks really simple too! Can't believe the price to build the pantry was actually this cheap though but what I'd really like to know, is how you keep the cold in though and how you are making the room air-tight. Hope you can share more information on that!

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Pascal Tremblay on Apr 06, 2015
Eric, see the pipe system back of the shelves. Cold room is located in basement. Basement supply the cold needed.

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