Cellar construction work is usually carried out at the stage of construction of the house itself. But it can also be done under a finished building. It’s important to make sure it doesn’t harm your home. If you do not have such guarantees, then stand the cellar at some distance from the house. It is worth noting that now you can not do without motoblocks in the country and in a country house.
Before starting construction, determine the dimensions of the structure. The standard cellar size is 3 meters wide and 2 meters high. But you don’t have to stick to these parameters..
Reinforced concrete is used for making floors, walls and ceilings. This material guarantees stability with good waterproofing. The thickness of the floor slab should be approximately 15 cm, the thickness of the walls and floors should be 25 cm.
Work begins with a foundation pit. Calculate its depth based on the height of the structure, the height of the groundwater and the depth of freezing.
The ideal is the option in which the floor is 60 cm higher than the groundwater level, the ceiling is 20 cm lower than the freezing depth.
This cannot always be achieved. It will be easier to make an embankment over the overlap. Its thickness should be higher than the freezing depth of the soil.
Pouring concrete. Before that, the floor of the future structure needs to be leveled and covered with a layer of rubble 15 cm thick.After that, the surface is covered with sand and tamped.
