[Strawbale] cold room question

[SArjuna at aol.com]

     We are planning to build with a partial basement.   The way the plans 
work out, there is room in the center back (toward the north) of the house for a 
cool storage room for food on the main floor, with the north wall behind it 
bermed.    I don't know enough to make the best decisions, though.

     Would a main floor cool storage room be notably cooler if there were no 
basement beneath it but rather the earth?    

     For humidity, for storing vegetables, I am thinking a dirt floor is 
good?

      Would it work to have a root cellar under it, in addition, for things 
that need to be moister?   Would that result in a warmer first-floor space?

     If we don't use this space for cool storage I don't know what to use it 
for.    It is 6 X 12.   A good size for cool storage, but not for anything 
else I can think of.

     Thanks,
     Shivani in WI

     


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