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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: WarrenSmith AT PalmettoBuilders.net, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: RE: [Homestead] Refrigeration
  • Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 08:09:00 -0700

Warren, thanks for the construction ideas. I have an old six-foot chest freezer in the basement, the lid of which would make a good people door. As for interior finish, I did the ceiling and north wall of my "East Wing" summer kitchen/plant starting greenhouse/herb drying room with something that in my part of the Ozarks is called dairy board because it's used in milking parlors where it gets hosed down daily; it's white heavy plastic stuff, perhaps an eighth of an inch thick, comes in four by eight sheets, has a sort of pebble surface.

Chris is a city girl also and if any valves are going to be turned on and off, 'tis me that's gonna do the turning.

With that in mind I'd probably build the
box myself. 2x4 studs and 2-3" of rigid insulation. Same with the floor and
ceiling. Plywood on the floor with sheet vinyl over it and turned up the
wall 3-4 inches. Install FRP plastic sheeting over the walls and ceiling,
lapping the FRP over the top of the vinyl flooring. Liquid nails will hold
it to most anything, including rigid insulation.

This sounds stupid but you could get a refrigerator door with the sub-doors
from an appliance repair boneyard, and hang it for your walk-in door, Use
the existing small doors for your butter, etc.. Then I'd call a
refrigeration company to install a small unit for me- shouldn't be too bad
as you aren't talking about a walk-in freezer- just a fridge.

This is what I would have to do if my wife and I wanted a walk-in, because
she wouldn't be very into opening and closing a hotwater valve for cooling.
She's a city kind of girl and hopefully I'm all that melts her butter.






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