[Cob] the cold box/fridge debate

[Dulane]

If you have any room in your freezer, you could freeze blocks of ice. Half 
gallon juice jugs fit well.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dirtcheapbuilder-Charmaine" <tms at northcoast.com>
To: "Tys Sniffen" <tys at ideamountain.com>
Cc: <coblist at deatech.com>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Cob] the cold box/fridge debate


|
| On Dec 28, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Tys Sniffen wrote:
|
|  I came up with the idea of
| a tiled box sunk into the gravel with a trap door on it for cool
| storage.  I
| can send pictures as it develops.
|
|
| Hi Ty when I bought my little fixer cottage in Dec 1999 I was concerned
| about Y2K  ( an NO elec.) in the next few days, so passed on a fridge
| purchase and tried a cool box idea in my North facing very cold guest
| bathroom.   it worked great until the weather warmed up.. then cheese
| and any meats did not last very long once temps were at 50 deg even
| though it was only 40ish at that side of the house.    If you are
| vegetarian then yes NO fridge may be needed, cold storage has worked
| for hundreds of American homes in the 20's 30s. yogurt, milk, veggies
| are great at just cool cool temps.
|
| ALSO I saw that many Japanese homes have a floor full of trapdoors with
| storage under the floors. very clever, if the house has room while you
| build why not us this idea and have several storage areas for all sorts
| of non daily use items? -  clothing, sheets, even book and pots & pans
| storage, even one trapdoor floor storage per room allows bonus storage
| and security, than overhead storage.
|
| I say go for it!  I think if I had done a dug in ground cool box I
| could have gone a lot longer without a real fridge.
|
|
|
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