"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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"Jason" wrote in message
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Does anyone have any tips on where I can look for details on how to go
about designing/specifying/building a passively-cooled larder for a
kitchen? We are having some structural work done, and being able to
incorporate something like this would be great.

I've done a little search, but not really come up with anywhere good to
start.

I'd love to do this too but it seems, after 43 years of thinking about it
I can only come up with: excavate a cellar.

Tempting! We are built on soft clay, and there is a metre or so access to
most of the underside of the house. I expect it would be quite a major job
though, underpinning all the walls (I'm not sure there is much of a
foundation for this Vistorian house - it just kind of floats there on a few
lines of bricks).

Our pantry is a wallk in, I think that's the problem. Every time you open
the door the temperature rises, even with a ventilated opening to the
outside and being on a sheltered east side of the house.

That's what I would ideally like. I guess the temperature rise will depend
on the thermal mass inside the room - lots of heavy brick and stone would
help, and that would need to be on the inside of any insulation.

The house we had before this was very small - one room on the ground
floor, one on the first floor, but it had a cellar, it was wonderful!

Mary

-- JJ