Quite fancy the look of these things:

http://spiralcellars.com/uk/description.htm

Anyone got one or been tempted to do a DIY version?

Andy

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Quite fancy the look of these things:

http://spiralcellars.com/uk/description.htm

Anyone got one or been tempted to do a DIY version?

Andy

Never seen it before.

It might be attractive if there weren't so many other things to do in the
time which is running away fast!

Mary

Andy Kirkland wrote:
Quite fancy the look of these things:

http://spiralcellars.com/uk/description.htm

Anyone got one or been tempted to do a DIY version?

Nope, but most interesting website find. Thanks :-)

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On Oct 1, 1:20 pm, Andy Kirkland wrote:
Quite fancy the look of these things:

http://spiralcellars.com/uk/description.htm

Anyone got one or been tempted to do a DIY version?

Andy

I think I saw one of these on display in Vinopolis - that wine visitor
centre in London www.vinopolis.co.uk. give em a ring and ask. If
you're close to London, pop in and have a look.

David

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 12:20:37 UTC, Andy Kirkland
wrote:

Quite fancy the look of these things:

http://spiralcellars.com/uk/description.htm

Anyone got one or been tempted to do a DIY version?

I've been tempted since I found out about these 12 years or so
ago....even have a site for it. Lack the money and/or time!

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Bob Eager wrote:
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 12:20:37 UTC, Andy Kirkland
wrote:

Quite fancy the look of these things:

http://spiralcellars.com/uk/description.htm

Anyone got one or been tempted to do a DIY version?

I've been tempted since I found out about these 12 years or so
ago....even have a site for it. Lack the money and/or time!


I am very tempted with a self build of one of these. Their installation
cost is huge - nearly £9k + VAT for the most basic up to £20k+ for the
larger ones.

The biggest/expensive problems that require solving that I can see a

- Sourcing/making the precast blocks/steps (have already started some
research!)
- Getting structural plans drawn up - surely any reasonable structural
surveyor can sort something out - for building control.

Think that it is possible to be done for considerably less than £8k+.....

Andy

Andy Kirkland wrote:
Bob Eager wrote:
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 12:20:37 UTC, Andy Kirkland
wrote:

Quite fancy the look of these things:

http://spiralcellars.com/uk/description.htm

Anyone got one or been tempted to do a DIY version?

I've been tempted since I found out about these 12 years or so
ago....even have a site for it. Lack the money and/or time!


I am very tempted with a self build of one of these. Their installation
cost is huge - nearly £9k + VAT for the most basic up to £20k+ for the
larger ones.

The biggest/expensive problems that require solving that I can see a

- Sourcing/making the precast blocks/steps (have already started some
research!)
- Getting structural plans drawn up - surely any reasonable structural
surveyor can sort something out - for building control.

Think that it is possible to be done for considerably less than £8k+......

Andy

Doesnt look too hard to make a wood mould to produce the hollow
blocks for the wine storage. curved or straight, either would work
well enough. Wooden steps would probably be easiest, concrete
spiral ones would be significantly more work.

And you could make those hollow blocks decorative...
http://www.wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index....oncrete_Blocks

I cant imagine that adding up to 8k.


NT

On 1 Oct, 18:06, wrote:
Andy Kirkland wrote:
Bob Eager wrote:
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 12:20:37 UTC, Andy Kirkland
wrote:
Quite fancy the look of these things:

http://spiralcellars.com/uk/description.htm

Anyone got one or been tempted to do a DIY version?

I've been tempted since I found out about these 12 years or so
ago....even have a site for it. Lack the money and/or time!

I am very tempted with a self build of one of these. Their installation
cost is huge - nearly £9k + VAT for the most basic up to £20k+ for the
larger ones.

The biggest/expensive problems that require solving that I can see a

- Sourcing/making the precast blocks/steps (have already started some
research!)
- Getting structural plans drawn up - surely any reasonable structural
surveyor can sort something out - for building control.

Think that it is possible to be done for considerably less than £8k+......

Andy

Doesnt look too hard to make a wood mould to produce the hollow
blocks for the wine storage. curved or straight, either would work
well enough. Wooden steps would probably be easiest, concrete
spiral ones would be significantly more work.

And you could make those hollow blocks decorative...http://www.wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index....oncrete_Blocks

I cant imagine that adding up to 8k.

NT

Can't add anything on the source or making of one of these, except
that my cousin is married to a seriously wealthy wine buff, who had
one put in, somewhere in London, down near the Thames. Seemingly the
contractors dug out the hole and met the Thames coming in, so the size
had to be somewhat curtailed !

The sloes are in plentiful supply this year and I hunted the net for a
sloe wine recipe - one I found was made in a 100 litre container and
required 60lbs of sloes. The end was going to be 120 bottles of wine;
does present a storage problem unless of course you have a spiral hole
in the ground. Presumably in this case you would have to store the
empties there too for re-cycling.

Rob

The description of the passive ventilation system makes it sound like a
perpetual motion machine. I'd be more inclined to think the effect of wind
blowing over a suitably designed exhaust pipe fifteen feet up would generate
a flow, though.

Newshound wrote:

The description of the passive ventilation system makes it sound like a
perpetual motion machine. I'd be more inclined to think the effect of wind
blowing over a suitably designed exhaust pipe fifteen feet up would generate
a flow, though.

I thought the ventilation diagram looked optimsitic, and I dont see an
need for any special ventilation design.


NT

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Newshound wrote:

The description of the passive ventilation system makes it sound like a
perpetual motion machine. I'd be more inclined to think the effect of wind
blowing over a suitably designed exhaust pipe fifteen feet up would generate
a flow, though.

I thought the ventilation diagram looked optimsitic, and I dont see an
need for any special ventilation design.

Moisture regulation?

Andy,

Did you end up making one? Quite fancy one myself.

Jeremy

replying to Andy Kirkland, Mike wrote:
Ours is available in kit form - http://www.stonecellar.co.uk


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But you'll take ten years to deliver it.

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