Morning All,
I was trying to figure out if this would be the best place to post this and thought it would be better so then any place else because of the often talk about bunkers and such. My question isn't so much nuclear related, it's more like mold and flooding related.
I am thinking about building an underground food storage using mortar and cinder blocks. However I don't want to have to live in a desert climate to build something like this and not have to worry about too much moisture in my cinder block cellar. My ideal location would be Wyoming, Montana, Colorado or Idaho. Since it snows in the winter and the ground is quite wet in the spring and such, I am wondering about the feasibility of the long term survival of the building in using cinder block. Can cinder block erode away over time if the conditions are not properly dry? Would one have to worry about flooding through the cinder block?? Of course I know better then the build something like this below or close to the water table. So a High Location will reduce chances of flooding dramatically.
My thoughts are to build a small building under ground and make it level as possible, I thought about slanting it to help combat any adverse water problems but don't really want to do that. The roof would be constructed out of T Iron Supports and Stainless Steel Plates (if not prohibitively expensive). And I would have the entrance be through the roof of course. The Depth would be about 8 ft and the roof would be level to just below the frost line. At first I wasn't going to do this, I was going to put roof to just below grass root level until I remembered the climate I was thinking about building this in.
The other option I thought of would be to use rebar and concrete for everything except roofing once again, but would cinder block be cheaper?
I was trying to figure out if this would be the best place to post this and thought it would be better so then any place else because of the often talk about bunkers and such. My question isn't so much nuclear related, it's more like mold and flooding related.
I am thinking about building an underground food storage using mortar and cinder blocks. However I don't want to have to live in a desert climate to build something like this and not have to worry about too much moisture in my cinder block cellar. My ideal location would be Wyoming, Montana, Colorado or Idaho. Since it snows in the winter and the ground is quite wet in the spring and such, I am wondering about the feasibility of the long term survival of the building in using cinder block. Can cinder block erode away over time if the conditions are not properly dry? Would one have to worry about flooding through the cinder block?? Of course I know better then the build something like this below or close to the water table. So a High Location will reduce chances of flooding dramatically.
My thoughts are to build a small building under ground and make it level as possible, I thought about slanting it to help combat any adverse water problems but don't really want to do that. The roof would be constructed out of T Iron Supports and Stainless Steel Plates (if not prohibitively expensive). And I would have the entrance be through the roof of course. The Depth would be about 8 ft and the roof would be level to just below the frost line. At first I wasn't going to do this, I was going to put roof to just below grass root level until I remembered the climate I was thinking about building this in.
The other option I thought of would be to use rebar and concrete for everything except roofing once again, but would cinder block be cheaper?