Setting up a small cellar right at the balcony

Winter preparation - a tradition that is observed in each family. Not everyone has a summer residence, so by the end of September in most apartments storerooms crammed bank conservation and long-stored vegetables. However, the apartment is too warm and the products stored in pantries often deteriorate.

Quite simple way out of this situation - the equipment basement impromptu chat on your own balcony. The only condition - the premises must be glazed and insulated. How to make a mini-cellar for the blanks on your own balcony or loggia - on.

Ideas for "storage"

Improvised cellar on the balcony for most no problem. As a rule, he is already a balcony and a basement and a storage room for unnecessary things, and many others. Someone standing shelving scored pickles, someone keeps products in boxes on the floor, but what about when the balcony It used also as gazebos, and comfortable equipped premises no desire to see the shelves or boxes with banks and vegetables?

Variants of arrangement of "hidden" storage

Each balcony or loggia, as a rule, are equipped with seating area. It can be folding chairs, built-in bench or sofa. The latter option can be equipped with hidden storage area by doing it on the basis of the kitchen sofa corner.

Note: the width and height of the seat of the sofa will depend section capacity.

Another winning option - installation cupboard in the wall. This can be a design with doors of the "compartment" or conventional doors. Budget options include the use of blinds or Roman blinds. Thus, even 30 cm cabinet from the floor to the ceiling can be placed inside everything you need.

Cellar under floors. Insulated balcony often provides insulation and floor, which is not without raising the lower plane. Someone mounts there Warming "pie" someone - floor heating system, and someone leaves the hollow emptiness.

So, equipped with a small hatch and raising the level of the floor, it is possible to get the underground space, height commensurate with the three-liter jar. The only drawback of such a storage area - is that the device warm floor on the balcony will have to forget, unsightly hatch constantly cover mat.

Cellar with their hands - step by step guide

You can take the path of least resistance and build the so-called "Thermo Chest" for storage of vegetables. But such a structure can accommodate a very a limited number of productsAll will depend on the "trunk" of dimensions.

Frame construction is done by the principle of cross-section rails 3-4 cmFormed "skeleton" of a cube circuits. Sheathed outside OSB, plywood, square-edged board or any other material of similar characteristics.

On the inner side in the resulting cell is placed on a heater Example mineral wool or foam and is attached with a reflective foil material property. Bottom on top of the soft insulation sheathing boards for better rigidity. The same principle is formed by the lid and secured by conventional canopies.

Council: underground storage zone equip most conveniently simultaneously with internal insulation and finish balcony. Before starting the work it is important to settle on which it will be possible to raise the floor. As the doors open to the balcony inside the apartment, the height, the idea can be any.

Step 1. Insulate the concrete base. So how to use the foil with foam nfrakrasnoy film for us in this case, every centimeter of the road, it is better for this purpose. If the neighbor's balcony below insulated, you can do just a heater.

Step 2. By the walls of the perimeter of the balcony bars fastened at the desired height; they are the basis for outdoor flooring. If the balcony is quite wide, set in the middle of construction zheskosti edge.

Step 3. Mount the floor. Floor on the balcony, you can use plywood, particle board or the board. Fasten the base of the floor so that it was a place to hatch.

Step 4. Set the hatch. Cover "cellar" can be sliding or swing. On a small balcony swing space option is more convenient, since it takes up less space. By means of shelters set up manhole cover.

At the final stage plank decorative covering fastened plinth. Cellar is ready!