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[Vladas]

How about simple venting your cellar? Mine's under construction, a basement cellar 7x8, insulated and should stay passively cold. I'm not sure if this room need any vents. Any help appreciated.

[bzac]

If you have major damp issues or you are fermenting a few hundred pounds in there , otherwise you shouldn't need venting

[Hammered]

According to the International Building Code, you wouldn't need ventilation unless you have an exposed earth floor (or one only covered with visqueen or the like) and it is "unconditioned" meaning no heat, cooling or other type of ventilation. So unless you're needing to use the ventilation to control the temperatures, then none would (or should) be installed. Insulate the interior walls well and leave any foundation walls that are backfilled with earth uninsulated and you should be in pretty good shape to maintain 55º to 60º year round.

Here's a thread I started when I built my cellar a few years ago. Unfortunately, with Apple no longer supporting web hosting on MobileMe and iWeb which I used to post the photos, the links to the photos no longer work, but you can see the finished photos near the end of the thread.

Keep us posted (pun intended).

[Vladas]

Great, I'll cross this of my to do list:) Thanks