Portable AC power use.

[JohnW2]

We have some cellars around here that are completely below ground and quite a few of them actually have openable windows to get air as well as a bit of sunlight too (a gap wall where the pavement starts and a metal grid above which should be raised for a clean out of dropped litter etc every now and then - some dont of course and they are completly surrounded by earth, never having had a cellar myself its not been a problem.

One sees a lot like that in/around London.

 

[JohnW2]

A cellar would be even better, with it all being below ground level. But the half-and-half means we still have windows. It was originally a garage.

Something like 70%-80% of the height of my (large) cellar is below ground level, such that there are just a couple of small windows at the very top.

I'm away from home at the moment, so haven't been able to 'benefit' from it, but last time we had a 'heatwave', the cellar was by far to coolest place around - and I then even got Mrs JW down there, amidst all my 'workshop tools' (and goodness knows what else!), when it got really hot 'upstairs'

 

[mikehammer69]

Very nice shelving setup in first pic

 

[JohnW2]

Very nice shelving setup in first pic

Thanks.
Amidst some resistance from 'er indoors (the place was far too big for us even then!), the cellar was one of the major selling points when we bought it as far as I was concerned!
The size and shape of the cellar,and the facts that it has lots of 'nooks and crannies' ('side rooms') makes it difficult to do justice to it with photos - but, in case it's of any interest to you, the following give a little insight into the totality of my 'man cave'

... more in next post ....

 

[JohnW2]

.... continued .....

 

[mikehammer69]

There should be a degree program on storage if there isn’t already!

Quite an interesting subject

 

[JohnW2]

There should be a degree program on storage if there isn’t already! ... Quite an interesting subject

Maybe - I have a good few degrees and equivalents to my name, but not one of those

One thing that such a course would probably have to teach is that a variant of Parkinson's law trumps everything else! We move to this very large house (nearly 40 years ago) from a a very modest standard 2.5 bedroomed semi (the total floor area and volume of which was undoubtedly less than that of our current cellar!) then very rapidly achieved the state (in the rest of the house, as well as the cellar) you see in the photos - with a vast amount of 'something' (goodness know what, or how/why it came from!) stuffed into every available nook and cranny.

I will therefore supplement P's Law with JohnW2's variant - namely .... " that no matter how much storage space one has, the amount one has to store will rapidly rise so as to exceed the amount of storage space available"