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Beginner’s Guide to Wine Cellar Cooling
Unless you have been privileged with the inheritance of a massive fortune and a huge mansion that is equipped with a giant wine cellar, there is a very good chance that you are not showing off your home’s sprawling wine cellar or even wine room for that matter. And if you do have one, you are probably looking at it every day wondering why it is empty and waiting for you to finally start filling it up with tons of bottles of the most delicious wine. However, with that being said, this grand wine cellar that you think you have may actually be nothing more than a basement.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the definition of a basement is something that has a ‘part of a building that is entirely or partly below ground’. However, the average American household has been raised to know this definition as many different things. For example, it can be the place that you have all of your storage, the areas that you store all of your Christmas ornaments, where you store your extra furniture, or even where you have decided that you are going to keep your haunted doll collection. You know, back down into the deep recesses of the part of your house you are never going to remember or even think of them again.
Another idea is that you have a basement that is considered to be a much more functional space. A rumpus room if you will, but that rumpus room may also be home to an amazing washer and dryer, or even a nice new water heater that is going to be banging on and on in the dark corner that nobody likes to go to. No matter how you slice it, there is a very good chance that your basement is going to be very cold, windowless, and probably very damp as well. With all of this being said, you may feel that your basement is only going to be a huge waste of space. However, you will be surprised how efficient this space can be for the perfect wine cellar with the use of quality cooling units.
Why Not Store Wine in a Basement?
There are several issues that arise whenever you are trying to use your basement as a wine cellar. Here is why that can be the worst idea that you have ever come up with.
#1 – The Damp Air
Chances are that if you have ever been inside a basement, you already know exactly how uncomfortable that the moisture can become. What all this means is that your wine collection is not going got to be safe in this unfriendly area.
#2 – The Temperature Fluctuates
There is going to be a significant reason why most people don’t heat their basements, they are very expensive to heat and lose a ton of heat. You have unfinished ceilings, poor insulation and even stone walls to combat.
At the end of the day, all of this means that a basement is a terrible place for you to store your wine or turn into a wine cellar.
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