While the foundation of my house is being poured, I am considering a 8×12 root cellar. I’d pour the walls of the root cellar, and the roof must support 4 feet of earth. Without using pre-cast anything, how do I make the roof? Any suggestions are appreciated.
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why not just dig it to the surface and form the roof and pour it w/ the walls and then fill over it with dirt?
This way you have a combo root cellar and bomb shelter all in one.
Be a hole in the ground
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The primitive way is to form it with a plywood deck supported by numerous posts. The sophisitcated way is to use any of a variety of corrugated steel decking that will span eight feet without requiring any intermediate support. Here are some previous threads.
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages/?msg=14411.1
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages/?msg=15399.1
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages/?msg=24889.1
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages/?msg=36314.1