Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner.

  • Turner, Ernest.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    whatever it may be, should remain so. A varying temperature is ruinous to wines. Wherefore a wine-cellar should be kept as sheltered as possible from atmospheric influences of every kind, and should on no account be next door to the kitchen. It should have an ante-cellar for bottling pur- poses. The door of this outer cellar should not be less than four feet in width, to allow the admission of wine-casks, which are three feet in diameter. For a Beer-cellar, the chief qualifications arc those of a great commander—coolness and capacity. The Coal-cellar demands only the lhtter. This may be calculated sufficiently on the basis of 45 cubic feet for each ton of coal, but it will not do to take simply the dimensions of the cellar. Occa- sionally too the shoot is badly placed, which further diminishes the capacity. The best plan for getting the maximum of storage is to fill the doorway with a stout movable bulkhead reaching from the top to about a foot from the floor. c