A Root Cellar for your Homestead: Part 1: where to put new root cellar

» TandAinCO - where to put new root cellar

We have a root cellar (which we love) which badly needs completely re-doing. Since it takes up a large portion of our side yard being half above and half below graound, I was thinking of moving it under a portion of our house. The house has a crawl space where I can start digging. Could I dig a root cellar under the side (unheated) mudroom of the house and still have it remain cool enough to act as fruit ,veg and canning storage. My husband says cellars have never been under housing and it must be for a reason. But I see where one suggestion is under a shed. I was thinking of putting in stairway access at a slant from the "mechanic room" or washroom (also unheated but has the clothes dryer)which is lower (slab on grade) than the mudroom, but maybe he is right about temperature problems. So will a root cellar function if located under a raised structure?

-- posted by TandAinCO