Precast hillside & wine cellar
FMV-1608-H08-D-CL
16 ft long · 8 ft wide · 8 ft clear height · door on end · concrete lid
Dug into a slope with the door centred on the open end, so you walk straight in with no stair. 16 × 8 ft outside and 8 ft clear inside, with an insulated door and passive airflow.
Tell us about your project — another size, a question, or a site to check.
Built for
- Wine storage
- Root and cold storage on a sloping site
- Anyone who would rather not carry things up and down a stair
- Outside size
- 16 × 8 ft
- Clear height
- 8 ft
- Wall section
- 9 in reinforced
- Design
- PE stamped design · sheets published
Every part in the kit
Every line comes off the Freestone price list, with the quantities Freestone has set for this kit.
- Wall panel, 4 × 8 ft4 × $1,298$5,192
- Precast lid, 4 × 8 ft4 × $1,380$5,520
- Floor section, 43½" × 78" × 3"4 × $786$3,144
- Stair landing, 3 × 3 ft1 × $296$296
- Corner panel, 4 × 8 ft6 × $1,352$8,112
- Door lintel1 × $166$166
- Insulated fiberglass door1 × $520$520
- Half panel, 2 ft2 × $649$1,298
- Airflow pipework1 × $416$416
- * Transportation to your site is an additional cost, quoted separately.
- * Kits are supplied for assembly on your prepared site. We can install if needed — ask us for a quote.
Options
- Exposed aggregate finishFinish for above-ground utility buildings.On request
- InstallationKits are supplied for assembly on your prepared site. We can install if needed — ask us for a quote.On request
How it goes in
No poured footer below grade
A buried vault sits on a bed of crushed, compacted stone — no footing to form, pour or wait on. A building set above ground requires a poured footing, so frost can't shift it.
Sealed and watertight
Every panel seam is sealed with polyurethane and through-bolted. The structure is watertight once the last seam closes.
Grouted, then backfilled
On a buried kit, the precast floor sections sit inside the walls with a small gap all round. The gaps are grouted solid before any backfill goes in.
If your building department needs stamped plans, our engineer seals your layout once you have signed off on the drawing, with the structural calculations attached. His stamp covers the states he is licensed in — tell us where you are building, and we will say what your soil, frost depth or seismic category adds.
Questions about this kit
Do I need a hillside?
It is built to be buried with one end open to grade, which a slope makes easy. On flat ground the root cellar, with its walk-down stair, is usually the better fit.
Is it waterproofed?
No — like the root cellar, it keeps its humidity, which is what food and wine want.
Can it be longer?
Yes. It grows 4 ft at a time; size it in the configurator.