Posted by Determined on July 15, 2019 at 13:23:16 from (216.130.212.201):
One of our sons is looking at buying an older farm house (late 60's)
In the basement or should I say under the basement is an old cistern that has not been used since a good well was put in.
The basement floor is about 6 feet below grade the cistern is below that, guessing 6 foot x 6 foot and say 7 foot deep.
His first thought was he would likely just fill it in and cement the top.
My thought was to keep it and use a small pump to circulate water out of it through a radiator, mount a fan behind it and have a low dollar air conditioner.
Being all concrete and that deep in the ground I would expect 1000-1500 gallons of water to stay in the high 30's to low 40's and provide plenty of cooling.
So let me know, am I dreaming or could this work, around here air conditioning would only get used on and off a week or two each summer.
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