What have done towards your prep?

[Straight Shooter]

Up at 6 pm ...into the storeroom i go, i remove six barrel kegs to get at the shelves holding the canned food , i take out and bag up 62 tins .......chopped tomatoes, carrots, baked beans,sardines, peas,red kidney beans, pickled onions,pickled eggs,red and green tomato chutney and some green /black olives ......i load the bags and i dump them in the council recycling yard.....there will be more !....i get home and check the six kegs, i open and remove everything inside ....all okay except two sardine tins everything looks very good....i have ten plastic dust bins and twenty 10 ltr plastic pails with clip on lids not counting plastic box containers.... twenty eight of different sizes to go...its been cold here today been back and forth having a warm and a cuppa all day ......i pull one dust bin off the shelf only to find a leak in the roof right on the corner ....i inspect outside a branch off a nearby oak has come down in the winds and damaged the roof ....could not see it (the bin was in the way ) i decide to call it a day ...its to bloody cold for the roof repair (fibre glass) .

So lets take a look where am i going wrong (this is a ongoing reoccurring problem) .....open timber shelves tins stacked three high with cardboard between layers .....some tins (lower bottom) rotted through brown stains a few empty tins ....checking dates 2014 umm so why are not all effected ...same date ?

The storeroom faces north (by design) its insulated floor ,roof,and all sides .......its cold...VENTILATION ? i did add more vents some months back.....but i think it may need more or forced ventilation one side on a timer......NEWBIES NOTE when you start your preps DO not do what i did with tinned food .....buy lots of it ....cheap....from Aldi's only to throw it out later just like i'm doing two things here.....false economy and false hope ! beware ! .....should i have put tins into a plastic keg or box ? well lets see what the boys and girls say ! ....on the up side tins of Ham, Spam, corned beef appear to be doing well along with steak n kidney pies (Fray Bentos) and although honey has crystallised this is perfectly fine and expected zero problems there.....onwards tomorrow.