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Crazy Friday thoughts time....
The basic format of our house is a 2 up 2 down with a cellar under the front room.
Fortunately the cellar is dry and as such we use it as an office/crap storage area 🙂
Whilst doing some work a couple of years back we noticed that there is a demi cellar under the back room.
It's maybe 4 ft from floor to floorboard so unless we dug it out (not an option we are considering) it would be unusable for another room but could be useful for general storage.
Apart from pulling up the carpet and a couple of boards I'm not sure there is any other starting point.
My, caffeine fuelled thinking is something like a reverse loft hatch with maybe a stationary ladder in place and just going from there.
Any thoughts?
How far apart would you expect the joists to be? House was built in 1880 if that makes a difference.
*I only added the panic room bit to lure you in 😉
[i]*I only added the panic room bit to lure you in[/i]
*panics*
Make a feature of it?
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wine cellar!!!!!
I would have built one here, but being clay once you dig a hole round these parts you might as well call it a waterfeature.
SO I had to build one out of insiulation batts in the shed. Id love to have been able to create a stable wine store in the ground.
Also useful for storage of homegrown veg etc.
...damn, was lured in..
Can you not break through from the other cellar, rather than creating an awkward entrance, which will means it will end up unused? I'm liking wwaswas's picture though, but leading into a damp pit might not be what you want to see (unless you have kids?)
Stomers suggestion about as good as anything as it sounds like a crawl space raher than a cellar which means anything you stick down there will get lovely and damp.
a friend bought as house with a shallow wines store under the kitchen floor - with a glass hatch door so you can look down into it as you walk around. Some gentle LED lighting it would look ace!
homegrown
I didn't say it.
oooooohhhhhhhh. 😉
Mmmm! Wine.
Or you could install a big coffee machine so that you can come up with more amazing ideas for the house!
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Sunken hot-tub?
Bondage Dungeon?
Fire pit?
You need a bald cat, a large fish tank, some piranhas, a red button, a trap door, and a tipping chair. 😈
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Instead of going down, think what could come up!
Space saving hydraulic rising dining table?
Or...press a button and a fully equipped bike workshop rises out of the Middle of the floor 8)
One for those of a certain age;
Awww. I was hoping it was going to be Windy Miller.
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Underfloor bike storage, and more bikes. Clearly.
SHUT YOUR PIG MOUTH!
We've got similar in our House (100 years old) What puzzles me though is why we only have a cellar under on room, when our neibours houses have cellars that are under the whole house?
Also if you have 'half' a cellar, can you just dig it out.? Or do you have to extended the foundations down etc?
Also if you have 'half' a cellar, can you just dig it out.?
That usually ends well.
That usually ends well.
What a helpful informative comment! Thanks!
read and learn!
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This is clearly the cheapest and most practical solution.
Ladders - Member
We've got similar in our House (100 years old) What puzzles me though is why we only have a cellar under on room, when our neibours houses have cellars that are under the whole house?
Could be different builders. Back then multiple builders could buy plots on the same street, it isn't like today where one company builds an entire estate. Or it could be there's a massive boulder under your house they couldn't move, or a scary grave that's cursed and haunted, a bottomless pit all the way to the gates of hell they couldn't fill, or dormant spores of a prehistoric monster they were afraid of disturbing, stuff like that is all pretty common in houses of that age.
and in a non dramatic way - yes you can dig out basements HOW EVER it requires specialists to do so .... expensive but in london extending downwards is cheaper than moving 😀
everytime I see one of those circular wine cellar I spend the next hour looking at them. iWant