I've been in my house for over 2 years and just now noticed this dungeon under my sunroom, which was an old addition to the houseits only accessible via a 70cm x 40cm hole that was covered up with loose brick. Ceiling is steel, floor is dirt. I originally wanted to put a hot tub in the sun room but idk if the floor or this dungeon's ceiling can support it. Idk how tall the space is, maybe 5 feet (based on rough calculation based on brick height and cinderblock height)? I havent stepped inside yet. The wet corner is a bit concerning. Let me know your thoughts, I'll post more pics
Any ideas what this brick tub looking thing is? No idea how deep it is or if anything is inside it.
>>2868615Possibly a cistern. Pointy ridge can hold a cover in place
>>2868613>>2868615body disposal location? was this a mob house?
>>2868641>was this a mob housenot to my knowledge
>>2868613What this guy >>2868629 said. Cisterns are really cool. A guy on YouTube turned his into a fish pond. Be the fish farmer the Jew fears, OP.
>>2868648Forgot the YouTube linkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJUIbFKCZxM
>>2868614Looks like something lived/lives down there based on the random piles of crap where there's room for an animal to sitAlso looks like your sunroom used to be a garage maybe
>>2868629Cistern would be pargedI bet it used to be a barn or something
Coal bin
>>2868828It's this.
>>2868828Probably doesn't look crematory
>>2868613looks like a cistern.I just got done closing mine up cause it was leaking and wasn't worth repairing. my cistern has the exact same style crawl entrance.
>>2869563>>2868828why would a coal bin only have a crawl in? you have coal delivered? crawl in and shovel it into the secondary which I assume was attached to the house at some point.I'm genuinely asking.
>>2868613the top left looks like a inlet from drainage to fill it up. I'm still convinced it's really a old cistern.prior to parging cisterns use to be brick.
>>2869676Cisterns are always round and waterproofed in some way (parging, paint, rubber, etcThat one is black on the inside implying coal storage
>>2869691couldn't it have had multiple uses over its life. I will be using my cistern to grow veggies once I cut out a walk way in the block.I'm not denying your right, but how does one shovel coal in and use it with such a narrow opening? was the opening bigger and then closed off? was there like a homeowner door where deliveries came in a shoot and you go shovel it into the secondary brick area?
>>2869691also, my cistern is not round at all.
It's a perfectly usable space. I'd get started by installing a proper entrance, either a flight of stairs and a hatch door, or a hatch and ladder. Then to deal with the moisture you might just install an air vent and or a box fan.i think a lot of American ones have a sluice pump but at the rate water evaporates you might get away with a fan. Another option would be to wick it up off the floor into a pipe full of heshen, then vent the pipe up to the surface, so you could either heat the pipe with part of your hot water system, or purge the wicking pipe with hot air. I dunno there's probably a normal way to do this. But I would use the space to grow weed or rhubarb. You can force rhubarb stalks underground and if the roof is steel it mitigates the fire risk of grow lights. You could even use the old cistern like a bong to bubble the air out of before the air filter so it wouldn't smell.
>>2868613>Ceiling is steelThis metal deck looks rather rusted.Is a concrete slab poured into it?Knowing the full floor assembly, depth/gauge of deck, span, the loadbearing capacity could be calculated.Most likely you would need to install posts and beams as in picrel to be able to safely support the weight of a hot tub.To prevent further moisture damage the crawl space could be encapsulated (sheet on floors/walls as in pic related)
>>2868649>filters ev erything through a drum filled with plastic balls for maximum onionshow clowny do you need to convert ur basement into a pool
>>2868649The fish will tear you apart if you accidentally lose consciousness
>>2868649The volume of dumb shit on YouTube is surreal
