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What's this thing in my cellar?

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  • BJV
    BJV Posts: 2,535 Forumite
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    Ok well you got me and I think we all need to know what is under it now. Dead body, gold coins, hidden art work, drugs money, drugs, guns?

    Well its better than bits of chopped up bodies, seriously though you have to find out now. It will most likely be nothing but surely you have to find out?
    Happiness, Health and Wealth in that order please!:A
  • leveller2911
    leveller2911 Posts: 8,061 Forumite
    edited 25 July 2016 at 5:01PM
    Quote: "It's used for storage and junk and not much else, as it gets damp".


    Site for a sump pump. If/when the cellar floods or water seeps through the porus brick walls the sump is the lowest part of the cellar and its where you put the pump to pump out water................

    That's my guess , I've seen dozens of them in cellars.I'm guessing the reason its got a top to it rather than being left open is because someone would break their ankle in the dark if it wasn't covered.......:D
  • Norman_Castle
    Norman_Castle Posts: 11,871 Forumite
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    If thats a key hole there would be a lock behind it. Try poking something in there.
  • EssexExile
    EssexExile Posts: 6,693 Forumite
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    Before you open it can you turn the light off, it's dark in here & I don't think I could handle a sudden bright light?
    Tall, dark & handsome. Well two out of three ain't bad.
  • leveller2911
    leveller2911 Posts: 8,061 Forumite
    EssexExile wrote: »
    Before you open it can you turn the light off, it's dark in here & I don't think I could handle a sudden bright light?

    :rotfl: Thats the new laptop covered in tea...........again, thanks for that :D
  • [Deleted User]
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    Who has seen the film 'Jeepers Keepers'? Take care, you don't know what you could be letting escape :eek:
  • shaun_from_Africa
    shaun_from_Africa Posts: 12,858 Forumite
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    dominoman,

    Are there any houses nearby that are of the same build design as yours?
    If so, it might be worth popping around and having a word with the owners/residents to see if they have a similar thing in a cellar and if so, they may well have discovered what it was originally for.
  • Detroit
    Detroit Posts: 790 Forumite
    I have it on good authority there'll be iron ingots under there.

    Open it using charged redstone.


    Put your hands up.
  • Mr.Generous
    Mr.Generous Posts: 4,062 Forumite
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    one of the best things about buying old houses is exploring the loft and outbuidings. Never found anything of any value so far....
    Mr Generous - Landlord for more than 10 years. Generous? - Possibly but sarcastic more likely.
  • baldelectrician
    baldelectrician Posts: 2,467 Forumite
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    Looks like an inspection chamber for a soil channel- if so it should not be cemented over but left for inspection
    baldly going on...
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