Excavating an old coal store/side room

tizzle6560

Down the side path of the house, there seems to be an old coal store or something similar.

It is completely attached to the house but because the whole thing has been pebbledashed, it's hard to know anything more about it.

The internal wall that connects seems to just be nothing more than plaster board or similar.

Has anyone excavated a similar thing, as it would make a great walk in wardrobe / storage space.

Cheers

FreeBear

tizzle6560 wrote: »

The internal wall that connects seems to just be nothing more than plaster board or similar.

Be careful - Depending on how old this structure is, you could find the board is made of asbestos cement - This isn't a problem in its self as the asbestos fibres are entrapped in the cement. It is only an issue when breaking it up and trying to dispose of it.

tizzle6560

FreeBear wrote: »

Be careful - Depending on how old this structure is, you could find the board is made of asbestos cement - This isn't a problem in its self as the asbestos fibres are entrapped in the cement. It is only an issue when breaking it up and trying to dispose of it.

Thanks for the heads up. The house got converted into 3 flats about 20 years ago - reckon still a chance of asbestos?

SailorSam

My house was built in the 30s and has a loo downstairs which i believe was a coal shed when the house was first built.

tizzle6560

SailorSam wrote: »

My house was built in the 30s and has a loo downstairs which i believe was a coal shed when the house was first built.

Is it at the side of the property at the garden end?

SailorSam

It's actually inside the house. I go out of the back kitchen and there's a sort of tiny anti-room, just big enough to put your coat & shoes. Then off this anti-room is the loo, big enough for a WC and small washbasin. Then you can go out of this anti-room to what would have been the back garden, but at sometime in the past someone has built a simple little porch there.
I don't know how to draw a picture to post here.

SailorSam

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Porch

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1.............. 1...........1
1.............. 1.......... 1
1 ..........................1
Kitchen................. 1

It's not very good Op but the best i can do.
You walk through a door in the kitchen, into the ant-room , then there's two further doors, one taking you into the poor the other into the loo.

tizzle6560

SailorSam wrote: »

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Porch

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1.............. 1...........1
1.............. 1.......... 1
1 ..........................1
Kitchen................. 1

It's not very good Op but the best i can do.
You walk through a door in the kitchen, into the ant-room , then there's two further doors, one taking you into the poor the other into the loo.

Top marks for effort! ill give you that!