Cellar dicovery

[royfellows]

Any old bottles then I am your man . We cleared out an old cellar or kiln at the back of a shop once and found a human jaw bone. That was the end of that.

Off topic but its food for thought. Paeds, killers, etc etc. I often wonder if the people who are caught and brought to book are the tip of the iceberg

 

[crickleymal]

I had some friends who bought a house with a cellar, but the problem was that it was far too low to be useful. So they decided to dig it down to make it usable. Much time and sweat later - and the not inconsiderable problem of disposal of the spoil - and they had a normal height cellar of which they were immensely proud!

A few months later they came to put some stuff in it and found it flooded to exactly the height of its original floor. And not wanting an indoor swimming pool, they then spent an equal amount of time and sweat back-filling it again.

There may be a moral to this tale!

A neighbour of a work colleague had sort of the opposite problem, his cellar was quite tall and had a grotty floor. So he arranged for a cement mixer lorry with one of those extending boom things on it (the cellar entrance was on the other side fo the house) and also arranged that my work colleague could have the excess cement for some garden project.

Now being a clever chap he wanted a nice level floor so put wooden blocks down so that he could tell the driver of the lorry to switch off the pump when it reached the top of the wooden blocks.

You will note at this point I said put wooden blocks down, not fix. As we all know, wood floats. So after the lorry driver had pumped the entire contents of the cement mixer into the cellar the tops of the blocks were still visible, the cellar was now only 6 ft high and my colleague got no spare cement.

 

[Roger W]

Still, he had a nice solid floor to his cellar.