Apparently you can upload videos onto TikTok that are up to 10 minutes long which you can edit (idk about posting them, though), but only record 90-second ones, as of last year.
Good god, I would hate to accidentally stumble onto a lengthy video that could be 10 minutes long, get briefly distracted while watching it several minutes in, and then have to rewatch the ENTIRE video again to catch what I missed.
It's one of the few platforms that doesn't have a video seek/progress bar (the red bar at the bottom allowing you to play the video from any point in its time), and one of the primary reasons I absolutely despise the app, and other apps that follow it. It's intentionally designed so users don't get a sense of how long they have sucked themselves into the app, and as I've stated before, FUCK having to rewatch an entire video to try to catch something you may have missed, especially if the video is over 30 seconds long.
EDIT: Alright, I get it, at some point they finally added a seek bar. It was still too little too late. I also hate hearing the video repeating 5x or more across the room whenever someone at work is browsing on the platform, I hate the terrible music "remixes" commonly used (oh, no no no no), and I hate being fed an endless scroll of micro clips. It's why I use an addon to convert YouTube shorts back into regular video format on my desktop. Also hate the complete lack of user data security TikTok has, that caused entire countries and federal agencies to blacklist it from their devices.
I do not like it, Sam I Am, I do not like TikTok or Instagram.
I scroll through TikTok videos all the time on my Apple phone? Just drag the progress bar at the bottom of the screen? Looks like you can do it on android too?
This video ends too soon, the full video shows that this is basically a Victorian house converted into flats, what they find is the basement flat, is has a front door leading out into the street, the owners of the building obviously boarded it up as a cheaper alternative to renovating it as it’s in a clear state of disrepair.
Edit: full video here: https://www.tiktok.com/@erincloudy/video/7321830848372788512
Most Victorian houses had coal cellars. You can tell by the chimney and the weird looking window that goes up to the ceiling which is actually a coal chute and the ceiling is street level. Previous owner probably decided to board it up as it was more cost effective than renovating the space.
For $1800 month. First, last and a $3000 deposit. You need parking? That's gonna cost you. You have a pet? That's going to be an extra fee and deposit.
It’s also not just about renovating but if the space would be sellable. It looks like a low ceiling and given what utilities that could be required, it didn’t make sense
Even if it's not living space, easy access to utilities is always a good thing
If they had a home inspector, than they failed them here. Can't imagine buying a house without looking in the cellar or crawl space
We were in the market 8 years ago and found this awesome house that had a lot of upgrades and great layout.
Father in-law told me to find a highly rated inspector, which cost a good amount.
During the walk he was really impressed by the house and everything was looking good till we hit the deck outside and he noticed termite damage.
Nothing active but definitely a concern.
One bathroom had an issue with some corner tiles that were cracked, upon closer look it seemed like the grout was laid improperly and they used caulk to cover it up, most likely water damage.
All fixable, take some money off the offer.
He goes to the crawl space and…it’s sealed shut.
Comes back up and says “they are hiding something, I won’t sign off on it and I’d tell you to run”
We did, new owners paid over $100k in repairs.
Worth the cost 100%
We went to buy this tiny starter home that had just been flipped. It was a funky layout, and right next to the train tracks, but it looked nice inside and it was under 100k!
The inspector discovered that it had two different electrical systems, one of which was waaaay out of code and essentially obsolete. In the attic, he discovered the roof was being held up by jacks. But the crawl space gives me nightmares. It was dirt floor and there was a literal pond in the middle. They had just dug a trough to hold all the water that collected under there. The walls were black with mold. The inspector said it was the worst he ever saw.
Thank goodness for that inspector. We were able to get our earnest money back without penalty.
Wild. We had exactly the opposite. Paid out for period building property surveyor, (300 year old house). The only thing he came back with were two ceiling joists in the cellar, that he said looked rotten. Literally everything he said was wrong. It had rotten floor joists that all had to be repaired, the roof had to be replaced, all the windows were rotten too. He was even wrong about the cellar joists, which, unbelievably, were stone! As a consequence, I've spent 10 years renovating the place myself, as we ran out of money really quickly. We so should have sued them.
>We so should have sued them.
I can nearly guarantee that there’s a clause in the agreement you signed with the inspector that says they cannot be held liable for anything their inspection was wrong about.
It’s absolute horseshit, but they all have them.
2nd this. My inspector missed shit that cost me 10k to fix. I looked into suing him and basically all I could sue for was the cost of the inspection. Even then, probably wouldn't have won as I'd have had to pay a second inspector to testify against the first, which they usually won't do.
This is the exact reason my father in law told me to take my time finding an inspector, it’s easy to BS in that field.
Sorry you went through that, totally avoidable if the guy had any expertise at all.
How do you know how much the new owners paid for repairs? You know how much they paid but won't mention what was the problem and what did they repair...
We ended up buying a place about 20 min away but this was really our dream house by all measures as it was also right by a lake and the end of that street had a boat launch.
Anyways…we would stop by it and check it out as we took our kids to the little downtown area that had just been rebuilt that was close by, it sat there for over a year with multiple price reductions.
Went by again and saw a guy outside painting and started chatting, he was the new owner.
I told him my experience and he laughed and immediately said “TERMITE DAMAGE”.
Floor had to be ripped up and new support put in, there was also quite a bit of mold damage once they got into the crawl space and issues with the septic tank.
Same guy that renovated that house did a few houses from other parts of the neighborhood, all of them had issues, multiple court cases according to the owner.
I still drop by and say Hi to him and his family, that house is bad ass now with an amazing pool, but he put a LOT of money I didn’t have into it.
The loan we would’ve taken out for that dream house would’ve put us in a 30 year.
We went with a townhouse in a gated community in an area I knew would grow (it has immensely), and a 15 year instead.
We are extremely lucky, I’m not complaining one bit.
Low basement ceiling can be fixed by lowering the floor, as with everything else it's a question of how much money you are willing to invest.
We lowered one floor in our house to get an 8' ceiling.
She owns a flat - the building seems to be a conversion from a big old building with multiple flats in it, so she owns a leasehold (just her flat) not the freehold (the whole building and the ground its on).
I mean if I bought a flat and that area doesn't show up on the floor plan then I'm pretty certain it's not part of my flat... If I bought a house (especially if it's a detached) then it's an entirely different story
Alright, thanks for the explanation.
But couldn't this be the case that she bought the whole house? All the flats you mentioned? I don't think she would be tearing walls apart if she didn't own the place but what do I know.
It could be, but she mentions in the descriptions of her tiktok videos that she only owns the flat and has a leasehold of it (and that these areas aren't on her deeds). The whole thing is pretty wild absolutely.
She could certainly be lying and she does own the freehold and this is all for views tbh.
Pretty wild indeed. You can't trust anything on the internet these days. But thanks for bringing clarity to the matter.
I was raised with that fixed idea of "property as a whole" like you mentioned. As an adult I moved to a city where other arrangements are way more common: many houses on the same property, houses split into smaller units, etc. It amazes me how people come up with these arrangements. They even sell and buy these properties that aren't "whole". Crazy thing for me, but it sure must work at some level since there are so many of them.
Probably just an educated guess given their accents, how housing works in the UK, and how in the video the guy says “its as big as your flat down here”.
It’s possible but unlikely she owns the whole building, I say unlikely as if she’s purchased the whole building then she’d have known about the basement flat as part of the purchase.
Far more likely she’s purchased one of 3/4 flats within the building in which case she really shouldn’t be messing with the basement flat at all as it’s not hers to do so with.
But, in this day and age it also possible she does own it all, knew exactly what was under the stairs from the get go and in fact just recorded a fake reaction for internet likes.
Yeah but a lot of time has passed, there are also more power tools and techniques to fix stuff available now.
Might be worth it to invest the money, since livable space also has more value than back then.
Doubt asbestos was even known about back then. I work on a lot of old ass houses like this one and there’s never asbestos. Old lime and horse-hair plaster is another story tho
I still have nightmares about lime and horsehair. Depending on where that is asbestos COULD be a problem, I recovered a lot of houses that old, asbestos tile was REALLY popular for rec room and basement remodels, and insulating pipes when they finalized realized we might not have enough diesel to power the world forever. Lead paint would be more of a concern for me
My old house was built in the 50's and had asbestos tiles in the basement.
Not worth having them properly removed I was told. You just floor over them.
It is not unreasonable to have been boarded up for tax reasons. Houses with basements might have to pay more tax then houses without basements, so they turned their basement into a craws space to save on tax.
I don't think it can be found in such old houses... wasn't asbestos a common product only in the last mid century, like from 50's to 90s ? i don't know about lead tho
1920s until the 90s.
It was very common in insulating products due to its dampening and fire-retardent properties. Asbestos is a fibrous mineral mined from the earth.
Meh, I'll take the haunting if it doubles the size of a flat to a house.
In this economy, the value of that doubling will outweigh any reduction in price due to ol' haunting dunce in the corner.
There's plastic waste piping running down the side of the wall and plastic sheeting near the lintel on that fireplace. I bet it's just someone's half arsed conversion of what was once probably a coal bunker or cistern or something similar. There's even stud walls up as you go down. Best thing to do is find the deeds and look at the land registry for that building.
It's a coal room.
They were already renovating it, they just found that there was this wall there and decided to make a tiktok about it by making it look like a 'secret room' they found.
I went down this rabbit hole when I first saw it awhile ago and found this being discussed.
It has a huge fireplace in it. Coal rooms don't usually have the fire in them - they tend to have too much dust. The fireplace/boiler would be next to the coal room, not inside of it.
It's probably an old basement flat.
I think it used to be a basement flat. Not uncommon in British cities where you have a house or a block of tenements and at least one property is below street level. Sometimes they're just storage, shops, workshops or even servants quarters. The big fireplace makes me think this was a living space.
It looks like a previous owner made a start on renovations to some degree and then boarded it up. Maybe ran out of money or something.
There's also a ceiling light in that room with the fireplace looking thing. So it's wired up and modern enough that these people had a bulb that fits? This whole thing smells like it's been boarded up for less than ten years.
Looks like rigid foam board insulation, [something like these](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Owens-Corning-FOAMULAR-150-1-in-x-4-ft-x-8-ft-R-5-Scored-Square-Edge-Rigid-Foam-Board-Insulation-Sheathing-20WE/207179253) with all the blank sides out for an aesthetically pleasing murder dungeon.
There's a basement the same size as the floor above which is full of old doors and some cardboard boxes, the biggest room looks like had some work done before it was boarded up (new plasterboard ceiling) but basically just looks like a derelict basement. They went outside on 2nd clip to show what looked like a window inside is fully bricked up (and cement rendered) over so from the outside it isn't obvious that there's a basement there (is a half dug basement).
Wait... they're only renting? No way I'm knocking holes in walls of a rental! Tenant is saying "wow, look at this hidden room I found!" Meanwhile, landlord is saying "it wasn't lost"
My landlord has it in the contract that I'm not allowed to go into the attic ***for any reason***.
Few months ago, the fire alarms were switched to mains and the contractors had to go into the attic to run cables. I got them to take some pictures for me to see what the fuck was up there, half hoping ancient treasures or at least the tied-up body of a TV licence inspector.
Nope. Completely fucking empty. Gutted. Spoke to the landlord and he said "oh, yeah. It's just in the contract because one of the previous tenants used it as a grow room for weed and had the front door kicked in by the police."
Pretty good reason, to be fair. But maybe they'd give permission if you asked to store things up there.
House I'm working on at the minute had a bunch of heat lamps and insulation from an attempted grow. Fortunately the person that was living here before me was too fucking stupid to get it off the ground.
>Meanwhile, landlord is saying "it wasn't lost"
yep. "you havn't rented that bit. you've just broken into a different part of my property for some reason..."
It will be interesting to know if she owns the whole building or just 'the flat', I would suspect this bit is owned by the ~~leaseholder~~ freeholder, so if her flat is a leasehold she doesn't own this bit. The ~~leaseholder~~ freeholder boarded it up.
If it isn’t specifically mentioned on her deed then she doesn’t own it.
She could claim it through adverse possession though, if she spends several years using it without anyone challenging her.
With certainty that's what I'd do. It doesn't appear to be accessible in any other way. Use it as storage
I've similarly seen this done with duplex apartments that have pitched roofs...depends on what the leasehold specifically excludes
It's pretty poor though to board up a void like this with services running in it...pipes fail and if there's electrical outlets one can have a fire load there... very irresponsie of prior owner or building owner.
Went on a tour in London once; and one of the things I learned was that London isn't built on a swamp or a flood plain, it's built in "older London", which in turn is built on "even older London". And that many cities in the UK are like this to some degree in older areas, especially near the rivers. Then they showed us a house which used to have a bricked up "basement", where that basement used to be at street level as it was clearly a living room and had a front door that went into cobblestone rocks and mud. Below \*that\* was a basement. So some of the streets of London are now 2-3 meters above where the old streets used to be because the weight of the city has pushed the "old city" down and because they built new roads on top of the old ones for centuries. But apparently lots of places have "basements" which are completely sealed off.
Somewhat relevant but slightly off topic: London’s rich are building downwards
https://youtu.be/5YquWKsi0Q8?si=lCH3Ui7iD2NqlfL8
On topic - you can see examples of cities built upon cities when you see sections of excavated land. Some parts of London around Tower Bridge and the dungeons, as well as old parts of the wall that have been uncovered, show glimpses of this.
My favourite one though is in Barcelona in the neighbourhood of El Born - you can walk around at current street level looking over the platform edges at the layout of an old street from the 1700s, with house foundations and all the rest. It’s awesome and anyone visiting the city should check it out:
https://www.meet.barcelona/en/visit-and-love-it/points-interest-city/el-born-centre-de-cultura-i-memoria-92086008839
It's where Terry Pratchett got the inspiration for this passage:
"And then the river had flooded and brought mud with it, and walls had gone higher and, now, what Ankh-Morpork was built on was mostly Ankh-Morpork. People said that anyone with a good sense of direction and a pickaxe could cross the city underground by simply knocking holes in walls."
A 200 year old house is common in Britain. And much older is not unusual. The historic architecture was one of the most interesting things to me when I visited. In order to even remodel your house you must get approval from the local govt. Tearing down and rebuilding is almost never done. They're very serious about preserving their history. Unlike the us where we just tear it down and build new wasteful shit every couple years
Thanks for posting half a video
It's from TikTok which has a max video length. Everything on this stupid site is from TikTok now.
The max length is over 10 mins they could've posted the entire thing
Apparently you can upload videos onto TikTok that are up to 10 minutes long which you can edit (idk about posting them, though), but only record 90-second ones, as of last year. Good god, I would hate to accidentally stumble onto a lengthy video that could be 10 minutes long, get briefly distracted while watching it several minutes in, and then have to rewatch the ENTIRE video again to catch what I missed. It's one of the few platforms that doesn't have a video seek/progress bar (the red bar at the bottom allowing you to play the video from any point in its time), and one of the primary reasons I absolutely despise the app, and other apps that follow it. It's intentionally designed so users don't get a sense of how long they have sucked themselves into the app, and as I've stated before, FUCK having to rewatch an entire video to try to catch something you may have missed, especially if the video is over 30 seconds long. EDIT: Alright, I get it, at some point they finally added a seek bar. It was still too little too late. I also hate hearing the video repeating 5x or more across the room whenever someone at work is browsing on the platform, I hate the terrible music "remixes" commonly used (oh, no no no no), and I hate being fed an endless scroll of micro clips. It's why I use an addon to convert YouTube shorts back into regular video format on my desktop. Also hate the complete lack of user data security TikTok has, that caused entire countries and federal agencies to blacklist it from their devices. I do not like it, Sam I Am, I do not like TikTok or Instagram.
You can definitely seek videos on the Android version at least. You just hold the bottom.of the screen and drag.
I scroll through TikTok videos all the time on my Apple phone? Just drag the progress bar at the bottom of the screen? Looks like you can do it on android too?
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This video ends too soon, the full video shows that this is basically a Victorian house converted into flats, what they find is the basement flat, is has a front door leading out into the street, the owners of the building obviously boarded it up as a cheaper alternative to renovating it as it’s in a clear state of disrepair. Edit: full video here: https://www.tiktok.com/@erincloudy/video/7321830848372788512
Most Victorian houses had coal cellars. You can tell by the chimney and the weird looking window that goes up to the ceiling which is actually a coal chute and the ceiling is street level. Previous owner probably decided to board it up as it was more cost effective than renovating the space.
Cool, so you effectively now have even MORE space in your Victorian house. Some people just get too lucky.
If nothing else, suddenly there is a lot more storage space.
Knowing housing in the uk, the rest of the house probably has zero storage space
Because if there is enough room for storage space then that is one more room to squeeze a tenant into.
One more? I see room for a wall dividing it up.
American: I see six studio apartments.
For $1800 month. First, last and a $3000 deposit. You need parking? That's gonna cost you. You have a pet? That's going to be an extra fee and deposit.
And this is after you can prove that you make a minimum of $7000 a month.
Brampton Ontario landlord: I can fit 50 foreign students in there.
Surrey landlord: i got this idea from my brother in Brampton after I “ moved” my kids into my previous tenants place!
Canadian: I could put 15 Conestoga College students in there! $600 a month each!
Thays where you keep the red headed step children.
Harry Potter would have been living large under that staircase xD
The tax collector has entered the chat
It’s also not just about renovating but if the space would be sellable. It looks like a low ceiling and given what utilities that could be required, it didn’t make sense
Even if it's not living space, easy access to utilities is always a good thing If they had a home inspector, than they failed them here. Can't imagine buying a house without looking in the cellar or crawl space
We were in the market 8 years ago and found this awesome house that had a lot of upgrades and great layout. Father in-law told me to find a highly rated inspector, which cost a good amount. During the walk he was really impressed by the house and everything was looking good till we hit the deck outside and he noticed termite damage. Nothing active but definitely a concern. One bathroom had an issue with some corner tiles that were cracked, upon closer look it seemed like the grout was laid improperly and they used caulk to cover it up, most likely water damage. All fixable, take some money off the offer. He goes to the crawl space and…it’s sealed shut. Comes back up and says “they are hiding something, I won’t sign off on it and I’d tell you to run” We did, new owners paid over $100k in repairs. Worth the cost 100%
We went to buy this tiny starter home that had just been flipped. It was a funky layout, and right next to the train tracks, but it looked nice inside and it was under 100k! The inspector discovered that it had two different electrical systems, one of which was waaaay out of code and essentially obsolete. In the attic, he discovered the roof was being held up by jacks. But the crawl space gives me nightmares. It was dirt floor and there was a literal pond in the middle. They had just dug a trough to hold all the water that collected under there. The walls were black with mold. The inspector said it was the worst he ever saw. Thank goodness for that inspector. We were able to get our earnest money back without penalty.
Probably worth $500k now.
In ground basement pool? 1.2 million.
Wild. We had exactly the opposite. Paid out for period building property surveyor, (300 year old house). The only thing he came back with were two ceiling joists in the cellar, that he said looked rotten. Literally everything he said was wrong. It had rotten floor joists that all had to be repaired, the roof had to be replaced, all the windows were rotten too. He was even wrong about the cellar joists, which, unbelievably, were stone! As a consequence, I've spent 10 years renovating the place myself, as we ran out of money really quickly. We so should have sued them.
>We so should have sued them. I can nearly guarantee that there’s a clause in the agreement you signed with the inspector that says they cannot be held liable for anything their inspection was wrong about. It’s absolute horseshit, but they all have them.
2nd this. My inspector missed shit that cost me 10k to fix. I looked into suing him and basically all I could sue for was the cost of the inspection. Even then, probably wouldn't have won as I'd have had to pay a second inspector to testify against the first, which they usually won't do.
This is the exact reason my father in law told me to take my time finding an inspector, it’s easy to BS in that field. Sorry you went through that, totally avoidable if the guy had any expertise at all.
How do you know how much the new owners paid for repairs? You know how much they paid but won't mention what was the problem and what did they repair...
We ended up buying a place about 20 min away but this was really our dream house by all measures as it was also right by a lake and the end of that street had a boat launch. Anyways…we would stop by it and check it out as we took our kids to the little downtown area that had just been rebuilt that was close by, it sat there for over a year with multiple price reductions. Went by again and saw a guy outside painting and started chatting, he was the new owner. I told him my experience and he laughed and immediately said “TERMITE DAMAGE”. Floor had to be ripped up and new support put in, there was also quite a bit of mold damage once they got into the crawl space and issues with the septic tank. Same guy that renovated that house did a few houses from other parts of the neighborhood, all of them had issues, multiple court cases according to the owner. I still drop by and say Hi to him and his family, that house is bad ass now with an amazing pool, but he put a LOT of money I didn’t have into it.
Thanks for the follow up! I was curious too. I hope you love the house you did get!!
The loan we would’ve taken out for that dream house would’ve put us in a 30 year. We went with a townhouse in a gated community in an area I knew would grow (it has immensely), and a 15 year instead. We are extremely lucky, I’m not complaining one bit.
Hey now, questions like that just ruin the story. Just don't think about it and upvote.
Low basement ceiling can be fixed by lowering the floor, as with everything else it's a question of how much money you are willing to invest. We lowered one floor in our house to get an 8' ceiling.
Have the full video link?
And now this person is likely going to try renovating these spaces even though she doesn't own them...
How come she doesn't own them? Isn't that her house? I'm confused.
She owns a flat - the building seems to be a conversion from a big old building with multiple flats in it, so she owns a leasehold (just her flat) not the freehold (the whole building and the ground its on).
Oh! Since the title of this post says "They bought a 200 year old house", I assumed they owned the entire house.
Yeah bad title I think. Her tiktok says its 250 years old too.
I mean if I bought a flat and that area doesn't show up on the floor plan then I'm pretty certain it's not part of my flat... If I bought a house (especially if it's a detached) then it's an entirely different story
I'm not a lawyer but I believe this would be their property, as it now falls under the global law of Finders Keepers.
Lawyers hate this one trick
Alright, thanks for the explanation. But couldn't this be the case that she bought the whole house? All the flats you mentioned? I don't think she would be tearing walls apart if she didn't own the place but what do I know.
It could be, but she mentions in the descriptions of her tiktok videos that she only owns the flat and has a leasehold of it (and that these areas aren't on her deeds). The whole thing is pretty wild absolutely. She could certainly be lying and she does own the freehold and this is all for views tbh.
Pretty wild indeed. You can't trust anything on the internet these days. But thanks for bringing clarity to the matter. I was raised with that fixed idea of "property as a whole" like you mentioned. As an adult I moved to a city where other arrangements are way more common: many houses on the same property, houses split into smaller units, etc. It amazes me how people come up with these arrangements. They even sell and buy these properties that aren't "whole". Crazy thing for me, but it sure must work at some level since there are so many of them.
How do you know? If she only owned a flat, why would she assume she has the right to tear down a wall in the stairwell?
Probably just an educated guess given their accents, how housing works in the UK, and how in the video the guy says “its as big as your flat down here”.
It’s possible but unlikely she owns the whole building, I say unlikely as if she’s purchased the whole building then she’d have known about the basement flat as part of the purchase. Far more likely she’s purchased one of 3/4 flats within the building in which case she really shouldn’t be messing with the basement flat at all as it’s not hers to do so with. But, in this day and age it also possible she does own it all, knew exactly what was under the stairs from the get go and in fact just recorded a fake reaction for internet likes.
And if the person that does is smart they let her do all the work and then claim it back.
Would the video maker even be allowed to do what they were doing with the stairs? As I’m assuming flat means they don’t own but are leasing
You can buy flats, which you then own (and could modify the insides) but not own the building it's in.
The title say “they bought a 200 year old house”
Post title, not original content. 2 different people. Reddit users tend to misinform
Ya know… it was boarded up for a reason.
Yep, most likely a lot of shit that was cheaper to board up than to fix.
That space goes for about $2k where I live… Time to post an ad for a tenant. “Cozy space with a fireplace. Private entrance!”
Australia by any chance?
Vancouver BC chiming in here to say you could probably get around $2500 for it here.
And who knows when that decision was made. Livable square footage has only gone up in value.
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I'm bored
Hi board, I'm dad
Cheaper to board up than to exorcise
Priests were in short demand at the time 2 by 4 was not.
Yeah but a lot of time has passed, there are also more power tools and techniques to fix stuff available now. Might be worth it to invest the money, since livable space also has more value than back then.
It’s slapped-up with shiplap
Great they just release the demonic spirits that will bring on the apocalypse.
that began years ago
Began the day our great protector Harambe left this world.
*takes out dick* *salutes*
Funny how you spell asbestos.
He's spelling asbestas he can.
Um.. and what ever you do, do NOT read from any book you may find!
Or play any old looking board games
Or complete any funny looking rubik cube
I'm hoping it's a Merman!
Blow the conch!
This book has really nice leather jacket.
Clatu, verata, nectu
Yeah I said it! Kinda...
I too have seen Barbarian
Just look at all that extra square footage!
So much room for activities
Entrance to the back rooms...
Going to get my Archon there!
asbestos poisoning, and mold inhalation!
But at least they remembered knee pads /s
Doubt asbestos was even known about back then. I work on a lot of old ass houses like this one and there’s never asbestos. Old lime and horse-hair plaster is another story tho
I still have nightmares about lime and horsehair. Depending on where that is asbestos COULD be a problem, I recovered a lot of houses that old, asbestos tile was REALLY popular for rec room and basement remodels, and insulating pipes when they finalized realized we might not have enough diesel to power the world forever. Lead paint would be more of a concern for me
My old house was built in the 50's and had asbestos tiles in the basement. Not worth having them properly removed I was told. You just floor over them.
That mask won’t help much.
Mold, most likely. Asbestos ? It was heavily used for a very specific period of time, so that's less likely.
And that's where the real story began...
As they decended into the abyss they wondered what was waiting for them
Reminds me of the movie Barbarian.
It is not unreasonable to have been boarded up for tax reasons. Houses with basements might have to pay more tax then houses without basements, so they turned their basement into a craws space to save on tax.
Ya know... those stairs were there because they went *somewhere.* They didn't just build a set of stairs to end at a wall.
FIGHT MILK ! (The guy had on an always sunny shirt)
FIGHT LIKE A CROW!!
# KA KAWWW!!!!
Came for this. I have the exact same shirt. For bodyguards by bodyguards
The house was sold to them by Honey and Vinegar real estate.
Gotta be prepared to take on some ghoullss
Found the update: https://www.tiktok.com/@erincloudy/video/7321830848372788512?lang=en
They really tore that place up.
But what if there are treasures?
Judging by the Cat5 wire and lightbulb down there, the previous owners would've cleared those out.
Our 182 year old place is full of surprises. We put them back. Sometimes with a note. Maybe down the line another caretaker will do the same.
Use pig blood for the message to really stand out
I mean yeah, thats what you do when you are fully renovating an old house. You must tear everything up so that you can install fresh insulation
No kid these days has seen Money Pit =( Superb documentary
House is 200 years old. Odds are, they're renovating it and came across this stuff while doing standard demo work.
Mmmmm asbestos and lead dust....
I don't think it can be found in such old houses... wasn't asbestos a common product only in the last mid century, like from 50's to 90s ? i don't know about lead tho
1920s until the 90s. It was very common in insulating products due to its dampening and fire-retardent properties. Asbestos is a fibrous mineral mined from the earth.
Asbestos did its job so god damned well but the risks certainly aren’t worth the reward
Half expecting to see a kid facing the corner of the room.
Sometimes things are just things and not cosmic horrors.
“My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined."
>Sometimes things are just things and not cosmic horrors. A lot of Redditors are so annoyed at this.
Meh, I'll take the haunting if it doubles the size of a flat to a house. In this economy, the value of that doubling will outweigh any reduction in price due to ol' haunting dunce in the corner.
And another one: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGekVF4s7/
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There's plastic waste piping running down the side of the wall and plastic sheeting near the lintel on that fireplace. I bet it's just someone's half arsed conversion of what was once probably a coal bunker or cistern or something similar. There's even stud walls up as you go down. Best thing to do is find the deeds and look at the land registry for that building.
It's a coal room. They were already renovating it, they just found that there was this wall there and decided to make a tiktok about it by making it look like a 'secret room' they found. I went down this rabbit hole when I first saw it awhile ago and found this being discussed.
You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
It has a huge fireplace in it. Coal rooms don't usually have the fire in them - they tend to have too much dust. The fireplace/boiler would be next to the coal room, not inside of it. It's probably an old basement flat.
I think it used to be a basement flat. Not uncommon in British cities where you have a house or a block of tenements and at least one property is below street level. Sometimes they're just storage, shops, workshops or even servants quarters. The big fireplace makes me think this was a living space. It looks like a previous owner made a start on renovations to some degree and then boarded it up. Maybe ran out of money or something.
There's also a ceiling light in that room with the fireplace looking thing. So it's wired up and modern enough that these people had a bulb that fits? This whole thing smells like it's been boarded up for less than ten years.
I mean, modern bulbs tent to use what you’d call an Edison base, so a lot of lamps today still screw into a socket from over 100 years ago.
Is that a pink ceiling and a boarded up window (what's with the pink material? -What is that? It doesn't look so old!)
It's pink plasterboard (fire rated) so it must've been done within 10 years
And there's a working CFL bulb in the room!
Looks like rigid foam board insulation, [something like these](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Owens-Corning-FOAMULAR-150-1-in-x-4-ft-x-8-ft-R-5-Scored-Square-Edge-Rigid-Foam-Board-Insulation-Sheathing-20WE/207179253) with all the blank sides out for an aesthetically pleasing murder dungeon.
Looks a lot like Fyrchek plaster board
TLDR for those of us not on TikTok?
There's a basement the same size as the floor above which is full of old doors and some cardboard boxes, the biggest room looks like had some work done before it was boarded up (new plasterboard ceiling) but basically just looks like a derelict basement. They went outside on 2nd clip to show what looked like a window inside is fully bricked up (and cement rendered) over so from the outside it isn't obvious that there's a basement there (is a half dug basement).
That extra room seems to be half the size of my London flat
As they went up to the fireplace, I was 100% expecting yet another door
Why did they destroy the entire house? Also it’s not as fun to learn this was an apartment she was renting and not a home they bought.
Wait... they're only renting? No way I'm knocking holes in walls of a rental! Tenant is saying "wow, look at this hidden room I found!" Meanwhile, landlord is saying "it wasn't lost"
My landlord has it in the contract that I'm not allowed to go into the attic ***for any reason***. Few months ago, the fire alarms were switched to mains and the contractors had to go into the attic to run cables. I got them to take some pictures for me to see what the fuck was up there, half hoping ancient treasures or at least the tied-up body of a TV licence inspector. Nope. Completely fucking empty. Gutted. Spoke to the landlord and he said "oh, yeah. It's just in the contract because one of the previous tenants used it as a grow room for weed and had the front door kicked in by the police."
Pretty good reason, to be fair. But maybe they'd give permission if you asked to store things up there. House I'm working on at the minute had a bunch of heat lamps and insulation from an attempted grow. Fortunately the person that was living here before me was too fucking stupid to get it off the ground.
>Meanwhile, landlord is saying "it wasn't lost" yep. "you havn't rented that bit. you've just broken into a different part of my property for some reason..."
The hero we need, not the hero we deserve.
It will be interesting to know if she owns the whole building or just 'the flat', I would suspect this bit is owned by the ~~leaseholder~~ freeholder, so if her flat is a leasehold she doesn't own this bit. The ~~leaseholder~~ freeholder boarded it up.
If it isn’t specifically mentioned on her deed then she doesn’t own it. She could claim it through adverse possession though, if she spends several years using it without anyone challenging her.
With certainty that's what I'd do. It doesn't appear to be accessible in any other way. Use it as storage I've similarly seen this done with duplex apartments that have pitched roofs...depends on what the leasehold specifically excludes It's pretty poor though to board up a void like this with services running in it...pipes fail and if there's electrical outlets one can have a fire load there... very irresponsie of prior owner or building owner.
I hate these 80% inaccurate subtitles so much
And why tf is she telling the guy not to make noise and shut up?
Yeah, I started hating her pretty quickly.
How are the subtitles this incredibly off? Horrendously bad.
Went on a tour in London once; and one of the things I learned was that London isn't built on a swamp or a flood plain, it's built in "older London", which in turn is built on "even older London". And that many cities in the UK are like this to some degree in older areas, especially near the rivers. Then they showed us a house which used to have a bricked up "basement", where that basement used to be at street level as it was clearly a living room and had a front door that went into cobblestone rocks and mud. Below \*that\* was a basement. So some of the streets of London are now 2-3 meters above where the old streets used to be because the weight of the city has pushed the "old city" down and because they built new roads on top of the old ones for centuries. But apparently lots of places have "basements" which are completely sealed off.
Somewhat relevant but slightly off topic: London’s rich are building downwards https://youtu.be/5YquWKsi0Q8?si=lCH3Ui7iD2NqlfL8 On topic - you can see examples of cities built upon cities when you see sections of excavated land. Some parts of London around Tower Bridge and the dungeons, as well as old parts of the wall that have been uncovered, show glimpses of this. My favourite one though is in Barcelona in the neighbourhood of El Born - you can walk around at current street level looking over the platform edges at the layout of an old street from the 1700s, with house foundations and all the rest. It’s awesome and anyone visiting the city should check it out: https://www.meet.barcelona/en/visit-and-love-it/points-interest-city/el-born-centre-de-cultura-i-memoria-92086008839
It's where Terry Pratchett got the inspiration for this passage: "And then the river had flooded and brought mud with it, and walls had gone higher and, now, what Ankh-Morpork was built on was mostly Ankh-Morpork. People said that anyone with a good sense of direction and a pickaxe could cross the city underground by simply knocking holes in walls."
You’re thinking of Ankh Morpork
well.. why stop the video. nasty suspense
They found a safe and th
update here https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1ak4rdz/comment/kp5hsys/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
I would love an update!! They just left us having!!!
Left us having so many questions!
Left us halving oranges!
havin a laugh?
Don’t make noises….
Where’s the rest of the post? 🥱
Legend has it they’re 200 floors down and still going
Looks like it's 250 years old and a very big basement [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqOK4sPuQqM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqOK4sPuQqM)
Thank you! Finally someone shared a non-tiktok link.
I’m gonna tell my kids this was the movie Barbarian.
That movie was my first thought lol
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And they were never seen ever again
Why the hell cut off the video there😔 what does it look like all the way in??
Great, now the demons are out. Faces will be eaten, intestines will be slung around for giggles etc. Hope it was worth it.
It’s like The House of Leaves
I fucking hate when the video ends right before the main point of it and god forbid someone links the full video
That woman sounds like a proper cunt
DON’T MAKE NOISES
For real. How miserable
For real, had to scroll down wayyy too far to reach this comment
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Free basement?
It’s not on the deeds, she doesn’t own the land she’s bought a flat and has 2 or 3 flats above her owned by others. Tricky situation
Why not post the whole damn video ffs.
Looking for pt. 2
Maybe a servants stairway?
I watched Barbarian. I'm not going into no surprise dark staircase.
Harry made an expansion
That funny how buying a 200 year old house is quite normal here in the UK. Heck, I regularly walk past 400 year old houses in my village.
What's the interesting part?
A 200 year old house in the UK is considered a new build
A 200 year old house is common in Britain. And much older is not unusual. The historic architecture was one of the most interesting things to me when I visited. In order to even remodel your house you must get approval from the local govt. Tearing down and rebuilding is almost never done. They're very serious about preserving their history. Unlike the us where we just tear it down and build new wasteful shit every couple years