Has anyone ever been under the House?

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[jswordy]

1. Been under MY house lots of times...it's grimy work.

[datasuspect]

2. that's where i used to hide

when daddy came home drunk after he spent the whole paycheck.

daddy drinks because i cry.

[sui generis]

3. why yes - here in Texas we have two kinds:

pier and beam foundations and slab foundations

No basements - scratch the soil and you're sitting on a solid bed of limestone covered with smectite clay (it swells tremendously when wet / shrinks when dry).

My old house is 40's pier and beam - and replaced all the wiring and plumbing & floor furnaces when I moved in. Not a place to be for claustrophobics or fat plumbers!

[jswordy]

7. Heh...those slab foundations are tough as HELL to crawl under!

ROFL!

[NoPasaran]

4. Not the house

But I've been deep enough in the bowels of the UT Law School that the floor was dirt.

[BurtWorm]

5. I've been under this House

It's very interesting under there.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Yes, I've been under my house!

We built our house several years ago, and my husband wanted the crawl space to be generous. A lot of dirt was excavated and we ended up with a space that's tall enough to stand up in. All the service/trade people love it. One of our furnaces is down there, and our hot water heater, plus a huge storage area for tiles and left-over paint, etc. No crawling through spider webs etc. for us or anyone else who goes down there.