Digging a hole - walls under ground.

[RecondoJoe]

This thread motivated me to fix my dad's dryer... checked all the fuses, they was all good..

pulled the element out and the coil was broke in two
fortunately had an old dryer with a bad switch board, but good element, so was able to swap it out for free.

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by magnetaress [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Maybe a fake pond, with faux fish?

Or a firepit?

Or line it with crystals and LEDs and a glass cover?

I'm thinking pond.

People on Imgur seem to think it may be an old sceptic tank. Seeing as the property had an outhouse elsewhere, and this pit has no pipes going in and is watertight/has no soak away that seems really unlikely to me. Oh, and the area has some really decent / old sewage pipes which go directly under where the original outhouse stood.

[solleks]

Before sewer comes into a town septic systems are used. Once the house is connected to the sewer system the septic tank is abandoned and buried. You are digging up an abandoned septic tank, the pieces of rubble are probably parts of the lid smashed up

[Jimjam]

That doesn’t make sense. The sewer was laid at the same time as the house and the bricks in this pit seem more modern than the bricks in the house.

I know where the old outhouse stood as it was demolished about a decade ago and a wetroom was built last year in its place using the original sewer.

[mcoy]

How old is the house/property? That'll help narrow it down. Since cistern and septic have been ruled out - how deep is it? 50's and 60's eras loved their useless bomb shelters...

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-Mcoy

[Jimjam]

The house is just over a century, it's in a wealthy area of a decently old and fairly major English city.

I would have thought the structure would have had a more obvious entrance if an air raid shelter, but I guess that could have been above ground which was since removed.

Being a city of industry, the area did suffer bombing as part of the Blitz in WWII - there were garden air raid shelters locally, so it's not a bad shout. It's about 3 or 4 ft deep, like a meter or so in new money. The spade should give an idea of scale.

[solleks]

There was a sewer system 100 years ago? Where did the sewer go then?

[magnetaress]

Even if it was an old sceptic, perfectly fine and safe by now.

Even more reason to pondify.

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by solleks [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There was a sewer system 100 years ago? Where did the sewer go then?

Of course, 200 years ago the UK was a developed industrial nation, not the wild west...

I used to work as a lock keeper on the local major river, adjacent to the site of the 1800s sewage treatment plant which is still used to clean sewage down stream of the city and return liquid to the flow.

[solleks]

Thats reallycool