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Posted: 1/12/2024 2:42:54 AM EDT
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Because of the zombies attacking while you're in the yard and need to escape to safety
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Posted: 1/12/2024 2:46:08 AM EDT
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Pics?
And this is probably who lives in siad sewer 
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Posted: 1/12/2024 2:46:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Because of the zombies attacking while you're in the yard and need to escape to safety There is a backyard staircase entrance that goes directly down to the basement. Also, what good is escaping from a zombie just to flee into a C.H.U.D. lair? |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 2:46:43 AM EDT
[#4]
Any pizza boxes found!
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Posted: 1/12/2024 2:49:05 AM EDT
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At least you have a cool underground lair and didn’t have to excavate it for TikTok or fight the NYPD.
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Posted: 1/12/2024 2:50:42 AM EDT
[#6]
Ideal tornado shelter.
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Posted: 1/12/2024 2:58:48 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There is a backyard staircase entrance that goes directly down to the basement. You never said that. You said the room was accessible from the basement. |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 3:08:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You never said that. You said the room was accessible from the basement. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: There is a backyard staircase entrance that goes directly down to the basement. You never said that. You said the room was accessible from the basement. The basement has two staircases, one from backyard and one from inside home. The manhole is about 15 feet from the backyard staircase and about 5 feet from exterior back wall of house. The basement door into the chamber just looks like a closet in the basement. |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 3:10:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ideal tornado shelter. The whole basement is poured concrete and several rooms have four-wall concrete. I think a tornado might be able to lift a manhole cover. |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 3:15:27 AM EDT
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OSHA was involved somehow.
For exit routes, OSHA requires that at least two exit routes must be available in a workplace to permit prompt evacuation of employees and other building occupants during an emergency 2. Where two exits, exit access doorways, exit access stairways or ramps, or any combination thereof, are required from any portion of the exit access, they shall be placed a distance apart equal to not less than one-half of the length of the maximum overall diagonal dimension of the building or area to be served measured in a straight line between them 3. or the over read the regulation. I've worked in a lot of pump pits where I was dead meat if things went sour |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 3:15:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The whole basement is poured concrete and several rooms have four-wall concrete. I think a tornado might be able to lift a manhole cover. It gives you a way out of the basement if the house has collapsed. |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 3:18:39 AM EDT
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Ideal tornado shelter. First thought |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 3:19:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: OSHA was involved somehow. For exit routes, OSHA requires that at least two exit routes must be available in a workplace to permit prompt evacuation of employees and other building occupants during an emergency 2. Where two exits, exit access doorways, exit access stairways or ramps, or any combination thereof, are required from any portion of the exit access, they shall be placed a distance apart equal to not less than one-half of the length of the maximum overall diagonal dimension of the building or area to be served measured in a straight line between them 3. or the over read the regulation. I've worked in a lot of pump pits where I was dead meat if things went sour House was architected in 1941 and finished in 1946. I think they had a bureau of mines and child labor but no OSHA. |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 3:21:58 AM EDT
[#14]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It gives you a way out of the basement if the house has collapsed. I like this answer |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 3:25:54 AM EDT
[#15]
I don’t know but that’s pretty fucken cool.
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Posted: 1/12/2024 3:27:15 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/12/2024 3:28:58 AM EDT
[#17]
It puts the lotion on its skin….
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Posted: 1/12/2024 4:46:20 AM EDT
[#18]
Without the man hole cover you wouldn't be able to Service the well.
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Posted: 1/12/2024 5:41:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It gives you a way out of the basement if the house has collapsed. But also maybe an early septic tank access where the tank has since been removed? Wine cellar? Built in the 40's = tiny nuke shelter? |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 5:50:12 AM EDT
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My first guess is some kind of fire code regarding egress.
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Posted: 1/12/2024 5:54:33 AM EDT
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I have seen several houses with similar configurations. It was a common practice during the run up to WWII to build a bomb shelter for those who could afford it. You have to put yourself in the mind set of the time of the design to understand what took place.
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Posted: 1/12/2024 5:57:33 AM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The whole basement is poured concrete and several rooms have four-wall concrete. I think a tornado might be able to lift a manhole cover. |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 6:15:16 AM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Without the man hole cover you wouldn't be able to Service the well. This. |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 6:19:13 AM EDT
[#24]
Old coal room maybe for the coal furnace?
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Posted: 1/12/2024 6:21:51 AM EDT
[#25]
You should investigate a bit more. You've probably only scratched the surface of whats down there.
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Posted: 1/12/2024 6:48:12 AM EDT
[#26]
We need to see a MS Paint rendering.
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Posted: 1/12/2024 6:48:26 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/12/2024 6:49:50 AM EDT
[#28]
So they can pull the pipe if they need to replace it. [or the foot valve] I take it you have a shallow well?
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Posted: 1/12/2024 6:53:39 AM EDT
[#29]
Who cares that sounds awesome
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Posted: 1/12/2024 7:00:10 AM EDT
[#30]
There is a pump or plumbing in that room?
Kharn |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 7:06:21 AM EDT
[#31]
Most tunneling animals are smart enough to dig an escape route from their burrow
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Posted: 1/12/2024 7:36:22 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The whole basement is poured concrete and several rooms have four-wall concrete. I think a tornado might be able to lift a manhole cover. Spot weld and covered with dirt then grass |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 7:37:04 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I like this answer Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: It gives you a way out of the basement if the house has collapsed. I like this answer You like people having a way in your house? |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 7:40:30 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/12/2024 7:42:31 AM EDT
[#35]
Are you sure it's not connected to a synagogue?
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Posted: 1/12/2024 7:46:23 AM EDT
[#36]
It makes it easier to remove the bodies for disposal.
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Posted: 1/12/2024 8:16:29 AM EDT
[#37]
 If you google "Can a tornado lift a manhole cover," this thread is the fifth result. Kharn |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 8:27:56 AM EDT
[#38]
Easier to pull the pipe through the manhole and lay it out in the backyard than to coil it up in the basement and make a mess.
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Posted: 1/12/2024 8:32:37 AM EDT
[#39]
Depending on year of constructions, possibly a coal room for a boiler?
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Posted: 1/12/2024 8:34:28 AM EDT
[#40]
What is the ceiling of the pump room? I've never seen this.
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Posted: 1/12/2024 8:35:58 AM EDT
[#41]
You need to remove the manhole and construct a pillbox.
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Posted: 1/12/2024 8:36:41 AM EDT
[#42]
No pics no care
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Posted: 1/12/2024 8:40:05 AM EDT
[#43]
I’m guessing the cover is directly over the well head? It’s so the well can be pulled to service the down pipe, check valves, wire, impellers and/ or motor. The truck would be topside, droppind the cable and elevators down through the hole. One dude would be in the yard stacking the pipe off to the side, and one dude down in the well room setting the elevators and coiling the wire.
Depending on how deep your well is, of course. If it’s a shallow well with flexible pipe, it would be different |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 8:40:52 AM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted:There is a pump or plumbing in that room? Kharny |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 8:41:26 AM EDT
[#45]
It’s for egress.
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Posted: 1/12/2024 8:43:05 AM EDT
[#46]
Your own private shooting lane ! Install a target return and ventilation system and you are set .
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Posted: 1/12/2024 8:43:59 AM EDT
[#47]
No state listed
No pics Is the pressure tank in that room also? It makes sense to have top access for installation/service of the well. I think I would turn that into a root cellar too. |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 8:47:27 AM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: So they can pull the pipe if they need to replace it. [or the foot valve] I take it you have a shallow well? We had a similar set up when I was a kid. It was just slightly smaller, wasn't connected to the house and had a wooden cover. |
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Posted: 1/12/2024 8:49:08 AM EDT
[#49]
Access to service pump is most likely. Supposed to have a shed over top to allow for hidden egress is coolest. Op needs a bookshelf to hide the interior door though, so room is hidden.
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Posted: 1/12/2024 8:58:23 AM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: So they can pull the pipe if they need to replace it. [or the foot valve] I take it you have a shallow well? This was my thought. |
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