Juststarting53
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Maybe put the bench back up in a way so that you can easily move it. Or if it's too big, use something else. Nice and stealthy.
I Found a Secret Room In My House!
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#1accordfamily
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nice find. it would be great to have a thing like that and get out of my small area
Enigma
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Hide that door with a free-standing shelf..hinge and lock it secretly..check out Lowe's..get creative..maybe even check out a flee-market for one of those boxes that has hidden compartments..it might pique your creativity.
Another thought..build a room inside of a room, well insulated and you will have the EPIC OP of 2011.
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Another thought..build a room inside of a room, well insulated and you will have the EPIC OP of 2011.
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Brick Top
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That could be done. WAY back when I was in high school one of my friends lived in a very large very old home that had a library on the second floor. Two of the sections of shelves were doors that went into bedrooms that were on the other side of the wall between the rooms and the library. You removed the right book or books and there was a small notch with a latch inside of it and you just pushed it and you were in.
You just have to make the door so it opens into the hidden room so there are no hinges visible on the side of the camouflaged door that you use to get to the hidden room otherwise it is a dead giveaway that it is a door no matter what you do to try to make it now look like a door. It also helps if on the hinge side the fake/camouflaged door overlaps the crack between the door/frame and on the other side if there is something like a piece of trim that will cover the crack between the fake/camouflaged door and the frame on that side ... so when closed the fake/camouflaged door closes up against the piece of trim or whatever and again there is no crack/opening between to be see to give away that it is a door of some sort. You also have to do something similar for the top of the fake door and frame so no one looking at it would see a split/crack/slit telling them that it might be a door. The most difficult place to deal with is the bottom. You don't want something that is built up off the floor or again it will be simple to spot a door. Even a piece of trim along the bottom won't be good because it will have to be cut on both sides. You don't want it to scrape the floor when it opens and closes because it binds and with humidity or and or settling it might not want to open or close at times ... but it needs to look like it rests on the floor. That is the tricky bit if total stealth is something someone wants to achieve. But it can be done.
Brick Top
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Not that I have ever built anything like that myself but besides seeing the hidden doors in my friend's house I once saw Errol Flynn's old house on TV. It had a number of hidden rooms and secret passageways and hidden stairs. He had a thing for young girls and could drive into his garage and from there take them right to hidden areas of the house and even with other people in the house no one would know he was there or had a young girl with her. The hidden doors were very stealthy and usually behind/part of something that hid them even more.
Eventually he got caught for his diddling young girls but beat the rap. That was during WWII and the Marines in the South Pacific started the saying "in like Flynn" because whenever something was going good for them, which was not often, or they had a good detail etc. they would say they were "in like Flynn," meaning they had it beat. And it all came from him beating the rap for poking underage girls in his secret rooms.
plantaseedtofillurneed
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LUCKY FUCKER its like lost man show me whats behind the hatch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! really tho good find i wish i had one
JuicyCola420mon
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Awesome man....about three years ago i found a little 1.5x1.5 hole covered up behind my bed at my grandmas house. And i unscrewed it to find a little room big enough for like 5 lowryder plants lol....She neverrrrr found out and it was successful...NUTSS
Bonzi Lighthouse
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BT - You continue to impress.
jakester34
Member
In reference to BrickTop's post, there are of course many sites on the web for ideas and actual construction. 'Secret Passageways' seemed to bring the most fruitful search results. Sorry for sounding like a blowhard but remember, Silent Pride is definitely required for this to perform as it is designed for.
Enigma
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If the door moves back and left then he can make a seal at the front out of the trim that you speak of.
Michael Sparks
Active Member
definitely agree with jakester now that the concept is presented.
I'm Not trying to flame or be a downer.But lets get down to reasonable thinking. They had that room closed off with a tarp for a reason IMO... and sold the house maybe for the same reasons.... asbestos. Concrete and brick were made with asbestos as early as the late 1800's.
"Most respirable asbestos fibers are invisible to the unaided human eye because their size is about 3.020.0 µm wide and can be as slim as 0.01 µm. Human hair ranges in size from 17 to 181 µm in breadth. When sufficient force is applied, they tend to break along their weakest directions, resulting in a linear fragmentation pattern and hence a fibrous form. This fracture process can keep occurring and one larger asbestos fiber can ultimately become the source of hundreds of much thinner and smaller fibers. As asbestos fibers get smaller and lighter, they more easily become airborne and human respiratory exposures can result. Fibers will eventually settle but may be re-suspended by air currents or other movement." wiki - not all info on wiki is always correct. (this info is)
asbestos is no joke messing with it yourself without any training would be ignorant, no offense... wetting down a small piece can work in a bind and if the only possible option ( maybe for a hot project at work, but not this). People doing asbestos abatement wear respirators ( good job on that ) but they also wear tyvek suites. Once asbestos is on your shoes or your clothes which is invisible to the naked eye, its going to go on a fun ride all through your house exposing you further and any loved ones you have. Id seal it back up for now. If its not being disturbed its not usually a problem.
Grab a couple samples of brick and concrete, and any other common materials found down there and send them into a lab for testing.
If it is asbestos, and you want to make it a room possibly. well if it was i wouldn't fuck with it , id have an abatement crew come in and do it.
Also looks like maybe a steel piece of angel iron for a lintel in that stairway (looks like its rotting away) That things just asking to collapse one day, already see some bricks on the ground.
All in all, more work then it's worth. It can be done if you want to go to some extremes.
good luck and be safe.
stumps
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Firebrick - Mesothelioma and Asbestos Exposure Risks
Asbestos was used in the fabrication of many different products, including fire brick. Fire brick is used around boilers and furnaces and were cemented in place with asbestos furnace cement. The purpose of fire brick was to quarantine a fire if one should erupt and keep it in a closed in space to prevent it from spreading throughout a building.
Asbestos was a common product used for fire-resistant materials because of its resiliency, fire-retardant properties, durability and cost effectiveness. However, at the time that asbestos was in constant use, the health ramifications were not well known by most people. Today, fire brick is not made with asbestos and much of the asbestos fire brick has been removed and replaced with non-asbestos fire brick.
Asbestos is known to cause serious health problems and cancer called mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is a serious cancer that is not cured by traditional cancer treatments such as radiation or chemotherapy. The cancer is of the mesothelium, the lining surrounding the internal organs. Mesothelioma is most common in the pleura, the lining of the lungs, but has also been seen in the lining of the heart and abdomen.
While statistics show that mesothelioma is a relatively rare type of cancer, it is responsible for three percent of annual cancer-related deaths in the United States each year. The only known cause for mesothelioma is exposure to asbestos.
For people who worked for companies manufacturing asbestos fire brick, as well as construction workers who installed fire brick, the chance of mesothelioma is definitely present. However, there is no direct link between the amount of exposure to asbestos and increased chances of contracting mesothelioma. There are many people who've only had limited exposure to asbestos and have contracted the disease, while others with extensive exposure have not.
Asbestos was used in the fabrication of many different products, including fire brick. Fire brick is used around boilers and furnaces and were cemented in place with asbestos furnace cement. The purpose of fire brick was to quarantine a fire if one should erupt and keep it in a closed in space to prevent it from spreading throughout a building.
Asbestos was a common product used for fire-resistant materials because of its resiliency, fire-retardant properties, durability and cost effectiveness. However, at the time that asbestos was in constant use, the health ramifications were not well known by most people. Today, fire brick is not made with asbestos and much of the asbestos fire brick has been removed and replaced with non-asbestos fire brick.
Asbestos is known to cause serious health problems and cancer called mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is a serious cancer that is not cured by traditional cancer treatments such as radiation or chemotherapy. The cancer is of the mesothelium, the lining surrounding the internal organs. Mesothelioma is most common in the pleura, the lining of the lungs, but has also been seen in the lining of the heart and abdomen.
While statistics show that mesothelioma is a relatively rare type of cancer, it is responsible for three percent of annual cancer-related deaths in the United States each year. The only known cause for mesothelioma is exposure to asbestos.
For people who worked for companies manufacturing asbestos fire brick, as well as construction workers who installed fire brick, the chance of mesothelioma is definitely present. However, there is no direct link between the amount of exposure to asbestos and increased chances of contracting mesothelioma. There are many people who've only had limited exposure to asbestos and have contracted the disease, while others with extensive exposure have not.
TruenoAE86coupe
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O come on, its not a fireplace, it was for holding something like water or a coal stove at worst. The likely hood of your brick having ANY asbestos in it is extremely unlikely, as asbestos was simply a fire retardant and only used when ness. If you decide to do this, keep a hose handy and spray down all the dust that is flying up. If you worked making products made with asbestos then you can worry about mesothelioma, otherwise odds are quite against it. I was talking just last week about asbestos with a 92 year old customer, 50 years ago or so, she tore our an old furnace from one of their houses, by having her daughter hang on the asbestos covered pipes and pulling down on her. They are both still here.
asbestos was used as a cureall and put in almost every building material possible. To say you talked to one lady who said she was exposed once to asbestos and nothing happened to her so nothing will happen is a joke. If you work around asbestos (say a skilled trade) you will know it's no joke. To think it was only used when necessary is a joke. (maybe post 1970's)
Take it for what its worth. Risk your loved ones possible safety for (a grow room when you already have one twice that size)
Take it for what its worth. Risk your loved ones possible safety for (a grow room when you already have one twice that size)
hahahahahah!! made me laugh man, if i was going in there though i would have at least a fucking machete
to be fair though he had a crowbar
Brick Top
New Member
hahahahahah!! made me laugh man, if i was going in there though i would have at least a fucking machete
You people kill me. Do many of you actually need panty shields once a month? What the heck would some of you expect to find in a place like that other than a few spiders and maybe mice, an escaped insane homicidal maniac, bigfoot, alien or predator maybe?
I've climbed into beds with women that were scarier than that place was and the only 'weapon' I had with me would never be confused for being a crowbar.
In what year did guys stop growing a pair?