6 ft / 1.8 m of space under ground floor floorboards - anything I can do to use the space?

[Ricochet J]

Under the floorboards of our bungalow is 6 ft / 1.8 m of empty space.

It's not a cellar.

The reason might be because our road is on a hill. We're at the bottom of the hill. But it seems like all properties on my road are built this way.

Is there anything we can do with the space? Are we allowed to build stairs going to the void, insulate the volume and effectively use it?

Snooker / pool / games room maybe?

 

[Siliconslave]

I went to a house party once with a half height basement - it was essentially storage but as it was London they used it as an extra bedroom...

I'd be tempted to look into getting it converted to a cellar, might take some doing to get it to conform to building regs though...

 

[Psycho Sonny]

how are you going to play pool in 6 foot of space?

are you all dwarves?

all you can effectively use it for is storage. like a wine cellar. storing food/drink, etc.

 

[Quartz]

Is it bare earth or rock? How wet does it get there?

 

[Sin_Chase]

how are you going to play pool in 6 foot of space?

are you all dwarves?

all you can effectively use it for is storage. like a wine cellar. storing food/drink, etc.

One of must assume he meant 1.8m of height rather than total area!

 

[theone8181]

S and m dungeon, cinema room plenty of options.

 

[PlacidCasual]

Dead bodies, sounds ideal for storing or quick liming your enemies corpses.

Edit: just done a quick google apparently this morally wrong and illegal, who knew. So scratch that

 

[GamingDaddy]

Dead bodies, sounds ideal for storing or quick liming your enemies corpses.

Edit: just done a quick google apparently this morally wrong and illegal, who knew. So scratch that

No, great idea. Do that one.

 

[d_brennen]

how are you going to play pool in 6 foot of space?

are you all dwarves?

all you can effectively use it for is storage. like a wine cellar. storing food/drink, etc.

One of must assume he meant 1.8m of height rather than total area!

I'm assuming Sonny means hight too... And the point stands. At 170cm ish and above you'd be very uncomfortable with the ceiling at 180cm, so unless they are all indeed dwarves...

 

[Amp34]

It wouldn’t take much to dig the floor out a foot (ideally 2) if it’s not solid rock. You’d probably need an engineer to check the foundations and whether they will need modifying though.

It may certainly be doable, but may be pretty pricey and depend on building permissions.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

One of must assume he meant 1.8m of height rather than total area!

how tall are you? 1.8m is 5 foot 10.

i know i'd have to walk about on my knees.

 

[Telecaster]

Fill it up with water and put fish in it.

 

[jellybeard999]

Cinema room could be viable as you'd be seated.

Is it going to be 6ft once you've put in dpc, insulation, boarded etc?

Storage is the simple answer

 

[Rikk82]

Storage/cellar most likely the viable option unless you are all dwarves

 

[a1ex2001]

All depends on your budget could be probably converted to full building regs compliant living space but expect to be forking out 30k for underpinning digging out and insulating etc. Most likely option is storage as this would require little more than a trap door and a ladder.

 

[ANDARIAL]

Not Dwarves!
Vertically Challenged

 

[Finners]

Do you live on a flood plain?

 

[samcat]

How high is the ceiling in the room above this under floor void? If its nice and high then you could potentially raise the floor to gain some headroom in the under floor void.

Or lower the floor and have a lovely high ceiling.

Whatever you do, put lots of insulation in, makes the normal living spaces much much nicer to live in.

 

[kinobestew123]

Have any of the neighbours done anything with their space? Could give you some inspiration.

 

[D.P.]

Wine cellar