2023年2月7日 · When I had a house with a coal room in the basement, the recommendation from both the architect and the contractor I worked with was to seal the space rather than remediate it.

2011年1月18日 · It looks like a cold storage room. You would use it to store vegetables, etc. The earth around the outside of its walls keeps it cool. These rooms were more useful before the invention of fridges. It sounds like a coal cellar to me. A place to store coal for heating - the window would be where the coal was loaded in from outside.

2023年9月24日 · Looks like a coal room, probably used the large opening to shute in the coal. Then turned it into a window later on.

2023年8月8日 · In the 1912 I owned years ago, I converted the coal room into a tool room - essentially I added three ikea base cabinets to store my tools, and put in a counter. I had shelves to store paint cans, it was pretty sweet.

2021年7月4日 · The slab is poured around the chimney and coal room. This means that the coal chute door is located about 2' under the slab along a buried old foundation wall. The renovators appear to have sealed the coal chute door with concrete which is now leaking in rectangular pattern into the old coal room and flooding my basement every rainy season.

2023年10月13日 · Why not just add one more task to the never ending to-do list, right?! Step one – Clear Out the Space Our first task was to clear out the entire space. This was an old coal room… Eric took out about 16 buckets of old coal soot that had been sitting in the bottom-right corner of this room for who knows how long!

There is a coal room at the back of the home that is framed in wood and clean. It is maybe 4 x 4, but as tall as the basement. If you buy this home, these are the type of things within it that you should cherish. I am on vacation now, but if I were home I …

2017年12月14日 · Framing, Flooring and Sub-Flooring - pouring of concrete in old coal room of 80 year old house. - This house in Columbus, Ohio, was built in 1926. A corner of the basement is walled with concrete block to enclose a space measuring about 6' X 6', or maybe closer to 7' X 7'. This space seems to be a coal room that was

2012年7月10日 · I just moved into my house and in the basement there is the old coal chute. Really, it's not much of a chute, just a door (roughly 18" x 24") that opens to the outside that …

2008年6月25日 · I’m thinking of building a four foot tall wooden hatch/chute to shovel coal from outside truck level down to the hatch and into the basement. Anyone else have an old basement setup like this?