Anyone come across a wall filled with sand?

[Dave Jenkins]

Took a socket off an old house and sand poured out!

 

[Pete999]

Took a socket off an old house and sand poured out!

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[KEV 1 N]

Took a socket off an old house and sand poured out!

Old house?......must have been a sand castle!

 

[telectrix]

poor man's kingspan.

 

[KEV 1 N]

Worked on some tower blocks years ago, the sockets and lighting were laid on the rough concrete floor in pvc conduit, the lights were piped on the floor for the flat below, then the builder dumped a load of sharp sand over the floor, levelled it off, put rock wool slabs on then chipboard flooring over, creating a floating floor. Anyway once the people moved in and had heating on, we had to go back and fit various fancy ceiling lights for some residents, when we took the pendant down it was like being inside a big egg timer! The sand had dried out with the heating pipes also being placed on the floor!

 

[ruston]

I worked in a really old pub years ago and the floor above was filled with ash and cinder for sound proofing.
It was waste from the local block manufacturer.

 

[Strima]

I once patched up a stud wall with an egg mayo sandwich.

 

[Madocks]

Out of the 3 little piggies my favourate is the one who made it out of bricks

 

[MJPD29]

Not sand, had one house with walls made from muck and straw, was early 1800s cottage. Never cut out boxes so easy before

 

[The Ghost]

Ex sound studio?

 

[RWJ]

I've heard of sand being used between blast walls but never done owt on a Nuclear bunker... However I was thinking of buying one the way the worlds going.

 

[ashrow]

Once did a sound studio in someones garden and had to seal all sockets and switches due to sand being poured in between studs for sound

 

[telectrix]

I once patched up a stud wall with an egg mayo sandwich.

best thing to do with it once the egg has been contaminated with donkey snot.

 

[7029 dave]

The poor man builds his house on the sand, the rich man builds his house on the rock.!

 

[telectrix]

the rich girl wears a brassiere, the poor girl uses string. but dinah uses nothing at all: she let's the buggers swing.

 

[gutterball]

I've never seen sand, but ash deafening ceilings is very common around here. Various loft insulation materials include blue/pink polystyrene beads, and stuff that looks like dried paper mache thats been shreded. also we have straw walls (known as stramit), and walls made of honey comb card board sandwiched between plasterboard.

 

[Dave Jenkins]

Was most bizarre... poured out the wall like an egg timer.....

 

[FatAlan]

I’m sure Pete999 mentioned a job he did for Tutankhamun in his pyramid a while back. Had trouble cutting out a back box and was hampered by all the sand flooding in!

 

[Squid]

Ex sound studio?

killing room, any bullet holes in the walls?

 

[PEG]

Hey,Indiana,have you finished wiring up that temple of doom?

 

[dmxtothemax]

would make a good fire barrier !
good sound proofing
good insulation

 

[static zap]

Does sound a bit like one of those hidden camera shows .
( Get your share of the money ! )
Was thinking of that fine ash
... from the attic as Ruston mentioned ...

 

[M-Ty]

It needs a loudspeaker or two or more mounting in it, if it hasn't already got one! G.A.Briggs of Wharfedale reported excellent results with sand-filled enclosures about 60 years ago.

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

Sounds a bit like indiana jones...
Should have ket the sand flow... Might have revealed a hudden secret within the building

 

[willy fixit]

Seen it when old sand/cement plaster has degraded and fallen down into boxes and when plaster falls off the back of laths.

 

[Wilko]

Ex sound sand studio?

Sorry, couldn't resist

 

[static zap]

Was most bizarre... poured out the wall like an egg timer.....

I prefer "Time sensitive job" ..clocks in-built..

 

[The Ghost]

I always remember that time it happened to me and two large 20 ton rock balls came at me from above, of course I handled it with due aplomb.

 

[Toneyz]

I think we are all waiting for the day when we go to cut out a socket in a wall and we find a stash of money hidden away.

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

I think we are all waiting for the day when we go to cut out a socket in a wall and we find a stash of money hidden away.

Best things I have come across have been a box full of ww2 surplus stuff inclusive of grenades! posted about that before.
most awkward has to have been the teenager who when lifting up loose floor boards to conceal his stuff damaged a cable,causing loss of sockets on the upstairs radial. called out by the mum to investigate and whilst she is stood there looking we come face to face with a pile of ---- mags! only thing is they were gay ---- mags and gaytimes. she had no idea her son was gay and gather she was going to have a chat with him! that would have been awkward.
The creepiest was when called to a house to find out why sockets had stopped working upstairs.and one of the double sockets was a bug, it had a sim card in so it could be listened in on remotely. turns out the ladies now ex husband had installed it but when putting it back on wall, the live had come loose stopping subsequent sockets on the radial from working. He got community service for that and it did him no favours with the divorce and custody case either.
There are some right weird people out in the countryside around my way!

 

[Toneyz]

Best things I have come across have been a box full of ww2 surplus stuff inclusive of grenades! posted about that before.
most awkward has to have been the teenager who when lifting up loose floor boards to conceal his stuff damaged a cable,causing loss of sockets on the upstairs radial. called out by the mum to investigate and whilst she is stood there looking we come face to face with a pile of ---- mags! only thing is they were gay ---- mags and gaytimes. she had no idea her son was gay and gather she was going to have a chat with him! that would have been awkward.
The creepiest was when called to a house to find out why sockets had stopped working upstairs.and one of the double sockets was a bug, it had a sim card in so it could be listened in on remotely. turns out the ladies now ex husband had installed it but when putting it back on wall, the live had come loose stopping subsequent sockets on the radial from working. He got community service for that and it did him no favours with the divorce and custody case either.
There are some right weird people out in the countryside around my way!

Make a note "don't do work for people in Somerset".

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

Make a note "don't do work for people in Somerset".

Ah but you could use a somerset apprentice or mate, we has 6 fingers on our hands and webbing on our feet so good for when doing electrics in ponds and stuff.

 

[Pete999]

Make a note "don't do work for people in Somerset".

Nothing wrong with Somerset Matey

 

[Toneyz]

Nothing wrong with Somerset Matey

Sory that's where Baaaaarrrrrrth is.

 

[Toneyz]

sorry Baaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrth

 

[buzzlightyear]

did you pull up a deck chair and watch the sun going down ,when the sand fell out ,I would !

 

[buzzlightyear]

when the sand fell out ,did you pull up a deck chair, and watch the sun go down , I would .

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

sorry Baaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrth

No its BaaFF.

 

[Marvo]

I've seen a spec from an architect that required an internal cavity wall to be sand filled to increase its thermal mass. The wall ran full height of the 3 storey building and was basically an inner skin to the external wall. The cavity between it and the external wall along with the heat retention was designed to create a large amount of natural ventilation.

This was in a fairly new building though that was designed to have high energy efficiency.

 

[Resu]

Never seen sand but have seen hay a few years ago.

And just the other week found egg boxes throughout the stud walls on a renovation. 28p for 6 large eggs!

 

[buzzlightyear]

if there is sand in between the cavity and bridges it can cause damp.

 

[gnuuser]

I think we are all waiting for the day when we go to cut out a socket in a wall and we find a stash of money hidden away.

actually had that happen twice
first time it was a bag of confederate money (donated that to a local museum) and the second time it was about $30 worth of nickels

 

[Toneyz]

Never seen sand but have seen hay a few years ago.

And just the other week found egg boxes throughout the stud walls on a renovation. 28p for 6 large eggs!

I think that you are referring to paramount walls. You saying about egg boxes in the music classrooms at my Upper school they had like cardboard large egg box trays stuck to the walls.

 

[Resu]

No I mean actual used egg boxes! Will try and get a picture on next visit.

 

[ruston]

No I mean actual used egg boxes! Will try and get a picture on next visit.

I have spent a lot of time reading newspapers pulled out of lathe walls and also lining floorboards under the underlay of old floors.
The most interesting one was in and old hall were American and British troops were billeted in the servants quarters in what was in effect an attic , but it was like a terraced row.
There were all sorts , even letters from families, beer bottles, American newspapers and film magazines . That was just the tip of the iceberg.
I think we were the first to be in there since the war .
It was quite a humbling experience to be honest .
We did what we had to and left it as it was.
. We did not charge him for that day.

 

[elsparko]

had plenty of backboxes full of wasps/spiders and sometimes even bees.

 

[Toneyz]

had plenty of backboxes full of wasps/spiders and sometimes even bees.

I've only had cables in mine boring.

 

[elsparko]

I've only had cables in mine boring.

the bees collect electricity from the flowers mate, how are u doing it??

 

[Toneyz]

Must be using cheap back boxes.

 

[Squid]

Does the owners name sound German along the lines of Fritzel?