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You'd probably be interested in this person's work: https://youtu.be/6CLF4QrYmYg

The online versions of local British Newspapers are almost unreadable now with all the chumbox ads and continual page repainting. Ugh.

Thank you. I definitely read this as million.

If you’re instead interested in a book about a house with 15 million tunnels, read House of Leaves!

oops … sorry … now fixed

That is still an impressive water table. I wish ours was that low :-)

Relatively secluded and private, Seymour Cray was also a tunneler... he wouldn't have been making videos about it

The story about him in Time at the time: https://web.archive.org/web/20080521163217/http://www.time.c...

    For Cray, the excavation project is more than a simple diversion. "I work when I'm at home," he recently told a visiting scientist. "I work for three hours, and then I get stumped, and I'm not making progress. So I quit, and I go and work in the tunnel. It takes me an hour or so to dig four inches and put in the 4-by-4s. Now, as you can see, I'm up in the Wisconsin woods, and there are elves in the woods. So when they see me leave, they come into my office and solve all the problems I'm having. Then I go back up and work some more."

And an article someone wrote later... https://michael-starobin.squarespace.com/blogcontent/digging...

I wasn't impressed by the 15 metres, but it turns out that is the maximum depth reached, not the length of a tunnel.

I read it as 15 million tunnels too, was very confused. Thank you!

Yeah, I though it was 15 meters of length, not that impressive... but it is 15m underground and '... 1,300 square feet of underground space, including tunnels and storage rooms'.

The most important comment on this article.

The title is "not even" clickbait, just very confusing.

"The unique complex contains more than 1,300 square feet of underground space, including tunnels and storage rooms - and even a hand-built railway."

(Edit: I mean the original article, not the submission)

sorry for the capital M … I have fixed in the title to 15m as in metres

that’s ~ 45 ft underground, I believe … perhaps not that impressive, but quite funny since I would hesitate to undermine my own house and surely this makes it worth less

I don’t think it extends beyond property limits.

Homes need more whimsey. I recently discovered one of my interior doorways is actually a stone archway that someone had squared off, drywalled and installed a cheap hollow door for no apparent reason. Working with a stonemason to re-point/parge it and bring it back to glory. Will I ever see a return on this investment? Probably not but fuck it it'll make my house just that much cooler.

If I had 6 children, I would probably take up tunnelling.

aol wtf

Underground kiez would kill in Berlin

Reading (the largest town in the UK btw) has other tunnels … for example https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/14492484.sneak-a-pea... and there is a rumour of secret escape tunnels from the (medieval) abbey.

This is the listing. You can click through pictures of it all. The rocket entrance is amazing.

https://www.btgeddisonspropertyauctions.com/properties/20260...

Suspiciously cheap. There are no detached (what we call 'freestanding') properties on Right Move in the area under £400k. The cheapest is £450k

EDIT: oops, forgot to select the 'Bungalow' filter too (ugh). 2 properties: £375k and £350k (very small, 60m2). Still...nothing detached around £300k

EDIT2: ohh auction...230m2...yeh won't go for £300k, way more

UK money. Still that works out to about $400k in us dollars. You can find better deals in the US, but probably none with tunnels - and unlikely to be places you want to live though not bad places (bad places in the US that would be around $120k)

It does seem cheap for a house in Reading, even factoring in that it is a bungalow. Maybe they factored in increased subsidence risk?

Auction pricing.

It'll start out at £300k (to market it attractively) and end up selling for £500k+.

Check the pictures, this doesn't look like a house to me. 2 levels of workshop areas and an office area. Also the swimming pool is in the front yard, thats a weird one.

There's a bunch of potentially unpermitted tunnels under the property. Quite the liability.

I claim 1% commission if anyone on HN buys it

it seems as though it hath been hugged to death

Has the potential for an "EMP resistant server farm"? Is that a common thing that realtors need to find for their clients?

Is that an issue in the UK?

Looking at the pictures, my best guess is that the maintenance has been an issue for some time.

My hunch: Sound-deadening baffles.