Post #2607416
2025-06-29 13:20 UTC
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@mlp@defcon.social 2025-06-29 20:53
@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca @perkinsy@aus.social you are correct
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@perkinsy@aus.social 2025-06-29 20:57
@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca It is incredibly rare for houses in Australia to have basements. Department stores have basements, not houses. Generally older houses have the pillars of wood or bricks stuck into the ground under the house to form the foundations. These are called 'stumps' and many houses need the stumps to be replaced when someone buys the house because they are old. This is expensive. The stumps are set in the dirt of the ground in which the house is built. You may find building rubble from when the house was first built under the house but definitely nothing valuable. My father built a dark room to develop photographs under the floor of a house we lived in. The house was on the hill so you could stand up under the house. The floor was dirt. Australia has lots of spiders and furry, large ones called huntsmen. They like dark areas such as under houses, so I was a bit worried about spiders when I was developing photos.