Appreciation post: that one crawl space in the old part of town

I used to think I could handle any attic or crawl space job in under an hour. Then I got a call for a rewire in a 1920s house on Maple Avenue. The crawl space was maybe 18 inches high and packed with old insulation and debris. It took me almost four hours just to snake the new line from the exterior box to the living room wall plate. Anyone else have a nightmare crawl space story?

4 comments

4 Comments

the_taylor1mo ago

Ever wonder what people are hiding down there? My buddy found a whole stack of old playboys from the 70s under his house, wrapped in plastic. Said the spiders had claimed them as their own weird little library. Made the whole nasty job worth it for the story alone.

rosecarr1mo ago

Those would be from the 80s, @the_taylor.

laurablack1mo ago

Spiders reading vintage Playboys sounds like a tall tale, @the_taylor. I bet your buddy just wanted an excuse to look at them.

abbyf796d ago

Laura, you're getting hung up on the spiders like that's the weird part. I actually buy the spiders thing more than the idea that someone just casually found a stack of 70s Playboys under their house in perfect plastic wrap. That's the real tall tale. Spiders don't care about magazines, they're just looking for dark corners. But a sealed stash of vintage porn from 50 years ago? That sounds like someone either hid it themselves or found it in an actual time capsule. I'd trust the spiders over the buddy any day. What makes you so sure you're not the one being played here?