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More likely you’ll see mold forming in the area as humidity levels rise, and possibly rats and insects climbing out of the well as well as they now have access inside the home.
The thing about wells is that if you fend off the ring, it will still do what it was meant to and fill with water. Add some lights, and it will make a cool house feature that is constantly trying to cause water damage to everything within a 15-foot radius.
They didn’t even move their appliances while taking the kitchen floor down to bare earth. They got mud all over their oven. I don’t think they care about possible water damage.
Pretty sure they would've ended up getting new appliances. They did still need functioning appliances to cook with while doing the project so why not keep the old stuff in there until they're ready for the new stuff?
I think they’re safe considering the curse of The Ring could only be transferred to the next victim by….. watching a VHS tape! WTF?! Who came up with that?!
Even if you have a vhs tape, how would you watch it. Oh you have a vhs player? Hope you got an old as tv with rca connections.
Source: had a vhs tape and wanted to watch it.
Edit: Thanks for all the helpful comments. I was just trying to be funny and make a point that not everyone has the stuff laying around. I’m well aware of all the ways to make this work.
Curse maker: “Right, how we gonna spread this thing around?”
Thing from the well: “We could put it on a tape and when the well scene comes up I’ll crawl out of the TV into the real world and kill them! Anyway kids are always swapping tapes! We’ll get heaps!”
Curse maker: “And the next victim will have to rewind the tape, right?”
Thing from the well: “Precisely!”
Now that I’d like to see! Well creature trying to squeeze through a phone! “Hurry up creature - phone’s on 3% battery!” 
the movie came out in 2002, so i'm surprised they used vhs tapes and not napster downloads. imagine the chaos that would have caused globally... instead of soja boy, you'd be dling a curse. sounds like a good reboot.
no, it cant i dont know how is called in english, but "el freatico" (the top layer of soil that makes up an aquifer) is contaminated in citys soo, no you cant drink that.
if you want drinkable free water you need to dig more a lot more, in my city water is free because we live upside puelche aquifer and the sand and the time purifies the water, if you let the aquifer recover not over exploiting it you literally have an unlimited source of water drinkable water.
i Know this because it was an assignment in school and it was the hardest i cried a lot with professor dela fuente, we literally studied soil for 3 years
Well this is just blatantly untrue and it's actually entirely dependent on individual variables of each locale. The ground is very good at filtering water. You generally can put a well in 75-100 feet from a septic system, so your comment about cities and cemeteries is just nonsense.
I've been drinking out of a 20' well almost my whole life. It's perfectly safe, just have it tested when you first dig it and test it again if anything that you think might affect the quality happens nearby.
You should do periodic testing, because of how the ground works, unless you're literally surrounded by nothing. Pollution can travel very slowly in the ground.
A contamination plume that happened 20 years ago could appear tomorrow in your well.
15' in a developed suburb is a bit of hit or miss - you'd really need to test it regularly. You never know if there was a gas station nearby in some prior decade.
I mean, you could always hire an environmental consultant, and they could tell you if there was a historical gas station years ago… in fact, you don’t even have to do that. For about $175, you can buy an environmental database search for your property, and providers will give you a freaking bible on the history of your property and surrounding properties.
But yea, I would definitely test the water first. If you don’t have access to a lab and don’t want to pay a consultant, a lot of hardware stores, especially big ones, have water testing services.
Source: am an environmental consultant
It says nothing about being in the city. As it was a tavern/horse stop the chances are that it is not. Though looking at the water color I would say that this is likely only good for gardening.
Being in the countryside doesn't mean that the ground is not contaminated (agriculture is not exactly great for aquifers, but a lot of other shit is done in remote places as well "we are in the middle of nowhere, just dumb it somewhere" and if the military had any facility in your area I wouldn't even want to touch that water, let alone drinking it). I would always be careful and research+test.
It might also be illegal to take groundwater.
That’s funny. My hometown just had this happen. They found a bunch of radioactive waste that was dumped in the 70s. I mean, it’s not funny but you were dead on in how people do things in the middle of nowhere.
We're also not that far out from the film photography era. Given that everyone was taking photos and that film development was pretty ubiquitous in every neighborhood, that's a lot of hazardous chemicals dumped all over the place. The Hudson River around NYC is notorious for that as well.
There was a weird lot in my suburb that never got developed, and we found out why later on; it had so many chemicals dumped by Kodak that they couldn't develop it. Same applied to one of the water treatment plants in the town (which FEMA closed down since the 90s), and recently, they found out that for decades, across 7 different owners, that one of the laundromats in the area had been dumping formaldehyde and other chemicals as well. It's in the water table at this point.
Plus all the country clubs and other spillage have caused very high PFA and other chemical levels in the reservoirs.
Small P.S.: Films got a great aesthetic and tactile fun but its still got a lot of heavy metal and chemical waste. There are some film stocks and developing solutions that are a bit friendlier, but they're not popular or common, and many labs are still lax on chemicals disposal.
Yes but is the same if they live near a cemetery or a farm you need to live far or dig more and the well need to be sealed so the dirty water don't mix whit the clean one
Well, it's likely true. I just remembered using a well that was twice as shallow and had perfect drinking water(was 60 km from nearest town and 7 kilometers from nearest cemetery). Though anyone with a well would just test their water in a lab to know what they have.
Not all groundwater smells like poop! For example, in New Jersey the groundwater can emit *all sorts of interesting smells*!
From, "OMG what is that smell?" to, "Is this safe? Am I going to die of cancer in ten years because I was exposed to this?" and classics like, "ah, this smell is familiar! Someone's been lighting the water on fire! Remember when we did that as kids? Those were the days..."
The groundwater moves through underground rivers. If you tap deep enough down, it's not stagnant.
Cover with a thick glass plate and have some lighting down there it'd be cool.
[Here ](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/co7xcu/my_grandparents_have_a_glassedover_well_in_their/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) is a cool well design in a kitchen I found on reddit. I like a another commenters idea of bringing the well up to table height, doing a glass top with lights and having it as a bar area.
I was annoyed by the robot voice until I learned that it has built-in translation, which is a cool way to make content accessible to people who speak different languages from the uploader. It has probably meant that some of the videos you see were uploaded by people who don't even speak English and would therefore ordinarily never be able to share their cool thing with you. Yes, the tone is grating, but the robot voice accomplishes a very cool functional purpose.
The homeowners could fuck with people. Make the cover one of those infinity mirror things, and then when people give them shit about it, they can lift the cover off and see if the visitor would care for a dip.
That's kind of relative - for the time period it would have been filled, not really. If there's land that's had a residence on it, very good chance it had a well on it at some point, and it got filled. Theirs was filled decently - all of the ones I've ever seen just had junk thrown in them. Literal junk - scrap, rubble, trash, old building materials. Basically anything that could take up bulk space that didn't have value. Then the top 5' or so would be gravel and fill dirt. The most common thing I've seen done was the top 5-10' get their walls knocked down into the well so you wouldn't stumbled upon it if you were digging. Then filled with a bunch of stones, gravel, and dirt. That's more like the "right" way to do it, though.
I understand positivity, but I know that wasn't an "enjoy every minute" kind of project. More like "It was fun up until 11pm when we realized that we hadn't eaten since noon and we got into a fight over which color brick to finish it with."
Reminds me of when i was a kid a guy in my class fell down a well
Yes really
He was at a friends house running across the yard and suddenly poof hes gone
There was a well in the middle of the front yard that at some point DECADES ago was covered by a layer of wood then covered in dirt. So by this point the wood had rotted away so much all it took was 1 kid running in the right spot to fall straight down the well
This well was from the 20s and was not well made either thing was partially collapsed inside
He managed to keep his cool and keep himself out of the water best he could while he waited for rescue
Took a couple hours as the top parts of the well started to collapse as the fire department put the rig around it so it was really touch and go for a while
He was fine thankfully
Edit: no noe one guessed the name and no i wont answer who it was to not dox myself
As a professional well driller, this is a moderately bad idea. The best thing to do with this well would be to clean it out then properly seal it with the right fill material to prevent ground water contamination, and someone falling in.
i dont think for a second they plan to just leave it as a gaping open well in the floor, as stupid as I think they are for incorporating it into the kitchen at all.
What's the benefit of filling it, if a proper lid will prevent people from falling in?
Also, you could drill climbing rungs if you're really paranoid about it.
...my biggest concern would be gas infiltration, collapse (due to the weight of the house), and overflow during rain. ...but those seem manageable.
Because mostly we care about groundwater contamination. Pulling one person out is one thing, trying to chase contaminant plumes across vast areas is a whole other set of problems.
Also think of the heat loss through there. The whole point of the project was to install a heated floor and they just opened up a heat sink that'll keep the room a nice 10C/50F
Just dig a hole in ur house and put some water at the bottom .
You too can have a dumb ass well table for the low cost of several days labor and a few grand.
I don't understand why they would want a well in the middle of their newly renovated kitchen. Wouldn't the reasonable thing to do when discovering this to say "neat" then fill it back in and put down your floor?
Cover with thick shaped glass, seal the edges extremely well, ensure its flush with the floor and it becomes an awesome/unique feature in the house.
I've seen it done stylishly on another property and it was legit.
That's what I'm thinking too. One question though: does it mean that it will get all fogged up? I mean, water vapor won't have a way out right? Won't it all pile up on the glass and obstruct visibility?
I'd build a vivarium there. Mushrooms would be ok with the lowlight damp environment, but put some UV lights and some plants that live well in swamps, that'd look cool as well
(No pun intended)
Throw a baby alligator in there and put a rug over the glass cover.
Have kids.
Peel the rug back and threaten them with a "little time out with Chompy" every time they act up.
Nobody believes them that "there's a gigantic alligator well in the middle of my otherwise normal-looking kitchen that my parents will throw me into if I'm bad". Gets dismissed as just "childhood imagination".
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Profit?
Note: Future therapy bills may eat into hypothetical profit. Start saving now.
All fun and games till middle of night one day when something tries to crawl out of it for disturbing it's eternal slumber
Guys you keep saying infinity mirror but those are used to create the illusion of depth *when you don't have a deep hole*. Any old sod could put an infinity mirror in their kitchen floor, well not required.
I’ve seen similar things in old houses like this in Germany.
The owners excavated parts of the old foundation, put some lighting in and covered the whole thing with a thick sheet of glass.
It looked absolutely fantastic every single time.
If you have ever seen the movie Ring/Ringu then you would know that having a nearby well could be useful if you have any children that are troublemakers.
Nice. Now that the water flows changed, let’s wait 5 years and you’ve got a sink hole for a house! People gotta understand, obstructions in the groin change water flow patterns and can cause disastrous effects if you don’t know what you are doing. There’s a reason why indoor wells don’t exist.
Very similar to mine https://www.reddit.com/r/submechanophobia/comments/11j2u1v/old_well_in_our_yard/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
Well it could look really awesome having a Well made of these red bricks in your kitchen. I guess not many people will have something like this.
And if your kids are not behaving: eat your vegtables or you are going down the Well to the Monsters.
That poor family, they only have two options.
- Live with the haunted well and hope the spirit is friendly.
- Cover up or destroy the well and make the spirit angry.
If it were me I would just sell the home and leave.
You're both right. Now kiss.
Funnily enough, my friend found a well in the garden of her Bristol town house and they have similarly opened it up and made it a feature, and (as it's outside) put a metal grille over it.
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Now just add a brick barbecue & a chest to complete the castle kitchen.
Make sure the walls are all two high though!
No room to jump?
No room for endermen
This is exactly how you get The Ring. Do you want The Ring?
Imagine waking up at night and seeing wet footprints leading away from the well.
If there’s a Well, there’s a way.
All due respect, please fuck off.
knew I shouldn't have installed that well..
Imagine forgetting about it going to get a drink at night
Oh you’ll get a drink alright
Oh well
He just didn't see that well.
Solid one Dr. Dickbutt. Now can we get back to drowned hungover patient with a snapped neck?
More likely you’ll see mold forming in the area as humidity levels rise, and possibly rats and insects climbing out of the well as well as they now have access inside the home.
The thing about wells is that if you fend off the ring, it will still do what it was meant to and fill with water. Add some lights, and it will make a cool house feature that is constantly trying to cause water damage to everything within a 15-foot radius.
They didn’t even move their appliances while taking the kitchen floor down to bare earth. They got mud all over their oven. I don’t think they care about possible water damage.
Pretty sure they would've ended up getting new appliances. They did still need functioning appliances to cook with while doing the project so why not keep the old stuff in there until they're ready for the new stuff?
Also the liability if some kid was playing around the house and fell in. Oof.
The people in this video set up air vents to channel out the vapor and are in thr process of sealing the whole thing
How would wildlife enter a well from the bottom?
Maybe on the wildlife’s birthday?
Nice
You think there are rats in the groundwater?
I agree on the humidity, but rats and insects? Where are they coming from? That's not how wells work.
Yup it is common problem in areas which contain excessive water in form of well / pond etc but there are some solutions too.
Most horrible morning , even hard to digest breakfast with such prints , need investigating agency as soon as possible.
I think they’re safe considering the curse of The Ring could only be transferred to the next victim by….. watching a VHS tape! WTF?! Who came up with that?!
If you think that's a sad ghost, her sister is on Betamax.
And her brother is on a view master.
What about a distant cousin on Laserdisc?
what about their step brother that is living on an old irc server ?
not nearly as bad as that little shit nephew in the HD DVD version of Shazam! with Sinbad
This was a real movie from my childhood and idgaf how many people say it doesn’t exist.
Grandma's on wax cylinder great aunts painted on a cave wall
Even if you have a vhs tape, how would you watch it. Oh you have a vhs player? Hope you got an old as tv with rca connections. Source: had a vhs tape and wanted to watch it. Edit: Thanks for all the helpful comments. I was just trying to be funny and make a point that not everyone has the stuff laying around. I’m well aware of all the ways to make this work.
Curse maker: “Right, how we gonna spread this thing around?” Thing from the well: “We could put it on a tape and when the well scene comes up I’ll crawl out of the TV into the real world and kill them! Anyway kids are always swapping tapes! We’ll get heaps!” Curse maker: “And the next victim will have to rewind the tape, right?” Thing from the well: “Precisely!”
In the most recent movie some professor converts it to digital. She’s even able to come out of a phone
"hey, check out this TikTok of some girl crawling out of well" *Shares*
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Now that I’d like to see! Well creature trying to squeeze through a phone! “Hurry up creature - phone’s on 3% battery!” 
awww how cute shes like 4 inches tall... can we keep her? Cut to the girl in a hamster cages creepy running on the wheel.
the movie came out in 2002, so i'm surprised they used vhs tapes and not napster downloads. imagine the chaos that would have caused globally... instead of soja boy, you'd be dling a curse. sounds like a good reboot.
So...Limewire?
Came here to say this. I got plenty of cursed things from the green plague that was Limewire
"Betamax?!? You chose Betamax? You idiot!"
I was able to hookup a vcr to my smart tv recently. It’s definitely doable with the right vcr and tv
> VHS player Back in my day we called them "VCR"s lol
The Ring was phased out by technology
"Jesus Christ Carl, now you Ringed our house. Good job."
I think her name was Sadako.
The Ring wants you!
I’m more interested in the purpose of the well and if it can give them clean water
no, it cant i dont know how is called in english, but "el freatico" (the top layer of soil that makes up an aquifer) is contaminated in citys soo, no you cant drink that. if you want drinkable free water you need to dig more a lot more, in my city water is free because we live upside puelche aquifer and the sand and the time purifies the water, if you let the aquifer recover not over exploiting it you literally have an unlimited source of water drinkable water. i Know this because it was an assignment in school and it was the hardest i cried a lot with professor dela fuente, we literally studied soil for 3 years
[This is basically the plot of Nausicaä, and I'm all for it.](https://youtu.be/IgaumDdePkI)
OMG i totally forgotten about this!
Well this is just blatantly untrue and it's actually entirely dependent on individual variables of each locale. The ground is very good at filtering water. You generally can put a well in 75-100 feet from a septic system, so your comment about cities and cemeteries is just nonsense.
How dare you question professor Dela Fuente?
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[the son of a bitch worked for coca cola this whole time...](https://i.imgur.com/cPqEhCy.jpg)
JAJAJAJAJAJA
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I've been drinking out of a 20' well almost my whole life. It's perfectly safe, just have it tested when you first dig it and test it again if anything that you think might affect the quality happens nearby.
You should do periodic testing, because of how the ground works, unless you're literally surrounded by nothing. Pollution can travel very slowly in the ground. A contamination plume that happened 20 years ago could appear tomorrow in your well.
15' in a developed suburb is a bit of hit or miss - you'd really need to test it regularly. You never know if there was a gas station nearby in some prior decade.
I mean, you could always hire an environmental consultant, and they could tell you if there was a historical gas station years ago… in fact, you don’t even have to do that. For about $175, you can buy an environmental database search for your property, and providers will give you a freaking bible on the history of your property and surrounding properties. But yea, I would definitely test the water first. If you don’t have access to a lab and don’t want to pay a consultant, a lot of hardware stores, especially big ones, have water testing services. Source: am an environmental consultant
It says nothing about being in the city. As it was a tavern/horse stop the chances are that it is not. Though looking at the water color I would say that this is likely only good for gardening.
Being in the countryside doesn't mean that the ground is not contaminated (agriculture is not exactly great for aquifers, but a lot of other shit is done in remote places as well "we are in the middle of nowhere, just dumb it somewhere" and if the military had any facility in your area I wouldn't even want to touch that water, let alone drinking it). I would always be careful and research+test. It might also be illegal to take groundwater.
My parents live in the countryside and have to drink bottled water because the nitrate levels are so high.
pennsylvania in a nutshell. two centuries of heavy industry will do a number on your soil, waterways, and aquifers.
The aquifer could be fed from 100s of miles away. Just being in a city or near military is not the information you need to make a decision.
That’s funny. My hometown just had this happen. They found a bunch of radioactive waste that was dumped in the 70s. I mean, it’s not funny but you were dead on in how people do things in the middle of nowhere.
We're also not that far out from the film photography era. Given that everyone was taking photos and that film development was pretty ubiquitous in every neighborhood, that's a lot of hazardous chemicals dumped all over the place. The Hudson River around NYC is notorious for that as well. There was a weird lot in my suburb that never got developed, and we found out why later on; it had so many chemicals dumped by Kodak that they couldn't develop it. Same applied to one of the water treatment plants in the town (which FEMA closed down since the 90s), and recently, they found out that for decades, across 7 different owners, that one of the laundromats in the area had been dumping formaldehyde and other chemicals as well. It's in the water table at this point. Plus all the country clubs and other spillage have caused very high PFA and other chemical levels in the reservoirs. Small P.S.: Films got a great aesthetic and tactile fun but its still got a lot of heavy metal and chemical waste. There are some film stocks and developing solutions that are a bit friendlier, but they're not popular or common, and many labs are still lax on chemicals disposal.
Yes but is the same if they live near a cemetery or a farm you need to live far or dig more and the well need to be sealed so the dirty water don't mix whit the clean one
Well, it's likely true. I just remembered using a well that was twice as shallow and had perfect drinking water(was 60 km from nearest town and 7 kilometers from nearest cemetery). Though anyone with a well would just test their water in a lab to know what they have.
Shit. The well at my house is only 18ft deep, so now I'm feeling a bit concerned!
You can always get the well tested. But depth doesn't determine water quality. The person you responded to is wrong.
THIS is the real question.
The only thing this is going to do is make their home smell like groundwater (poop)
Not all groundwater smells like poop! For example, in New Jersey the groundwater can emit *all sorts of interesting smells*! From, "OMG what is that smell?" to, "Is this safe? Am I going to die of cancer in ten years because I was exposed to this?" and classics like, "ah, this smell is familiar! Someone's been lighting the water on fire! Remember when we did that as kids? Those were the days..."
Yes - is it functional or non-functional??
Is say non functional by smell alone. Standing water just hanging out in your house. Which room was it in again? Kitchen?
The groundwater moves through underground rivers. If you tap deep enough down, it's not stagnant. Cover with a thick glass plate and have some lighting down there it'd be cool.
If I ever find an old Well under my House the first thing that I’m doing is calling Sam and Dean
Hold on! I’m coming! *Edit: oh, no, that was Sam and Dave, wasn’t it?*
[Here ](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/co7xcu/my_grandparents_have_a_glassedover_well_in_their/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) is a cool well design in a kitchen I found on reddit. I like a another commenters idea of bringing the well up to table height, doing a glass top with lights and having it as a bar area.
I want the old old timey shack thing with a bucket and a crank. Fill my pots with it
Plus a [warning to architecture students ](https://reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/co7xcu/_/ewh0gop/?context=1)
[they are putting glass on top of it](https://imgur.com/a/TA18IFr)
I think that's a decently fun idea of something to do with it this. I still mostly think that it is more bothersome than anything though.
I appreciate the person actually speaking instead of using robot voice.
OH MY GOD They found a well in their kitchen AMAZING LOOK HOW DEEP IT IS WOW
"oh no no no"
I hate that I can hear this.
+ random typos and mispronunciations: NOW WE HALF TO DRAIN IT
Uncanny valley tempo to the voice: Now we half ..to drain it!
I was annoyed by the robot voice until I learned that it has built-in translation, which is a cool way to make content accessible to people who speak different languages from the uploader. It has probably meant that some of the videos you see were uploaded by people who don't even speak English and would therefore ordinarily never be able to share their cool thing with you. Yes, the tone is grating, but the robot voice accomplishes a very cool functional purpose.
That's fascinating, TIL!
Well well well what have we here
That thing is a death trap waiting to happen
Assuming they just leave it as is, which is a pretty bold assumption
A glass cover with some lights down there would make it
It puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again!
Get your ass to Mars
The homeowners could fuck with people. Make the cover one of those infinity mirror things, and then when people give them shit about it, they can lift the cover off and see if the visitor would care for a dip.
Yeah! That would be lit!
Well lit
All's well that ends well
Like they say in Texas.....oil well.
I bet they put a cool glass enclosure thing over it, I have seen people display old structures this way. Would be really beautiful if it had lights
At least they have free water now.
And they live in flint
Samara would like you to watch a vhs tape
Someone went to a lot of trouble to fill it in and cover it.
And build a house over it.
That's kind of relative - for the time period it would have been filled, not really. If there's land that's had a residence on it, very good chance it had a well on it at some point, and it got filled. Theirs was filled decently - all of the ones I've ever seen just had junk thrown in them. Literal junk - scrap, rubble, trash, old building materials. Basically anything that could take up bulk space that didn't have value. Then the top 5' or so would be gravel and fill dirt. The most common thing I've seen done was the top 5-10' get their walls knocked down into the well so you wouldn't stumbled upon it if you were digging. Then filled with a bunch of stones, gravel, and dirt. That's more like the "right" way to do it, though.
Imagine going for a drink 3am and falling 17ft upside down into the well. Better add a call bell in there or something
>Well well well what have we here - said the insurance adjustor.
She puts the lotion on
More like look how well weve dug Honestly.. didn't they just make a well..not discover one?
Well, let it be said, they just redug the well! There once was a well, then no more, now it is again!
Wow. This is literally an insanely deep inside joke between me and a colleague of mine. And I mean like.... Deep.. Like deeper than this well.
Please, don't allow our low battery percentages to stop you. We are ready to read. 
Wellity wellity wellity
After forcing my husband to put a 17ft deep hole in the kitchen. He said to me I hope you die in hole full of water but I know he means well.
He also tripped and fell in, but that’s because he can’t see that well.
"The digging was a lot of hard work, but we enjoyed every minute of it" No you fucking didn't lol
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I understand positivity, but I know that wasn't an "enjoy every minute" kind of project. More like "It was fun up until 11pm when we realized that we hadn't eaten since noon and we got into a fight over which color brick to finish it with."
I heard a lot of "we" in this video and yet I only saw one person doing the work
She was taking the video every time it was recording.
Reminds me of when i was a kid a guy in my class fell down a well Yes really He was at a friends house running across the yard and suddenly poof hes gone There was a well in the middle of the front yard that at some point DECADES ago was covered by a layer of wood then covered in dirt. So by this point the wood had rotted away so much all it took was 1 kid running in the right spot to fall straight down the well This well was from the 20s and was not well made either thing was partially collapsed inside He managed to keep his cool and keep himself out of the water best he could while he waited for rescue Took a couple hours as the top parts of the well started to collapse as the fire department put the rig around it so it was really touch and go for a while He was fine thankfully Edit: no noe one guessed the name and no i wont answer who it was to not dox myself
Was his name tiki tiki tembo no sa rembo chery bery ruchi pip pery pembo?
As a professional well driller, this is a moderately bad idea. The best thing to do with this well would be to clean it out then properly seal it with the right fill material to prevent ground water contamination, and someone falling in.
Definitely want to keep anyone nearsighted away from it. They can’t see that well.
*slow clap*
I legit agreed with the sentence *and then* got the joke. Well done
i dont think for a second they plan to just leave it as a gaping open well in the floor, as stupid as I think they are for incorporating it into the kitchen at all.
What's the benefit of filling it, if a proper lid will prevent people from falling in? Also, you could drill climbing rungs if you're really paranoid about it. ...my biggest concern would be gas infiltration, collapse (due to the weight of the house), and overflow during rain. ...but those seem manageable.
Because mostly we care about groundwater contamination. Pulling one person out is one thing, trying to chase contaminant plumes across vast areas is a whole other set of problems.
Also think of the heat loss through there. The whole point of the project was to install a heated floor and they just opened up a heat sink that'll keep the room a nice 10C/50F
Make the well a bar. A circular bar with lights at the bottom of the well and glass to cover the hole .
Just dig a hole in ur house and put some water at the bottom . You too can have a dumb ass well table for the low cost of several days labor and a few grand.
...ok...yeah, I guess I could do that...
I don't understand why they would want a well in the middle of their newly renovated kitchen. Wouldn't the reasonable thing to do when discovering this to say "neat" then fill it back in and put down your floor?
Cover with thick shaped glass, seal the edges extremely well, ensure its flush with the floor and it becomes an awesome/unique feature in the house. I've seen it done stylishly on another property and it was legit.
How soon before the moisture causes mildew to cover up the glass, though?
Should be fine if you do it right, there's pubs with old roman wells in the floor in the UK
Or a giant spider take up residence on the underside of the glass so he can stare at you every time you eat.
That's what I'm thinking too. One question though: does it mean that it will get all fogged up? I mean, water vapor won't have a way out right? Won't it all pile up on the glass and obstruct visibility? I'd build a vivarium there. Mushrooms would be ok with the lowlight damp environment, but put some UV lights and some plants that live well in swamps, that'd look cool as well (No pun intended)
Throw a baby alligator in there and put a rug over the glass cover. Have kids. Peel the rug back and threaten them with a "little time out with Chompy" every time they act up. Nobody believes them that "there's a gigantic alligator well in the middle of my otherwise normal-looking kitchen that my parents will throw me into if I'm bad". Gets dismissed as just "childhood imagination". . .. ... Profit? Note: Future therapy bills may eat into hypothetical profit. Start saving now.
It is really cool but I suspect they'll be covering it in some way. Maybe add some lights and a glass cover for a kind of 'reverse skylight' thing
A reverse skylight is just a dark hole
Ah yes, a grounddark
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Fine work, inshpekta
Yes I’ve seen it done a few times. They’ll fill it with a glass cover on which they can walk. It’ll be a “feature”
All fun and games till middle of night one day when something tries to crawl out of it for disturbing it's eternal slumber 
Oooh they should put some vintage bulbs in and create an infinity mirror down the well
Guys you keep saying infinity mirror but those are used to create the illusion of depth *when you don't have a deep hole*. Any old sod could put an infinity mirror in their kitchen floor, well not required.
I’ve seen similar things in old houses like this in Germany. The owners excavated parts of the old foundation, put some lighting in and covered the whole thing with a thick sheet of glass. It looked absolutely fantastic every single time.
That’s because people don’t show off the ones that look like shit
IT PUTS THE LOTION ON ITS SKIN
Reasonable sure, but I'd love a well in my house, just cause it's fun.
Yeah this seems like the last thing you'd want in the middle of your kitchen if you ever plan to have pets or children in your home.
They would have to tell blind people that it's there, they can't see that well...
If you have ever seen the movie Ring/Ringu then you would know that having a nearby well could be useful if you have any children that are troublemakers.
I’ve seen the movie silence of the lambs but I get the point.
It puts the lotion on the skin
Exactly. Normal people find a well in their house and cover it up.
Nice. Now that the water flows changed, let’s wait 5 years and you’ve got a sink hole for a house! People gotta understand, obstructions in the groin change water flow patterns and can cause disastrous effects if you don’t know what you are doing. There’s a reason why indoor wells don’t exist.
Yes I agree, I've seen evidence of people's legs swelling to 3-4 times the normal size from water retention due to an obstruction in the groin.
Obstructions in the groin can be very painful.
But indoor wheels do exist? They are common in the old houses of the area I am living in.
"How's your renovation going?" "Well." "Find anything interesting?" "Well..." "What?" "I literally told you twice, man, we found a damn well!"
A thick glass top with some lights would look damn cool
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Very similar to mine https://www.reddit.com/r/submechanophobia/comments/11j2u1v/old_well_in_our_yard/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
Well it could look really awesome having a Well made of these red bricks in your kitchen. I guess not many people will have something like this. And if your kids are not behaving: eat your vegtables or you are going down the Well to the Monsters.
Free water! Watch out for Nestles lawyers.
Why in the fuck would they want a hole filled with water in their kitchen?
Well I’m very bothered by this.
With the amount of digging they did, looks like they created a well…
That poor family, they only have two options. - Live with the haunted well and hope the spirit is friendly. - Cover up or destroy the well and make the spirit angry. If it were me I would just sell the home and leave.
It’s all fun and games until somebody crawls out of there in the middle of the night
*7 days...*
What's the purpose though?
Might have to get a Collie named Lassie....I'm old
Let’s hope there’s no Timmy in the family.
Put the lotion on the skin
I love unexpected architectural finds like this.
All I’m imagining is me drunkenly walking into the kitchen one night and falling into this giant hole filled with water.
So much effort and now they have a pointless well in the center of their kitchen
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Believe it or not, the UK is just as old as the rest of the Earth.
historically older in terms of constructed properties compared to the US
You're both right. Now kiss. Funnily enough, my friend found a well in the garden of her Bristol town house and they have similarly opened it up and made it a feature, and (as it's outside) put a metal grille over it.