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Uneconomical on a £/sqft basis to do a small cellar but makes sense for a bigger one? I would imagine the marginal cost to make it a bit bigger is small in comparison to doing one at all.
I imagine these things were cheaper in the old days because you could get kids to dig them for 20 hrs/day practically unpaid.
NickCJ-
You're probably right.
Part of my logic was that if it wasn't too big, and put in a slightly central location then it wouldn't require all the extra structural issues of having a proper basement conversion.
I guess another thing to do would be what in bits of France they call a chai - a slightly sunken stone structure.
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While we’re on the building chat.
When building a standard extension, is there any reason why you couldn’t have a mini cellar put in. Wine-sized, rather than Fritzel.
Just thinking loads of old houses used to have them, and they weren’t always big.
Googling brings up massive basement conversions.
Gut says that it’s a lot of work for builders, without the abitly to charge accordingly. But I wondered if you were willing to dig out the section if it would be more viable.