What have you found under the floor boards?

Lectrician · 23 Nov 2012

Working in an empty house today, I lifted a floor board, and what did I find?

(Other than dead rats)

Can you see a glistening?

A RIVER!

Have also found in the past:

A £20 note under the carpet. When I replaced the carpet, I stapled the £20 note to the floor board

Bloody weird customers!

An advert for a new ford escort, with the sales points being "Twin wing mirrors, three speed fan, heated rear screen"!

Also found a film case with an unknown substance.....Wondered why that floor was easy to lift.

RF Lighting · 23 Nov 2012

I found an old fuse box used to joint out the armoured to the garage....

Maxatoria · 23 Nov 2012

Some early 1980's pr0n mags stuffed underneath an old hot water tank and a rather sheepish man trying to get me to work away from it and hoping i'd be able to move out of sight for a few mins so he could recover this long lost stash

Did a job for a friend and found they had water almost to the joists, he was quickly onto the housing association who thought that cables swimming in water was perfectly fine

JohnW2 · 23 Nov 2012

Lectrician said:
Working in an empty house today, I lifted a floor board, and what did I find?... A RIVER!

Do you know whether it's always there, or merely a consequence of the past 24 hours' weather?

Kind Regards, John

Johnmelad · 23 Nov 2012

In a loft I found a WWII hand grenade with fuse in. Bomb Disposal lads told me the fuse was viable.

SimonH2 · 23 Nov 2012

Many years ago I helped a mate rewiring a house on Barrow Island - the space under the floor (it went down at least 10 feet but wasn't a cellar) was tidal !

Another mate, rewiring the house found a wrapper from a roll of the old lead-sheathed rubber twin is was last done with. It read "special war time gauge" (or something like that).

studentspark · 23 Nov 2012

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PrenticeBoyofDerry · 23 Nov 2012

In a loft, found a kitchen set up for cannabis growing, left by previous tenants. DIY electrics and plumbing!
Found a couple springs (water type) under floors.
A semi-automatic rifle, under a bedroom floor.
A Lizard behind some furniture, escaped from property owners cage, which I was unaware of before my findings.

ricicle · 23 Nov 2012

Normally Senior Service or Players fag packets I used to find.

securespark · 24 Nov 2012

Embassy Blue.

crystal ball · 24 Nov 2012

I have told this tale before

Not under floorboards but on top of wardrobe several A4 sheets of photos of the couple from the house and a third party having a threesome in a Travelodge

Chri5 · 24 Nov 2012

I've had a recent run of tool finds, a wrench, some Lindstrom cutters and a few screwdrivers.

Found a open safe, funniest one was about 10 credit cards and £40 of old type £5 notes. Apparently one of the home owners little darlings had (some ten years before) liked to post things down the gaps between the owner stripped and sanded flooring gaps.

Moved a bed in a student house a few years back and the girl who had the room was known for her itch being scratched. About thirty used, dry and not very nice tampex were under it. At first I though it was a big family of dead mice

ban-all-sheds · 24 Nov 2012

As far as I know (I've not had all of them up), all anybody would find under mine is sawdust, wood shavings, the odd bit of sleeving and a ridiculous amount of pale green dust from disintegrating carpet underlay.

cajar · 24 Nov 2012

so you keep your gimp mask and leather whips in the attic then.

ban-all-sheds · 24 Nov 2012

And why are modern boards neither the same width or thickness as the ones in my house, so that if any need replacing it becomes a complete $£^%"~#@ pain of cutting strips for width and packing the height with thin ply?

I sometimes wonder if it would be quicker to just replace the whole $£^%"~#@ lot, and then I think about trying to find floorboards which won't twist, cup, bend etc...

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What have you found under the floor boards?

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