Would You do It?

[randynavarro]

This was a tunnel dug from one crawl space to another.

I didn't feel like burrowing today what with the drama in Chile and the collapsed mine and all.

Would you have done it?

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[Marc]

Are we talking about one house with two crawls or two separate houses?

Marc

[Ben H]

Probably not. Without a doubt no if I was there alone.

[Chad Fabry]

Sure. I charge a lot more. I do things like that.

[Phillip]

I would pass. Looks a little small for me.

[mgbinspect]

If that's a concrete footing, sure, I'd have done it. I'll go if I can exhale hard enough to get through a space. If not, I turn around. This is going to sound crazy, but a lot of times the only way I can get through a space is with my arms stretch forward, because I have broad shoulders, and it keeps me from getting stuck. I'm just not claustrophobic.

[Jim Katen]

I won't enter tunnels that are less that 18" high & 24" wide.

No particular reason. I just say so.

- Jim Katen, Oregon

[Bill Kibbel]

If it's the only way to see the other crawlspace - sure.

[mgbinspect]

Probably not. Without a doubt no if I was there alone.

Aw cmon, Ben, the worst that can happen is your legs get used for towel racks until you loose a few pounds. [:-party]

[kurt]

I'd make a decision about soil stability first. If I thought the soil was stable and there was no possibility of collapse, heck yeah I'd go.

If you saw some of the shitbox ratholes I crawl into, it makes that one look tame.

[mgbinspect]

(Which tees up the trivia question: Who used whose legs for towel racks?)

[randynavarro]

Are we talking about one house with two crawls or two separate houses?

Marc

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[Erby]

If I thought everything was stable and it looked big enough to get through, yup.

But, I might go back and double check that there's not another entry in the floor of the second area before I did it.

[Brandon Whitmore]

I'd have gone if I could fit, and it was dry. If snorkeling gear is required, I charge extra.

[John Kogel]

I will poke my arm in first, snap a pic or two, make sure there's no crocodiles.

I will go feet first if it's a real tight squeeze. That way, my mouth is facing the hatch so they can feed me. []

I had a really tough crawl to do a few mos ago. The home owners had lost a sale because there was no crawlspace access. So they cut a hole in a closet floor and called on me to do the honors. [:-slaphap

Sitting on the dirt floor of the crawl, the floor was level with my chest. I scrunched down and saw I had to go down around a corner into another wing to see much of anything. It was so tight, I backed out, got a breath of air, then went down around the bend feet first, took a pile of pics, nice dry crawl with no problems other than the access. A week later, they had a buyer.