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Women builds tunnel system under her house

14 points by stevehiehn 3y ago

heckraiser 3y ago
Damn! She’s no joke! She really knows what she is doing! Those inspectors are going to gape in wonder of her ingenuity and industry! karma++ this lady!
Mountain_Skies 3y ago
Just needs a periscope like Seymour Cray put in his tunnel when a tree fell down into it... or just don't tunnel under a tree.
voisin 3y ago
I’ve been following Kala for most of the last year. Her ingenuity is simply spectacular. She has yet to explain why she is building the tunnel or how she is avoiding any trouble from the authorities (she’s regularly getting a dumpster full of excavated rock removed from her suburban driveway in view of her neighbours).
- defrost 3y ago
  No reason required - people do all kinds of things 'just because'. The rock removal isn't much of an issue if you, say, ring your local council and ask where they stockpile material. Our council has several acres with piles of sand, clay, rock, mixed, etc. that gets dumped after trenching, levelling, et al. jobs and reused when fill is needed. "Good" rock (for some value of) can even fetch a bit of cash from garden centres and elsewhere.
  - voisin 3y ago
    The rock removal isn’t the issue per se, it is a question of why so much is being removed. Doing it in Plain sight would cause nosy neighbours to ask questions and likely making some calls to the city. Also, she’s using the good rock to build a new exterior wall in front of her current walls, with a goal of turning it into a castle-like facade. Again, no permits.
- secstate 3y ago
  Not totally sure, but the bit about the water makes it sound like a storm shelter, which is a totally valid thing to build under your house in certain places.
- maxerickson 3y ago
  Her municipality issued a stop work order (pending an inspection by a professional engineer): https://www.tiktok.com/@engineer.everything/video/7317787448350706987 https://www.tiktok.com/@engineer.everything/video/7317787448...
rurban 3y ago
Doesn't need to be TikTok, she has a YouTube channel also. https://youtu.be/nkhTw42kBJM?si=S7FlKH_Qu6igbi84 https://youtu.be/nkhTw42kBJM?si=S7FlKH_Qu6igbi84
sebiol 3y ago
Disclaimer: don't have TikTok so didn't checkout the linked source. But on the topic of a non-engineer building a tunnel, there is also Colin Furze on Youtube [0]. Building a tunnel under his house to connect his 'bunker', workshop, home and future udnerground garage. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOelRv7fMxY&list=PLGjbAdaOBLBlS1MPKXYmqwZLZhWC1FAMx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOelRv7fMxY&list=PLGjbAdaOBL...

14 points by stevehiehn 3y ago

Damn! She’s no joke! She really knows what she is doing! Those inspectors are going to gape in wonder of her ingenuity and industry! karma++ this lady!

Mountain_Skies 3y ago

Just needs a periscope like Seymour Cray put in his tunnel when a tree fell down into it... or just don't tunnel under a tree.

voisin 3y ago

I’ve been following Kala for most of the last year. Her ingenuity is simply spectacular. She has yet to explain why she is building the tunnel or how she is avoiding any trouble from the authorities (she’s regularly getting a dumpster full of excavated rock removed from her suburban driveway in view of her neighbours).

defrost 3y ago
No reason required - people do all kinds of things 'just because'. The rock removal isn't much of an issue if you, say, ring your local council and ask where they stockpile material. Our council has several acres with piles of sand, clay, rock, mixed, etc. that gets dumped after trenching, levelling, et al. jobs and reused when fill is needed. "Good" rock (for some value of) can even fetch a bit of cash from garden centres and elsewhere.
- voisin 3y ago
  The rock removal isn’t the issue per se, it is a question of why so much is being removed. Doing it in Plain sight would cause nosy neighbours to ask questions and likely making some calls to the city. Also, she’s using the good rock to build a new exterior wall in front of her current walls, with a goal of turning it into a castle-like facade. Again, no permits.
secstate 3y ago
Not totally sure, but the bit about the water makes it sound like a storm shelter, which is a totally valid thing to build under your house in certain places.
maxerickson 3y ago
Her municipality issued a stop work order (pending an inspection by a professional engineer): https://www.tiktok.com/@engineer.everything/video/7317787448350706987 https://www.tiktok.com/@engineer.everything/video/7317787448...

rurban 3y ago

Doesn't need to be TikTok, she has a YouTube channel also. https://youtu.be/nkhTw42kBJM?si=S7FlKH_Qu6igbi84 https://youtu.be/nkhTw42kBJM?si=S7FlKH_Qu6igbi84

sebiol 3y ago

Disclaimer: don't have TikTok so didn't checkout the linked source. But on the topic of a non-engineer building a tunnel, there is also Colin Furze on Youtube [0]. Building a tunnel under his house to connect his 'bunker', workshop, home and future udnerground garage. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOelRv7fMxY&list=PLGjbAdaOBLBlS1MPKXYmqwZLZhWC1FAMx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOelRv7fMxY&list=PLGjbAdaOBL...