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- Exploring the creepy basement of my abandoned school!
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The fruit room, was a cold room. It’s supposed to be somewhat open to the air. That’s why after the first walk through I wondered if the house was well older than 1950. Prior to the late 1930s refrigerators were ice boxes. And there were ice men that delivered your ice, just like there were milk men (what the little door is for in the back door). The cold room was to keep canning, wine, potatoes, long storage fruit like apples, onions, and flower bulbs to plant the next year. The cabinets in there might be able to be sold as architectural salvage. The same with things like the sinks in the laundry room, the fire hoses, anything in the kitchen that you don’t want to reuse the munchkin toilets, tubs and sinks. There are salvage companies that come and dismantle and may buy. Or offer them to habitat for humanity. They have trucks that pick up. They have stores (The Restore) that sell architectural salvage and donated furniture and home goods.
This building is still standing even though it’s been neglected because it was built back when they built things well. My house is 124 years old and it is solid as a rock. Much better than the new construction nowadays.
100% agree they really dont build them like they used to!
@@watchere They use inexpensive materials to build, unless you're building it yourself. Hope you're able or have friends familiar with electrical and plumbing issues. Looks like it needs to be replaced in most areas! 😪 Praying that it will go well for you! 🙏🏻❤🙏🏻 It also looks like some ceiling and wall repair needs to be done. God bless you!!! 🥰
You should contact the last head custodian in the building..he would have alot of info .
I'm pretty sure that room with the workbench would have been the custodians office. They'd be to one to keep it in that good of shape. LOL
What about past students? I’m sure they would have memories to share.
How on Earth is he supposed to get in touch with the last head custodian?
Old paint may be lead based.
@@julien2912 just ask the school if they would pass on a message requesting if he could talk to them, you'ld be amazed at what you can achieve by asking and its not as if the school has stopped being a school its just not at that location anymore
Goodness Yason, this project is looking bigger and bigger
That tiny door around back looks like a milk door for the milkman to use. I'm used to seeing them at the front entrance, not the back though.
It would make sense being by the kitchen though.
@@snakeorisima You are correct. Totally does make sense, especially in a building that size.
A school or church would probably like to have those storage cabinets.
I was going to toss into the mass of communications... When you originally did the tour I thought the building was manageable, but seeing the basement it really does feel like it is a monster that will consume anyone that isn't 100% worthy of the repairs. Please keep going and keep us updated.
That kitchen looks great. God I love older kitchens like that.
@yason those switches with the lights on em are for power to the sockets attached to them
Please don’t get rid of all those old doors. They are wonderful. You’ll never find anything better to replace them so if they are savable, that would be great. I also like all the built-ins, the file cabinets, the workbench the shelves, etc. But I always like stuff like that. I always like it if people can keep it. But most people just rip it out, unfortunately.
I try to keep whatever I can, though I think alot of the shelving and stuff was added much later so arent original to the house. Some of them seem kind of out of place and hide other pipes that may need servicing! But I am not going to touch anything that doesnt need to be fixed!
@@watchere that makes total sense. oh, and those cast-iron sinks, they might be a real booger to move, but I would find a place for them throughout the house and the property. Or you could sell them for a mint. You’re not gonna find great sinks like that nowadays.
The old handles on the cupboards are worth $. Don't throw them out. You really need to contact a salvage company that deals with vintage stuff. Even all the old electrical box's could be saved. You could help pay for some things with all that stuff and they'd clear out the room. I agree that the vampire kids went in the basement
You can fix up your own laundry matt down there. Washers, dryers, you have mop sinks, and sinks to soak your white linens.
😂 Your "exit" line has me cracking up!! 💩
I’m glad someone found it humerous haha!
Thumbs up for regularity
@@kd5inm 😄
I completely lost it. That's the funniest ending to any TH-cam video I've ever seen.
As for the light at 2:11, likely the reason is that one bulb is missing. A lot of flourescents would not turn on without both bulbs in it. It could also be a bad ballast. These days flourescents are being phased out and many are switching to LEDs.
thats the plan to switch to LED
Suggest you keep at least two of those laundry sinks. They are invaluable for hand washing laundry and one could be used for cleaning paint brushes and equipment, etc.
at least the creepy basement has lights now
😳 this basement is giving me an anxiety attack. SO SO SO much work and SO SO much money. Makes the gutters look like no big deal. Good Luck.
That old electrical equipment in the room with the clock looks like an old master clock system. It would drive slave clocks and possible bells throughout the building.
Yes they are in 1960s and 1970s.
Many schools did use bells through the master clock system. Sometimes they were dedicated bells, other times they use a chime unit over the intercom speakers, and in some schools it sent a signal to the fire alarm unit (not allowed anymore by code but was common in older schools when it was installed) to pulse the fire alarm bells, allowing them to be used for school bells.
It would be a good idea to look into the wiring of those clocks and see if they are individually powered or whether they are indeed slave clocks. If they are slave clocks, likely the wiring will lead from one of those panels to the clocks and they will be advanced by a sync pulse each minute for older clocks. If they have second hands, it could use an hour sync system.
Some of the slave clocks used various schemes to sync, including 58th or 59th minute correction (opposite polarity to advance past that minute), and if wrong the clock advances to pulses the master sends out each other. Later clocks could correct the hour hand by another pulse every 6-12 hours, but often this applies to slave clocks with second hands. Some used no correction at all. Sometimes the slave clocks used a low voltage, some ran in a series string, and others used a parallel 24V signal, which would explain the transformer.
@@stphinkle Thank you! I have never learned so much about clocks!!
Worrying about pulling out those built-in cabinets in that one school supply room in the basement should be the last thing worrying you right now. Worrying about pulling out ANY built-ins in this house should be last on your mind unless they are in a room that you are immediately demolishing and planning on rebuilding soon. But you can probably only do a few rooms at a time. So don't waste your energy or stress over taking out things in the basement unless you are starting to redo the electric or plumbing and those cabinets get in your way. But when you do get to a point that you pull these out or want to move out any other furniture, cabinets, desks, divider (temporary) walls just move them all to another room in part of the one of the buildings, for storage until you get some tenants in there and then let them have pick of the surplus belongings. You never know if someone might want these items to supply an art studio or a business office or a workshop. Who knows what someone could use them for. Just remember reuse, recycle, refurbish and upcycle! Please don't be wasteful when demolishing these rooms.
A point of interest. I believe in the boiler room, some of the telephone punch blocks have red caps on them. Those indicate lines that would have carried either data or alarm signals. This goes back to the Bell system standards notifying any technician not to touch them or they might trigger alarms or mess with data.
Whenever you flip a switch on and off and you don’t know what it does I just imagine your neighbor’s garage door opening and closing, ha ha. Great video, I’m so excited to watch your progress on this place! 😊
that would be pretty funny. Half his driveway lights are still wired onto my grid so anything is possible!
@@watchereDoes that mean you are paying for some of his lights?😮
@@watchere Have you tried using the plug outlets near the switch where the red light comes on. Maybe it lets you know that the power to the outlets are on. Just a thought! Don't try the outlets if it is unsafe. Maybe you could plug in a floor lamp then flip the switch to see if that is the case!!! 🤔 Just be cautious and careful. 😔🤗
@@rosemarymee YES lmao
@@watchere That is ridiculous! Get that man's lights off of your grid ASAP. There is no reason you should be paying for anyone else's lights/power!!
That basement looks like it will need a lot of work and money to repair. Even more than other parts of the house.
Indeed it does especially the mechanical room!
The fruit storage room cupboards would come in handy for all household storage incl loo paper, picnic equipment, stocks of bathroom needs, and so on. I would also think that u could use the cupboards for tool storage.
I wouldnt get rid of them yet. I'd leave it till u have the bigger priorities dealt with. You never know when u might need a cupboard of that calabre.
At five minutes -- those drawers were for storing "Arts and Crafts" supply for kids. All kinds of items that normally would be tossed, saved to make cool projects. Not food, the containers food came in.
At one time was probably for food then used to save art supplies from whatever one had at home to bring.
Those cabinets would be great in an office areas. Several rooms
the old electric equipment looks like a school clock and bell system
Wonder if those switches that do nothing next to the outlets control the outlets? Switched outlets with a light to let you know its on?
There's a creepy movie called "Session 9" that I keep thinking about while watching this.
Neat basement. Cleaned up and with good moisture control and better lighting...it has potential. It would make an awesome game room/man cave!
You'll never run out of DIY projects, that's for sure.
Scare your friends and put some glowing eyeballs in the vent. Those filing cabinets in the bathroom were def set up by an art teacher. I bet there was an art room down there. They always stick music and art in the basement. Those tiles have fallen because of the humidity down there. Probably the same reason for the peeling paint. Layering it up to “freshen” the space makes it peel like that, especially off cool surfaces like metal. I bet your dehumidifier is working overtime.
That timer was either used for school bells or sprinklers. I’ve seen something similar in older school buildings I’ve worked in. Contacting the former custodian or someone who works in that capacity is a great idea. Those employee records should be public knowledge. If I were nearby, I would snag those cabinets and lockers in a heartbeat. If they are not built in, you can for sure sell them off. Even the built in wood would fetch a price.
Seems like a good idea to invest in someone to survey the plumbing, hvac, and electrical. That way you can determine what can be capped, what is redundant, and what needs to be repaired, replaced, or eliminated. The problem with schools, they will fix and reroute while leaving old or outdated wires, pipes, and equipment in place because it is inconvenient, problematic, or expensive to remove it. You’ve already had the fire marshal in, did he see the basement and tell you what to discard? Commercial and residential have different codes. Get rid of everything you aren’t required to keep for code.
The little red light in the basement might be an alert system for the office in the annex. You have so much potential here. I’m excited to know how you plan to use it. Good luck pooping. Looking forward to the next episode.
My parents had a similar timer in their house when they first moved in. Was for a lawn sprinkler system. Timer triggered a DC solenoid valve at a set time each day to turn on the sprinklers in the lawn. (could be what the transformer is for also)
maybe all that was the bell timer? if the school used bells to announce class ending/starting
The little door by the back door was for milk deliveries.
cool
Yes very cool!
And keep the laundry room sinks!! Those are great for washing dogs, rinsing out large stuff!! We had them in our old house!
Good to know!
@@jessiecaddy276 those small weird bath tubs would be great for a dog grooming shop.
Yason, it'd be nice if you could locate some of the students for them to share their memories, even though they obviously were very young when they were there. I'm also thinking the empty food containers, lids, etc. might have been for arts and crafts projects.
It would make a great work shop in the basement after removing the rug and the repairs needed.
We are going to be watching you repair your property for years😅
Just like many homeowners. Forever repairs & renovations & updates. The joy of homeownership. Congrats Yason.
For help high school vocstional teachers & their students may be able to VOLUNTEER some assistance to you.
Apprenticeship students & their master mentors may be able to be to help out also.
The labeled drawers sound like collected craft supplies from things normally thrown away rather than food supply storage.
I think most of the switches on the ‘wall of switches’ are powering the powersockets right next to them in the panel. If that room was also used as a classroom it makes sense that they would want some additional safety for the sockets.
So expansive. I like the cast iron sinks. Pretty sure I saw some vacuum tubes in the old electrical boxes!
Agreed. Cast iron sinks can be redone and are awesome.
This reminds me of a county nursing home where I worked 40+ yrs ago. A huge 3 story complex that was a tuberculosis sanitarium 70 yrs ago. On the closed 3rd floor was the remnants of a operating room where they gave electric shock treatments and preformed frontal labotomies on mental patients. I worked in the alzhimers wing during the nursing home period. It's all been abandoned for 20+ yrs. All said it was pretty Frankensteinish and ghostly. Must say the building was impressive when I worked there.
Let’s see if I can remember the stuff I wanted to mention.
- The vent cover that doesn’t look like it’s hooked up to anything looks like an air return. You mentioned a blower system, so maybe it’s a return for that? There was another, smaller vent cover in one of the other rooms that looked similar to the big one.
- You might consider keeping the built ins and heavy sinks and other stuff you don’t see a use for. Unless you come up with a reason they need to go, like if you have a specific function for those rooms, and those items are in the way, you might be getting rid of some historically interesting carpentry and whatnot. Just my opinion, of course.
- Milk door, but I noticed others had mentioned that.
- The red light on its own switch may have also turned on another light elsewhere in the house. Like a call button of some sort. 🤷🏻♀️
- The timers may have turned lights on and off to alert students to different activities or mealtimes.
Thanks for the tour! Such a fascinating building, and I’m enjoying the redo with lights and no vertigo! 🥰
Im glad the camera work has gotten better! I'll have to investigate more and also think ab otu what i want to do with alot of this stuff. I think the lay out just isnt great as is. But then again there is so much space perhaps i should just clean up the basement and leave it alone!
You have to remember that when this was built many of our modern day conveniences were not a thing. The vast majority of that electrical is retro fit, as well as a good portion of the plumbing. Many times it is more cost effective to abandon old electrical runs and install new ones. That basement has great possibilities as your renovate this house. You already have a mechanical room, It needs to be revamped but it is there. It is a great place to centralize your HVAC/ Electrical and Plumbing. You could use another room to centralize your telco/internet a communications room. You do have a bunch of 66 blocks mounted on the wall (12:00 minute mark) that is the patch panel for telephone. Most likely at some point there was a multi-line phone system installed. Where you had the ability to call room to room as well as outside the building. (Remember the old press 9 for an outside line)
You could turn another room into a shop so that you have a centralized place for tools, machines (Table saw, miter saw, band saw, drill press, work bench, welding table, lathe etc) and other items you will need to continue repairing this house. Besides those are just fun toys to have anyway. The list could go on and on.
I would reach out to your audience and see if there are any tradesmen in your area who could come give you a hand at identifying systems, circuits, etc. Just spending a day with a tradesman will really open your eyes and give you a good starting point for things.
I have a few friends that are tradesmen I just need to coax them out to coming to this place! But thanks for the tips! I need to also figure out a way to keep the downstairs dry, I cant imagine myself running dehumidifiers everywhere. Maybe if i ran a heat pump water heater or something would help with th emoisture. Or just kept those vent fans on full blast all day.
@@watchere There are just a few primary ways that moisture is getting into the basement. Either penetration from the ground, leaks in windows or from the air itself. HVAC will help control the humidity if it is only air based. But if you are having actual water penetration from windows, walls or the floor those will need to be addressed or no amount of dehumidifiers will keep up with it.
@@watchereYou have to coax them? 🤔 Do they live far from there??? Maybe a special invitation, but you're more familiar with your friends knowing how you can encourage their help! ☺️👍
Oh goodness a lot of work to get done but a lot of room on top of a lot of room- I call that a win! 👍
Work on one room at a time
It will get done over time! 🤞
Dingy. Flaky. Rundown. Reminds me of my college apartment.
Sounds about right to me!
That is not for fruit or food storage...those drawers are for craft supplies. Elementary ed uses these containers for various art/science projects. This was a school.
It was converted to art storage, originally for fruit. Cold room
I admire your strength and vision for this place! This basement would be way too overwhelming for me, but you seem to take all the necessary reparations in stride. Well done!
Love those latches on the cabinets in the fruit cellar. We used to live in a duplex and had a light that didn't work in our house. Figured we were driving the neighbors crazy flipping off and on their light.
hahaha that would be absolutely hillarious if that was the case!
I'm thinking "movie set" for some of the areas of this unique building... 😮
The cast sinks are worth a lot of money
and they're beautiful.
I would definitely try to figure out a way to keep them or I’ll sell them to somebody who would really appreciate them. You’re not gonna find sinks like that anymore. This is a big enough space he could definitely find uses for them.
You have enough pipes and wire to go to the moon and back .. your vds are getting so much better…. That equipment looks like stuff on a battle ship lol .. I would keep the food cabinets and all the wood cabinets those are cool … that would make a great industrial looking sub house …basement … ❤
Enjoy your videos! Careful in that basement breathing in dust, mold etc.
There's lots of reclaim shops/sellers that might be good to look into if you want to get rid of anything that could be refurbished or preserved. (ie.sinks, cabinets, windows, doors) I think some will also do the removal too to ensure minimal damage to the pieces. It's a great sustainable way to get rid of some of the quality fixtures that might not work for your purposes.
Usually, a switch with a light next to it, like the red one you have, is for indicating a light is on. I always have seen them at a basement door or for an outside light to remind you it is on.
Actually, that basement doesn’t look that bad🤷🏻♀️ I went to school in an old building. We had band class down in the basement. Other big projects were done down there too. The teachers made it cheery with posters and construction flowers. That one was a lot worse than yours. I know it is peeling and grungy, but is it anything that a scraper, bleach(a good respirator), kilz, lots of elbow grease and some planned venting? Looking forward to how you get that massive boiler out of there💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 Thanks for the video, Yason.
Wow. This place is my worst nightmare. And I'd be scared to touch anything with so much bad electrical equipment down there. But it will be cool to watch you clean it all up... just makes me more keen to see what you make it into.
Well, at least you have plenty of storage so as your projects go along, you’ll have a storage room close to whatever project you’re doing. And then in the end, you can figure out what to do with all those storage rooms.
You do have some very nice cabinets that people would buy, and doors. The kitchen ones would have been for the maids to use.
I believe Rupert is right, milk door next to the back entrance. I think the basement tells a lot of the story of the school era.👍
awesome! I think thats what it was! I'll have to investigate more!
Wow! Like some old scow spaceship from a B si-fi movie! Can’t wait for the before and after! It’s going to be so so amazing! Modernized! Ooh, color coding with paint? The storage in the old fruit storage room is very nice.
Maybe keep some and sell some? I like the handles. But you don’t need advice from the bleachers! 💙💛💚🫶🏻🕊🙏🏻🦉
That little door by the entrance and kitchen on the ground floor, was most likely used by the milk man. I had an apartment that was about a hundred years old and had a door like that. Back in the day the milk man would deliver the milk, sour cream, eggs, etc. By opening the little door and place the order (in my case inside the kitchen, in your case that hallway by the kitchen) so that the order would be somewhat protected from the elements outside and theft.
Similar to what amazon is doing now by delivering packages to people who have a garage.
I live in the northeast. I’d say almost all of the basements built after the 80s are 7 feet into the ground, unless you have a split level with a basement. Then you can have big windows. I have a tiny window (no one could fit through the hole even if you pulled the actual window off the hinges. Well maybe a 5 year old could lol )
When Halloween comes, you have a great space for a haunted house for friends and family. And from the drone shots, I can see the beautiful large old houses of your neighbors. That looks to be an amazing neighborhood!
Those sinks maybe worth some money. You might want to call someone that sells old sinks and bathtubs.
One other thing I noticed. You do not have to go far to find a toilet. Even some storage rooms seem to have a floor flange for a toilet. You have a treasure in that house. You could always turn the doom room into a Halloween event dress it up and charge to walk through.
Buttons on door jam to notify staff if unsupervised children tried to escape.
My guess for the 'timer portions would be for outside lights and/or for a bell system within the school? Since the rear door was by the kitchen maybe a milk box?
Yay Jason Monday!!! 😊😊😊
Happy Monday!
Hey Jason, I do water treatment for boilers and industrial water systems so I can answer some questions about the boilers. That mystery pump and cast iron receiver in the corner of the boiler room is a condensate receiver for the steam once it condenses back to a liquid after running through the radiators in the house. Once it fills up enough it triggers a float switch and pumps the condensate back into the steam boiler to be turned back into steam. We call this liquid gold since it's water that is already ~180 degrees and mostly pure, so that saves you a lot of fuel to heat it up to boiling if you can prevent steam leaks. With a small boiler like yours and only providing heating to radiators, you should be capturing like 99% of your condensate and have very little fresh water make-up.
The Annex boiler is a hot water boiler, so no steam, and it's considered a "closed loop" system where it should not consume any water once filled. Assuming no leaks.
You're going to want to get set up with some water treatment chemicals for both boilers when you get them filled up with water and running again to help limit corrosion and premature failure. Traditionally, they are treated with different types of chemicals to deal with the different types of issues seen in steam systems vs water loops, but some water treatment companies make a product for small boilers like yours that treats it similar to a hot water loop and is much easier for the user to maintain and test.
I always recommend installing a water meter on both systems so you can tell if they start using more water than they should (leaking). Plus, if you get the right type of meter you can use it to trigger your chemical treatment system.
Unfortunately, systems like this are usually neglected and the insides of the boilers and piping are probably in rough shape, but proper water treatment will help get as much life out of them as you can. I'd be happy to give you more information or answer any of your questions about boilers and water treatment. You've got a lot on your plate, but if I can help you get a better understanding of something I'd love to contribute in that way.
Thank you!!! I know alot of these systems are going to need work. I am also considering maybe just replacing them with newer systems if its going to be too much work! Thank you for the long explaination It helped me learn alot!
@@watchere It's possible to get the steam boiler converted to hot water for simplicity's sake. I take care of a number of buildings that have converted their old steam boilers (small school bus sized boilers) to hot water and just treat it as a loop now. But yeah if you could go to like a heat pump or something that would likely be the least maintenance, but potentially expensive. Though idk what a boiler conversion costs, I just test the water :)
I thought the creepy basement tour was interesting. Lots of mechanicals that I’m sure you will remove or have removed. Hopefully you will be able to scrap most of it and make some money. Thanks for taking us along.
You definitely got a lot of work to do. It would be neat to see pictures of back in the day when it was being used.
The small red light switches might turn on power to the adjoining power points? Makes me wonder if it was for critical machinery so they would know visually if the power went out?
Imagine for hollween a maze of horror called don't go in the basement and it won't disturb the rest of the house, try to make it to the other side if you can ( in vincent price voice) . Love the annex too.😊millions possibilities.❤
Give your thinking process sometime. Those cabinets in the fruit room are phenomenal. You might be able to use them as storage closets for linen or clothes in bedrooms without closets. Putting glass inserts in could be used to display books. They'd even make a great place for power tool storage. Just because they are in the basement doesn't mean they need to stay there. I can see you dumping everything then deciding you need storage cabinets and have to spend money to replace them.
I got lots of time to think about it. So much more pressing matters at hand!
11:40 that doesn’t look like a poop pipe. I’m guessing just from the outline that it had some sort of breaker box or possibly a through the wall dehumidifier on it and it was moved. Those pipes were either just draining or for power outlets to go outside
Advertise those cast iron sinks!! People redoing farmhouses are always looking for them!!
AHH!! OOGILY BOOGILY!!!!!!!! 8:02 almost looks similar to 40s and ancient fire alarm system panels. Could be original to the building.
Id be doing a spiritual cleanse in every room lol.
Save the biohazard hopper.
Another great video, Jason!!! You really do have your work cut out for you with this project. Kind of reminds me of a movie with Tom Hanks and Shelley Long.....
Absolutely gorgeous neighborhood! Loved the drone shots! More please?
Working on it!! Hope the footage isnt getting repetitive. There are so many trees its hard to fly a drone with out crashing to get other angles! Thank you I am glad you enjoyed them!
That little door near the floor at the back door is a milk door. Way back in the day milk was delivered in glass bottles and put in the little cabinet in the wall. The outside door may not be there any more but still cool. Maybe good to convert into a dog door to the outside? Sad ya got all those toilets but can't use them now.
That was my thought! dog door! I think my dogs are too fat though to fit through that little opening!
"I have to poop really bad, so I'm gonna go..." Had me ROLLING! LOL
So this also may be a thought. I know several demo and repo guys that would actually pay you quite a bit of money to haul that stuff out for all the metal in there. Especially if the insides have copper in them. I’m not offering their services or anything bc I don’t know where you live but a lot of people will pay you to take stuff out if you’re replacing stuff. Now don’t get me wrong it won’t be a lot of money bc they’ll do all the labor but it’s still better than nothing to get rid of old metal stuff. They paid I think $200 to this guy who bought an old church for taking their boilers out (they had 2) and they needed to be replaced with more modern stuff. The company installing the new ones were giving him nothing for them to take them out. So he had this guy go in who gets to scrap it afterwards and got paid for it. Win win I’d say. Just a thought.
Your basement doesn't seem so bad. My guess is the foundation looks to be in pretty good shape so that is amazing. I wonder if you might be well served to get a few dehumidifiers down there to dry out the space and minimize any mold before you begin doing any work.We've been, recently, in some very sketchy basements these past few weeks (looking for a commercial space in Chicago). A realtor said at one property "I'm not sure I'd go down there"...and I aimed the flashlight down the stairs only to see the light reflected off several inches of black water...
oof black water is never fun!! By those standards these dont seem tha tbad!
There is a lot of old communication stuff there. Some of those switches with the lights were probably connected to the administration office to call people down (kind of like the nurse call buttons). It probably has several generations of stuff like that. Those lights and later an intercom system. Then in internal telephone type system (maybe two generations). Finally a computer network system. Likewise, there are several generations of power, heating, and plumbing systems. When stuff was upgraded or moved, it was just abandoned in place. It will take a long time to trace out where everything goes if you decide to do so. Once you get to it, the basement area looks really usable (as if you were short on space.) Strip down the paint and a few gallons of drylock or similar waterproofing paint and you are going to be set. None of it can probably be used for living space due to lack of egress windows so it is probably limited to storage and a nice place to spread out for projects. You are really set to have a place for everything if you decide to really get into decorating for Christmas or want to store folding chairs and tables for events. Ever think about taking up hobbies such as slot car racing or model trains? How about a fight club?
You know the first rule of fight club! I think slot car racing or trains would be cool, but to be very honest I have so many hobbies I am overwhelmed already hahaha . But Would be cool to maybe to have a friend that has that hobby live with me and have them build slot car or model trains haha that would be awesome
The flat roofs always seem to need work in every building we owned.
They hold water which really is a bummer! They are cool for roof top patios and solar panels though!
that boiler, that is missing, i guess he is gone to the toilets, making some weird kind of stuff, i wouldn't trust him if he is coming back...well that will be a never ending renovation channel i guess, thankfully, like how your video skills improve...and your humor...oh and if i were closer than half earth around, i would be already on the way to buy those wooden ladders, even if there are molding...and those iron cast bassins
Another great tour video. You can really tell how much more comfortable you are getting in front of the camera. Great Job!! ♥
Thank you so much!
19:04 those switches that don't do anything might be turning those outlets on and off that are on the same plate with them. the red light might just be to tell you the outlets are active, or maybe it's a night light, if that was a children's bedroom, or maybe it's step one in arming the missile launchers that come out of the roof to protect you from enemy aircraft 🤔
😂 Was thinking they were notification lights when a teacher needed assistance for her classroom. They lit up possibly in the main office on a light pegboard of some kind.
WoW 😮😮😮🎉🎉🎉awesome u have lots of storage
Great video I get really creeped out by basements. But tour them by video is great. Very interesting
Glad you like them!
You have so much to do remodeling this old school. Thank you for taking us on your journey!
Hi Jason
I am not able to throw any light on the myriad of lockers, draws, plus all the gizmos!!
I would suggest hanging onto those doors, you might need them and are expensive to replace.
Keep up the good work 👏
I'll keep on to them for as long as i need, but I dont even know where they go to or they are just spares. I suppose i dont really need the storage space so wouldnt be any harm into keeping them
@watchere also those cast iron sinks can go for crazy money!
Love the show and how you’re taking it a step at a time. I find it inspiring you’re undertaking this mission. Have you considered making this a sober house? The house next door to me is now a sober house and the owner I assume is making a fortune as these kids pay weekly. You could pay helpers with cheap rent for awhile. Good luck man
The funny part about those mystery boxes, I think those were for PA system, intercoms, and outside lighting.
the "server racks" probably started as phone switching equipment. I had a job as a facilities manager where i had to maintain a system in an almost identical rack.
The wires look like Ethernet, so seems more likely it was an Ethernet patch panel for server computers located in a better environment than a basement.
@@KameraShy the phone switches also use cat5/6 cables and cisco routers. the basement is probably the best place for the servers as well as it would be the coolest place in the building but i doubt the school used an actual server rack. the office spaces that used the building after the school might have but i'm guessing they would have taken them when they left. As a former IT guy i wish servers got the nice rooms but windowless basements is the norm. :(
Super interested in what you’re doing!!
Thanks for the honest tour!
Always! Thank you for the support!