Andres Canto, 20, from La Romana, Spain, fought with his parents over an outfit when he was 14. He used a pickaxe to take out his anger in the garden and ended up building a cave w/a living room and bedroom.
He spent six years digging 14 hrs. a week and created his very own underground cave almost ten feet into the earth.
He plans to expand the underground dwelling even more, but it currently has two rooms, a heating system, a music system and gets WiFi from his phone.
Although his parents were fine with the build, it was visited by the authorities' environmental protection department to ensure it was legal.
They didn't find any issues because it couldn't be defined as a basement, extension or storage structure.
He said: 'As I am the first person in Spain doing something like this, when the Civil Guard arrived there was not a specific report for that.”
'It was not a basement, neither was it a storehouse, it was only a well-built underground hut.'
When he first began building, his friend Andreu brought round a pneumatic drill. Removing the dirt was mainly done by hand with buckets until Andres came up with the idea of using a pulley system.
To prevent collapse, he used reinforced columns and arched entrances in the rooms, and estimates the whole project cost him £43 ($53).
The layout of his man cave was often determined by stones that appeared in his way during the project. Inside the hole, Andres built a single bed, and added that it really began to come together during the pandemic lockdown.
He admitted that there are regular visits from insects, spiders and snails, but he doesn’t mind. Although the cave occasionally floods after a downpour, the constant 20 degree temperature means it is somewhere cool to spend hot summer days
Andres has taken to Twitter to share his journey, and created a thread documenting the start of his dig.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9640483/Teenager-spends-six-years-digging-hole-garden-turned-HOME.html
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A Cave House in Spain’s Setenil de las Bodegas. The city one of the most incredible cities, its inhabitants live under the largest rock in the world since it was built by Muslims in the Andalusia era.
The residents there enjoy the cold in the summer and the heat in the winter, as the roofs of their houses are made of the same rock that prevents heat or cold from penetrating.
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This is strange. It’s a home built into a cave in Glenwood Springs, Colorado and the price is $2,450M, but Zillow has no information. Zillow calls it “a lot,” but there’s clearly a house on the property. From this photo, you can’t tell which is the house.
By the looks of this terrace, it’s in the middle of the mountain.
How did they even build this?
I would say that this is supposed to be the living room.
A bedroom is off the living room.
And, so is a large bath.
It kind of looks like there are 2 beds in the bath.
It has a large kitchen, and it looks like there may at least be another room back there.
The rocks look like draped fabric.
The only thing I can make out from this photo is a road. It that crevice the home?
This 3D layout is no help at all. The home doesn’t look like it’s worth $2.5M. It’s not attractive, it’s dated, and the ad is confusing.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/217-Rose-Bud-Iron-Mtn-Glenwood-Springs-CO-81601/62912119_zpid/
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