Asked on Sep 02, 2019

Can you help me identify what this cage in our basement is?

Kelly-n-Tony
by Kelly-n-Tony

We'd seen this from the basement and didn't know what it was. It is a wood open slat "cage" with a latch to open the side door. Icky spider webs is all that's inside now- ew! But we decided to rip out the built in bathroom vanity upstairs above this and discovered the hole that goes down into the wood "cage". It was covered up by the vanity so we never saw it from above until now. From the top it's lined with a little metal sheeting. Any ideas? Don't think it can be a laundry chute because the wood "cage" is too narrow and small and why lock it?Doesn't appear to be a heat or air duct since there is a wood "cage" below.

This is in the basement attached to the cinderblock wall with a side that opens and latches. It doesn't go all the way to the floor.

In the basement looking up...icky spider webs

This is what we discovered in the floor underneath the built in vanity...

  9 answers