Board Member cellar pics

[Nick_Ryan]

@Todd F r e n c h

Okay, I just banned Randy as well.

However, I will still allow him to answer this question:

How did you get permission to have a basement put in? Isn’t there some epic rule structure for California houses when it comes to subterranean residential construction?

There’s no law against it, but it costs a galactic asstankerload of money to do (like 50-100k to start). Virtually none of the existing houses in Cali were built with basements not because of geologic reasons, but because they were put up as cheap housing for defense workers.

[Randy_Sloan]

@Todd F r e n c h

How did you get permission to have a basement put in? Isn’t there some epic rule structure for California houses when it comes to subterranean residential construction?

We had to do massive engineering to replace the old brick foundation (in earthquake country?!?) with a full foundation.

I don’t know about that specific rule, Todd, but we were just completing a partial, mostly unimproved basement that previously only contained a closet bathroom and an old in-law unit with bath. After we were done, the basement had a guest suite, rec room, tasting room, wine cellar. storage, laundry and utility.

[Randy_Sloan]

@Ed Murray

Uncle Fester:
(Very utilitarian.)

I like this one, Ed. I think I would bang my head almost every time I went down those stairs to get a bottle and EVERY time I went downstairs to get the SECOND bottle.

[ToddFrench]

@Nick Ryan

@Todd F r e n c h

Okay, I just banned Randy as well.

However, I will still allow him to answer this question:

How did you get permission to have a basement put in? Isn’t there some epic rule structure for California houses when it comes to subterranean residential construction?

There’s no law against it, but it costs a galactic asstankerload of money to do (like 50-100k to start). Virtually none of the existing houses in Cali were built with basements not because of geologic reasons, but because they were put up as cheap housing for defense workers.

Nick, that’s not quite true. I can’t imagine that the military was building 3000 sq ft houses within miles of the beach for ‘defense workers’ by the millions…

[Michael_Alberty]

[J_Singleton]

I had to check twice to see if there was wine in that picture. Yep, there is.

[Ed_Murray]

@Randy Sloan

@Ed Murray

Uncle Fester:
(Very utilitarian.)

I like this one, Ed. I think I would bang my head almost every time I went down those stairs to get a bottle and EVERY time I went downstairs to get the SECOND bottle.

I DO have a few lumps!

[Jack_Bulkin]

@Michael Alberty

49E??? I’m surprised Mollen and Fleming haven’t previously posted her in NSFW.

[Mark_F_r_a_n_k_s]

@Jeb Singleton

I had to check twice to see if there was wine in that picture. Yep, there is.

Whoops, I missed that, glad you said something or I never would have noticed.

[Michael_Alberty]

The wine angel came with the cellar. The dealer gave me a choice of wine angel or cork floors.

[Phillip_F_r_a_n_k_s]

@Ed Murray

@Randy Sloan

@Ed Murray

Uncle Fester:
(Very utilitarian.)

I like this one, Ed. I think I would bang my head almost every time I went down those stairs to get a bottle and EVERY time I went downstairs to get the SECOND bottle.

I DO have a few lumps!

Did you do some cleaning in the cellar Ed?

[Ed_Murray]

@Phillip Franks

@Ed Murray

@Randy Sloan

I like this one, Ed. I think I would bang my head almost every time I went down those stairs to get a bottle and EVERY time I went downstairs to get the SECOND bottle.

I DO have a few lumps!

Did you do some cleaning in the cellar Ed?

Hehe… actually those pictures are a little old. There’s a little more in there now.

[Eric_LeVine]

Michael, now THAT cellar needs a stripper pole.

[Ken_V]

@Eldon Gath

How do I get more than 3 photos up?

You need to use another post. There’s a limit of 3 pictures uploaded per post.

[Tyler_Rico]

@Todd F r e n c h

How did you get permission to have a basement put in? Isn’t there some epic rule structure for California houses when it comes to subterranean residential construction?

Does it matter if you put it in when the house was originally built?

My girlfriends parents house has a subterranean basement and this is where the wine cellar is. The house was built in the early 80’s with the intention of building a basement for a wine cellar; they are in the Sacramento area. Not sure how big the wine cellar part of the basement is but it has racking for 10K+ bottles and is about 80% full. This excludes the 75 or so cases of 90’s BDX that still has not been racked as well.

[Randy_Sloan]

@Tyler Rico

Does it matter if you put it in when the house was originally built?

I’m not sure how widespread that restriction someone mentioned is. Most of the houses I know in my area (East Bay hills) have basements.

[ToddFrench]

@Michael Alberty

The wine angel came with the cellar. The dealer gave me a choice of wine angel or cork floors.

Cork floors are awesome!

Oh, wait…

[B_Buzzini]

I already posted a link to my pics…this is a test to see I can post them direct. I’m always bad at this stuff!

[B_Buzzini]

I think it worked??? Lets try 3 more…

[Randy_Sloan]

@Todd F r e n c h

Cork floors are awesome!

Oh, wait…

My cellar really does have a cork floor.