A boy who quarrels with his mother and hits 'digging' creates an underground space equipped with heating and Wi-Fi



Andres Canto, who lives in Alicante , Spain, started 'digging holes' in his yard to fight his anger when he had a fight with his mother in March 2015 when he was 14 years old. After six years of digging holes, Conto is reported to have created a magnificent underground space with stairs, lighting, audio, beds and Wi-Fi.

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On March 9, 2015, when Conto, then 14 years old, tried to leave the house to play with his friends, he quarreled with his mother, who insisted, 'If you go outside, change your clothes.' Mr. Conto, who did not listen to his mother, gave up going out and decided to dissipate the anger of the fight by 'digging a hole in the garden'.

In addition to fighting with his mother, Conto hit the digger with the desire to 'exercise something' and continued to dig a hole with a pickaxe. The following pictures were taken some time after I started digging. It's already quite deep, but it's unlikely you'll be able to spend it inside.



For a while, Conto was only aiming to dig a deep hole, but when it came to the second half of 2017, he said, 'I think I can live in the hole, not just dig a hole.' I came to think. Conto, who lives in the countryside, says he has been imaginative since he was a kid and sometimes used abandoned timber to build small huts.

In 2018, my friend Andrew also started to cooperate in digging holes, and with the help of the drills that Andrew brought, the work got into full swing at once. Looking at the pictures below, you can see that both sides and the top surface of the hole are reinforced with blocks etc., and stairs are starting to be made along the entrance of the hole.



It was completely manual work for several years after digging the hole, but when the depth of the hole exceeded Mr. Conto's height, it was necessary to introduce a new drilling technology. Therefore, Conto et al. Introduced a mechanism to carry out the soil with a pulley, and also devised ways to increase the strength by arching the entrance and to erect a pillar for reinforcement inside.

In addition, Mr. Conto says that digging is basically done manually using a pickaxe or the like.



You can see what the hole actually created by Mr. Conto is by watching the following movie.



Conto's house is in nature and the garden is quite large.



In the corner of such a garden ...



It is Mr. Conto's digging site. Even the roof to prevent rain is made, so it is too serious to call it digging.



Above the hole is a pulley that carries the soil.



If you go around in the opposite direction ...



There was a staircase going down into the hole.



Although the width is narrow, it is possible for Conto alone to descend without problems.



Looking up at the stairs from the bottom of the hole, it looks like this.



Going down the stairs, the right side is a livable underground space. Electricity is drawn inside, and foliage plants and pickaxes are placed ...



Audio sets, Wi-Fi and heating equipment are also installed.



The back room is a living room, but Mr. Conto is still digging up the underground space and expanding it. Parents admit Conto's digging, but the local government's environmental protection department has visited the pit to confirm its legality. After all, the hole couldn't be categorized as a 'basement,' 'extension,' or 'storage,' and no illegality was found, Conto said.



In another movie posted by Conto, you can see the living room in the back even brighter.



A pipe for heating extends into the hole along the left side of the stairs, so it will not freeze even in winter. In addition, Conto says that the temperature is as cool as 20 degrees Celsius even in summer.



The entrance to the living room in the back is reinforced with stones ...



There were two pillars that weren't there when the previous movie was shot.



A small bed is made on the left ...



There were also PET bottles and cans for drinks. In addition, because the materials used are very cheap, it seems that the amount of money spent on digging so far is only about 50 euros (about 6700 yen).



It seems that this hole is flooded when it rains, the humidity is high and the air circulation is poor, but Mr. Conto wants to expand the hole with his own motivation in the future. In addition, it seems that the mother who caused the hole digging has also entered this hole, and he said that he conveyed the impression that it is 'narrower than seen in the video'.

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