Can you help to identify this?

[Darin Redding]

Not sure what I'm looking at here. Home was built in the 50's. I've inspected others in the area and have never seen this.The concrete column is below a bedroom and there are no walls or roof load at this point.

Thanks for looking.

[Christopher Currins]

Maybe it was added to help support a water bed.

[Jeffrey R. Jonas]

Kinda resembles old chimney/flue liner.

[Darin Redding]

I was thinking chimney also, but attic does not suggest that. Also it's location in the center of the bedroom points to something else IMO.

Could it be foundation / structural retrofitting of some sort?

[Jeffrey R. Jonas]

60 year old home, anything is possible.

[Bob Elliott]

Yikes a mystery and I can not handle looking to long as the wood post off center on that pier is driving me crazy.

[Jeffrey R. Jonas]

Originally Posted by belliott

Yikes a mystery and I can not handle looking to long as the wood post off center on that pier is driving me crazy.

Thanks Bob. You gave me the answer.

Did you find a "secret" hatch under the carpet, or in a closet? It could be a floor safe!

[Darin Redding]

Yes, I did mention the offset post. Safe? Didn't see one. Hmm. Good possibility... Maybe an access point to the drug tunnel between Mexico and this close-to-the-border location

[Bob Elliott]

Originally Posted by jjonas

Thanks Bob. You gave me the answer.

Did you find a "secret" hatch under the carpet, or in a closet? It could be a floor safe!

That actually makes sense.

[Christopher Currins]

Originally Posted by belliott

That actually makes sense.

Mine didn't.

concrete column is below a bedroom

Could it be foundation / structural retrofitting of some sort?

Whatever it is it's homemade.

[Darin Redding]

Whatever it is it's homemade.

As opposed to...say machine made?

[Bob Elliott]

Originally Posted by dredding

As opposed to...say machine made?

As opposed to organic ?

[Bob Elliott]

Originally Posted by ccurrins

Mine didn't.


Whatever it is it's homemade.

Well come on now Chris.
Structural support for the sheathing?

I wonder if those two bumps are rebar or something else sticking out two feet from the subfloor.

[Darin Redding]

As opposed to organic ?

Hmm...Didn't see any active bio-growth.

Could be rebar. Wish I had all these good ideas while I was there lying in the muck.

[Christopher Currins]

Originally Posted by belliott

Well come on now Chris.
Structural support for the sheathing?

There is also 2x's at floor joist. Like I said homemade...or for better term amateur.
Honestly I can't see it serving any real purpose.