This 88 year old home had a home made piping system installed at the basement sub floor that I am trying to figure out what they were doing.
One end was not connected. The other end was at the band/sill plate.
It looks like garden hoses covered with rubber.
There was a 240 volt circuit nearby. There is no A/C system installed.
I really have no clue!! Do You??
I would guess home made lines for some type of cooling system.
Many years ago I did an old home that had running water from a spring.
It went through a big old car rad and then back out side to the ditch.
This I guess was the first air conditioner.
The had a big fan pushing air through the fan.
Could this have been the same?
…Cookie
Here’s a wild guess:
Servel (and others) used to make a gas-fired air conditioner that was actually a chiller. It sat outside and using absorption refrigeration, produced cold water. The cold water was pumped indoors to a fan-coil unit, which could then circulate cool air throughout the structure.
That’s my story & I’m stickin’ to it.
Is it an optical illusion, or is the wall in pic 1 about to fall over (right side of picture)?
Looks like a partition wall with plumbing pipe (black I bet) used for support.
Most likely a small toolroom.
Probably pretty close to right I bought a house in 1975 that had an old Servel Arkla gas unit that was dead I removed it and installed a Singer.