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I've never seen sand, but ash deafening ceilings is very common around here. Various loft insulation materials include blue/pink polystyrene beads, and stuff that looks like dried paper mache thats been shreded. also we have straw walls (known as stramit), and walls made of honey comb card board sandwiched between plasterboard.
 
It needs a loudspeaker or two or more mounting in it, if it hasn't already got one! G.A.Briggs of Wharfedale reported excellent results with sand-filled enclosures about 60 years ago.
 
I think we are all waiting for the day when we go to cut out a socket in a wall and we find a stash of money hidden away.
Best things I have come across have been a box full of ww2 surplus stuff inclusive of grenades! posted about that before.
most awkward has to have been the teenager who when lifting up loose floor boards to conceal his stuff damaged a cable,causing loss of sockets on the upstairs radial. called out by the mum to investigate and whilst she is stood there looking we come face to face with a pile of ---- mags! only thing is they were gay ---- mags and gaytimes. she had no idea her son was gay and gather she was going to have a chat with him! that would have been awkward.
The creepiest was when called to a house to find out why sockets had stopped working upstairs.and one of the double sockets was a bug, it had a sim card in so it could be listened in on remotely. turns out the ladies now ex husband had installed it but when putting it back on wall, the live had come loose stopping subsequent sockets on the radial from working. He got community service for that and it did him no favours with the divorce and custody case either.
There are some right weird people out in the countryside around my way!
 

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