![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/ive-spent-8-years-digging-a-cave/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/newspress-collage-23714622-1693421965791.jpg&description=IT all started with a familiar story - a teenager fed-up with arguing with his parents and desperately wanting his own space. However, Andres Canto, aged 14, took his frustrations to new depths by deciding to embark on an eight-year project to build his own home underneath the garden. 6 Andres Canto, 22, built his own underground home in the garden over eight years Credit: Twitter 6 It has been a long and laborious process Credit: Twitter 6 His plans were all going well until the authorities became involved Credit: RealPress /@andresiko_16 Andres worked on the excavation by-hand in all of his free time, taking a pix-axe to his parents garden in La Romana, Spain. Eight years later and the now 22-year-old has turned his hole into a home 16.5ft below ground, with his own living room, bedroom and staircase. The student has now kitted out his underground den with some luxuries including WiFi, a music system, and even a stove. Remarkably, he says his parents are fine with their garden being torn apart and filled with tools and equipment. And yet his plans were almost scuppered when the news of his hidden lair reached local authorities. The council questioned whether his new dwelling had been built legally. Andres explained: "I have had to ask for a building permit hahaha, now the municipal government is coming to see everything and process paperwork. "The thing is already serious." Thankfully he updated his fans on X/Twitter: "The Seprona and Civil Guard have already come to certify the cave." They couldn't declare the cave as an illegal build because they were unable to classify it as basement, extension or storage structure. "Everything in order people, they are very nice," Andres said. When he was younger, the frustrated teen used the cave as more of a chill-out zone away from his family. But during the pandemic his passion for renovating and expanding his underground retreat was re-ignited. He started sharing his journey online this April, beginning with: "THE CAVE, t){kind=link}
IT all started with a familiar story – a teenager fed-up with arguing with his parents and desperately wanting his own space.
However, Andres Canto, aged 14, took his frustrations to new depths by deciding to embark on an eight-year project to build his own home underneath their garden.
Andres worked on the excavation by-hand in all of his free time, taking a pix-axe to his parents garden in La Romana, Spain.
Eight years later and the now 22-year-old has turned his hole into a home 16.5ft below ground, with his own living room, bedroom and staircase.
The student has now kitted out his underground den with some luxuries including WiFi, a music system, and even a stove.