how far down in depth beneath your own house do you own .?

Question

can you give me an indication in metres .

Answer 1

It depends on house tenure and probably the country you live in.

As far as I'm aware, you own down to the middle of the earth, for freehold tenure, in the country I live in, unless someone else owns the mineral rights.

Answer 2

Good question. Funny thing is - do you own the land that your house is on? The term 'land' means about 10 meters deep only if it is building or development ground. The rest below this depth, can and could be owned by utility co's. .though only the state knows such detail. You are not allowed to dig deeper even though you own it. Such is, the land above your house - you do not own it.
So your answer is clearly a 'shoebox' and that's it!

You might need to get 'planning permission' to dig deep under your house as most states will not allow it - ask for assistance where needed.

Answer 3

Most places in the U.S. has all it's mineral rights bought up by large corporations. But they don't own the surfaces. In most cases a home owner owns the top soil and water. He can go down as far as he wants, but doesn't have the authority to extract any minerals or oil or natural gas. And the corp. who dose own the mineral rights, can go in and take it when they want. However, after wards they do have to repair all damages to the property that was caused by the extraction.

Answer 4

It depends on where you are, in Japan, until recently, theoretically you owned to the core. However, this posed problems when work needed to be done to the metro system in Tokyo. So the law was amended.

In the UK, theoretically you don't own your land, you lease it from the Queen. And she has all the mineral rights, so if you find oil beneath your land, the British treasury can theoretically seize it off you. (That's why the UK's ofshore oil fields are all drilled from outside Territorial waters)

Answer 5

You very own purely the construction and identify to the land- no longer the minerals on or under the floor. Use the land for despite applications different than mining- except you get a mining top from the government- nonetheless you are able to desire to pay appropriate royalties and taxes.

Answer 6

Jack's answer, although good, is incorrect. In areas where they do Room and Pillar coal mining. companies can mine underneath homes and then collapse the rooms by removing the pillars. Any structural damage done to the homes above is the responsibility of the homeowner to repair.

Answer 7

Unless you own water and mineral rights. you would only really own the surface.

Answer 8

it depends if you own the mineral rites you will own all the land below your top soil if not then you just own the top soil.

Answer 9

could anyone tell me that in ireland how far u can dig

Answer 10

all of it until the center of the earth i suppose. so a lot of meters.