to think our neighbour is spying on me through a wall?

[gnocci]

We live in a semi but a semi that backs onto another house, so our entire back wall is another house's entire back wall IYSWIM. So upstairs we share a wall on our bedroom, the landing and our bathroom.

The only noise I ever hear from their house is that noise of a pull switch light cord. And the only time I ever hear it is just after I go to the bathroom at night before I go to bed. Whatever the time. I never hear it before or after. Without fail it is just after I leave the bathroom. I go to bed at very random times (DH works away...). it could be 8pm, it could be 1am. Whatever time it is, I always hear that cord go within 20 seconds of me leaving the bathroom...

Uuummmmmm AIBU to think I might be being spied on..??!!! How do I find out for sure?!!

Call the police? And say what exactly?they'd die laughing before they were able to investigate

Nerd, I was thinking that anybody fiddling about with bathroom electrics would disconnect everything first. I've got to say I know very little about how electric showers work ... but am going to google it now [geek]

WHat is pebble? It's been a bloody long wait between wees if you ask me!

No they would not Fut A pregnant woman is alone at home and has some worries that somethiing in her home has been tampered with....they come out for far less than that! Not that i'ts ok to call them for minor things but OP needs reassurance...she's 7 months pg and having braxton hicks with the stress!

Hadnt thought of DM doing it. I would think unlikely tbh but will ask her first thing (she'll be in bed by now so can't ring her!). Only thing I can think is her holding DS up and letting him fiddle with it.

But seriously what are the effin chances of that happening TONIGHT?!!! Arghh!!!!

Do you feel ok gnocci? It's probably something silly you know...but I know how t feels to be worried and alone as my DH works away too.

I'm ok. The shower cord thing did make my heart pound I must admit!!!

Am in bed and can hear DS breathing on the monitor which I always find oddly comforting when DH is away. He'll be back in the early hours...

Have just had to go bathroom and you've all got me checking for spy holes. Although not sure why single mature lady Next door would want to spy on me. old guy across road might get an eyeful since blinds are broken and won't close properly.

Oh good....glad DH is home in the am. You MUST get him to thoroughly check tomorrow...attic...power cord....and neighbours! He can go round to ask if they've had a parcel or some crap...check em out.

If it's a lone man with a t shirt that says "Peeping Tom's are Misunderstood" then you've got your guy.

Sorry Gnocci...gotta stay with the light side! It'll be a combo of neighbour drilling, bad connections and weird lectricity....you can gt a copy of all te electric cables or something apparently...like a lst of them all and where they go.

They would come out on what evidence? Hearing a pull cord and seeing a shower cord turned off? Why the actual fuck would a neighbour turn the shower power supply off??

Good point about DM turning the shower off! I tied my shower cord up really high ... because my mother and brother always turned it off by accident They never turned it back on after realising, meaning I'd stand shivering in the bath, wondering why the water wasn't warming up!

If it's a lone man with a t shirt that says "Peeping Tom's are Misunderstood" then you've got your guy.

I have to go to sleep.

This thread has been fun but you know gnocci, it's really not a peeping tom. It's just odd noises and a whole bunch of MNers colluding in your (entirely understandable) paranoia.

Sleep well

Q: "How to repair a bathroom shower isolator switch?"
A: Call a professional, it's too tricky for DIY.

Q: "Bathroom pull cord turns off other appliances"
A: There are loads & loads of results! All due to cack-handed wiring. For pedants.

Ooh err gnocchi, just marking my place having read all 14 pages of this thread!

Hope you're getting some sleep now and aren't panicking still. It will be one of the many sensible electrical type suggestions already mentioned. Not long now til dp is home :)

at silentnerd!

I'm annoyed that I missed the fun stuff earlier I'll be back in the morning for DH updates!!

Poltergeist?

It is, Migsy. It's a family of illegal immigrant poltergeists living in Gnocci's loft. They are trying to communicate with her via pull-cord ghost code. At great personal effort, I've obtained a translation of ghost pull-cord code.

The sequence "click-wait-click, click-wait-click, click-wait-wait-wait-click, click, turn off shower" means "Jam sandwiches, please, and make it snappy."

cameras in bathrooms aren't an urban myth, I knew someone FIRST HAND in real life, not a friend of a friend, I knew him myself, who actually got caught having had cameras in the bathrooms of two houses he rented out (one he lived in and had housemates, another on the same street he rented out to students)

HOWEVER, if for some strange reason we ever put a wall down the middle of our hall, one switch would affect the other side, but the lights on the side that that switch is on wouldn't be affected by the switch on the other side if that makes sense! Stupid dodgy cheapo electrics! we had to get a switch cover for a switch at one end of the kitchen too as if any guests flicked it it mucked up the other switch, but the other swich didn't affect that switch if you only used the other switch (as is the case now as its now the only one with an actual switch since we replaced the other one with a switch cover)

that made no sense I'll try again:

if my hall was divided into side A and side B, the switch on side A would affect the lights on side A PLUS side B. The switch on side B just affects the lights on side B

so say the OP lived on side A of my hall she wouldn't be aware that there was an issue with the switches, BUT the person on side B would be getting their lights switched on and off by the OP so would have to get up and put them off again at the B switch

better?

cherie, you said 'switch' so many times in your post that the word doesn't make sense to me anymore.

I know exactly what you mean, Cherie, having lived in two houses with supposedly two-way switches that weren't.

My money's still on this having happened in OP's house and the new occupant finally got around to having the work done.

at ghosts having pull cord code for jam sandwiches