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?!!

Is it a pull light switch in the loft?

Pedigree - the boiler might be an easy explanation - if you have a heat-as-you-use boiler and an "economy" button then press it. Otherwise the boiler preheats a little bit of water and keeps it hot so you have hot water sooner when you turn on the tap - but it means the boiler comes on randomly to top up the heat on that bit.

To be honest, I was shocked at the boiler starting on its own, as I cannot get it to work when I want.

It's karma, I'm telling you about..

It's all intriguing..I think it's as someone suggested about the lights...they are wired up wrong, when you turn your bathroom light on it turns theirs on. They don't notice it in the day but it shines right in through their open bedroom door at night...so 20 seconds to get out of bed, say lots of swear words...stomp to the bathroom and turn the light off.
On the other hand it could also be Johnny.....

someone once stole half my bloody garden using a fence in the same way as the partision wall mentioned earlyer.

i amy be missing something but can your neighbour actually acess your loft? that would freak me right out especially after a article in chat i read some time ago about a mad stalker who was using a loft to do his stalking

Ha ha loving the stalker in the loft idea!!!!

Don't was to freak you out but ... I mentioned this to a friend I saw today. He told me about a family he knows who moved house because they couldn't deal with the nightmare neighbours next door any more.
When packing all their stuff up to leave they found microphones and other surveillance stuff in the loft, the people next door had been spying on them.

jesus wept im off to check my own fecking loft now

Has your Dh gone back in the loft? Have you heard from ll, agents, plumber?

Well letting agent was next to useless. They hadn't made any enquiries at all and said oh we'll contact the landlord... Mmmm helpful!!

Light noise happened again last night after I'd gone to bed and DH was still downstairs. Actually heard it go on and off this time (both after I was in bed).

Does it happen when dh goes in the bathroom?

Did the plumber explain exactly what his concerns were to you? If not, can you ask the letting agent if you can speak to the plumber?

Holy crap, it is actually quite worrying now

DH hasn't got to work away anymore has he gnocci?? I'd be crapping myself there on my own

Sorry I realise that doesn't help!!!

Oh bloody hell. Spooky.

Can you not get up into the loft yourself to take a look at the setup?

My neighbours downstairs always wake me up when they go to bed, and I normally stomp go to the toilet then. Just sayin', could be that.

She said several times she has a big 7m bump, so op going in loft is not going to happen.

So glad I didn't read this thread when I lived in a terraced house with no partition/ fire wall in the loft between us and next door!

We used to be able to hear the people next door snoring in bed!

(it is fairly common on terraced houses for lofts to run from one end of the block to the other, and it comes up in surveys when selling and putting in a firewall is recommended)

I was just catching up on this thread, read not Geoff vadars comment bout people having never looked in their lofts . . . I never have!!

However, sanity prevailed when I remembered I live in a detached house ....

So any news?

QOD

detached probably isn't spied on from your neighbours loft

Though you never know

QOD grin

detached probably isn't spied on from your neighbours loft

Though you never know wink

I don't know there was a CSI episode where some weird guy in a black latex suit was living in a womans loft, he had holes drilled into her bedroom ceiling, would come down and snoop about, even slept under her bed at some point soo very weird and scary that one.
Dam I'm home alone with Dd, Dh will get in from work about 2.30am Now I'll be playing that show in my head tonight

Erm..do you have a pull cord light too? Because we used to have one & it always clicked after you pulled it.

There'll be no creepy people sleeping under any of our beds, too much 'stuff' stashed away under there!
However, our loft hatch is sealed with big screws, for some reason our landlord doesn't want us to go up there...

Hahaha Pixel .... It's his playroom I bet!

We have no access to our loft at all. This is a good thing as there are no partitions in the roof spaces of our block of back-to-backs. Him at No 40 used to go into his loft when the police came calling and go down into No 38 through their loft hatch until the police had left. Then one day the police were knocking on the door and when he went to the loft, some was waiting.

All I heard was what sounded like a flock of elephants pounding around and about to come through the ceiling - scared the life out of me.