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To be shocked at neighbour??

321 replies

DomesticDisgrace · 25/03/2014 12:53

I was having a very rare chat with my downstairs neighbour, I'm in a duplex and she's in a flat underneath with her front door under the stairs to my place. Two very separate buildings really and you can hear absolutely nothing from one to the other.
We were talking about ovens and I was saying I'm a pretty useless cook but really been trying this year, something was said about what shelf is best and she said "because heat rises", at this stage DD was getting impatient and I just made a stupid joke about how that'll come in handy for me next winter (given that she lives underneath), not even true because I had my heating on loads this winter and I only said it out of silliness.

Well I've just gotten a text from her saying "Domestic, I've been thinking after our discussion earlier and I'm feeling a little hard done by if I'm honest. Perhaps we could have a chat later on and come up with the fairest way of dealing with the issue regarding heating"

What the actual fuck, I don't know what to say back but I really can't afford to pay her for having her heat on just because heat rises??

OP posts:
shoom · 25/03/2014 13:34

Aventurine I'm moving from a flat to an end terrace soon. Now I know how to introduce myself to the neighbours !

cashewfrenzy · 25/03/2014 13:35

Fruit loop!

DomesticDisgrace · 25/03/2014 13:35

Ledare Grin

OP posts:
Finola1step · 25/03/2014 13:36

I have a feeling that this could be the thread that keeps on giving...

SwimmingMom · 25/03/2014 13:38

Just say 'you are welcome to have your hot air back!'

Really - if you didn't want it, you can't be asked to pay for it can you?Grin

shoom · 25/03/2014 13:39

This thread is either going to need one more page and die or it'll fill up and need a second one... Over to you MyNeighboursDuplexIsStealingAllMyHeat

TheGirlFromIpanema · 25/03/2014 13:40

Some people are bonkers Grin

My dads NDN asked him to leave his heating on when he's not there as it was forcing NDN's heating bills up because dads is never on and the heat all disappears through the walls Hmm

I wouldn't mind but df lives abroad atm and only returns home for a couple of weeks at xmas (when neighbour mentioned it) and summer for 3-4 weeks!!

Fuckeroo · 25/03/2014 13:40

Really? hahaha

Joysmum · 25/03/2014 13:41

You need to have a few unemotional comebacks in your repertoire. I wonder how those in hi rise buildings work out their bills, of course they don't, they just take responsibility for insulating their own homes just as those in houses do.

AngelaDaviesHair · 25/03/2014 13:42

Tell her to put insulation on the ceiling.

shoom · 25/03/2014 13:42

Xpost with Finola!

Hopefully it'll die quietly though with an apologetic response from downstairs. Or maybe she'll start her own thread asking how to respond...

ViviPru · 25/03/2014 13:42

You must tell us if she replies, OP, so we can enjoy a scrap of light entertainment during our otherwise joyless afternoons advise you on the most reasonable way to proceed...

ViviPru · 25/03/2014 13:42

strikeout fail

FoxesRevenge · 25/03/2014 13:42

Dying to know what her reply might be!

Logg1e · 25/03/2014 13:43

Good reply OP

ILoveWooly · 25/03/2014 13:43

She sounds absolutely bonkers!

DancingLady · 25/03/2014 13:44

Marking place!

I'm mid-terrace, our house is freezing, so not true that you benefit from neighbours' heat.

hutchblue · 25/03/2014 13:44

This reply has been withdrawn

The OP has privacy concerns and so we've agreed to take this down.

spongebobsparepants · 25/03/2014 13:45

Oh God I absolutely have to know how this one ends.....

everythinghippie29 · 25/03/2014 13:46

Wow. I hope she was joking or you will have to forever be wary of the coco bananas neighbour downstairs!
Although, if we are now allowed to get angry with people about the laws of physics, I'm going to have to find someone to blame for gravitys shameless attack on my boobs...

drivenfromdistraction · 25/03/2014 13:46

Excellent reply. I would be giving her a very wide berth from now on. No more off the cuff chats!

Fluffycloudland77 · 25/03/2014 13:46

There will be insulation in place anyway.

Building regs isn't it? Confused

MaidOfStars · 25/03/2014 13:49

Tell her to consider the heating she gives you a trade-off for being rescued first in a fire.

TheOneWithTheHair · 25/03/2014 13:50

Any reply from bonkers woman yet?

itiswhatitiswhatitis · 25/03/2014 13:51

Surely she is joking? Surely? (Secretly hopes she's not. Sorry OP!)

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