To want to leave a couple of windows open when we go out for the day?

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I am obsessed with letting in fresh air so the house smells nice and on a warm breezy day like today it’s perfect. Husband, however, is obsessed with closing the house up tight even if we are out for 30 minutes.

We live in a safe area and I would close the ground floor windows of course. We live in. 4 story townhouse so All the other windows would require a ladder or scaffolding to reach. He claims that we would ‘invalidate the insurance’ if a window was open during a break in even if they didn’t use that window. He’s crazy, right?

No he’s not crazy-and he’s right re:insurance. However, I’m the same as you and drive my DH mad for leaving windows open -and doors😱-

At my old house a few years ago I left a bedroom window open whilst I went on the school run
I was gone 20mins.
It was a back bedroom window that like you, would need ladders to access. In those 20mins my house had been ransacked 😔

It's just not worth the risk unfortunately.

Christ. He sounds anal. Leave a 4th floor window open and live a little!

I'm with your husband. It isn't worth the risk. I'd never consider it.

He's not crazy! Someone climbed in my sister's tiny bathroom window when she nipped to the shop for ten minutes - stole thousands of pounds worth of stuff before she got back. Her insurers paid out eventually but she had to fight them for months.

Sounds fine to me, as you say you live in a safe area.

My old neighbours got burgled through an upstairs window in the middle of the afternoon. A few days later one of the other neighbours asked what work they’d had done as she’d seen the workman up a ladder

I live on a busy street and house is quite prominent. I leave first floor windows open all the time. At the back anyone would have to climb over a few garden fences. I leave my back door open if just going out for 30 min or so. But I also have two dogs who would bark (and then help a burglar carry stuff to the car if they could)!
My son has frequently left the huge ground floor front window wide open (it’s his hang out room) overnight or during the day 🙄🙄. But as I said anyone doing anything would be observed as there’s a traffic light near my house too.
My old ground floor flat was broken into and I told the police that the first floor flat’s owners were away and she said they rarely had problems above ground level (this was London). It was opportunistic as they must have seen my flatmate lock the door and so knew it was empty as I was home within the hour.

My nanny once went out to the supermarket, all bedroom doors locked, only left one of the high small windows ajar. Came back and all her jewellery was stolen. Police said they must’ve put a child through to window!

Air the house out when you’re home.