Apparently I'm weird for shutting 1st floor windows at night because burglars don't like to enter through 1st floor windows?

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I reminded OH to shut the bathroom window before bedtime, because it is a safety issue. He said, why? I said, because it's not safe to leave it open all night, it's not a small window, it'll be an easy entry point for burglars. He said I was weird to think this and that burglars do not particularly want to use a ladder to get into someone's house via an open window on the 1st floor. I was just so shocked that he can even think that! Please fellow mumsnetters, tell me I'm not being unreasonable to think this!

What do you mean? Spider-Man might get into my bedroom without a ladder, but anyone else would need to bring some means of getting up to it with them.

A family member was murdered many years ago by someone who entered through a first floor window. Just saying...

All insurance does. You could leave your door open and you’re still covered if you get burgled. As long as you’re in the house at the time.

We had our house burgled as students after entry from a small upstairs toilet window after shimmying up the drain pipe. We caught the young addict making it down the stairs, we sat on him until the police came. He was a know regular to them! Unfortunately the judiciary system didn't feel the need for imprisonment.
Most windows now can be locked slightly open to let some air circulation whilst stopping them being opened.

I watched a lot of cbs crime drama during lockdown and most random murderers entered by unlocked or unsecured doors so mine are locked but upstairs windows are wide open. I'll take my chances

Blimey wish I hadn't read this thread now

Men like Luke McHugh are the reason I wouldn't sleep with my windows wide open.
Annoyingly my phone won't let me link the article, but it's horrific.

We have our bedroom windows open all year round.

We currently have no kitchen windows at all. My husband removed them to do work on them 🤔I am relying on the dog to alert us to an axe murderer climbing in tonight.

Gosh our upstairs windows are open all year round, I dont understand people who dont have fresh air in the house

Bathroom window open all year round. Currently have small windows open in every bedroom & on the landing. Won’t shut them till autumn.
only a small child could enter that way though an adult could put an arm through & open the big windows. (Some of which are locked but not all, I want to be able to get out if there’s a fire)
I like a breeze throughout my house. Certainly couldn’t sleep with the windows closed

Our burglars were more than happy to enter through a 1st floor window the robbing bastards

I have been subject to a home invasion whilst in bed, but I still sleep with the bedroom windows open.
The intruder entered via the back door which was not only unlocked, but left wide open by my ex husband.
I check the doors are double locked, but wave the windows open.
That said I now live somewhere that my neighbours leave their keys in the outside of their front door locks and one of them confessed they lost the door key for three months. We all have 'open door household insurance'.
I suppose also now an intruder would have to get over the long gravel track with out disturbing any of the dogs that live on our group of houses.

My bedroom window is just above the flat roof of a ground floor extension. The only intruder I have had so far is a large smelly cat 😂

Scared the living daylights out of me at 2am the little blighter.

Still leave the window open but I now stick a box in the gap to discourage him. Seems to be working.
I'm considering putting a grate or something up. Even more so after reading this thread.

Hmm ok fair enough, I don't know where you're from but I'm a retired Scottish cop and unless you leave ladders lying outside your house it's a less probability that housebreakers will enter through the first floor. They don't tend to walk the streets with a set of ladders, that draws attention to them 🙄

Our bedroom and bathroom windows are open at night/daytime most of the year (except in the winter because its too cold!) Impossible to sleep in the summer without them open.

Keeping them closed due to worries about burglary (or being throttled - one of the suggestions upthread!) is being rather neurotic imho. The actual likelihood of a burglar entering your house is I think minimal. Yes burglaries happen..............but not enough to worry about it so much.

Her house was short enough that a wheelie bun was enough to allow housebreaker to get to the first floor? Was he 11 feet tall?

I couldn't sleep with the bedroom window closed.

My bedroom windows are locked in the slightly open position at night. All other first floor windows are closed and locked. I would not sleep with windows open and I'm surprised about the number of people who don't think a burglar could get in without a ladder. A friend of mine was babysitting years ago and burglars broke in through a first floor window whilst she was down stairs.

We leave the ground floor and first floor windows open all the time. We also close the doors but don’t lock them. There’s two of us, myself and husband, but I still do the same when I’m on my own.

Also the car doors are left unlocked and windows are open 24/7, especially in hot weather.

We live in a small village which is very safe, it’s just what we’ve become accustomed to.

I leave my upstairs windows open 24/7 even if we are out or away for a couple of days.

I do close them in winter, well bedroom one stays open in winter otherwise I can't sleep 😕

When I was young and I'd forgotten my key, I'd climb upto my 1st bedroom window. Quite adept at it and could do it without waking up my parents.
I wouldn't leave my any windows open.

I have been burgled. TWICE!

now I realise I might not be the perfect advert for home security but both burglaries involved my front door, burglars don’t carry large tools, they need to make a quick get away and keep a low profile.

all they need is a screw driver and some lock picks, they have a dance on insta/tik tok that is the exact movement they use to break the locks into your house. It’s vile but there is a lot of them, 3 people have been caught on cameras creeping through my dead end street, in balaclavas, in the last 3 months.

They are just looking for your car keys - leave them out of sight but easily found, they steal 5/10 cars a night per group of 4/6 in my area - they aren’t doing anything risky or overly strenuous like climbing ladders to get into an open window - the little shits only get paid £30/50 per car they Knick. It’s all for parts and it’s getting worse as there is a global car part shortage

Bedroom window open all year round even if it blowing a gale outside. DH gets over hot at night. Bathroom window open most nights too.

I actually think people having upper level windows open shows signs of life in a house and someone sleeping in that very room, the casual burglar wouldn’t risk it, unless your in a fancy fancy house where they can make thousands out of a hit.

more people should have windows open, employ milk men, get security lights and just look after each other.

my milkman has told me that he has scared off quite a few would be burglars!!

I wouldn't leave the windows of unoccupied first floor rooms open overnight unless it was really hot, but we do keep bedroom windows open all year round. In London too!