Can you get yo your neighbours via the loft?

[blacknredsweeties]

Just wondered how common it is?

😂😂😂 Nothing she couldn't get up to in her house surely?

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We bought a mid-terrace Victorian property in 2000 and the owners had to build a dividing wall in the loft to separate the properties as a condition of our mortgage. From memory it was due to fire risk.

Just to add. It's not a phobia I don't think about it often. 😂😂
I'm my loft quite a bit.

The row opposite us did, the naughty chap living in the end house tried to escape from the police via it and came out 3 doors down 😂

You'd think... but she likes to interfere with things that don't belong to her. She stopped last time when we involved the police!

Why does it matter? It's just a message board and they're both referencing memories. It's not a court of law, it's just chinwagging.

1920's terrace, roof pitch slopes down to the party wall, but leaving a gap of about 10". Could easily get a spaniel through. Just one patch where the joists are a long way apart, i reckon if I laid down with a rope around my ankles i could be pulled through the gap.

I've got the weirdest shaped roof on my house and the bit that joins to next door (1979/80 semi) is only about a foot and a half tall. So I doubt it

Tia Sharp

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Tia_Sharp

We live in a detached , but you can get from the loft hatch in the garage to the loft hatch in the house . My dh Has a habit of leaving the garage unlocked and a ladder is is accessible and almost in place for easy access up the ladder . I've had actual nightmares about it.

The picture you posted is the secret passageway a neighbour made to break into his neighbours house and kill them with a crossbow.

https://metro.co.uk/2021/04/18/crossbow-killer-made-secret-loft-passage-before-murdering-neighbour-14428442/

I live in a 1920's terrace and there are no firewalls between the lofts of the attached houses. I can see the lofts of 5 houses. All of the loft spaces are empty apart from mine which has boxes of Christmas decorations, camping gear and tat. It's slightly embarrassing. My loft hatch can't be opened from above so no fear of anyone getting in my house

No thank god, my friend's next door neighbour (well their teenage son) used to come into her house at night regularly through the loft when she'd just split up with her husband. Can't remember all the details now as it was years ago, but he went to prison for a while.

It doesn’t matter to me.

I just dislike the deliberate perpetuation of scaremongering stories with zero basis in fact for all the idiots to latch onto then regurgitate down the line when a genuinely vulnerable poster is afraid someone has been in her house.

Wasn’t that a plot on coronation street? Didn’t Les battersby fall through the ceiling?

Yes I noticed. I saw this after i posted.

Oh god mine is rammed. Christmas stuff. Toys. Suitcases. Baby clothes.

That must have been a shock 😲

I grew up in a house like that. Victorian terrace in central London.

I lived in a house as a child in the 80s and my room was in the attic space. It was a large victorian house. There was a cupboard with a small door - hatch size with a simple lock. I could open the small door and the neighbour could open theirs ( and did if I knocked) also a child. We did this a lot! It is quite spooky thinking about it now.

I live in a council house that’s terraced and after having a mice infestation in my attic I’ve never poked my head up enough to find out so I couldn’t tell you 😂 genuinely got a fear but pest control did tell me the critters were making their way through all of our attics through the connected lofts so the mice definitely can, not sure about humans

He was watching telly in Emily’s house having entered through the attic.

I think it was Maureen and Reg who fell through a ceiling - in their water bed 😃

No, we are mid-terrace built around 1910. Our loft hatch also is bolted on the landing side

In theory I can get into my neighbours house via the loft and him into mine. But its a small gap - not sure its big enough for a human. And on my side there is a door that locks plus masses of my stuff stacked in front of it so whilst its technically possible in reality it isnt.