Loft and security

Fireflyaway

Might sound silly / paranoid but I live in a rented terrace. Technically could someone from a neighboring house go in their loft and wonder over our house? I'm scared of heights and not looked in the loft! Are loft spaces usually partitioned off?

G_M

Some are some aren't.

Only one way to find out - we can't tell you!

davidmcn

Fireflyaway wrote: »

I'm scared of heights and not looked in the loft!

Then get someone who isn't scared to look in your loft, and then they can tell you how paranoid you ought to be.

discat11

TBF most are portioned IME, if you're worried then you need to check, if it's not partitioned then put a lock on the loft hatch.

Doesn't the building survey tell you?

Fireflyaway

Thanks I guess that is the obvious solution!
Seems very insecure that a neighbour could potentially be walking around over your house or even drop through the hatch! Arghh! I think its because we haven't been here long and I'm still getting used to the noises that this came to mind. We are renting this place and it wasn't mentioned either way.

G_M

I'd be more concerned about the fact that you haven't changed the front door lock.

The previous owner's teenage daughter's boyfriend's brother had a key which he gave to his girlfriend's sister's friend who's a drug addict.

Fireflyaway

G_M wrote: »

I'd be more concerned about the fact that you haven't changed the front door lock.

The previous owner's teenage daughter's boyfriend's brother had a key which he gave to his girlfriend's sister's friend who's a drug addict.

Oh no. He was very good and dropped the key off soon after we moved in. Ha ha! You have a very good point. I still have keys to my old house. I had a very strange dream that I sneaked in when the new occupiers were out and stole the contents of their fridge! :rotfl:

sevenhills

Fireflyaway wrote: »

Oh no. He was very good and dropped the key off soon after we moved in. Ha ha! You have a very good point. I still have keys to my old house. I had a very strange dream that I sneaked in when the new occupiers were out and stole the contents of their fridge! :rotfl:

I never seem to throw keys away, I keep them on hooks, forgotten what most of them are for

G_M

Fireflyaway wrote: »

Oh no. He was very good and dropped the key off soon after we moved in.

Well that lulled you into a false sense of security. He made a copy first!. Come 3 O'clock tonight...........

PasturesNew

My neighbour/builder at a house I used to own told me he'd been called to a house to investigate a noise in the loft. He couldn't get the loft hatch open (it pushed upwards), so he had to cut it open ... and there was another layer .... so he cut through that ... and found he was in the middle of a living room that a neighbour had illegally created because the lofts weren't separated. Neighbour had created a new space up there and rented it out.

Fireflyaway

Wow that's scary! We had a workman come round and he popped up and reported back that there were quite a few things up there - music system, play station games etc but I never asked if its divided. I assumed the previous tennant left some stuff but maybe its the neighbours.
I would have thought for security that lofts would automatically be sectioned off but obviously not.