Loft inaccessible - can I leave it that way when selling?

74jax

I'm favorite-ing this post for when it's eventually opened.... 😂 

Slinky

I think we should all be invited round for a loft-opening party

Silvertabby

Another one keeping an eye on this thread!

We bought our house as a new build, so no surprises for us - but a friend found a complete set of Le-Crueset cast iron pans and casserole dishes in near perfect condition in hers.  They had bought the house from an elderly lady who had moved into a care home, so assumed that the pans had been relegated to the attic when they became too heavy for her.

2bFrank

Reminds me of a job we did once, customer never opened her hatch, Ignorance is bliss I guess, anyways finally had to go in the loft to trace some wires as her RCB kept tripping taking out half the house.

We couldn't get the hatch open, managed to pull it off the hinge and the hatch was still blocked by some plywood, using our full force pushed up, managed to finally break in, nothing too inconspicuous at first, although one of the neighbour took over the whole loft (row of four houses, customer was at end, was no walls between houses in loft) storing rubbish, I mean literal rubbish.

After fighting with the millions of flies and get over the smell, managed to trace the wiring, the end neighbour had spliced into the other neighbours electrics, every single wire that was accessible had a splice in it. We had no idea how it was wired in the neighbours property, we knocked on but they wouldn't let us in, and just blamed ignorance. Contacted the police but they wasn't interested, DNO took an interest but no idea of the outcome, we had to go and check every cable and remove and replace any that was spliced. We could only touch the customers cables as well, the other two neighbours were still spliced (we let them know, but they didn't seem that interested).

Absolute nightmare of a job that, the customer kept complained about high electric bills to electric company but they never investigated. Would have loved to see how it was wired in the end neighbours property, they must have has some weird circuits set up.

NameUnavailable

I bought a house and there's a door to one room that's 'stuck'. I've tried all the keys in the lock but none seem to work so I just left it. I do wonder what's in there though, any ideas?

When I first moved in I would hear some sort of muffled cries for help and a bit of 'fingernails on a blackboard' scratching, but I put those down to the typical odd noises you get in an old house. Now I think of if I don't hear them anymore.

Bonniepurple

NameUnavailable said:

I bought a house and there's a door to one room that's 'stuck'. I've tried all the keys in the lock but none seem to work so I just left it. I do wonder what's in there though, any ideas?

When I first moved in I would hear some sort of muffled cries for help and a bit of 'fingernails on a blackboard' scratching, but I put those down to the typical odd noises you get in an old house. Now I think of if I don't hear them anymore.

Is there a grim smell coming from behind the door?!

Bendy_House

NameUnavailable said:

I bought a house and there's a door to one room that's 'stuck'. I've tried all the keys in the lock but none seem to work so I just left it. I do wonder what's in there though, any ideas?

When I first moved in I would hear some sort of muffled cries for help and a bit of 'fingernails on a blackboard' scratching, but I put those down to the typical odd noises you get in an old house. Now I think of if I don't hear them anymore.

Was this around the same time as your wife left you, without as much as a by your leave?

Hmm, I have news for you - she didn't leave.