What’s behind it?
A door. Door-frame and hinges are showing, but there’s no knob. The door is sealed/painted shut.
Um, yeah. We’ve already established that.
No, it’s padlocked from the OP’s side.
Hmm…does this mean that the OP is now obligated to assume the role of “they”? Wonder what happened to the previous “they” – stuffed behind the padlocked hatch, perhaps?
Have you gotten the bolt cutters yet, or are you going to pansy out and just ask the upstairs neighbour if they have a hatch they can’t open?
The hatch is padlocked on your side?
Was someone trying to keep something from entering?
Nail the door back.
SCREW it back.
Now!
But if the door is painted shut they wouldn’t be able to get to anything.
So what about that box? I just now clicked on the image link. I didn’t see it before. There’s a yellow box with a radiation symbol? :eek:
Maybe you should be calling somebody (just not on *that *phone). I’m not sure who. A local hospital’s radiology department? A college physics department? The fire department?
Woosh…
Woosh yourself. Just going along with the joke. I thought it was obvious.
It wasn’t.
It’s a great time-saver.
I guess it’s obvious it wasn’t obvious… Obviously.
Maybe the key to the lock is taped under the table or the phone?
Are you going to cut the lock open? I would!
Phillip Marlowe would open it with a paper clip.
I’m in the US, and here, I’m pretty sure that if cutting the lock would give you access to the next tenant’s space, it would be illegal. Don’t know what you laws are. I think you may be free to make use of the space, though.
In the US, we don’t get taxed by room, but I understand that in some European countries, that has happened at various times, so if there ever was some kind of dumbwaiter access with a phone for ordering shopping lists that came from the kitchen (maybe your basement was servant’s quarters), it was sealed so as not to be taxed, if you are in a tax-by-room country. I don’t know all the ins and outs, but maybe it you cover the hatches, and take the door off completely, it becomes an alcove, and noy a separate room.
Or, you could just shut the door back up whenever the landlord comes to inspect. Put a magnetic catch on it, and then you can use a knob that doesn’t turn, and is held on by a screw, and can come off quickly. I had a hall closet that closed this way.
In Arkansas we pay personal property taxes on how many rooms the house has. It is supposed to be indicative of how much stuff you own.
You only paint it shut if you can get to the space from some other entry-way.
I stand corrected. I’ve lived several places, and taxes have always been on footage. Too many people people will just try and get out of the room rule with wardrobes and folding walls.