Ingenuity needed retrieving item dropped through letterbox
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Multi-stage solution here.
Become a Double glazing/conservatory/Door salesman.
Sell whoever owns the property a door like this:
Get the old door removed, and the new door fitted by your employee.
Once he or she is finished it should be much easier to reach through the letterbox and get the key.
Become a Double glazing/conservatory/Door salesman.
Sell whoever owns the property a door like this:
Get the old door removed, and the new door fitted by your employee.
Once he or she is finished it should be much easier to reach through the letterbox and get the key.
talksthetorque said:
Multi-stage solution here.
Become a Double glazing/conservatory/Door salesman.
Sell whoever owns the property a door like this:
Get the old door removed, and the new door fitted by your employee.
Once he or she is finished it should be much easier to reach through the letterbox and get the key.
Become a Double glazing/conservatory/Door salesman.
Sell whoever owns the property a door like this:
Get the old door removed, and the new door fitted by your employee.
Once he or she is finished it should be much easier to reach through the letterbox and get the key.
Surely, any door can be fitted and while the employee is fitting said door, step in and pick up the envelope.
Hoofy said:
talksthetorque said:
Multi-stage solution here.
Become a Double glazing/conservatory/Door salesman.
Sell whoever owns the property a door like this:
Get the old door removed, and the new door fitted by your employee.
Once he or she is finished it should be much easier to reach through the letterbox and get the key.
Become a Double glazing/conservatory/Door salesman.
Sell whoever owns the property a door like this:
Get the old door removed, and the new door fitted by your employee.
Once he or she is finished it should be much easier to reach through the letterbox and get the key.
Surely, any door can be fitted and while the employee is fitting said door, step in and pick up the envelope.
Johnspex said:
Hoofy said:
talksthetorque said:
Multi-stage solution here.
Become a Double glazing/conservatory/Door salesman.
Sell whoever owns the property a door like this:
Get the old door removed, and the new door fitted by your employee.
Once he or she is finished it should be much easier to reach through the letterbox and get the key.
Become a Double glazing/conservatory/Door salesman.
Sell whoever owns the property a door like this:
Get the old door removed, and the new door fitted by your employee.
Once he or she is finished it should be much easier to reach through the letterbox and get the key.
Surely, any door can be fitted and while the employee is fitting said door, step in and pick up the envelope.
Hoofy said:
Johnspex said:
Hoofy said:
talksthetorque said:
Multi-stage solution here.
Become a Double glazing/conservatory/Door salesman.
Sell whoever owns the property a door like this:
Get the old door removed, and the new door fitted by your employee.
Once he or she is finished it should be much easier to reach through the letterbox and get the key.
Become a Double glazing/conservatory/Door salesman.
Sell whoever owns the property a door like this:
Get the old door removed, and the new door fitted by your employee.
Once he or she is finished it should be much easier to reach through the letterbox and get the key.
Surely, any door can be fitted and while the employee is fitting said door, step in and pick up the envelope.
talksthetorque said:
Hoofy said:
Johnspex said:
Hoofy said:
talksthetorque said:
Multi-stage solution here.
Become a Double glazing/conservatory/Door salesman.
Sell whoever owns the property a door like this:
Get the old door removed, and the new door fitted by your employee.
Once he or she is finished it should be much easier to reach through the letterbox and get the key.
Become a Double glazing/conservatory/Door salesman.
Sell whoever owns the property a door like this:
Get the old door removed, and the new door fitted by your employee.
Once he or she is finished it should be much easier to reach through the letterbox and get the key.
Surely, any door can be fitted and while the employee is fitting said door, step in and pick up the envelope.
Christmas Eve one year, I was living in a shared rented house. The front door lock was inoperable due to a snapped key stuck in there, and the landlord wasn't being quick at getting the thing fixed. So we were using the back door to get in. This was the usual mortice lock for back doors, not a Yale type. My house mate decides to leave for his Christmas holiday, and when I say leave he was leaving the country for a week. He exited through the front door, and thoughtfully left his back door key in the mortice lock, so I couldn't get mine in the keyhole from outside. I was going away for Christmas that day too, inside the house were all the presents I needed to take to my family, and of course my clothes etc. This was about 6 in the evening, and we're now "out of hours" extra special Christmas call out fee zone for locksmiths. This was early 90s before anyone had a mobile phone, no chance of getting housemate back.
Then my neighbour rolled up in his van, an Irish builder he was. I tell him what's happened and after pissing himself laughing, goes in his house and comes out with his 4 year old child, a length of rope and a rubber mallet. This was a 70s house with the original wooden casement windows. He starts banging one of the casements with the mallet, the horizontal type at the top of a window. Eventually, this causes the metal latch to jump off the hook, and the window is now openable. But it's 7 feet off the ground and too small for me to get through. He ties the rope around the 4 year old and shoves him through the gap, lowering him down to the floor. Builder neighbour manages to explain to the kid that he needs to go in the kitchen and unlock the door if he wants to get out and get back to his own house for Father Christmas coming, and, after being momentarily distracted by the pile of presents under my tree, the kid twigs and manages to get the door unlocked from the inside!
And there was much rejoicing, and much beating up of my stupid frigging housemate when he got back from a week on the nest at his bird's in Belgium.
Then my neighbour rolled up in his van, an Irish builder he was. I tell him what's happened and after pissing himself laughing, goes in his house and comes out with his 4 year old child, a length of rope and a rubber mallet. This was a 70s house with the original wooden casement windows. He starts banging one of the casements with the mallet, the horizontal type at the top of a window. Eventually, this causes the metal latch to jump off the hook, and the window is now openable. But it's 7 feet off the ground and too small for me to get through. He ties the rope around the 4 year old and shoves him through the gap, lowering him down to the floor. Builder neighbour manages to explain to the kid that he needs to go in the kitchen and unlock the door if he wants to get out and get back to his own house for Father Christmas coming, and, after being momentarily distracted by the pile of presents under my tree, the kid twigs and manages to get the door unlocked from the inside!
And there was much rejoicing, and much beating up of my stupid frigging housemate when he got back from a week on the nest at his bird's in Belgium.
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