Tenement Communal Areas – Leaving Shoes Outside Flat Door

Its threads like these that make me soooo grateful I live in a detached house!

Honestly, in the list of bad neighbour problems, shoes outside the door shouldn’t even feature on the list. Off the top of my head I’ve had

A rapist downstairs
The guy who played 30 seconds of a Beyonce tune at full blast 10 times a day
The old alcoholic that screamed non stop homophobic abuse and threatened to stab me
The young team that would chap my door early on weekend mornings to beg for booze as the off licence wasn’t open yet
The guy who I’m fairly certain removed all insulation and plasterboard from his side of the wall just so he could listen to me shagging
The hot girl who used to open her front door and hoover her hall in her lingerie (that wasn’t all bad though she was mental)
The weed factory
The drugs emporium

If shoes are all you have to worry about then you’re lucky

I think mikewsmith would only scare the vocabulary police.

Oh no they have deleted his post! Sorry Mike.

With hindsight having a chat rather than putting a note through the door would have been far better. OK so the bloke in the next flat collared the lady I share with on the top floor outside our flat. He then shouted at her and followed her all the way down the stairs (3 floors), with arms raised I may add, followed her out into the street still having a go, and then when a car appeared to collect my flatmate he suddenly disappeared back inside. If it was up to me I would happily deal with it in ‘other ways’ but it is not worth going down that route.

Mental illness? Tread carefully.

Oh how I enjoyed living between two challenging neighbours in my Edinburgh tenement days.

Erm…. this is all well and good fun and everything… but does anybody actually know the answer to my query?

I really like the slug idea – i mean, how did that slug get all the way up there? It’s not impossible, but certainly improbable – especially as he’s brought half a mouldy cabbage with him 😕

ASBO

The guy who I’m fairly certain removed all insulation and plasterboard from his side of the wall just so he could listen to me shagging

How did you find out? Did you spot it through the spyhole?

Erm…. this is all well and good fun and everything… but does anybody actually know the answer to my query?

Where’s the enjoyment in that?

Drugs, cars, kids, shit, now shoes

Dammit Bob, can’t believe I missed Beyonce and sound voyeurism! 😆

How did you find out? Did you spot me through the spyhole?

FTFY (you dirty perve).

How did you find out? Did you spot it through the spyhole?

As long as it wasnt a larger hole used to stick something through! 😉

Granny knot shoes to their door handle?
Hoof shoes downstairs as you leave?
Leave a rubbish bag in the communal area?
Uncooked stuffing mix placed inside shoe(s)?
😆

Erm…. this is all well and good fun and everything… but does anybody actually know the answer to my query?

As in:

Am I correct in thinking that this is in fact against the law

Almost certainly not….

But if you think it is, you should call the Police asap.

Get a cat.
Train it to poo in shoes (often they don’t need any training).
Hide your own shoes.
Sorted.

Erm…. this is all well and good fun and everything… but does anybody actually know the answer to my query?

Are you new here?

Start leaving ever-more-ridiculous shoes of your own blocking the entire hallway. Finish off with one of those fibreglass ones with a slide you used to see at theme pubs.

🙂 🙂 🙂

Chip in together for a shoe rack?

tie the laces together and lob them over the nearest telephone wire?

I’d probably end up just kicking them about the top floor, tah or leave the close door open with a note and arrow upstairs saying ‘free shoes’

His living room was next to my bedroom. Old tenement flat so the walls were very thick, yet for some reason you could hear what each side was doing with frightening clarity. As though they were actually in the room with you. I hadn’t done anything on my side so I can only guess that he had stripped layers away. He was very odd. Truck driver. Fitted every stereotype.

He was very odd. Truck driver. Fitted every stereotype.

Did you pull out without indicating? That will have riled him.

Sikaflex them to the ceiling..

or nail them to the floor!

andykirk’s next door neighbour…

In answer to the OP’s original question, no it’s not illegal to leave shoes in the hallway. Communal escape routes should be clear of obstructions. The main issues are usually bikes locked in hallways or buggies/pushchairs.
The landlord/freeholder should have regular fire risk assessments depending on the deemed risk of the building. The risk assessment will record any issues and it will be passed back to the landlord to act accordingly.
Usually, the assessment picks up missing signs, defective fire doors etc and it’s a simple case of a maintenance/repair job to bring the block up to standard.
In your case, I’d contact your managing agent or landlord and put the question to them. The best you can hope for is a letter from the landlord to your neighbours but it depends on whether a fire risk assessment deems the shoes an “obstruction”.

Are they Japanese?

andykirk’s next door neighbour…

Proper LOL 😀

LOL@

Finish off with one of those fibreglass ones with a slide
you used to see at theme pubs.

good work all, proper good laugh. We’re still awaiting picture of shoes!

Thank you dknwhy. Yes well done all, 64 posts to get an answer is pretty good going.

I’d opt for one of the following. High strength adhesive to bond the shoes too the floor or maybe his door. Cat or dog poo (your preference) in the shoes. Start using them to keep old, unwashed socks in. Plant watercress in them. If they’re decent shoes simply borrow them for doing anything that will involve them being ruined. Communal area, so must be communal shoes!

I bet all his pairs of shoes look like this..

Has no one seen “The One’s Below” leaving shoes in front of the door can all very quickly escalate!

Slug/toe interface is always a pleasureable sensation.

After a long day walking on the Island of Kerrera I discovered that a slug had hitched a ride in my boot. To say it took a long time to clean out my boots and my sock is no exaggeration and getting slug slime from under your fingernails is no easy task.

Invest some time fraying the laces to the point they will snap.

Place a little stone under the insole.

It’s funny how minor that seems when you’re not there, and in the grand scheme of things it really is, but its things like these that drive you crazy!

Get a cat.
Train it to poo in shoes

Close encounters of the Turd kind?

The hot girl who used to open her front door and hoover her hall in her lingerie

Best euphemism ever.

<reports dknwhy>

Itching powder.

Or just keep pulling the laces through so one side is longer, or adding knots so it’s difficult to tie the shoes 🙂

is he waiting for you to clean and polish them? do a good job might get a tip

Take them (presume you see them before he gets up?) and put them into a charity box. Deny all knowledge if he confronts you about it. Continue to do this until either 1. he stops 2. runs out of shoes.

Either way it will stop. Problem solved.

Alternatively, ring on door, and tell him that’s what you’ll do…