Where would you secretly place a letter you have written to an old building you are leaving ?
I am housekeeper in an old house and have written the building a little note dated with Roman Numerals which I do not want to be found by anyone.
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ElwoodBlues · M
Depends on the details of the building, how old it is.
Are there built-in drawers? Take out the top drawer, tape it to the underside of whatever is above the top drawer. Or tape it to the underside of some drawer. Is there a suspended ceiling anywhere? Above a random ceiling tile in a corner. Or you may even be able to drop it down inside a wall behind the plaster. Is there a crawl space above the top floor ceiling? Should be plenty of options up there. Are there big air vents? Take off the vent cover and see if you can slip it between the vent & the plaster so it's outside the vent in the wall space. Fold it up and stick it in an electric box behind a socket?
Are there built-in drawers? Take out the top drawer, tape it to the underside of whatever is above the top drawer. Or tape it to the underside of some drawer. Is there a suspended ceiling anywhere? Above a random ceiling tile in a corner. Or you may even be able to drop it down inside a wall behind the plaster. Is there a crawl space above the top floor ceiling? Should be plenty of options up there. Are there big air vents? Take off the vent cover and see if you can slip it between the vent & the plaster so it's outside the vent in the wall space. Fold it up and stick it in an electric box behind a socket?
JamieYahoo · M
@ElwoodBlues It is 1820's . Thank you for the helpful answer. I will try visit the attic tomorrow.
ElwoodBlues · M
@JamieYahoo Yeah, in a building that old the attic floor boards will probably have shrunk and there'll be spaces between floorboards wide enough to slip an envelope. And there may be places that allow you to slip it into the top of a wall of the floor below.
If you're thinking of prying up a floorboard, old wood gets very very hard, so nails will be hard to pry and need to be driven back into their old holes. Good luck!!
If you're thinking of prying up a floorboard, old wood gets very very hard, so nails will be hard to pry and need to be driven back into their old holes. Good luck!!