I'm glad his bathroom was hidden from plain view.
What type of house did he live in that has a three foot crawl space? isn't that considered an "attic".
Did he think that space was the mountains?
What roof has an opening through which one can enter? Skylight?
This story is leaky.
“What type of house did he live in that has a three foot crawl space? isn’t that considered an “attic”.”
A TP hoarders house...
“isn’t that considered an “attic”.”
Darn millennial writers. I hope she doesn’t do a DIY column on Sundays.
It would be interesting to know how old the house is. The original builders would have provided some kind of access: stairs in some cases but often just a hatch. The original attic hatch in my house was in the front bedroom closet, which was wildly inconvenient and an exceedingly tight squeeze. That's ok if all that's needed is a way for an electrician to get up there once every 50 years. (We also have old gas pipes up there to serve the original gas lighting fixtures; those were disconnected when the house was electrified, but the pipes were never removed.) The closet hatch is not ok, however, if you want to convert the space into storage. A rooftop hatch would be weird, but I suppose someone might have done that in the course of a major renovation, perhaps when the house was completely rewired or a new HVAC system was installed. I wonder if a rooftop deck or an added room might be involved. Either would require stairs through the attic space, and that would be an obvious place to put a hatch into the crawlspace. The story says the entry was out of plain view, so I'm guessing some later construction was involved.
“What type of house did he live in that has a three foot crawl space? isn’t that considered an “attic”.”
Might have been some kind of dropped ceiling to make the room easier to heat.