My fucking neighbours

[CindersCatsSister]

We have just finished a kitchen extension. 6 month build with all the attendant stresses. Older neighbours (late 60s) next door have for the hump because we raised the floor meaning that now they can see into our kitchen. We can’t see into their house at all. They’ve been on at us throughout the build to have the window frosted over, I’ve said no, I’m putting in plain glass and if needs be I’ll put some film over it.
Build finished 5 mins ago, I’ve been up to my ears in fucking homeschooling and working and life and all the bullshit and she sends her husband over to shout at us because there’s no film on the window and ‘I don’t want to see you in your kitchen, it’s like a shop window’. Said window is 135 x 50cm. Also, it’s facing onto their garden which is about 20 metres from the window. So it’s not in their face. I don’t necessarily think they’re wrong, if it’s pissing them off it’s pissing them off and ITS ON MY FUCKING LIST but just FUCK OFF YOU CUNTS WHY DOES IT MATTER??
Many thanks, I feel better now.

@Poppy209

....and their age is relevant why????

Because they’re having a different lockdown experience to me so their priorities and expectations are massively out of kilter with mine.

Plus they’re Daily Mail Brexiteers. That’s relevant because it shows they’re cunts.

feel so, not... fer do

Do you have a windowsill there that you could put some plants on?

Our really lovely neighbour didn't object to planning for a high level window facing his garden (upstairs window starts at 5' high and is only 30cm high and 8m from the boundary) but once the glass was in he moaned. As it's high you can see less from it than from the existing bedroom window but we filmed it anyway. In your situation I'd just ignore them at that distance!!

My other neighbours are 74 and 89 and we love each other. The 74 year old who lives alone rings me every Sunday for a chat, we had a proper good bitch about the cunt neighbours earlier. But she didn’t call them cunts because she’s a lady and I’m not.

I’ve filled the windowsill with plants but that’s not good enough, apparently

@CindersCatsSister

I might get bespoke window film with the whole family giving them the finger etched on it.

You sound a very aggressive and self centred person. It's all about you, how you've endured a long building project etc etc - well, so have they! And if they can see into your kitchen, then you can presumably see into their house. That's what they're not liking.

I can’t see their problem if they are that far away. I can see into our neighbours since their extension and they can see into our kitchen. It doesn’t bother me though it did when he used to look into our sitting room one which faces and is on the street. I put up a bar with a half curtain. Some lace I bought in France he’s too short to see over that! We can see into their hall if we really looked. We have about the same distance as you. I could understand more if you were closer though my DS2 ‘s neighbour can see into DS2’s kitchen when he comes out of his back door they both just wave. Ds2 is half his neighbours age and they get on great.
I think they just don’t like your extension. We had nine years of noise and mess between both neighbours neither gave us so much as a box of chocolates. I would buy something leave it with a lovely note and hope that helps. I would not be putting film on or put the chimp one on and see how long before they ask you to take it off. Roman blinds left half down perhaps if you want to do something for yourselves.

Wow. No doubt your neighbours have had to suffer 6 months of stress with all the noise and disruption from your building works.

You sound like a right charmer who couldn't give a shit about other people and if I were your neighbour I'd be pretty pissed off too.

Why are you so intent in winding up your neighbours?

They’ve put up with half a year of building works.

It isn’t that ‘they can see into your new kitchen now’, obviously, it’s because they think you can now see into their garden.

It’s very considerate of you to put frosted film on. Inform your neighbours you will do this as soon as you can.

If that doesn’t settle both parties, then you’re both as bad as eachother and can look forward to the rest of your life in that house harrassing eachother.

Not worth it, is it. So may as well just put the frost film up asap and everyone’s happy.

Why do some people enjoy warring with their neighbours? I don’t get it.

So you are overlooking their garden then ? With the raised floor you can see more of it than before and they probably lost some privacy. Put frosted glass in.

You didn’t answer whether they objected to planning permission and whether you now overlook their garden?

You've subjected them to a 6 month build during lockdown. They hate you OP.

100% get the mirror film.

Oh simmer down, I’m not winding anyone up, I’ve been lovely to their (mad) faces and I’m putting the stupid bastard film up, I was just having a vent because the contrast between their life, in which they have time to get areated about a window and mine, which is running at warp speed, did my head in tonight.

No, they were fine with the planning. And no, I can’t see into theirs - their higher up than me so they can see in.

Sorry but bllx to that would I be putting anything on my kitchen window. You are miles away from their gaff, and from what you said it isn't window facing window. If they were older I'd say they were just being moany old holes but they aren't that old.

My old house my bedroom could see into neighbours garden and vice versa. Also the landing window faced other neighbours and was close enough we could talk to each other.

This house I can actually see from my living room, down the drive, across the road and across the neighbours drive into their living room and they us. No problems what so ever!

If you can't see into theirs and you've put plants up, then stuff them.

Maybe they like to have sex in their car on their driveway and now you will be able to perve on them?

I can’t quite understand the arrangement where you wouldn’t be able to see into their garden but being practical your window looks to be right on their border, if they’re not happy they’ll put a fence which would be worse as you’ll get no light.

If they were fine with the planning what's happened since seems to have pissed them right off. You decided to have building works, you will benefit from them. They didn't choose it, have had no control over it and won't benefit from it. You are all about your own problems, do you think Covid may be causing problems in their lives too? Like it is for everyone.

@Cluckycluck

Or you could put a TV at the window for them to see 'Oh I thought you wanted me to put a film on!'

Why the fuck would you frost a window you don't want to frost to please your neighbours?!!

Tell the cheeky twats to frost their own fucking glass so they can't see out!!

They sound bonkers. I wouldn’t do it

Where's your boundary fence? I can't tell on that diagram? Is there not a fence in between?

My elderly parents had neighbours like this. They (neighbours) had a front bay window installed whereas before both theirs and my parents front windows were ' flush' to the wall next to each other (semi detached) l remember my late brother who still lived with dps saying that every bastard time he drove into the drive the ndn would be gawping out the window at him and when we looked out of our front window there was the bloody neighbour standing in her side bay window looking straight at you. Drove him and my parents mad. They refused to raise the fence so my uncle who was a landscape gardener and had seen similar arguments before put a tall plant in a tub in my dps garden nearly right up to the boundary fence and obscuring ndns viewing /noseying post completely.