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Advice re my naked neighbour.

134 replies

Weathergames · 04/05/2015 21:02

Neighbour's bathroom overlooks my garden and is directly opposite our dining room table.

The are in the street behind my house and I think its a couple in late 20s/30s and a few young kids. I don't know them.

They do not have a blind over their bathroom window and the shower appears to be directly in front of the window.

My issue is that we (our youngest child is 8) do not really want to watch them in the shower, wanking, having sex (frequently) while we eat our dinner or sit in our garden (houses are quite close together).You can plainly see through the glass even though it is frosted.

WWYD - put up with it and live and let live or stick a blind catalogue through the door with a photo of what we can see?!

OP posts:
whiteiris · 05/05/2015 02:47

Haha love the photo, but I would hate to have to see that every day :(

Gralick · 05/05/2015 03:24

To the people suggesting mirror film - that only works when the light isn't on inside the room. If you've been relying on it, I hope you shower in the dark ...

Bifflepants · 05/05/2015 03:29

I can't believe how much you can see! Haha has made me really laugh.

Lovemylittlebear · 05/05/2015 03:46

That's hysterical....give him a creme egg :) lol xx

rootypig · 05/05/2015 05:48

I don't need it Gralick - my bathroom's actually windowless. A terrible tragedy for all who live around me.

Grin Grin Grin

But thank you for the advice.

AnyFucker · 05/05/2015 06:47

I hope nobody saw you taking that pic Shock

BadgersArse · 05/05/2015 07:09

Many lolz at pic

TapDancingMollusc · 05/05/2015 07:41

Time to put that picture through their letterbox. A picture says a thousand words!

VivaLeBeaver · 05/05/2015 07:42

Just print the picture off and put it through his door.

PlumpingThePartTimeMother · 05/05/2015 07:42

I suggest that you put a big sign on your own window saying:

To the family with 'brand name of shampoo' on the windowsill:
We can see everything you're doing in there. EVERYTHING.
We don't want to see all that! BUY A BLIND!!

That way you don't out them to everyone but they must surely get the message Grin

TenerifeSea · 05/05/2015 07:43

This cannot be true. Grin

FenellaFellorick · 05/05/2015 07:49

Yup. All you have to do is print out that picture and send it to them. Grin

24 hours later there'll be a for sale sign in the garden. Grin poor buggers.

GGabcd · 05/05/2015 07:52

So the whole thing is a wind up?

UterusUterusGhali · 05/05/2015 08:04

Nooo, Celibacy is a friend of OP irl.

Yeah print out the pic; although they may be able to tell who took it from the angle.

Maryz · 05/05/2015 08:14

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BramshawHill · 05/05/2015 08:23

Argh if you posted that photo would it be obvious from the angle that it came from you? I'd have a quiet word personally, that view would put me right off pretty much anything

Ruhrpott · 05/05/2015 08:29

I must have used an upmarket window company. I got to choose the frosted glass with a picture of a bowl of flowers on the other side! I still chose the number 5 ( highest one). We used to live in a house where you could see the neighbours showering and my sister still has a shower/bath where the window forms part of the shower. She only has a field behind her house though.

Maliceaforethought · 05/05/2015 08:34

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HellKitty · 05/05/2015 08:48

We viewed a perfect house recently, the garden has houses to the back of it but the seller said its ok as they're all frosted bathroom windows that face us. Now I'm having second thoughts...Grin

DazzleU · 05/05/2015 08:59

We were in rented - we assumed in one house the slight frosting to window wold be fine if the light wasn't on - instead found after a few weeks were flashing the street Blush.

However our landlady refused us permission to put blinds up - which we would have left or curtain rails.

We were left faffing with tension curtain rods - which always fell down Sad.

In first house we have owned - blinds went up very quickly and when it came to replacing windows we went with a very obscuring but modern pattern. You can't see anything even with light on through the frosted glass - have checked up the garden but still kept the blinds.

It's possibly they don't realise - though I think you have to find a way to alert them.

unlucky83 · 05/05/2015 09:22

I had clear glass put in my bathroom window as it is one of the rooms with a stunning view, seemed a pity to obscure it... but we are on a hill, so above anyone else, no-one facing us - unless you stood right at the window no-one can see anything ...and you can't do cos of the loo and it is chest height...
But whilst we are posting warnings - those wooden bamboo blinds are completely transparent when you have a light on.
(I lived in a 3 story terrace facing a 2 story terrace. One night in summer I had the window open and I could hear what I thought sounded like someone having sex- but on the street? Looked out the window and it was a house opposite 3 doors down, also bedroom window open but blind closed and they weren't just doing missionary under the covers Shock...did think I should warn them - there were potentially 4 or 5 other houses that had the same view - but didn't know them and didn't know what to say - but feel a bit guilty that I didn't - I'd want to know if that was me.)

TheUnwillingNarcheska · 05/05/2015 09:56

This thread has made my day Grin especially the photo.

When we moved into this house we have obscured glass in the en-suite but I put the frosted window film on top of that, turned on the light and made Dh go out and look to see if you could see anything.

My parents lived in a house for a year where you could see everything the neighbours did in their bathroom. Luckily the toilet was right next to the window rather than the bath but you could count the number of times someone wiped their arse from the movement Grin

Momagain1 · 05/05/2015 10:03

Confirming the bamboo, or any other covering with any sort of tiny gaps in the fabric or slats! At night, you can see right through them, and you can see more from a slight distance than from up close.

Mever saw anything interesting, but could see well enough to say which family members across the street were in the front room, from our front room. Solid blinds or solid windowshades, or solid curtains in bathrooms and bedrooms.

SicilianOlives · 05/05/2015 10:23

Thank god for the shampoo bottles

conquistador · 05/05/2015 10:41

Ha! Amazing! There is no possible way the person showering couldn't know that they can be seen from outside, surely!? Grin

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