To think that if you want a light on overnight, it should be blacked out from outside?

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My neighbours over the back have a really thin white blind and leave their bathroom light on all the time. It's like a thousand suns shining through our bloody rear windows. We have reasonably thick curtains but they don't block out the light.
I had to go round there before and get them to turn off their effing security lights and noticed the bathroom lights a couple of days later when I wasn't on a night shift. They were new to the house so I thought it was just an acclimatisation thing and didn't want to keep going round there complaining but the light is doing my effing head in now. I no longer work nights so it's all the bloody time and I just want to be able to sleep. It would also be nice to do some star gazing but DS's telescope got put in the loft as there is no effing point even trying to look at the sky.
Gah! Why can't people just turn off their bastard lights or put up black out blinds at every window so no lights can be seen from outside?
I'm sorry for the moan but I'm frickin knackered.

Security lights I can understand but if their inside light is annoying you that much then buy blackout blinds. Am also wondering why you would want to see the sky at night when you are clearly so desperate for sleep that you are complaining about someone's bathroom light.
if you still feel aggrieved then speak to the council first before going round, they will confirm if indeed you have a good reason otherwise you are going to look like a bit of a berk. If someone cameo me complaining about an inside light I'd think they were BU.

'came to me'

Jeez how I hate corrective text.

It's a household light.

Houses have them and people use them. Stop being such a drama queen precious princess

Let me check I've got this right.

1. Your neighbour lives 100m away
2. She /he leaves 1 room lit at night
3. It is so bright you're frothing mad because you can't sleep, can't use your son's telescope and are unable to wake to natural light.

Have I got that right?

Please leave them alone and buy blackout blinds if it really and truely bothers you as much as you make out. You will sound totally mad if you approach them and lose any good will you might have if you have an actual real problem in the future. If you approached me with this is tell you where to go.

Complaining about outdoor lighting being disruptive = fine. Complaining about an indoor light being on steps over the boundary turning you into the annoying entitled neighbour IMHO.

Sorry i think the emphasis is on you to get blackout blinds.

Get blackout blinds or curtains. I'm a very light sleeper, and my house (and bedroom) backs on to the post sorting office which works overnight many nights a week and has both bright lights inside and security lights that shine directly into my room (perhaps 30m away). Blackout blinds/curtains really do solve the problem, don't cut off your nose to spite your face

Do you only have windows on one side of your house? If not, couldn't you take your son's telescope to look out of a window on the other side? Where presumably his bedroom is anyway, as you only mention you and your DD being disturbed by the neighbour's light?

YABridiculouslyU...I get that you're tired, but really, that's your problem to resolve. I don't understand why you would continue to get more and more tired when you could just go and buy some blackout blinds/curtains or an eye mask. And get one of those lamps that simulates daybreak if it's that important to you.

YABU, get some blackout blinds.

They are allowed to have whatever lights in whenever they wish I'm afraid. We live by a street lamp and have adjusted our curtains accordingly for that room. Imagine the laughs at the council if I rang complaining about light pollution. I think you may come across badly to them if you start trying to tell them what lights they can have on and when. Even if they switched off their bathroom light they surely will need to switch it on again if they need to pop to the loo in the night.

OP if I was your neighbour and you moaned about my internal light even though you are 100ft away from it, depending on my mood I'd tell you to get fucked or I'd give you directions to Homebase.

You sound like a princess.

Yellowdinasaur: the distance is 100ft, not 100m.
100ft = 30.48m.

Perhaps it is so bright because it is some sort of alien spacecraft?

Get a sunlight lamp and blackout curtains, that way you get sleep but wake to 'natural' light

Really bright lights can be used for growing drugs. Just saying...

Would you all think I was being U if I complained about noise pollution?

The law was changed 11 years ago to make light pollution illegal. So it IS recognised that light is a problem for neighbours.

I have lived in this house for 10 years and didn't have a problem before these people moved in. If we can see the outline of the man having a wee (or shaving or brushing his teeth), their blind is not up to scratch. And no, I don't sit there peering out of my bedroom window, but you sometimes see more than you'd wish to when closing the curtains at night!
In the evening, we use lamps. So do most people I know.

Maybe they're growing a load of canabis in there? (If so I'll take some off their hands.)

I'm another who thinks you're being a tad overdramatic about it. I honestly can't see how one internal light can bother someone that much. My area is full of old terraced housing so the houses are relatively close together and it's never been a problem here....

Lamps? In a bathroom, seriously?

Sometimes we use lamps, sometimes the main light. It depends.

So instead of just buying some blackout curtains/blinds you'd rather create bad feeling amongst your neighbour and go to the council for light pollution?

Jesus you sound like a royal pain in the arse.

How can their bathroom light be targeted towards your bedroom from 100ft away. Sure the light in on the ceiling?

No! Not lamps in the bathroom! We don't have our bathroom light on all the time because we don't spend our lives in the bathroom.

Op you do sound terribly precious.

Just get black out blinds or curtains, they aren't that expensive.

If you say anything to the neighbours you will look like a loon.

Was any light pollution rule ever intended to prevent the use of normal household lighting as opposed to say fuck off huge flood lights that businesses use

My votes on the cannabis farm

I share your pain, OP. My neighbours have this security light that shines into my back windows and I swear it can tell when I get up in the night. It's irritating but it's also been going on for 15 years and now it's too late to say anything! I'd have to pretend I'd just moved in.

Could you talk to your neighbours about it? Take them muffins and ask them nicely to get a blackout blind? Otherwise you'll be like me doing nothing about it for over a decade!

YABU. They live 100ft away and leave a bathroom light on all night. This is not anti social behaviour. It's fairly normal. You are being martyr with the "telescope had had to go in the loft" stuff.

I very much doubt the council will do anything as the neighbors are not being unreasonable and they also have rights i.e to leave light on at night. I also find ti hard to believe that a bathroom light 100ft away is so bright that it interferes with natural sunlight and prevents you from seeing stars.

You should be aware that neighbours can also complain of harassment so think first before telling them.