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.

I Love the way there are all of these people who think a bright light from a house wouldn't ruin stargazing.

Either mole people, or more likely lives spent around excessive light pollution.

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You're welcome OP

I can't believe op went to the neighbours and asked them to turn their light off in their own house!
No bathroom light could be that bright that it disturbs neighbours.

What if they need to go to the toilet in the night are they allowed the light on then?

Hope the light stays off. Also hope that doesn't mean they have a small dc who will now struggle to go to the loo at night!

I'd love to know if any other neighbours were bothered by the light.

Ship..she didn't.

I never thought about house lights bothering other people, I leave mine on so when I get up to go to the toilet (three times a night, yay) I won't have a fall, I'm not steady on my feet. But it's also pretty light around here due to all night street lighting on one side, as we live just across from a 24 hour garage and just off a busy roundabout, and there's also an all night light in the entrance area of the flats on the other side.

I just bought blackout curtains as I benefit from them all year round, in Summer it's often light outside long after I go to bed, and again in the morning before I get up. I don't think leaving a light on is particularly something I'd even consider to complain about.

Light of a thousand suns, on a hill, near the sea....

It's a fuckin' lighthouse!

We had a neighbour who left the halogen light at the end of her garden on all night. Answer: we bought blackout blinds for all the bedrooms.
Now we have those 'environmentally friendly' white street lights which are just as bad, so the blinds are essential.
On the plus side we never have to switch the light on in the bathroom or on the landing when we go to the loo at night.

Maybe they want the light visible from outside to look like someone is home when they are out?

Jacana