To tell my neighbours I can see straight into their bathroom?

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My neighbours across the back built a large loft conversion. It's very modern with floor-to-ceiling windows split 2/3rds & 1/3rd. The smaller 1/3 being the new bathroom. I thought in the fullness of time that they'd install a bathroom blind, or it'd have that glass that turns opaque at the flick of a switch, but no. I can see everything. E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G. shagging in the shower Sunday morning crap whilst reading the newspaper I genuinely think they believe they can't be seen. I don't deliberately set out to watch but my work desk faces their window. (I have shutters) Do I tell them?

She body ? That was meant to be DH's body. Damn autocorrect.🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

I’d tell them via a friendly note through the door giving your first name and house number and just say “I happened to be by my window the other day and I realise I can see straight into your bathroom, I thought I’d better tell you before your privacy is breached/before I see you shagging in the shower” (delete as appropriate). You don’t need to tell them you’ve seen everything! If they don’t put up some kind of blind then you’ll know what sort of dodgy neighbours you’ve got!

Do you live behind Caitlin Moran? She wrote about this recently - she doesn’t want a blind but her husband is mortified at the neighbours seeing in to their loft convo bathroom 😂

Something very similar happened with us. We didn’t find out until a neighbour playfully wolf whistled when someone in our house was on the loo wiping their bum (!). At the time we were mortified, but it was quite a kind way to let us know without doing it face to face (still don’t know which neighbour it was either!).

@dudsville
hmmm... Our old neighbours had frosted glass. The toilet was so near you could see the motions

I was in hotel once that overlooked block of flats.
I saw full shower sex and the n a very clinical ' upsadozy' wash away with the shower head.

Yes, I should have looked away sooner, but I was nibbling on my cereal bar

Tell them!

There is a row of houses behind us and the house immediately behind us has no blind at the bathroom window.

It's frosted glass but as the family that live there almost always have the bathroom light on we can see everything.

The toilet is under the window so we can see them using that and the shower is also in front of the window so we can see them in there too.

There are parents who are around late 40's and 2 sons and a daughter aged about 23, 21 and 18. You can see easily which one of them is in the bathroom. They all seem have a couple of showers a day each.

I don't understand why they need the light on all the time as there is a lamp post literally outside their house.

Me and DH call them The Exhibitionists

I meant to say we don't watch them on purpose but from our sofa you can see their bathroom window clearly and our desk with computer on it also looks directly out to their bathroom

@mydogisthebest the light may be on because it's connected to the extractor fan, and the only way to have that running is to have a light on. My parents bathroom was like that, I don't know why.

And not all of us bathe by streetlight - wouldn't say they're exhibitionists though..... perhaps you could pop them a note. They probably don't realise someone's watching so intently.

@wombatron, not sure if they have an extractor fan. Their house is the same is ours and we don't have one. No reason to when there is a large window to open.

We don't watch intently but when we are sitting on the sofa, say in the morning having breakfast, it's their bathroom window we look at if we look straight ahead. Again the in the evening if we look up from the tv it's their bathroom window we see.

We make a joke of it and say "oh the Exhibitionists are putting on a show again". I've never known people to shower so much.

in the almost 2 years we have lived in our house I think I have put the bathroom light on twice. In daylight with the shower by a large window why on earth would you need a light?

Our bathroom doesn't even have a street light outside it yet on the rare occasions I need the loo in the night I don't have to switch any light on not even the landing one.

To us they are and always will be exhibitionists. I can't believe they are not aware that we and a few other neighbours can see everything. You don't get to late 40's and not know that even frosted glass is useless with a light on

This thread is hilarious

I live opposite a school so if this happened to me I would probably be arrested

Hmmm - so our rear neighbours have been able to see us showering for nearly a decade (frosted glass though) ... it's not massively overlooked (I think they would need to be standing in the garden), and we will hopefully move soon! Maybe I should warn the new people - we always meant to buy a blind but didn't quite manage it.

I think you should tell them, especially if it's clear glass.

I have had this dilemma for years their bathroom faces our garden and dining room 😂