Neighbours Hot Tub

[Undead76]

Hi all
Just had our new build garden landscaped and its finally looking great after a lot of hard work by me.
The neighbours across from us have just installed a hot tub which they have been using every day/night in the good weather. However, as the fence is wooden (it is 6ft high) you can see through the slats into their garden. Every time I'm in my garden when they are using it they give us evil looks through the fence and generally make us feel like we shouldn't be in our garden when they are in the hot tub. If I'm honest I also feel uncomfortable being out there when I know they are in it.
Surely the onus is on the person who installed the hot tub to provide some sort of privacy screening if they are that bothered about being seen? I mean like willow/bamboo screening on their side of the fence.
I'm gutted that I can't go out and enjoy my garden without feeling like some kind of perv.
It's currently being used until the late hours and keeping my children awake with the noise they are making. Honestly, why are some neighbours so oblivious to their behaviour?
Does anyone have a hot tub? How have you provided privacy and does it bother you if your neighbours are out in their garden when you are using it?
On the plus side it does not look like a permanent structure so hopefully will be gone once the spell of good weather is over!

So I’m assuming even before the hot tub went in you could clearly see each other through the fence? In that case I’d have put up screening anyway. I hate feeling overlooked.
It’s sad you don’t feel you can enjoy your garden but for your own piece of mind I’d suggest you get some screening out up.
We used to have a really see through tall fence on one side of our garden that borders a footpath , so we used artificial hedge screening and it’s a lot more private now. Still in good condition 3 years on.

I bought this for mine www.aosom.co.uk/item/outsunny-gazebo-party-tent-3x3x2-75-beige~84C-005.html?utm_source=google_shopping. The onus is on them to create privacy around their tub, not on you.

OP,
Look at Willow Screen Fencing.
Inexpensive, can be nailed to your existing fence and would definitely increase your privacy.

My fence is the same. It’s a cost saving measure that cheap ass builders use - if you leave gaps you don’t need as many boards. We nailed boards over the gaps as soon as we moved in. Unfortunately one of our fences is owned by the neighbour and they refused permission to nail boards on, so we erected our own solid fence right inside theirs. We lost six inches of our garden and it cost a bit, but it’s worth it for privacy. Unfortunately I think if you want to be screened you need to do it yourself.

Go out with a pair of binoculars and say loudly ‘yes, it is small isn’t it. It’s probably the warm water.’

I think I'd enjoy annoying them tbh

Any dcat poo in your garden you can throw over??

Go out with a pair of binoculars and say loudly ‘yes, it is small isn’t it. It’s probably the warm water.
@Coffeecak3 that will do for me, thanks

Get right out there OP and claim your space!!! Put on headphones and listen to an audiobook or the Archers and plant a vague and lovely smile on your face and to hell with them!

Just carry on as normal. If they feel embarrassed or uncomfortable, the onus is on them to put up a screen of some sort.

Just what is the attraction of hot tubs?

Arthritis? Joint pain? RA? I'd have one in a heartbeat if I could ensure I could get out. Unfortunately, I can't even get out of the bathtub.

I sort of have this problem with my back neighbour but it’s not a hot tub, I just caught her staring at me through the slats while I was having my tea.

No one out stares me though, so she backed away slowly and hasn’t looked since

For the sake of a few quid, I'd get some bamboo screening as suggested. I know the onus is on the neighbours to screen their hot tub, but they obviously aren't going to bother.

Your garden is your sanctuary and no one should be allowed to make you feel uncomfortable.

Get the bamboo!

@Boopeedoop

They need to screen off their own sex pond.

Haha

This with bells on

I think the approved MN term is "chavvy sex pond"?

+1 for bamboo screening...

Just what is the attraction of hot tubs?

Beats me, @JayAlfredPrufrock. I just don't get it. I can see the appeal of a big jacuzzi bath all to myself though.

I would hate a fence I could see through regardless of what my neighbours are actually doing. I'd be self conscious knowing they could see me too. Just avoid looking at them- if you notice they are 'glaring' at you maybe they feel like you are watching them. Either way, one of you will have to do something about it if you are both unhappy with the situation.

Just what is the attraction of hot tubs?

Nextdoor neighbours hired one for their wedding night. Small narrow gardens. There isnt enough brain bleach in the world!

Other neighbours have one permanently installed and regularly have parties. I dont think they realise how much sound travels especially at night.

buy a ring cam and stream them online

We had similar. Neighbours replaced their 6 foot fence between our houses with a 5 foot fence and then seemed astonished that we could both see each other over it

To make it worse we're in terraces where our back doors are opposite each other and very close together. Every time I opened my door to go out they'd see me and be aghast that I had the cheek to step foot in my own garden. We got scowls, tuts, stomps, flounces. But the piece de resistance was their drunken Irish friend shouting "You! Yes you!" at me over the fence one Sunday morning to get my attention then bellowed Kumbaya at me at full volume

Anyway, we made our own screening from trellis with shade netting stapled to the back and put that up. Solved everything. I know that theoretically you shouldn't have to but sometimes you have to just be pragmatic.

My neighbours have one right next to where I sit. They have screened it off so there are no sight issues, but it's the smell of the damn thing I can't stand - it's like trying to have a drink next to an over chlorinated swimming pool.

How can you spend so long in a hot tub? They must be weird

I'd just put up my own screening , they sound weird !! Why are people so weird ???🤔

I'm more curious at how you could spend £6 'landscaping' a new build garden? I've yet to see one bigger than a postage stamp.

Unless you've got your face pressed up against the fence, how on earth can you see their expression through the gaps in the fence?

but it seemed to incense her into putting the bubbles on warp drive.