Neighbours flashing lights!

[withlotsoflove]

Can l have some opinions please.
My neighbours have installed their Christmas flashing light set up again....
It is on the side of their living room window ( OUTSIDE) which is parallel to our bedroom window.
It runs still... then a flashing setting which would put Oxford Street to shame!
Last year it constantly woke me up as it is powerful enough to go through / and under my lined curtains!
When it is still - it isn’t a problem. Flashing lights are though.
AIBU to ask if they can either turn them off overnight or set it so it stays still ( l guess )
😉
Thank u all.

Anyone else waiting to see if this goes full ‘deck the halls’??

I’d ask them nicely...

If they are not helpful I’d buy a secondhand mirror, to place in the window void, so they could fully enjoy and experience them too.

we have lights up (not yet though) and turn them off at night for that reason. you're perfectly reasonable to ask them nicely to do that op! they might be really nice about it!

They don’t bother me at all but if it’s interfering with your sleep you should just say so!

Yes as a PP said - 11 o'clock should be the limit for flashing lights... or throw snowballs (or gravel) at their bedroom windows at 2:00 am, and shout up and say you think there is a problem with their flashing lights as planes seem to be in a holding pattern over their house.

Our neighbours has bright white lights on a bloody flashing cycle that did all sorts. The gentle changes were fine but there was a super quick flashing one that made our bedroom feel like a rave at 11.30pm despite our blackout blind and lined curtains! Their garden backs onto the front of our house, so they couldn’t really see them from their home. I sent them a text, explaining we had no problem with the lights but the crazy flashing was unbearable. They changed them to constant on (no sequence) and turn them off between 10 & 10.30.

Very amicable but we do know them and get on with them well.

Whats the point i outdoor lights like this, you cant see them from the inside and all they do is upset the neighbours. Maybe hanging lights and decorations outside for charity is ok.

I would just ask them. Suggest you could buy them a timer if they complain and remind them of the electricity bills they are racking up keeping them on all night.

My neighbours did this with blue and white flashing lights on the front of their house. It's like fucking emergency vehicles going by. They usually put them up for Halloween and leave on for months.

I told them how annoying the lights are so this year they've put lovely white lights in the back garden through the trees which don't flash.

Just tell them - why should you have to change anything? Get them to put them on a timer so they go off at 10pm latest.

@PorpoiseSpitGazzette

If they are not helpful I’d buy a secondhand mirror, to place in the window void, so they could fully enjoy and experience them too.

This! I love it!

Even some reflective foil would do, you don’t have to fork out for a mirror.

Why do people put flashing lights outside?! Is it to annoy? Must be a pain for drivers?

@KatyaZamolodchikova

Our neighbours has bright white lights on a bloody flashing cycle that did all sorts. The gentle changes were fine but there was a super quick flashing one that made our bedroom feel like a rave at 11.30pm despite our blackout blind and lined curtains! Their garden backs onto the front of our house, so they couldn’t really see them from their home. I sent them a text, explaining we had no problem with the lights but the crazy flashing was unbearable. They changed them to constant on (no sequence) and turn them off between 10 & 10.30.

Very amicable but we do know them and get on with them well.

Crying with laughter here

It was agonising. All night we’d just start dozing off on the gentle transitions before the rave started and woke us up again! I can laugh now but it was awful at the time. Neighbours were very apologetic!

@Inthemuckheap 'My neighbours did this with blue and white flashing lights on the front of their house. It's like fucking emergency vehicles going by.'

Oh God I feel your pain, my ndn put hers up the other day, she has some contraption at the end of her garden that runs 24/7, it projects onto the front of her house and mine! It started off as just santa pictures, snow drops etc but very bright and flashing, it comes through our black out curtains. I asked her nicely if she'd move it slightly so that it's not on dds bedroom window and she either got a second one or a different one but this has laser like lights that flash so fast and bright that dds room was flashing, I never thought these could light up a room so much. Dd has epilepsy so we knew this was not on. Dh spoke to her, tried explaining but she said not her fault we have a disabled child and it's Christmas and her house and to f off. We spent today shifting rooms around, not easy with 5 kids and dds room can't be used, I tried lying down in the room and I can see the flashing even with my eyes closed. Dh said he's going out tonight and ripping it out. I'm not usually for this type of behaviour but my god what are people thinking getting these flashing lights when they live so close to the next house.

wow @lipz she sounds awful! what a horrible thing to say to you, really un-christmas spirited, s some people have got their priorities twisted

@stovetopespresso

wow *@lipz* she sounds awful! what a horrible thing to say to you, really un-christmas spirited, s some people have got their priorities twisted

She's said and done worse over the years, I usually ignore her as she is utter scum. I never call anyone this but she is. Dd has been stimming more lately and her humms are becoming more loud, ndn put a note through my door telling me dd was keeping her kids awake. So I guess the lights are payback

@KatyaZamolodchikova

It was agonising. All night we’d just start dozing off on the gentle transitions before the rave started and woke us up again! I can laugh now but it was awful at the time. Neighbours were very apologetic!

Really glad you’ve got decent neighbours!!

Our next door neighbours (they’re a house, we’re a flat in the converted house next door) have a multi-strip light display around their summer house posh shed that rivals Blackpool Pier and is seemingly popped on the moment the sun starts to go down. They’re on almost every night of the week and aren’t turned off until the sun is up. I don’t know how they can sleep with it all blinking away as it bleeds through a decent black blind and lined curtains in our bedroom.

To make matters worse they’ll have a spell of using the summer house into the early hours and never pull the blinds down, so the ambient blue/coloured lighting and large tv throw out so much light it could be used as a guide to land a large aircraft.

Don’t wait until tomorrow just pop over now and ask them to switch them off at a reasonable hour .

Tim foil is your answer on the window, nothing gets through it! Love the mirror idea

Definitely speak to them politely.

The neighbours directly across the road from me have done this for years and I dread seeing him put them up. All bloody night long they flash flash flash and sitting in my living room or trying to sleep is like being in a disco.

I asked mine nicely if they could switch them off at night because they were disturbing and he scoffed and said he’d do what he likes.

I have instead paid a small fortune for blackout curtains for both front rooms now (huge bay windows so not exactly cheap) and they dull it a little. Not totally, but enough.

They are generally obnoxious old couple though. They, or their children/grandchildren will park across My driveway or leave their dogs barking in the car with open windows for hours. They simply don’t care about anyone else. Hopefully your neighbours Are more considerate and will be upset to think they’re annoying their neighbours

We put ours up today and have them on a twinkle not a flash but they go off by about 10:30. Who keeps them on all night. That's weird!

I’m dreading this Christmas because last year, my neighbours had a projector which beamed blinding white snowflakes all over their house from 4pm til midnight. It looked like the old air raid lights!

I'd just politely ask them Hey would you mind please turning off the flashing setting at night? Lovely and cheerful during the day but at night it keeps me awake. Thanks!

@Lipz

Oh God I feel your pain, my ndn put hers up the other day, she has some contraption at the end of her garden that runs 24/7, it projects onto the front of her house and mine! It started off as just santa pictures, snow drops etc but very bright and flashing, it comes through our black out curtains. I asked her nicely if she'd move it slightly so that it's not on dds bedroom window and she either got a second one or a different one but this has laser like lights that flash so fast and bright that dds room was flashing, I never thought these could light up a room so much. Dd has epilepsy so we knew this was not on. Dh spoke to her, tried explaining but she said not her fault we have a disabled child and it's Christmas and her house and to f off. We spent today shifting rooms around, not easy with 5 kids and dds room can't be used, I tried lying down in the room and I can see the flashing even with my eyes closed. Dh said he's going out tonight and ripping it out. I'm not usually for this type of behaviour but my god what are people thinking getting these flashing lights when they live so close to the next house.

Shit, I’m so sorry

Would the local council help?

Tin foil on window for sure but I’m guessing she’s already off her head on something and won’t mind?