Advice needed re: reflective glass?

Freebyman

We are thinking of getting some sort of reflective glass fitted to two of our conservatory doors to stop our neighbours looking in from the flat above.

What we wanted to know is does reflective glass work, ie they cannot see in but we can see out? Or in practice does this work at all?

Or does reflective film work, from what Ive read it doesnt work in the dark and makes the effect reverse so you can see more inside the conservatory?

Sorry to go on a bit but we need to get this sorted soon as our privacy is really important to us? Anyone with advice?

iamcornholio

Reflective film will work, and the correct one should also provide privacy at night - although there will be some slight visibility internally at night with very bright internal lighting, but it depends on the internal layout

Why just the doors and not the indows? This will look really odd and will reduce light in via any treated glass

The only way if you are really into privacy is blinds or suchlike. Or plant a tree outside

Freebyman

Thanks for the reply, ideally I would plant trees but it is impossible due to block paving to the edge of the property and our fence is reasonably close to the property. The doors directly face the flat above and are french doors, the windows are not a problem as they face slightly away from the flat, we have blinds on the doors but we feel they give us a feeling of being trapped if you know what I mean, ideally we would love to have no blinds etc as we love the light but our new neighbours also do.

iamcornholio

You can get very fine Venetian blinds which are actually inside a double glazed unit

Google for something like " blinds within glass unit " and a few examples come up

Freebyman

Nice idea, will look into that if you pardon the pun.