Just bought a new house - now people looking through my windows !

newgirly

AlexMac wrote: »

IKEA do a roller blind in white gauze (called ENJE) which lets light in, but obscures enough for privacy, comes in various widths from 600mm up to about 1400mm, and is a fairly easy job to cut down to fit. Our kids hate people peering in so fitted them all round. (Not to be confused with their cheapest ISDANS ones which are too transparent).

Altho I like the mannequin /knife/ ketchup solution, above- maybe you could do a Norman Bates dead granny in rocking chair version for Hitchcock aficionados?

I am on a main road in a London suburb and have these blinds and they really do work, you can see out very well, they let virtually as much light in as no blinds and you still have privacy, highly recommended.

demontfort

My advice get the police round straightaway peering through your window is a serious crime in my book and the perpetrator should be hung, drawn and quartered. Better still why not get the UN involved, I'm sure the nuclear standoff in Korea can wait whilst they deal with this global window peering travesty. Reading this unbelievably trivial gripe, Bob Wilson I only hope for the pride of British men you are a woman and not a man. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

J_i_m

Yes, how very noble of you.

People looking through your window is actually quite irritating and it is an invasion of privacy. Your home is supposed to be your sanctuary not somwhere to be gawped at like some animal in a zoo.

I used to live in a ground floor flat and I can tell you people insisting on peering in through your lounge or bedroom window is very annoying and whether you find it manly or not it's also quite intimidating to be subjected to group of teenagers rapping on your window and pointing at you as they pass.

There is such a thing as manners. Many people it seems, lack them.

bobwilson

Torry_Quine wrote: »

My door is right beside my living-room window as was the house I visited last night and as I said I was expected. Why would I spend the cost of a phone call when a quick look in the window confirms whether they are there or not. As I said the door-bell had been working earlier that day so they had no expectation that it had stopped working.

The reasons given are not relevant in any way to my comments as someone who is expecting you would surely be more annoyed if you just went away again.

The comment about ladders is just silly, I'm talking about a quick look not being a nosy-parker.

It doesn't matter whether you're expected or not (i'm guessing you're a contractor) you can't deliberately go up to peoples windows put your head against the glass and look in. If you have their phone number and are *that* desperate, then use it. You would spend the inclusive minutes of a phone call because it's not your home, its theirs, and as the posters above have mentioned, a home is a sanctuary to the owner, not a place for you to do what you please. The owner might or might not be annoyed that you went away again, or they might not wish to answer the door, or they may be out. That isn't your decision, and doesn't give you the right to breach their privacy by pressing your face up against windows (although I suspect you were more concerned with making money, not to protect the owner from being annoyed)

Looking through the window to see if they're not in the living room confirms nothing; the owner could be anywhere else in the house; the point is its not your business.

For you it may seem like a small deal but there are others who prefer privacy and having people continuously invade it in their own home can cause severe distress. (it's the one place you have a right to feel "safe" and and not observed. In fact these words are taken from the human rights act 1998 right to privacy in your home, "not observed")

You make think it sounds silly to use a ladder and that you're not a nosy Parker, but your belief that it's perfectly OK to look through the owners windows to try to find out which room they're in and what they're doing, is just as silly, and it makes you a nosy Parker whether you like it or not. If you don't know the owner intimately, this is the case whether they are or aren't expecting you. It's called manners.

hazyjo

I suppose it might be acceptable if it was say an elderly neighbour who you'd not seen for a couple of days. I would probably peer then, but only if I knew them well. Am with the rest of the comments - I absolutely hate it!

Have had it done to me - and tend to find people do it on bay windows. They think they can look through that little pane on the side next to the front door, or tap on it (have had the life scared out of me before!). Don't remember anyone doing it when the windows at the front have been flat.

Jx

propertyman

Buy a sign for the door

After Knocking
Please wait and don't peer
through the windows
offenders will be poked in the eye with a stick

moneysaver

I am not condoning this behaviour at all. Maybe your bell cannot be heard from outside the door & they think it is not working. They may have travelled miles & do not wish to let you down when you are actually in the house.



Moneysaver

Manchee

bobwilson wrote: »

You make think it sounds silly to use a ladder and that you're not a nosy Parker, but your belief that it's perfectly OK to look through the owners windows to try to find out which room they're in and what they're doing, is just as silly, and it makes you a nosy Parker whether you like it or not.

Lol this is getting a bit exagerated now, its starting to sound like you're insinuating people are stalking you if they look through your windows, I doubt most people who do this are interested in finding out exactly what you're doing and where you are, they just wanna know if you're in or not.

I've gotta say, I've had this issue before, I put up some film on the windows to solve it. No biggie. It just seems like a bit of a non-issue, like women who complain about wearing a top that shoves their boobs in peoples faces, then complain if people look at them :rotfl:

sinbad182

I wonder what bobwilson has to hide. Their reaction to a fairly innocuous occurrence is really ott.

Perhaps the police should have a little look in?

CharlieRabbit01

The Kitchen, Lounge and Bedroom windows of my ground floor flat are bassically on the road ie not footpath garden etc between that wall and the road.

There is a foot path on the other side, but when people walk down from the park the foot path on my side finishes and you have to cross over, but not many people bother and they carry on walking down in the road looking into my windows as they go or occasionally knocking on them for fun.

We have venetian blinds and if you tip them toward the window you can still see out get a bit of light in and makes it harder for them to see in.

Luckily I'm moving soon and there are rose bushes between my windows and the road.

Like someone else said above, once some one was knocking on the windows on the way down the road, so I quickly ran into our bedroom (which has curtains as well as blinds) raised the blinds and hid behind the curtain, as soon as the knocked on the window I jumped out from behind the curtain frighten the life out of them i think, it didnt really change things but made me laugh seeing the colour drain from their faces.