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

claireabelle_2

My parents' house has the potential for this, so there's now a flowerbed under the window. People don't walk on plants, as a rule...

Torry_Quine

bobwilson wrote: »

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.

I'm talking about going to the home of friends nothing to do with working in any way. I don't have inclusive minutes by the way so any call costs me actual money.

newsgroup_monkey

propertyman wrote: »

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

I like this!

And as for those who wonder what bob has to hide, hang on, are you happy with anyone looking into your windows? Are you prudish or something? Do you not have any adventure in your life?

I value my privacy. Personally, if I could, I'd be happy with a 3 bed cottage in the middle of a very, very large field.

loracan1

Manchee wrote: »

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:

Hardly a comparison, it's more like women wearing revealing tops in their own house and complaining that they're being ogled through the windows.

I like the mankini suggestion by the way.

Manchee

loracan1 wrote: »

Hardly a comparison, it's more like women wearing revealing tops in their own house and complaining that they're being ogled through the windows.

I like the mankini suggestion by the way.

Hmm actually I would say its quite a good comparison, neither wants people looking and both have valid solutions to 'cover up', however neither thinks they should have to. Sorry but its human nature to look, and millions of people have accepted that and installed blinds/net curtains/etc. Its just the way it is.

J_i_m

Well, there's a vital difference.

In your home it's your space, it's one of the few spaces you can reasonably expect not to be on view to the world and his pet dog. You're not making an exhitibition of yourself.

A person wearing revealing clothing in public however has to expect the inevitablability of gazes falling upon their "bits".

It's really not the same thing at all.

bob2

How about partial height shutters - still get light coming in.

They don't even need to be this high...

GDB2222

G_M wrote: »

Electric fence?

I agree! Caltrops or barbed wire.

Alternatively, counselling so as not to worry about it.

PasturesNew

I knew somebody who used to do that. They stopped talking to me when I told them not to do it. It's intrusive.... and you might be doing naked yoga in the privacy of your own living room.

Yorkie1

bobwilson wrote: »

(apparently, it's also illegal. You can't stand on someone's property and press your face against their windows looking through, as it's considered a breach of the person's right to privacy in their own home)

Which particular statute do you think criminalises this behaviour?