Bright LED Streetlight Outside Flat Purchase

Morbier

My immediate reaction to this post was why on earth would you want to sleep in a ground floor room with the curtains open? That's a brave/reckless/weird thing to do.

However, before the OP accuses me of being unhelpful, I can say that, in a previous house, I did approach the council to ask if they could do anything about an outside light shining in the (first floor) bedroom. They very kindly blocked out (with blackened glass) the side of the lamp nearest our house.

In my current home, there is an LED street light about 50 yards away from the window and blackout linings to the curtains have worked very well.

theartfullodger

All street lights will be LED in the next few years. You'll get used to iy

AdrianC

Morbier wrote: »

I can say that, in a previous house, I did approach the council to ask if they could do anything about an outside light shining in the (first floor) bedroom. They very kindly blocked out (with blackened glass) the side of the lamp nearest our house.

I'm presuming that would have been an old sodium-vapour light, which are far less directional than LED.

gomer

All seems a bit like 1st world problems. I'm sure people sleeping in shop doorways with no roof over their heads don't have these ghastly dilemmas.

Priorities i guess, to some people having a roof over their heads is the biggest priority. What direction the street lights outside face is probably a bit further down the list....

csgohan4

When i get back home after parking the car, I always walk past these apartments and one evening I saw woman getting changed to my shock,

I couldn't believe what I was seeing as the bedroom was facing the street, I had to walk past again to be sure.

I think if your sleeping or not using curtains, your going to be in for a surprise


I got the council to put a lamp shade covering the bedroom, since they installed bright LEDS lamps which still were bright despite black outs

Murphybear

molerat wrote: »

You do get used to your environment. We were fine in our house until the new neighbours at the bottom of the garden decided they need to be lit up like Blackpool illuminations, no direct light pointing at us but the amount of light coming from their direction is horrendous. As for LED street lights, hate the bloody useless things with pedestrians darting out from the black spots between them.

Fairies? :rotfl:

gomer

For what it's worth theres a large LED streetlight right outside the room i sleep in. I use curtains. I've never understood the need in ground floor property to advertise to the local burglars.

Visitors have woken in the night before and commented they thought it was the moon at first & yes, I've often thought the same.

Now it is not something i even notice. It doesn't impact on my sleep or my life inside the property.

Seriously, if something like this is such a large priority over all the other things that come from having your own home, then perhaps look at more rural settings.

My friends live on the Cambridge fens with no street lighting outside full stop. When you wake up in the night it is black. Pitch black. You cannot even see the bedroom floor & need a torch.

That to me is frightening & disorienting. I'll choose my LED street light over that any day.

davidmcn

csgohan4 wrote: »

When i get back home after parking the car, I always walk past these apartments and one evening I saw woman getting changed to my shock,

I couldn't believe what I was seeing as the bedroom was facing the street, I had to walk past again to be sure.

And then a few more times to be really sure?

Morbier

AdrianC wrote: »

I'm presuming that would have been an old sodium-vapour light, which are far less directional than LED.

Do you mean those awful yellow ones? If so, then no, but as it was about 20 years ago, I assume they weren't LED.
Not sure what you mean by 'directional'? (Not very techie, as you might have guessed).

AdrianC

LEDs point light in one direction only. You want it in more directions? You need LEDs in those directions, too.
Traditional bulbs - of whatever type - point it in all directions. You want it in fewer directions? You need to mask it off.

It's one of the advantages of LEDs - far less light pollution.