Fence or hedge for privacy

ripplyuk

Davesnave said:

But do you need a hedge behind the tank, as it's not see-through? I'm sure a combustible hedge wouldn't meet regs anyway, not that people generally bother about those! I'm just planning a hedge now to go around our tank to hide it, but the neighbours will continue to have an uninterrupted view, not that they'll care.

Yes, I would definitely still need something behind it. There’s enough of a gap. It’s hard to describe but if the neighbours are standing near the tank, they can see straight into my kitchen. The gardens are on a slant and theirs is slightly higher than mine. 

Davesnave

That's a window film job then.

MoneySeeker1

I've got a similar situation re kitchen window and found the best way I can deal with it is that I put up a roller blind.

It did take some doing to find one that was going to look a bit sophisticated and modern - and I had to have one specially made in fact (between my tastes and the odd size of the window). It came in at a 2 figure amount of money though (ie less than £100) to have it made and fitted.

With that - I find I have to keep it rolled most of the way down permanently - so that the neighbours can't see into my kitchen. An excuse (if wanted) would be that the sun spends part of the day (if/when we have sun) shining straight through into my eyes whilst standing at the sink and therefore I need the blind down to prevent that.

Davesnave

I'd want the neighbours to see my great kitchen in all its glory, not hide it!

Sadly, the only people who can look into mine are those on the double decker buses, and even they can't tell if I'm wearing trousers or not. The subtleties of the design are probably wasted on them.

Saver84

As a suggestion, if you want to minimise the noise from the neighbour's children, have you thought of getting some sort of mini water feature (e.g. a tiny water fountain)? You can buy solar-powered ones from Amazon if you don't want to spend too much money. If your kitchen has a door that leads on to a garden, you can put the fountain just outside the door so that it will be close enough to your house so that you can hear the waterfountain noise instead of hearing the children. 

Farway

Saver84 said:

As a suggestion, if you want to minimise the noise from the neighbour's children, have you thought of getting some sort of mini water feature (e.g. a tiny water fountain)? You can buy solar-powered ones from Amazon if you don't want to spend too much money. If your kitchen has a door that leads on to a garden, you can put the fountain just outside the door so that it will be close enough to your house so that you can hear the waterfountain noise instead of hearing the children. 

In a previous house of mine you'd need a water cannon to hide kid's noise

Davesnave

Farway said:

Saver84 said:

As a suggestion, if you want to minimise the noise from the neighbour's children, have you thought of getting some sort of mini water feature (e.g. a tiny water fountain)? You can buy solar-powered ones from Amazon if you don't want to spend too much money. If your kitchen has a door that leads on to a garden, you can put the fountain just outside the door so that it will be close enough to your house so that you can hear the waterfountain noise instead of hearing the children. 

In a previous house of mine you'd need a water cannon to hide kid's noise

In a place we visited during the town's open garden event, the lady had installed a very modern stainless steel and brick feature that filled up noisily and then empted itself into a trough, like the sort of high level cistern and urinal Salvador Dali might have designed if he'd been into plumbing.

After five minutes with that, we could only marvel at the woman's bladder control and thank the Lord we were not her next door neighbour!