Do you turn off your exterior lights? Neighbors giving us grief about ours.

[Anonymous]

Your flood light should never ever shine on your neighbors property

I Live in a neighborhood that has never had a crime ever. No one leaves their flood lights on at night except my next door neighbors . They Light up their house and my house, my back yard, my dining room, my front yard with heavy duty flood lights they leave on all night. I had to put up old dry wall to block the light out of my basement windows.

I put up a row of green giant arborvitaes(they destroyed 1 of them) but its going to take a couple years to block out their light. Eye for an eye I went out and put 2 150 Watt floodlights and aimed it right at their house.

[Anonymous]

What about just keeping the front porch light and the back porch light on as well as a light over the garage?

Super bright white flood lights seem over the top. If it's brighter at night in your yard than it is on a cloudy day...maybe tone it down a little.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We leave our front light on, not the back lights. Our neighborhood association actually asked residents to keep their front lights on for security.

This. It's the back lights that are bothersome, as the bedrooms are more often in the rear of the home.

[Anonymous]

Our neighbors have extremely bright front lights which face our back bedrooms - so wildly bright we do have to get blackout curtains. Can't they just use a normal lightbulb?

[Anonymous]

I have never kept our outside lights on during the evenings. Not when we lived 10 feet from our neighbors houses in Los Angeles, and not now that we live on two acres abutting a state preserve.. There is just no reason to do it. If you are worried about intruders, then get an alarm system on turn it on at night.

[Anonymous]

I think a normal porch light on in the back shouldn't be a problem at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have never kept our outside lights on during the evenings. Not when we lived 10 feet from our neighbors houses in Los Angeles, and not now that we live on two acres abutting a state preserve.. There is just no reason to do it. If you are worried about intruders, then get an alarm system on turn it on at night.

If you are on 2 acres I can't imagine why you would even care if a neighbor had their porch light on.

[Anonymous]

Lights at night are a health hazard and I get black out curtains but your neighbors are not being unreasonable

[Anonymous]

There is always going to be a certain amount of artificial light when you live in a suburban neighborhood. There will be street lamps, car lights, people walking with flashlights, interior lights on inside homes, etc. A regular porch light should be fine.

[Anonymous]

Why can't you just aim the light in a different direction? Sheesh. Even in NWDC I can have the city come and black out the portion of the streetlight that shines into my bedroom window. People in the burbs are inconsiderate.

[Anonymous]

Turn off your lights. Is it really worth a strained relationship with your neighbors? You know this is the right thing to do. Turn them off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why can't you just aim the light in a different direction? Sheesh. Even in NWDC I can have the city come and black out the portion of the streetlight that shines into my bedroom window. People in the burbs are inconsiderate.

eh, if you've got a flood light aimed directly into your neighbor's window you should tone that down. But a regular porch light, illuminating your own property should not be too much for anyone to deal with. That's life in the suburbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Turn off your lights. Is it really worth a strained relationship with your neighbors? You know this is the right thing to do. Turn them off.

And when you get home at night you'll have to navigate a pitch black walkway and entryway? If you want to take the trash out you have to walk across a dark yard to do it?

Why on earth would anyone expect anyone else to do that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Turn off your lights. Is it really worth a strained relationship with your neighbors? You know this is the right thing to do. Turn them off.

And when you get home at night you'll have to navigate a pitch black walkway and entryway? If you want to take the trash out you have to walk across a dark yard to do it?

Why on earth would anyone expect anyone else to do that?

It's a miracle of nature that your genes made it through 30,000+ years we existed without electricity but there is just no way you can possibly survive without your precious wittle baby nite lights. That goes for all of you light freaks in this thread, stop being ridiculous and wasting electricity and expecting OTHER people to block off THEIR windows just so you can have YOUR stupid night lights on all bloody night. You don't have the right to take away someone's utility of their windows. I have a dispute with my neighbor who has a side porch light adjacent to my bedroom window. I'm a 200 lb man with a pistol on my nightstand and she's a little divorcee and she expects me to block off my window so she can keep her stupid light on, even though if it comes down to it what is she gonna do if some tweaker is tryin to break into her car at night? Call the cops and wait three hrs to make a report? No thanks, I'm not blocking off my window so I can't see outside, that makes zero sense for security reasons and until we settle it I will unscrew her bulb every night. All people expect is a little courtesy it goes along way, don't be a wanker.

[Anonymous]

Sneak in yard & remove bulbs!