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

[Anonymous]

Front porch lights stay on all night, rear floods are motion activated. I would say 100% of our neighbors do the same. Yes, there is light pollution from this, but for peace of mind it works for us. We have almost no overnight crime in our neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Front porch lights stay on all night, rear floods are motion activated. I would say 100% of our neighbors do the same. Yes, there is light pollution from this, but for peace of mind it works for us. We have almost no overnight crime in our neighborhood.

There's no overnight crime in our neighborhood either with less light pollution.

[Anonymous]

We keep our front porch light on (60W bulb) as do most neigborhors. We don't have great street lights so the street would be pretty dark if everyone turned them off. I think your neighbor sounds unreasonable.

[Anonymous]

Is this so difficult? Position your lights so they are not shining on your neighbors, you inconsiderate cads! Wow, so D.C.

[Anonymous]

I can't claim to have lived in a lot of places, but of the 6-7 I've seen everyone keeps their porch lights on overnight. I didn't know there were places where this was uncommon. Would seem to me to indicate no one is home and invite a break-in.

We use LEDs so not much energy used, and the lights are not terribly bright.

[Anonymous]

Front on garage, yes.

Back, no.

Not cool for behind neighbors. Most master bedrooms are in back. Hate when our back neighbor/s mistakenly leave on an outside light overnight.

Get an alarm system if you are concerned. Installations are next to nothing and the monitoring can run about $100 +/- per quarter.

Are the robbers breaking in during the middle of the night or while folks are away at work?

If the latter, this is not a lights problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Is this so difficult? Position your lights so they are not shining on your neighbors, you inconsiderate cads! Wow, so D.C.

Hello. It's not about positioning. No one is claiming a light is shining directly at the windows.
100w lights on multiple houses, even shining down, are bright in an otherwise dark backyard.

Get a big dog or an alarm system.

[Anonymous]

If you use the new light bulbs, switch to regular, old light bulbs. The new ones can be blinding.

[Anonymous]

OP, we installed a down-light at our back door because it is very close to our neighbors. It's like a barnlight, so it only shines down on the stoop, rather than up at our neighbor's bedroom window. They also cut down on light pollution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Front lights are on. Others are on motion sensors. Neighbors keep their back light off at night usually. It is rude to have bright lights facing peoples houses if you are close by. Motion sensors are the way to go. However, they should use some kind of curtain or shade too.

+1. We have actually started turning the ones on one side off at night because the motion sensor keeps malfunctioning and flashing in the middle of the night. We are very close to our neighbor on that side. It doesn't take that much to be a little considerate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

2/. if someone moved very slowly, s/he could trick the detector and lights won't turn on.

Lol do you have the Declaration of Independence in your living room?

[Anonymous]

Try a different light fixture or get a bug light lightbulb which will have less glare:

http://realestate.msn.com/how-to-light-up-the-night-without-ticking-off-your-neighbors?page=2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:tell your neighbors to suck your dick and buy some blinds

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't claim to have lived in a lot of places, but of the 6-7 I've seen everyone keeps their porch lights on overnight. I didn't know there were places where this was uncommon. Would seem to me to indicate no one is home and invite a break-in.

We use LEDs so not much energy used, and the lights are not terribly bright.

Huh. Most everyone on our street turns their porch lights off, either when they get home or when they go to bed. We are in the former category. We all have cars parked out front (no garages, mostly street parking and some little parking pads on front yards) so perhaps that is a deterrent. Most of the break-ins around here seem to happen during the day, anyway. Except car break-ins, those seem to happen at any time.

Our old neighbor used to leave his huge floodlight on all night. It was on the side of the house and shone right through our bedroom window. The houses are close together, separated by only about 25 feet. It was incredibly annoying, especially in cooler weather when we have the windows open. The rooms in these houses are small and there is no way to situate a queen size bed so that it is NOT in front of at least one of the two windows in the room. Even with window treatments (not black-out but not sheer), it would blaze right into our eyes all night. We never said anything but it used to drive me nuts. Then he moved and the new neighbor used it at first, then stopped. I think maybe it burned out and she just never replaced it! She is much nicer so if it were a problem, I would feel comfortable asking her to get a lower-wattage bulb or redirect the light.

[Anonymous]

that is weird, our neighbor WANT us to keep out outdoor lights on.