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Be kind.
We've got this glass sloping roof over a kitchen add-on and we're overlooked by the neighbours in a terraced house.
My other half would quite like some privacy while she does yoga in the space.
She doesn't want privacy frosted film on the glass or anything so it looks like blinds are the answer.
Anyone got a good and not too expensive solution for DIY fitting?
There's 4 glass sections so I'm thinking a blind for each maybe.
What you got blind enthusiasts?
As an alternative We put mirror film on a similar window.
As an alternative We put mirror film on a similar window.
Mirror film is no good because at night you can see in because outside is darker.
I'd put some clothes on while doing yoga as it would be cheaper and easier than blinds.
Many, many years ago we bought a blind to cover a very similar roof in Sheffield - a local shop made it up from a sprung loaded roller blind and some 'guide wires', with pulley and string to operate. I will go and see if I can find if they still exist - they were somewhere near Endcliffe, I think Rustlings Road. It was not as much as I thought and clearly something they could buy parts 'off the shelf' for.
As moaab says ^^^, ask a local curtain maker to put together the actual panels, then you can get the workings together yourself.
We’ve got inset blinds on a lot of our windows, looks like they might work for you? Search “clip fit blinds”
we're just about to put some in today. my mate used to work for hillarys and says the best place to go is blinds2go as theyre a lot cheaper and often the same blinds. blinds2go call them 'perfect fit' blinds and they look simple to put in.
https://www.blinds-2go.co.uk/perfect-fit-shutter/45735/perfectfit-cool-white.html
You can get motorised skylight/velux style blinds that can be remote controlled via smarthouse wizardry.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/TIPIACE-Rechargeable-Motorized-Skylight-Honeycomb/dp/B0DBZCQT36/
Alternatively a couple of strong spotlights aimed upward at the glass would overwhelm the view of anything going on inside.
” https://www.amazon.co.uk/TIPIACE-Rechargeable-Motorized-Skylight-Honeycomb/dp/B0DBZCQT36/”
Although they're not velux windows, you MIGHT find that there's a velux window of a similar width, and a velux (or, as I use, non branded equivalent) 'track style' blind will fit in there/ They're neat and tidy. You need a 'big stick thing' to open/close them though.
DrP
I’d put some clothes on while doing yoga as it would be cheaper and easier than blinds.
You can't get as deep a lunge with pants on I find.
It's not really that we're trying to hide anything specific although I'm not sure the world is ready for my dancing at the dog routine. It's just that general feeling of being overlooked by the window almost directly above the roof next door, and spy drones sent by the government obvs.
Wasn't an issue before as next door was an elderly lady confined to downstairs. She recently died sadly so unknown neighbours incoming and thought it might be less rude than doing it when they've moved in.
Click insert blinds are your friend here you do have to be careful pulling them 45degs instead of 90 like they are designed for bit they work well
Hang on. We have seen this room before. Was there not some discussion about ladders and scaffholding to access a window or something.
Do that and spraypaint the dirty perves windows black.
Yes you're quite right.
We had old and rotting wooden rafters and I was looking into replacing them but access is really difficult.
In the end we got a uPVC roof which predictably was installed by people with lower standards than me who we had to get back a couple of times. But yeah, same space, different life challenge 🙂