Obscure glass in bathroom/loo: legal requirement?

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't like not being able to see out. As nobody can see in, why do I have to have obscure glass in my bathroom and loo, upstairs, separate rooms?

MM

[Richard Sterry]

Remember the Carling Black Label advert, with the jet passenger turning to see a window cleaner outside?

Rick

[Ian Stirling]

Or nowadays, anyone with a ladder.

[:::Jerry::::]

Wasn't there a sketch by someone like Hancock or Kenneth Williams tapping on the flight deck window and asking to let in, whilst complaining it was a bit cold at 30.000 ft ?!

[Jerry Built]

If the window has any height, you can put a net on the "bottom" half.... this works well with sliding sash windows.

J.B.

[N. Thornton]

Just be aware that obscure glass does not necessarily mean you cant see in. Test it when its dark outside and youve got the loo light on, migh be some suprises. Curtains.

NT

[Mary Fisher]

Many years ago I said that I didn't want pebble glass in our casement windows in the bathroom, it was a waste of the view .Spouse replaced them with one single double glazed panel which does have a blind but we rarely use it. I love seeing the garden through the clear glass, it's the best view in the whole house. Yes, I can see the neighbours from our backside (as they introduced themselves) and they can see us but wotthehell archie ...

The lavatory is separate from the bathroom, that also has clear glass. No-one could possible see what was going on in there so there isn't even a blind. I love to see the night sky from there, the moon, stars ... which have been denied me from the back door since Spouse erected the car port.

Even if our doings could be seen it wouldn't bother me.

Mary

[Frank Erskine]

In article , Mike Mitchell writes

I don't have an awful lot to hide ;-)

[Colin Wilson]

Not related are we ? :-}

[Andrew Gabriel]

Reminds me the story I heard, probably here, some time ago. Loft conversion with bathroom installed and velux windows. None of the neighbours had the guts to tell the owner what a perfect view they had of her bathing on warm summer nights with the window open to the horizontal level and forming an excellent mirror for anyone looking up from the street below.

[Lurch]

On 10 Aug 2004 00:15:10 GMT, [e-mail] (Andrew Gabriel) strung together this:

When you say "didn't have the guts" ITYM "didn't really want to"!

[Mike Mitchell]

No, the angles are such that a peeping Tom would have to be suspended from a hot air balloon in order to cop an eyeful of my bits, which are not a pretty sight, doubtless leading him to throw himself out of the basket in order to bring the horrible pictures in his mind to a close.

MM

[Mike Mitchell]

You said it much more eloquently than I could! That's exactly right, though. I, too, could gaze out at the sky from my bath. In my next property I shall do this!

MM

[Mary Fisher]

They could get a better picture by buying a paper.

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

I have a lot - no-one would want to look at it.

Mary

[Owain]

"Mary Fisher" wrote | They could get a better picture by buying a paper.

It depends on the paper. The Times offers "Sex with Dr Thomas Stuttaford and Hannah Betts"; a prospect which I don't find in the least erotic.

Owain

[Jerry Built]

Same for net curtains.

J.B.

[Owain]

"Mary Fisher" wrote | > | They could get a better picture by buying a paper. | > It depends on the paper. The Times offers "Sex with Dr Thomas | > Stuttaford and Hannah Betts"; a prospect which I don't find | > in the least erotic. | But you'd find the reflection of a bather erotic?

It would depend on the bather, but it is at least allowing of the possibility, unlike any proposed coupling of the two aforementioned individuals.

Owain

[Mary Fisher]

You sound like a deprived man ... :-)

I bow to your greater experience, I've no idea who any of them is.

Mary

[Owain]

"Mary Fisher" wrote | > | But you'd find the reflection of a bather erotic? | > It would depend on the bather, | You sound like a deprived man ... :-)

depraved ;-)

Owain