Edit: the duality between “lol get curtains” and helpful things is great. But! I can’t put up curtains on the windows the light floods in - it’s the front door and the sort of side window beside the front door. Since I rent, I’m not going to put holes in the door, nor do I think it would look decent enough not to bother me. But also for those concerned about safety of sidewalks, I don’t have a sidewalk on my side, I’d only be blocking light on the front yard and hopefully into the house. But thanks y’all, this has been helpful:))
Basically I’m looking for maybe a semi unethical tip so I can cover the half of the street lamp that shines the light of freaking Helios’ arsehole in my windows every night.
I don’t want to permanently ruin it because I only rent this house and I don’t wanna get in trouble. But it’s way too bright and so very annoying.
So my thoughts are maybe duct tape, or maybe some sort of latex paint I can later peel off? I’m just not sure either will stand up against the elements.
Insofar as the lamp itself is concerned, it’s not one of those with a bent neck. It’s like a lantern on a 9 foot pole. So it should be easy(?) to cover half the glass, I should think.
Edit: the duality between “lol get curtains” and helpful things is great. But! I can’t put up curtains on the windows the light floods in - it’s the front door and the sort of side window beside the front door.
I also didn’t want to put holes in the wall, so I got command strips (those little stick-on / pull-off hooks) and used them to hang my curtains. If the way it looks bothers you, you could hang a piece of decorative cloth in front or back of the curtain.
I used to have a streetlight that beamed into my front room.
I did some research on the type of streetlight, bought a security bit that was the right fit to unscrew the access panel near the base, and ripped out the big fuse that lives there. Put the panel back in place. The city never fixed it. If they did I would have taken that fuse too
When I was a kid we had a way of disabling streetlights with no tools. We learned that if you get one kid on either side of it, and push-pull it at the right frequency, you can get it to oscillate in a feedback pattern until the top of the lamppost was shaking back and forth so hard the globe would shatter.
I used to work for AEP, so I dont know if this will work everywhere, but if a neighbor called because of a outdoor light, they could request a work out to see if theres something that could be done, such as adjusting or shading.
Good luck.
Lights you can’t control are awful. We have an insanely bright one on the corner that light pollutes so bad. Even worse now because they are horrible white LED. Warm halogen were 1000x better (youll never convince me otherwise). Same with car headlights. White led gives me a headache even when I’m the driver. I’ll take my 90s warm lights any day.
This is a corner that get like 20 cars traffic a day. A light isnt even needed. Plus its in my yard.
Can I try to convince you that LEDs aren’t the real problem? They’re more energy efficient than any other kind of light and last longer too. Mostly what I think people hate is that LEDs usually have a cooler color temperature, but you can get LED bulbs that are warmer, or even have variable warmth settings
Yeah, but the default is to shine with the power of floodlights.
My apartment is next to a square that has a pole in the middle with some LED lamps. My living room and balcony are uncomfortable at night due to the light from these, it’s frustrating as hell.
If they used halogen hue and luminosity, it’d be a very different experience.I believe it’s not only the color, but the actual wavelength of led. There is something about the frequency that messes with my eyes.
Wavelength is color. Your beef sounds like it’s with duty cycle/flicker
There’s also the spectrum of light that the bulb puts out. CFLs, and a lot of older LEDs, have huge gaps in the spectrum they put out, which doesn’t show in the color of the light since that’s an average of everything. It DOES show in the colors of things lit by the light, which is why sodium lights make everything look funny. It’s also what people mean when they talk about “CRI” or “R9” or whatever.
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Any rotating shift worker will tell you. Black out curtains. They’re a god send.
Why are those poor shift workers rotating? They’re gonna get seasick!
Have you considered talking with your council about it? It is their utility after all.
Maybe get some light readings and look into what your town says about acceptable light levels.
Just some light reading material.
