All of our floods are tilted down toward the ground. Some are mounted on the gable of the horse barn, 20 feet up, and would be worthless unless pointed down. (Also a pain to replace a bulb, but we've only had to do that once in 23 years.)
Some of our neighbors have "driveway lights" that are pointed horizontally, and as you say, they shine right in our windows even from several hundred feet away. Worse, they shine right in the eyes of anyone coming up their driveway. The most offensive of these is gone now, thank goodness. Property was sold, new owners changed the light configuration. Unfortunately they still tend to leave it on all night, but not always. It's erratic.
I think one of the worst problems are those decorative garden path lights that come mounted on stakes and are solar powered. They invariably point stright up with no way to adjust that. People enamored with "fairy lights" seem to love them but in my opinion they are worthless as illumnation and just a major nuisance.
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Date: 2021-11-20 05:06 pm (UTC)Some of our neighbors have "driveway lights" that are pointed horizontally, and as you say, they shine right in our windows even from several hundred feet away. Worse, they shine right in the eyes of anyone coming up their driveway. The most offensive of these is gone now, thank goodness. Property was sold, new owners changed the light configuration. Unfortunately they still tend to leave it on all night, but not always. It's erratic.
I think one of the worst problems are those decorative garden path lights that come mounted on stakes and are solar powered. They invariably point stright up with no way to adjust that. People enamored with "fairy lights" seem to love them but in my opinion they are worthless as illumnation and just a major nuisance.