How to totally block light through bedroom windows?

[Wozzaaah]

Looks like you missed my link. ^

 

[FergalFarty]

In my previous house we had these in the bedroom:

https://www.velux.co.uk/products/blinds-and-shutters/blackout-blinds

I remember they were very easy to fit. You could probably build a frame of appropriate size inside the window reveal and attach them to that.

 

[armalites]

Looks like you missed my link. ^

The problem with these is the curved edges, they will never fully cover the window

 

[mart]

In the steelworks warehouse where flat plates were wrapped, they used sheets of thin but strong black corrugated plastic. (I think the size was 2mx1m and some 3mx1m) They cut it with a Stanly knife, as you could not really tear it. It was used for export orders and something like that would have been ideal for my windows.

I have no idea what the material was called. I had never seen it until that time, and have never seen it since.

Anyone recognise it by the description?

 

[FergalFarty]

Is this it?

https://www.sitebox.ltd.uk/correx-s...m-thickness-correx-boards-per-25-pack-oCORREX

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

In the steelworks warehouse where flat plates were wrapped, they used sheets of thin but strong black corrugated plastic. (I think the size was 2mx1m and some 3mx1m) They cut it with a Stanly knife, as you could not really tear it. It was used for export orders and something like that would have been ideal for my windows.

I have no idea what the material was called. I had never seen it until that time, and have never seen it since.

Anyone recognise it by the description?

Floor protection boards. Same stuff as estate agent boards. Jewsons or similar few quid a sheet

Edit. As link above. Various brands about.

 

[Shox Dr]

Open the curtains and get used to sleeping in all light conditions. I used to need total darkness, it was a royal pain in the arris if we stopped over anywhere.

These days I could sleep under a halogen lamp

 

[brightspark]

View attachment 139662

tut tut

 

[brightspark]

I want to sleep, not have sex.

u been watching only fools and horses

 

[brightspark]

Open the curtains and get used the sleeping in all light conditions. I used to need total darkness, it was a royal pain in the arris if we stopped over anywhere.

These days I could sleep under a halogen lamp

same here can sleep with the light on now if its noisy outside or there doing the railway track I just put the dehumidifier on in bedroom can sleep with a constant noise but not with intermittent sounds

 

[postie jon]

I once screwed some 1/4" plywood over the window in our bedroom when I was working night shift for a few weeks, it worked well but Mrs HAL wasn't too pleased when she had to turn the lights on whenever she entered the room

bet she loved surprises!

 

[Ian James]

It's not really a problem here it only ever bothers me 2 times a fortnight as the rest of the time I am up before before dawn anyway but I can sleep in daylight when necessary

 

[slim_boy_fat]

@mart

 

[Shedendman]

 

[mart]

Open the curtains and get used to sleeping in all light conditions. I used to need total darkness, it was a royal pain in the arris if we stopped over anywhere.

These days I could sleep under a halogen lamp

I'm keen to learn most anything? How did you adjust the mind for that?

As a 16 year old apprentice I do recall being so tired at one 6am shift that I felt asleep against a rolling mill that was going full belt. Lovely and warm there but the noise did not stop me kipping.

 

[brightspark]

lol window tax

 

[Shox Dr]

I do a lot of camping, you’ve no choice

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

1 coat should do it.

 

[mechman]

lol window tax

Hence the saying Daylight Robbery.

 

[Jlg]

In the steelworks warehouse where flat plates were wrapped, they used sheets of thin but strong black corrugated plastic. (I think the size was 2mx1m and some 3mx1m) They cut it with a Stanly knife, as you could not really tear it. It was used for export orders and something like that would have been ideal for my windows.

I have no idea what the material was called. I had never seen it until that time, and have never seen it since.

Anyone recognise it by the description?

B&q sell that plastic but the best bet I would say is the black sticky back plastic they sell on the roles for £10 I've got it on my windows but I got the tinted one instead to still let some light in