to be fucking pissed off with my neighbours playing loud music AGAIN?

[MamaG]

I j ust want to go round and punch the fucking ignorant twats.

They spent 9 months renovating before moving in - after work and at weekends there be drilling/sanding/hammering until 10 at night

Now they've moved in its fucking music

ARGH they are doing my fucking head in! DH is upstaris AGAIN watching a DVD so he doesn't have to listen to them

I've been round a few times to ask them to turn int down, and they do, but I don't want to seem like a moaning minnie! I gave them wine and a card when they moved in and again on her birthday, to show that I'm FUCKING NICE

If it continues I may just blow my top and NastyG will appear



Its FUCKING RUDE AND THOUGHTLESS you CUNTS

[DabblingInDisaster]

call enviromental health.

they will log your call and tell you to log them!

onc eyou have a month or so (depressing, i KNOW) they will giv eu a password so u can ring them up and they will coem round and tlka to your neighbours, possibly confiscate or fine them

or you could take a new approcah... find your favourite, most annoying song that if the opposite of what they listen to, and get up a t5am (or 6am) and out speakers to their bedroom wall and play it on loop for abotu 2 hours.

they shoudl get the message of how thin the walls are by you doing that!

good lcuk!

[Pheebe]

Ask them to come round to your house so they know how loud the music is in your house. Tell them you don't want to keep moaning on but it really is intrusive for you. That way its non-confrontational and they KNOW what you're talking about.

Of course if it becomes a regular thing call EH as suggested

[expatinscotland]

this is why we're going to live in a caravan rather than go back to the city and have to live with neighbours on all sides.

i fucking hate discourteous people, and my no. 1 gripe is people who blast music.

[MamaG]

I am seriously considering moving house because of it. I'm so fed up! I just don't need the fucking hassle, ignorant bastards.

I don't want to fall out with them, but they are taking teh piss

[expatinscotland]

there is really nothing worse, MamaG, IMO.

i've been there so many times and moved so many times because of it it's not true.

it honestly makes me psycho.

that bass! and they know they live in a semi/terrace/flat.

fucking bastards.

[DabblingInDisaster]

Seriously, try the 6am loud as it will go music approcah, one song on loop! worked for us!

[HereComeTheGirls]

YADNBU!!!

There is nothing worse than having selfish neighbours, it really can drive you nuts.

I think you should call Environmental Health, clearly just talking to them won't be enough, some people will never change unless they are forced to.

I would avoid falling out with them, as if they don't have basic consideration in the first place you don't want to risk them becoming even WORSE.

[HereComeTheGirls]

YADNBU!!!

There is nothing worse than having selfish neighbours, it really can drive you nuts.

I think you should call Environmental Health, clearly just talking to them won't be enough, some people will never change unless they are forced to.

I would avoid falling out with them, as if they don't have basic consideration in the first place you don't want to risk them becoming even WORSE.

[HereComeTheGirls]

oops, double clicking shaky wine hands

[Shitemum]

Ours are 2 floors above us and play 'music' that sounds like rapid hammering/cement mixer. It makes my living room vibrate. It's the sort of music that very quickly makes me want to smash things and kill people. God knows what effect it has on people who are already like that to start with, like them. They also have an assortment of very large barky/howling dogs. They are utter louts. The stairway smells for ages after they have passed through it. We refer to them as 'The Morons'. Everybody else in the building has been complaining about them for ages too.

Fortunately they have just been served with an eviction notice as they haven't paid their rent for months either.

Pheebe's idea is good.

[helenelisabeth]

This is why we soundproofed!

[HereComeTheGirls]

Personally I wouldn't risk playing loud music back to them in case it turned into a battle and a game for them....

[Shitemum]

Or you could try DP's solution after a particularly bad night - jam their front door bell with a raisin.

[AitchTwoCiao]

i second the approach of asking them to come to yours and see what they think. we don't have good soundproofing in our building so that's what we did when our neighbours moved in, they were mortified and really lovely about it, and warn us in advance about parties etc (and we'd do the same if we had any...) it's just courtesy, and imo most people are obliging where possible. if they're not, then they're cunts and you'll have to get logging.

[CristinaTheAstonishing]

Huge, huge sympathy from me too. It's one of the worst things.

[MamaG]

Yes, I think the appraoch to ask them to come round and see how loud it is will work best, but I need to be calm! I think they've gone out now (door slamming grrrr)

In all other areas they're nice people, I have said to them before, wen asking them to turn it down "I don't think you realise h ow thin teh walls are "but because theya re big solid victorian terraces and we aren't that noisy, they don't realise (or don't care)

fuckers

[Shitemum]

You could try voodoo. It worked for me.

[expatinscotland]

i have considered it, shitemum, but i didn't know how to work it so that negative wouldn't come back to me.

[AitchTwoCiao]

actually, with our downstairs neighbours i totally acknowledged that it wasn't even being played that loud in their house while i was in there. they'd put the stereo in the old chimney breast and it was amplifying it into our house in the same way that a guitar does, iykwim?
they moved the stereo and turned down the bass, so that really helped.

[MrsMuddle]

Please can I have a quick hijack to ask expat something?

MamaG YADNBU. Twats. Buy a Daniel O Donnell CD, and put in on repeat, place your speakers against their walls, and go out for the day.

[expatinscotland]

let me have a look through my magazines.

my mom sends me Family Circle, Woman's Day and Southern Living.

i think it may have been in one of my S. Living ones, but i'll have a check.

it was an American woman married to a S. African man. they lived in SA for 13 years and had 3 kids, then moved back to the US, and she got hte idea because she was amazed how American women were expected to manage everything in the house and a FT job with no outside help.

[TurkeyLurkey]

MamaG - if you are thinking of selling might not be best to complain formally to environmental health as I think you'll have to declare it if and when you sell (neighbour problems) to potential buyers . Good idea to try and do it reasonably first by getting them to come to yours and listen to what you have to listen to. Good luck.

[vixma]

I know this sounds crap, we had the same problem and phoned the police, they sent around a community police officer who did not say who phoned ( their music was offensive and many heard it) so it could not be pinned at us, even though I would not of had a problem with them telling them who contacted them. We have a young kid and embarressing when he bought friends around as the music was racist and full of swearing. Im not a prude, however sucked when his friends came round and as a childminder embarressing when employers came round. It has stopped now, thankfully.