We live in a mid-terraced house with fairly thin walls. A couple of months ago, a family moved in next door - young couple with a daughter of about two.
From the very start, the noise has been a major problem every night. Loud computer games, tv on full in the night, Hoovering in the small hours - that sort of thing. However, the biggest problem is that they keep their daughter up til gone 11pm, usually midnight, every day of the week, and she runs around on the exposed wooden floorboards, screaming, and keeping us awake.
I'm not talking about her being put to bed and then waking up distressed and being unable to settle - that couldn't be helped, and we're having problems of our own with DS, who often struggles to sleep.
Instead, she's up until that time playing - lights on, tv on, parents up with her.
We have mentioned the noise to them in general terms already, but nothing's changed.
However, I don't know if it's unreasonable to complain about their child playing loudly at night. I don't see how I can moan about the noise without coming come across as judgy, or questioning their parenting.
It's causing quite big problems for myself and DH, who have had to sleep in separate rooms since this started. I can sleep through the noise, but he can't, so he goes off to sleep in a separate room which is slightly further away from the noise. Said room is too small for me to join him there, or for it to be turned into our bedroom.
DH wants to move house, but we simply can't afford the cost of selling up and moving - and would of course risk getting noisy neighbours in the next house anyway.
Suggestions?