Put up wind chimes to annoy noisy neighbours

If you want to see how wind chimes can make a steamy scene incredibly sex charged, watch the film Body heat.
I started collecting them after watching that film....and live in hope.❤

This is like an episode of the middle but it’s switched where the annoying neighbours buy tonnes of wind chimes and she goes mad and tears them all down 🤣 sorry just reminded me of it!

have similar neighbour with barking dog. He says confidently “dogs, like children, cannot be told to be quiet” (he’s a fuckwit - can you tell?)

his dog barks from 7am to 11pm, in and out of the house. It’s unbearable.

So we would not dream of pissing about with wind chimes, what are trying to do, relax them?

an alternative idea.

we put a Bluetooth speaker hard up against their bedroom wall and played a compliation of really loud barking noise from YouTube. At 7.30am, thats about 30 mins after their stupid yappy mutt starts.

that way they can enjoy lots of barking since it must be a sound they enjoy.

absolute pricks.

Forget the hippy biodynamic wind chimes and go YouTube raking festival.

speakers against the shared wall and some obnoxious music (choose whatever you think they'll hate most) at full volume when you go out will give them a taste of their own medicine.

This would make me want to move as I cannot fucking abide constantly barking dogs. I get the idea behind the wind chimes, but won’t it just make them even less inclined to try to address the problem?
Yeah it’s not their fault you work nights, but they should at the very least be trying to curb their noise so early in the morning.
Try a firmly but politely worded note like

’Hi neighbour. As you know I work nights and it would be really great if you could try to settle your dog down particularly in the morning. There is also a lot of other noise like doors slamming/shouting/ (whatever it is) and I would really appreciate if you could try to keep it down’

Me.

Are they renting or buying? If they’re renting speak to the landlord about their inconsideration?

I mean, wind chimes are pretty mild, it’s not like you’re belting out karaoke songs at every hour - we get this from our neighbours 2 doors away! Like we all wanna be hearing that above the sound of our TVs/music!!
I’d hate to be right next door to them!

I would MUCH rather have the dog barking!!

@Stargirl33 Does DD have a yearning to learn how to play the bagpipes or the drums??

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Tape it all and play it back during the night whilst you are at work. Especially the dog barking!!!

So did I. Weekend were the worst because there was always someone mowing the lawn. I found some kind of white noise, in the form of radio 4, evened it all out for me. Even now, some 30 years later, talk radio or a podcast sends me straight off to sleep.

Wind chimes wouldn't bother me! But I seem to be in the minority. 😂

After an altercation with my disrespectful neighbours last night I've been seething and this morning went and bought windchimes for my garden, big and small. I love them and have kids with a sensory garden except sound but even just the kids talking out there or literally the creak of the swing when my ds is laid in silence on his swing they shout out the window before slamming it shut and tell their dog to get in now so they don't have to hear my kids and slam the French doors aggressively I mean I'm not bothered I hope they break their doors and windows but we barely use the garden, we'll barely.... we will be now so this post made me laugh. Good for you

Unfortunately it's not unreasonable to make sound during the day although i understand your situation and its not easy. I would be getting some really good ear plugs. I like wind chimes although it would annoy me if making sound during the night as I'm a very light sleeper.

Unfortunately you choose to work nights and neighbours can live their lives they don't need to be quiet. You need white noise machine eye mask and earplugs

Opera. Max volume.

You need the Dog Warden and or the Councils Noise team to deal with the dog

Do you expect everybody around you to be quiet when you're working a night shift then? I'm not saying it's not annoying to have dogs barking - I'd hate that, but, surely, you're not unreasonable enough to think that your neighbours should be tiptoeing around so that you can sleep?!
I hate other people's noise, which isn't ideal as I live in a middle floor flat, but, even I have had to accept that it happens and I can't tell the neighbours what to do in the daytime.
I'd be really cross if my neighbour put up metal windchimes, they're the invention of the Devil, I think, but if they were wooden ones, I'd actually quite like that!

You need some heavy bass music like Metallica or Five Finger Death Punch.

The rspca don't do anything about barking dogs unless there's clear abuse. There's a big dog that's left outdoors howling most of the day near a friend, and her and neighbours have reported it and the rspca wasn't interested.
Its not illegal to leave a dog alone so unless there's physical abuse or food neglect they won't do anything.

Who puts wind chimes inside the house?

I have a set of metal wind chimes I call the ‘Cathedral bells’ (they didn’t look too big in the shop. When I got them home, it was a different matter…)

I’ll send them over to you… 😂

But, yeah, noisy neighbours. A lot of people just don’t give a fuck about the noise they, their dogs, children or music make!

Dogs barking is so annoying, but your sleeping pattern isn't their problem. If you work nights you need to get used to sleeping with the world and its noise carrying on around you.

I worked night shift for years, I understand that it is frustrating trying to sleep during the day. If it isn't your neighbour, children will pass, playing ball, traffic, the whistle of the postman, birds singing. The world won't change because you work night shift.
Can you look for another job.