Fed up of neighbours side door always open!!!

He sounds a right passive aggressive prick. Could not be doing with that. All because they cut the grass before the sun is too hot?!

Personally leave them to it. They're at the end of their lifetime! Think about the things they have gone through in order to be able to live like they do. You may find that you miss the noise when they eventually croak it?? Not trying to be horrible here but I don't think it hurts any. It's not like they're playing music really loud all night long. If it really bothers you that much go and ask them if they would mind turning it down during the day a little if they're really lovely then they probably won't mind at all.

YABU
This is a you problem not a them problem. If you're that sensitive to noise you need to move further away from people. Having the door open in summer and carrying on day to day life is not inconsiderate at all.

Yes agreed... there old...and nice you say... bite the bullet

If they shout down the phone and have everything turned up they've probably got age related hearing loss.

We’re on a road of detached houses only one side (fields the other) and 90% are over 70 (we’re 40/50) and all the back doors are open, everyone is making noise at some point.

Some are sharing drinks over the hedge. 😂

For complete silence you need a LOT of space around you.

Off topic but I'm 60 and hope I'm still going strong and embracing life when I'm 80. I'm not a noisy neighbour I have to add. I would pop round and ask if they could be a little bit quieter. They may just ignore you but at least you have tried. I also would say hello to them when I saw them. Or wave.

Best thing ive heard on here they r living their life to the best of the years they prob have left so me personally i would look up and respect them for it not very many 80yrs olds left nowadays leave em to it i say good on them!!

There's nothing you can do. It's everyday living. Not like it's something the council wil deal with.

Get a Bluetooth speaker of decent quality and play classical music on it, placing the speaker between the noisy neighbours and you. Even when you’re in different parts of the house, you can carry the “buffer speaker”with you.

My DH does this plays Beethoven Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninov when he's really pissed off, with neighbours mowing lawns at 8:00 in the morning. Beethoven & Tchaikovsky tend to start with a huge 'sit down & shut up' set of chords before the actual music - boy did they know what they were doing(!). If they're talking too loud he puts on some opera such as Carmen & bit of Baroque music such as W Byrd, H Purcell &, if all else fails the Queen of the Night song from Mozart's The Magic Flute - max volume with him singing along to it.😨😂

If he really wants to piss noisy neighbours off her will put on Undertones 'Teenage Kicks' or The Who - take your pick but his favourite is 'Won't get Fooled Again'.

No complaints so far.

They will be hard of hearing. So responding with your own noise wont help. Plus you would have two lots of noise to endure. Being 80 seems to mean being nearly deaf and also set in their ways and so there is no solution

Try playing music to drown it out, we used to have a neighbour whi left their dog in the garden barking for long periods of time. We installed a summerhouse/bar with a music system and as soon as dog started we went out and put music on.

I had this problem with my neighbours (although much much younger with multiple dogs barking) so I just started playing music in the garden to drown out the noise, eventually they've taken the hint and are a lot quieter now.

They sound a bit annoying but honestly, don't expect them to act "old"! I'm nearly 76, still work at quite a physical job and have to do everything in my house and garden or it doesn't get done!
They are lucky and obviously happy to still have each other.

I do see that this might be noisy - but did you not realise that a house next to traffic lights might be noisy? Going out to shout at cars for braking and accelerating from traffic lights is quite an odd thing to do.

I have my door open most of the time when I'm home in warmer weather and so does my neighbour - and we live in attached flats. She often has visitors or I can hear her talking on the phone, and she plays music, as does the man over the fence - and I couldn't care less. If you can't cope with normal neighbourhood noise maybe move somewhere remote. Your neighbours are perfectly entitled to have their door open, whether you like it or not.

Can you move to a less built up area? They aren’t doing anything wrong.

Wait until they have to listen to your screaming baby.

Wait until they pass away and you get really noisy neighbours, playing music, partying etc! I can guarantee you’ll have worse to come OP.

@saltinesandcoffeecups they’re 80, but act like 60 in terms of energy.

How are your neighbors 60 and 80 at the same time?

I will admit to only skimming the the thread but they seem to have aged in the span of a few posts?

So here's my view on it... I'm not going to be a little b*tch like some others here. Or at least I'll try not to be.
I think it's reasonable for you to be upset. My stomach is sensitive to sound, so I can literally start throwing up because of sound sometimes... weird, but hey, that's me. Also, your space should be your own and you shouldn't feel like it gets invaded all the time without your consent. At the same time, people in their 60s have been through a lot. They've most likely seen and lived through their own versions of hell, so they do have a right to live however they want. But that's not an excuse to pretend like you can't hear them...
I don't know if this will help at all, but there's a couple things you could do for yourself that might aid you.
Option 1: What you could do is bring it up with them. Let them know that they're being unnecessarily annoying for you, and you can hear just about everything they do. (If someone was to tell me they could hear me all the time I'd be embarrassed 😅)
Option 2: If the first option doesn't work and they're arrogant about their noise level then you can get some noise canceling head phones and wear them at least when you really can't stand it (this option kind of sucks, but it's the non combative way of you prefer that.)
Option 3: You give what you get. You have loud speakers? Good! Crank them up and let em have it, and maybe they'll close their door if for nothing else to save their own "peace and quiet".

Of course it's also absolutely possible that they're legitimately hard of hearing and are loud so they can hear each other and their own little world, and if that's the case then special exceptions need to be made for that as well (unfortunately).
Good luck, hope this helped somehow.

Have you got your door open to hear them so clearly ?

I meet older people a lot for work. Honestly there’s a massive variance met a lovely couple in their late 70s, sprightly and in perfect health apart from highish blood pressure and a lady in her 60s who is utterly done in. I think smoking really ages you too.

Or OP might get to like the neighbours.

Totally agree. I'm sick of people who think about no one outside themselves and their fog horn mouths.

I make sure I don't slam cupboard doors, hold drawers to close, gently shut my front door etc etc because I live in a converted house.

It's absolutely miserable being in close proximity to people who don't have the brain capacity to care.

A bit of noise, hearing life, that's nice. But many people don't think of their impact on others.

Putting on a fan has helped me alot in coping with constant background noise.

A fan 24 /7 is going to be non feasible but whilst it's hot I'd try it out.

Hugely sympathise OP. Some practical suggestions:

1. install a max height fence (2m) on the boundary. Make sure you get acoustic panels to reduce the noise. This is key. The panels must be between the noisy neighbours and you.
2. Get a Bluetooth speaker of decent quality and play classical music on it, placing the speaker between the noisy neighbours and you. Even when you’re in different parts of the house, you can carry the “buffer speaker”with you.
3. if you’re outside, wear headphones so you can’t hear them which will allow you to ignore them if they call out.
4. if you’re pregnant, soon they will have to listen to a screaming baby so you’ll be getting revenge anyway.

That’s a really awful thing to say about some aging people.