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To ban wind chimes

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tinyme77 · 25/05/2025 08:39

My neighbours bought pan pipey wind chimes earlier this year and on this windy day, sitting in my house with the window open I can hear that they have now bought us all (the neighbours) the more conventional wind-f'ing-chimes. It frustrates me because it is constant (unlike a noisy party). Do they think that we can't hear or that we all love the toot-te-toot?

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ProtectTransRights · 25/05/2025 10:04

TFMinx · 25/05/2025 10:03

I hate wind chimes and all their jingly-jangliness. I unfortunately hiccuped and pressed YABU on your poll instead of YANBU, so now I look like one of those weird wind chimes lovers. Balls.

Welcome to the chime club

TFMinx · 25/05/2025 10:03

I hate wind chimes and all their jingly-jangliness. I unfortunately hiccuped and pressed YABU on your poll instead of YANBU, so now I look like one of those weird wind chimes lovers. Balls.

mummymeister · 25/05/2025 10:01

the noise from wind chimes can constitute a statutory noise nuisance under the EPA 1990. Never got as far as prosecutions on this when I was an EHO but served a couple of notices to get them taken down and/or relocated. People can be so thoughtless at times.

Chloe793 · 25/05/2025 10:00

JudgeJ · 25/05/2025 09:44

I thought I was alone in not understanding the MN chime hatred! I will agree to banning them if we can also ban screeching children and yapping dogs from gardens in Summer.

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Yes yapping dogs and children screeching for hours and hours on end should be banned too. Five minutes of either is fine though, just like five minutes of a wind chime would be fine.

PawsAndTails · 25/05/2025 09:59

Ddakji · 25/05/2025 09:58

So you’re fine with something that could constantly wake you up throughout the night every time there’s a slightly gust of wind?
Well, you do you.
I love how everyone on here knows exactly where their neighbours are sleeping.

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I've been in their house. I know the layout.

PawsAndTails · 25/05/2025 09:58

ProtectTransRights · 25/05/2025 09:57

They are relaxing at night aren't they.

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Yes, they are. Quality chimes though, not cheap, tuneless ones.

Ddakji · 25/05/2025 09:58

PawsAndTails · 25/05/2025 09:56

I do love hearing them at night and would love to hang some outside my bedroom window. But there are neighbours with bedroom windows on that side so I'm not.

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So you’re fine with something that could constantly wake you up throughout the night every time there’s a slightly gust of wind?
Well, you do you.
I love how everyone on here knows exactly where their neighbours are sleeping.

ProtectTransRights · 25/05/2025 09:57

PawsAndTails · 25/05/2025 09:56

I do love hearing them at night and would love to hang some outside my bedroom window. But there are neighbours with bedroom windows on that side so I'm not.

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They are relaxing at night aren't they.

Chloe793 · 25/05/2025 09:57

Horrid jangly things flopping around in the wind. Why do people think it's ok to inflict that on others?

PawsAndTails · 25/05/2025 09:56

Ddakji · 25/05/2025 09:55

Do you love hearing them throughout the night when you’re trying to sleep?

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I do love hearing them at night and would love to hang some outside my bedroom window. But there are neighbours with bedroom windows on that side so I'm not.

Ddakji · 25/05/2025 09:56

merrymelody · 25/05/2025 09:55

I love wind chimes; they’re so relaxing and melodious.

At night when you’re trying to sleep?

merrymelody · 25/05/2025 09:55

I love wind chimes; they’re so relaxing and melodious.

merrymelody · 25/05/2025 09:55

I love wind chimes; they’re so relaxing and melodious.

Ddakji · 25/05/2025 09:55

IdiottoGoa · 25/05/2025 09:49

I don’t understand the hate for wind chimes. I don’t have any but I love hearing them, it’s only on here that I’ve ever heard anyone complain about them.

I’d vote for more wind chimes personally, perhaps make them compulsory in every garden.

Do you love hearing them throughout the night when you’re trying to sleep?

PawsAndTails · 25/05/2025 09:54

SALaw · 25/05/2025 09:50

@PawsAndTailsi obviously don’t know where your neighbours’ houses are but I’d question if you know that for sure. Sound can carry differently depending on weather, wind direction, other noises etc. for example we live relatively near a small train station. Generally we don’t hear the announcements but then maybe every 2 weeks it will be a day in which the sound seems to carry and we hear it 🤷🏼‍♀️

It would have to carry a long way, so I'd be very surprised. The only neighbours that can hear them do have their bedrooms on the other side of their house, so I think they're safe at night. I'd take them down at night if it was an issue but during the day they can deal with it. Like I said, if they deal with their issue of annoyance, then we can talk about the wind chimes. I may or may not be receptive.

SALaw · 25/05/2025 09:51

IdiottoGoa · 25/05/2025 09:49

I don’t understand the hate for wind chimes. I don’t have any but I love hearing them, it’s only on here that I’ve ever heard anyone complain about them.

I’d vote for more wind chimes personally, perhaps make them compulsory in every garden.

Hearing them all night as you try to sleep is different though, right? I like a piano but I don’t want someone hitting 4 notes repeatedly all night when I’m trying to sleep?

SALaw · 25/05/2025 09:50

@PawsAndTailsi obviously don’t know where your neighbours’ houses are but I’d question if you know that for sure. Sound can carry differently depending on weather, wind direction, other noises etc. for example we live relatively near a small train station. Generally we don’t hear the announcements but then maybe every 2 weeks it will be a day in which the sound seems to carry and we hear it 🤷🏼‍♀️

IdiottoGoa · 25/05/2025 09:49

I don’t understand the hate for wind chimes. I don’t have any but I love hearing them, it’s only on here that I’ve ever heard anyone complain about them.

I’d vote for more wind chimes personally, perhaps make them compulsory in every garden.

Ddakji · 25/05/2025 09:48

Headingtowardsdivorce · 25/05/2025 09:46

My neighbour used to have them, they kept me awake at night and considerably reduced my quality of life. I told her, she left them up. Asshole.

What utter dicks.

ProtectTransRights · 25/05/2025 09:48

Ddakji · 25/05/2025 09:47

No, thank goodness. And thank goodness my neighbours just took their’s down altogether instead of playing silly buggers.

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I'll keep playing silly buggers to the tune of my wind chimes 🎵

Ddakji · 25/05/2025 09:47

ProtectTransRights · 25/05/2025 09:39

You're not my neighbour so you don't need to worry

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No, thank goodness. And thank goodness my neighbours just took their’s down altogether instead of playing silly buggers.

TheFunHare · 25/05/2025 09:47

Our neighbours got some once. Problem is we lived in a terrace and they were pretty much outside our bedroom window. I don't mind the sound of windchimes but I do object to them tinkling away through the night. Thankfully they took them down when we asked.

Headingtowardsdivorce · 25/05/2025 09:46

My neighbour used to have them, they kept me awake at night and considerably reduced my quality of life. I told her, she left them up. Asshole.

CreationNat1on · 25/05/2025 09:46

My neighbour has them up to, a teacher also, that explains that..... Tatty, Bossy.

PawsAndTails · 25/05/2025 09:46

SALaw · 25/05/2025 09:44

@PawsAndTailsdo you only have one set of neighbours or does every single neighbour bother you?

Only one that can hear them, and only during the day.