Hell is a terraced house with a hot tub, bar and outdoor tv.

Thank you @Freud2
You have my sympathies. It is indeed very difficult to adjust to noise when you've been used to peace and quiet. More so if you've enjoyed an amicable relationship with your old neighbours for years, as we had.

I hope the noise issue doesn't escalate for you.

Next time they start beating the crap out of each other leave them to it, things might quiten down with one of them dead and the other in prison.

I keep thinking I should move to a town now I am getting older but I just can't face it. Buzzards by day, little owl by night is as bad as it gets here. It's threads like this that stop me from getting this place on the market.

OP I really feel for you. I moved out of a lovely house because the NDNs were loud and vile. I was lucky to get sold at the time and no-one has stayed more than two years. It's a social disease.

No , it's not just the peasants from the council schemes who behave like this. I live in a nice estate and the class above the "peasants" (good jobs) also behave like this with their noise.

I feel for you, op. A lovely sunny day here yesterday was ruined by neighbours loud music and garden antics at 10pm. Just when things calmed down they lit the fire pit - right at the back of the house - which meant I had to close all the windows and sit suffocating in heat and fumes until they went in at midnight. This happens every sunny day.

I often find the first few weeks of summer to be the worst when everyone goes temporarily mad with summer activities. We get the music, BBQ, hot tub parties, fire pit, pressure washer, leaf blower, kids screaming and motorbikes revving all at once, but as the novelty wears off things settle down and by the end of the summer we're the only ones sitting out on a cool quiet evening. I hope things settle down for you.

What you need is someone doing their music practice at your house in the early morning when your neighbours are sleeping. May I suggest kids with recorders or even better ,due to the volume, is bagpipes. It doesn't even need to be good. In fact if they keep having to repeat the same scales even better.

'Large' female neighbour? What difference does someone's size make to their behaviour?

Or someone willing to reenact strangers on a train

So you think what OP's neighbours are doing is OK?

Complain to the Council (environmental health). Some councils act decisively, others are crap. If the latter, consult Sanctum Consultants (they have a website). They are not at all expensive and their advice will sort out this matter quickly. Worked for me. Do not put up with it.

And don't believe the usual posters on MN who claim noise nuisances only exist between 11 pm and 7 am. That's rubbish and not the full scope of the law. There is another law... Sanctum can help you.

In the end I had to take action rather than moving because like you, nobody sane would have considered buying our house when the Neighbours From Hell were in place. DM me if you need to.

Massive sympathy from me OP. I live on an estate. People can be so inconsiderate. I’m afraid I don’t have anything to add to this thread in terms of advice but just wanted to let you know YADNBU

This comment says it all. I'm very glad I don't live next door to you!!!

I agree with some of the other replies.
I assume it is a rented or council house. Report to council / housing association / environmental health / landlord ask the neighbours will do so too.
If enough of you report them a few times then they will hopefully get chucked out.
I live in a terraced house and next door is an emergency accommodation place where tenants stay for up to two years while they are being found somewhere permanent to live. It has been converted into a four bedroom house so mostly it's people with 4 or 5 children needing emergency housing that move in. I have been really lucky.. since the owner started renting it out to the council I've had four lots of really lovely families as neighbours. I will be really sad when the current people move out, they are great!

it sounds like absolute hell 😢. Do these people ever go out? If so, can you accidentally puncture the hot tub? Get a bag of manure and spread it over the garden, universal remote to turn off the tv?
I know you can’t actually do these things.

I feel for you OP. Living next door to people like this is horrendous and has a huge impact on mental health. I had an awful experience about 17 / 18 years ago when I bought my first house. At first it was lovely, after about a year the neighbour transferred it over to her daughter who moved in with her scummy boyfriend. From almost straight away we had issues, thumping music, loud fights, a poor dog that was never walked so barked all day, rubbish thrown over the fence and much more. I complained to her mum one day that the dog barked constantly and would throw itself at the fence if we went outside so my daughter was now too scared to go in the garden which prompted the boyfriend to then sit and bark in the house, outside my windows and he would also bark at me if he saw me in the street. The rubbish over the fence then also included dog poo, and they would pile stuff up on our car. The music continued and they would shout all sorts to me in their lounge so I could hear it through the walls.
Was so happy when I moved out!

Just want to say I have huge sympathy. We have similar but on a lesser scale. Nothing that you would ever escalate. Just a constant excessive noise in the summer. I don’t mind ‘children playing loudly noises’ (I have two DS, anlthough they would’ve been told to be quieter if they were like the two next door) and love my garden and playing some music (at a normal volume). They have a pool that takes up the entire garden that they drag out each year. Then ‘the kids’ proceed to screech and argue in it with the parents shouting at them from indoors to ‘fucking get out now’. The Dad smokes weed 12 hours a day. He’s obviously either high or low so either shouting and swearing or playing his favourite song REALLY LOUD and singing to it. Then he leaves it on really loud but (because he obviously can’t figure out how to use Spotify) then the adverts come on REALLY LOUD in between too. Their normal conversation volume you can hear every word. I swear they can’t hear a word we say. The mum screeches like a fish wife and the eight year old daughter is even worse. It’s lovely where we live, lots of friendly people and lovely neighbours. Every winter I decide, no, I’m happy here. I don’t want to move…. Then the sun comes out along with the feral neighbours 😞 oh. And not to forget the constant football against the fence most of the year.

I've read about that, too, and classical music generally seems to be a deterrent.
I'd play opera, personally, but I realise that's not everyone's cup of tea.

I really feel for you, OP. That is my idea of hell and I probably would have totally lost the plot by now and gone berserk with a carving knife or resorted to arson. I would never, ever, buy a house where neighbours had a hot tub, outdoor bar, outdoor tv or sound system. I think they should come under planning control and only people with no near neighbours should be allowed to have them.

Report every single incident to the council as noise nuisance. Keep a "noise diary" so you have a record of dates, times, duration and type of noise. Councils can, and do, prosecute this sort of anti-social activity, and they're more likely to do that if they've got a detailed record to present as evidence.

I wonder if they've got all this shite in place for watching the world cup. I think I'd have to go away for the duration if so.

Fair enough.
I can’t imagine leaving my house all day with music blaring out; for the sake of all the other considerate neighbours.
I’d also be scared of retaliation from the inconsiderate neighbours.

You sound like a scumbag antisocial neighbour

Yes, I actually would do this and have done this. And guess what, it worked.

If they are private renting contact the landlord and the council. If it’s social housing contact their housing association and ask to speak to the anti social behaviour team and the council. If they own speak to the council. I’d also speak to other neighbours and ask them how they’re affected by the noise and let them know you plan to report the noise complaints. With any luck others will be just as frustrated and you will give them the push to report the issue and the hope that it might actually make a difference.

Yes the McDonalds near me with an ASB problem does that. A bit of Vivaldi and the teens are slinking off elsewhere!

You sound like a snob. I’m glad I don’t live next to you

You need to stand up to these bullies, have cameras fitted front and back of your house, and report report report. Do not be intimidated as they will do this more and more. Also invest in a really loud music system, turn it to max on days when they have kept you up at night and then go out leaving it playing the same irritating song on repeat !