If you have a wind chime do you consider your neighbours?

Don't be. I wish my neighbours had wind chimes rather than subjecting us to the maddening thunk-thunk-thunk-thunk of fucking balls getting bounced off their balcony floor.

My neighbour does have one herself but it's definitely a "tinkly" one and I don't hear it much. But mine is potentially a bit louder - I will ask her and keep it inside if she isn't keen. Appreciate all the advice!

I have had them in the past. But I always had them inside. I like them. I like the sound but only occasionally. It would be annoying for it to be constant. So i would keep mine inside.

I imagine people think no one else can hear them; like there's an invisible sound-proof wall round their property. Or they don't think,which is most likely. Or they don't care,which they obviously don’t.

My lovely ndn's slightly tricky DH hung one at the bottom of the garden. The wind tends to come from that direction so ping clang clash reaches us loud and clear. I'm debating how to open the conversation without offending.

Hang the wretched things in your house and open a window,unless you live in Thailand where it's just about ok.

People clearly don't consider neighbours otherwise they wouldn't have them.

I hate them.

Our old neighbours got in a tit-for-tat noise row with their next neighbour and ended up with a shit load of them. It drove me bonkers.

About six months in her husband came into ours when he was locked our for an hour, was absolutely mortified by how much noise they created in our house and they were gone the next day.

Just found this thread because I bought some wind chimes yesterday, I'd wanted some like this for ages - but now I'm too scared to put them up outside in the garden 😔 😂

My neighbours are cunts. If they weren’t I’d take my wind chimes down during strong winds & overnight.

I live in a 6 house terraced row. From left to right we have “ball bouncing boy”, kicks ball off his wall and bounces it for hours. Trampoline kids, self explanatory. Man with no mobile signal indoors, so is outside booming into his phone at regular intervals. Weed woman, lives in a weed infested jungle of a garden then occasionally does her weeding by burning them in a reeking fire in a metal drum. Then finally the stoners. You know they are in because the cannabis stench, and the mentally ill barking dog who is also presumably stoned, leave no doubt.
Im thinking I might get 10 wind chimes, a distraction for me if nothing else.

It caused neighbour wars in my old road, I was lucky I couldn’t hear them, but other neighbours took turns removing them.

There’s the Emo Philips joke, “My girlfriend bought me a wind chime which is nice because there’s nothing worse than sleeping through a sudden gust of wind.”

I have 3 and plan on buying more, I don’t care what the neighbours think.

My daughter has one that I hang up while she plays outside but I bring it in if its windy or when she comes inside. It pisses me off if its out overnight as it wakes me up in the morning. We treat it more like a play-musical instrument.

Honestly, I really think windchime haters should watch the scene in 'Bodyheat' where the seductress invites a stranger home to see her windchimes.
You may see them in a new light.😏

My old neighbours had an awful one in their back garden that went clonkety-clonk-clonk in a particularly tuneless way at any breath of wind. We had to keep all the back windows shut at night because of the noise. I was so glad to move house. My brother suggested getting a much larger and louder set of wind chimes to drown the neighbours’ out but we never went that far.

Because it is constant and intrusive. It's not a nice sound that I have to hear. I can't sit in my garden and not hear it. I can't open my bedroom window and not hear it. I can't be in my living room on a warm day with the door open and not hear it.

A foghorn would be preferable. Loud but it's over and not on endless repeat!

I have tinnitus among other illnesses, and the sound really aggravates it.

If it was sometimes that's ok. But they know it bothers me and yet said they're deaf and can't hear it. It's also nearer my house than theirs. They're twats.

We have one in a remembrance area of our garden for my late dad. If its windy I tie it in. In reality, I put a tie round it October to April.

I.live by the noisiest most inconsiderate people ever. They own 2 houses, one an HMO with real Asb issues right by me. Noisy building works starting at 6am, out of control fires, noisy business without permissions, loud music.

It was me who got a letter from the council about the chime. It was a closed case because of no evidence from a diary and them having a windchime themselves.

Its clearly a matter councils will act upon though. Oh and a complaint about an old tree in my garden apparently scared their dd, age around 18. Not overhanging just a bit Sleepy Hollow.

My elderly neighbours love them, they just make a tinkly sound. I honestly can’t see where all the fuss is coming from.

I wouldn’t personally want a garden full of them but from this thread you’d think it was a foghorn.

In fairness, they’re horrible things - tacky, tuneless, and serve no purpose other than to annoy other people.

I stand by my point that you can’t have any real problems if you’re this worked up.

Do you just sit quietly in your front room all day listening out for noises to complain about?

Cars, birds helicopters, aeroplanes, people walking by, the neighbours having a barbecue, your own speakers all make noise, should they be banned too?

Newish neighbours have just installed some. I'm delighted. I love the sound but don't want to be responsible for them because I know so many people hate them so neighbours getting them is a win win for me.

Yep. Hot but breezy weather and I have been tortured all week with the constant fucking tinkly tuneless noise. I need my window open so I have had to have earbuds in for my sanity but I'm sure it's not good to wear them as much as I do. 😕

I think they've moved it nearer to me now too. I loathe my neighbours. They're so selfish in many ways but removing that abomination would go some way to quell my murderous feelings.