To think garden wind chimes should be banned?!!

We ended up sending our neighbours a letter before action as they kept their wind chimes out all day and night, DH is disabled, needs the window open all year (lung issues) and couldn't sleep for the noise. They came round, frank discusion ensued now we are mates. They apparently didn't know they were a problem as the council had not acted on our complaints and they not heard us banging on their door!!

@JudgeJ Yep and the rest. The ball, the shouting, kids chucking lumps of branches from trees, drug deals.

Exactly! Screaming children, barking dogs, trampolines, loud 'music'. smelly bbqs etc etc., ban those and we may have an agreement! It's obviously approaching summer as this chestnut is being aired yet again.

Omg I've jinxed it. Just heard the tinkling bastards. Maybe there just hasn't been any breeze this week. I thought they'd gone 😭😭😭

I love them, but I only hang them out when I'm sitting out in the garden on a sunny day. I take them in when I go in cos I know not everyone shares my love of them!

I think there is a God. Somehow a miracle has happened (or else some strong winds recently have done it) and next door's have stopped! It's so wonderful. I hope it is a permanent reprieve. It's been several years of torture.

Be careful though because honestly, if my neighbours had hung wind chimes years ago I'd have though, "Oh, great, they don't mind wind chimes," and got my own. I'd have taken it as they were okay with them.

Ooooh thanks for the idea! My neighbours are literally the most evil people to ever walk this earth. Hell would be too good for the batshit psychos so I might just invest in a range of really cheap tuneless wind chimes.

I quite like them...

I had a mad moment and bought some wooden ones for my own garden. Sounded lovely in the shop. They annoyed me so much once I hung them in the garden, I had to take them down after a day. 😂

Why does it have to be one or the other?! This discussion is about wind chimes anyway!

I can hear my neighbours chimes every night & morning in bed .
I like hearing them ☺️
Everyone is different though 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’d rather hear wind chimes than screaming children any day of the week

Absolutely bloody hate them. I wish people realised that just because it's night time in the Summer, it doesn't mean the wind stops! Can they not take them down at night so we can leave leave our windows open and not be subjected to a constant noise to be able to cool down?!

LOL nope—there’s a solid 20–30 feet between houses here and once again, I can’t even hear them inside my own house unless I’m at the door. In fact, the only noise I ever hear from the neighborhood is lawnmowers/snowblowers and the occasional kid/dog. Like, I don’t even hear my own kid playing basketball on the driveway, so I’m not sure how the hell my neighbors would hear anything but then again I'm not British and don't live in a packed housing estate so ....* *

For all you know they love it themselves.

They don't sound nice at all though.

No idea, I bought them decades ago when I was a student and always had them hanging inside, only moved them to the garden 2 or 3 years ago. They’re heavy so it takes a fair breeze to get them chiming but it’s a wonderful low moody sound rather than high pitched tinkle.

We have horrible neighbours. They hate us simply & purely because my house is social housing and they paid £550k for theirs, so of course they’re ‘above’ us…… Won’t allow their DD to play with my DD because she Autism (yes, really), refused to thank me when I saved their dog’s life, started a smear campaign when I called out her DH on the street WhatsApp group for saying that my brother was “probably a drug addict” because he was wearing gym clothes when he popped round. Came home one day to find her husband hammering additional pieces of wood to my side of our adjoining fence (whilst their kids were playing on my child’s play equipment!) to give them privacy as his wife had complained about “THAT kid” (my DD) playing out whilst she was in their garden! Basically she didn’t want to have to see my autistic child whilst they were in their garden! I could go on…

So when my mum bought me a lovely metal wind chime, there was only one place it could go….On said fence, as close to their kitchen window as I could get it and there it will remain!

They've been there three years and it's driving me nuts. I may put a polite note through their door soon, requesting them to reduce the volume slightly.
Why not just have a chat about it?
I'd be more receptive to a contestants a note. It would give me a chance to apologise for disturbing or possibly work out a compr eg, when you are likely to be out so I could listen without disturbing you.

Please do it, for all of us who also have to deal with this sort of situation but for various nuanced reasons, cannot do anything about it!

Do please tell which brand?

The thing is though that noise travels. So even if you’re not being considerate to your immediate neighbours who also make noise, you’re annoying the other neighbours in your area who can hear it.

I don't like them and I'm sure the birds don't either!
Add to that flags, there's a garden near us that has an enormous union Jack and before they put it up it was all greenery. Now the eye is drawn to that all the time. And at Christmas they have to put up a santa one as well (at least that one is temporary)

You’d hate living by me! I have two sets. 😂

We used to have some big wooden ones at the very bottom of our garden-not near anyone’s house/windows. The bad weather broke them & I haven’t replaced them. I prefer the wooden ones but I don’t mind them in general. Mind you,my neighbours enjoy screaming/shouting & letting their dogs bark constantly which I find a lot more disturbing to listen to. They also have a fondness for fireworks most of the year & burning stinking fires every day that isn’t raining. Wind chimes aren’t really on my annoyance radar!