To think garden wind chimes should be banned?!!

We have wood ones but we do take them down when it's really windy

I'm extremely noise sensitive and can't stand the sound of wind chimes (of any kind), although fortunately we've never had to live near anyone with them (yet!), but even those in garden centres etc make my teeth itch. I honestly can't see how anyone actually enjoys the cacophany!

My parents got some wooden ones after I left home - weird as, despite spending a small fortune on their garden, they never sat outside. I hated staying there one summer for six weeks when we were waiting for the purchase of our new house to go through. Having the windows open at night was unbearable, but my mum refused to take them down as - like a previous poster - she claimed she couldn't hear them.

I love the sound of them

I have neighbours at the back of me who have metal ones.

I dream of cutting the bloody thing down. Awful and invasive for someone that is very noise sensitive.

but then wind chimes dont always jingle all day ? that said i can understand your point

Not been.bothered by them But l.know if people who.live in flats whose lives have been made hell by outside wind charms near their bedrooms.

In my experience, dogs are infinitely less annoying. They don’t bark all day. I accept there are arsehole dog owners. But nothing is worse than wind chimes.

I don't mind them, but I wouldn't have them in a residential area. If you have neighbours I think it's good manners to take them down during really windy weather. My neighbour's metal one sounded like a tin of nails being repeatedly shaken throughout the day and night during last weekend's storm, I did find myself hoping it would blow away a few times.

All intrusive noise is very wearing and debilitating, when it goes on and on. This doesn’t need to be a competition of suffering. If you’re experiencing one sort of persistent noise, then that should give some understanding and sympathy withothers who are suffering differently.

The sound of a persistently dripping tap can drive people to distraction.

Methinks thou dost protest too much to get so wound up about wind chimes or even a dog barking (edit to add the odd bark, not constantly of course as that's not ok). I'd pay a handsome fee to have wind chime neighbours. Instead I have neighbours who barbeque and play loud music until 2-4am at least 4 nights a week - midweek and weekend - accompanied by loud shouting, whooping, singing,laughing, and stomping from dancing. This is heard best unluckily from my bedroom. Also random drilling and hammering for 10mins or so every day for a week, then nothing for 2weeks, then repeat. To add insult to injury the smoke from the BBQ gets under our eaves, so the rooms on the ground floor at the back of our house stink of BBQ smoke.

Just had 3 straight days of this. I'm tired. A wind chime, frankly, sounds nice right now.

but then you could say the same when people, have dogs that bark etc

The thing is. The type of people that hang them do not give a shit about others. They are morons. So I doubt a polite request to take them down would even register in their slurry brains.

there is a reason, its they are nice to hear every garden should have 5 sets

They should be banned. Or cut down.

I have wooden ones at the front and metal ones at the back (Feng Shui - south/north), but I would be more than happy to take them down if any of my neighbours found them annoying. I find them comforting.

Yes. Our old neighbour had some and I could hear them all the time, especially on a night. They kept me awake. I swear they helped their cat catch all the bird as they couldn't hear it with the noise.

I have some but they only come out when needed. My neighbours on one side, reeking of cannabis/psycho dog. Wind chimes are better.
2nd neighbour, gentle parent, will not tell child not to go berserk (age 14 btw) so again, better sound.

I like them. They remind of being on holiday at sea. A relaxing, friendly sound.

When I was growing up, which is getting to be quite a long time ago, it was considered rude to mow your lawn with a petrol or electric mower on a Sunday. The comment was “oh, how thoughtless” on the other hand I really do love the sound of a push pull mower.

If you hadn't mentioned the conservatory, I'd have thought you were living next door to my mum!

I doubt they hated you for it, if they responded by taking them down.

They are the MOST annoying things. Hugely invasive on others. I'd be asking them to take these absurd, irritating things down!

I absolutely hate the bloody things. My mum had an obsession with them whilst I was growing up and had several hanging in the back garden. Most nights I struggled to sleep because I could hear them clanging away, even in the gentlest of breezes. I remember asking her on several occasions if she could take them down & I was told I was over exaggerating, and that they obviously weren't that noisy as she never heard them at night. What she seemed to forget was they were hanging directly below my bedroom window, whereas her bedroom was on the opposite side and opposite end of the house (as far away from the wind chimes as you could get!) & she has mild hearing loss, so there's no way she would have heard them. Anyway, years later she stayed somewhere that had wind chimes near the bedroom and was moaning about the noise they made in the night. She finally conceded that the wind chimes were in fact ridiculously loud, annoying and sleep-interrupting. However, apparently hers were never that loud or annoying (only because she never bloody heard them!!!).

My mil bought me some. I hung them up and they tinkle in the wind.
Slightly concerned you might be my neighbour - if so tell me and I'll take them down.

Be nice to your neighbours: no man-made sources of noise of any kind. Except of course maintenance noise (lawnmowers, that sort of thing, motorcycle engine being checked over, “putputputput-GROWL-putputputput …”) at weekends.