To think garden wind chimes should be banned?!!

Honestly, even if I viewed the house of my dreams that ticked every single box, if I could hear wind chimes, I’d run a mile.

I wouldn’t mind them if it was the odd plinky plonk wooden chime sounds, but it’s like they’re going potty even on the smallest breeze. So for that I was YANBU.

I think indoors fine you get the odd noise when a door or window is open, but you don’t annoy anyone.

I have heard people sometimes buy them if they don’t like their neighbours.

They’ve probably got them up so nosey buggers can’t hear what they’re up to

Germany too I think. I have a couple of neighbours though in the UK who will happily rev it up at 8am on a Sunday 🙈

I have never come across anyone mowing pre 9am. It’s the people doing it at 12-2 or 6-8pm that are the problem. Just when we’re sitting down to lunch or dinner in the garden! I understand Switzerland had rules around this?

I hate them! Our neighbour has one that clangs and bangs off their conservatory every time it is windy. We have asked them (nicely) to move them, and they refused. She is hard of hearing, so is obviously oblivious to the horrible noise!

I really can’t stand them.

I had a neighbour before who had them, and I just told them it was bothering me—they ended up taking it down. They might have hated me for it, but I didn’t care.

Why don’t you just ask them to remove it?”

Have you spoken to them in a pleasant, non confrontational way? Why go straight to a note? They may be a bit thoughtless (in the literal sense), rather than selfish and may turn it right down if you let them know.

That must be so difficult for you. If a neighbour came to me like you did with your neighbour, I’d take mine down.

Wow! There is an arsehole in your post, but it’s not the owner of the house with the windchimes!

I love my wind chimes. They are not near anyone else windows. If they were and someone asked, I’d move them. I’m assuming the idea that they should be banned isn’t serious. If it is, you could be a bit batshit!

Not as selfish as letting a kid whack a football up wooden fences. Sounds like bomb going off over and over.

I know! Rather wind chimes than the thump of a ball.

My next door neighbour has them. I mentioned gently that I find them intrusive (used other words to be as diplomatic as possible). They said they couldn't hear them and left them up. They're up all the time. Constant tuneless awful noise. Sounds like dropping a metal tool repeatedly. Horrible sound. I have tinnitus as part of my chronic illness and it really aggravates it. i have to live in my earbuds.

But they are generally selfish and self centered people so I'm not surprised.

I love my windchimes, have 3 lots of them in my quite big (long) garden and 6 inside my house next to opening windows.
A neighbour passively aggressively joked that he was tempted to cut the strings - I told him well if that happened I’d know it was him and that there were worse things to put up with like noisy electrical tools all weekend, smokey bbqs when my washing is out, music playing loudly and loud drunks…..all relevant to them. Not said anything since and my windchimes are intact. I might add the chimes are a good 50 feet from our houses.

The neighbours? Can we buy tickets?

In my book after 9am is reasonable. A lot of people like me have to fit it around work and other responsibilities where they can, so sometimes I have to do mine at that time.

My neighbours two doors away are retired and sit in their garden with a radio playing all day, every day. It's loud enough that we can hear muffled talking, the base and the repetitive rhythm, but not the melody, so we can't tell what song is playing, or what is being said, just this annoying noise. 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. If they don't, I'll dig my wind chimes out of the shed and hang them up.

Try living next to perpetual jangling?! And when you’re in a small garden and your next door neighbours have them, several of them, it really is full blast. Wooden ones are ok but metal ones most certainly are not.

Especially working from home in the summer when you want the doors and windows open. It’s awful. Particularly annoying when said neighbours are out at work, rarely in the garden and don’t have to listen to them.

Surely enough people on here in this and other threads have expressed how miserable it is for you to be able to inch forward to some understanding?!

I'm on the fence with this one! My neighbor's have some lovely tinkly ones and they don't bother me. I have wooden ones and if it gets windy I throw them on the floor 🤣 it sounds like a child badly playing the drums in the wind. I also get them down each evening, actually I'm not sure why I bother with them at all! It gets really windy in my garden.
I'd hate to annoy people so I'm very anal with my chimes 🤣

They are the work of the devil. Only a complete arsehole would have them. There’s a house in our village that has them. I live nowhere near it. If I walk past it on a dog walk, those clanging chimes make me murderous. I just don’t get the selfishness.

I love the haunting sound of them. I’d like some in our garden but I’ve seen so many people on MN complaining about them over the years that I won’t get any in case it upsets the neighbours.

Im voting to ban. A friend was driven nearly mad by them in her neighbours’ garden. She has a chronic illness manageable if she can sleep and has enough airflow in her room. Like many on this thread, her neighbours appeared to believe their behaviour should be based on how much they liked her, and since she had the temerity to ask them to take the chimes in at night/when it was windy, therefore they should leave them out permanently. I think people who think like that are shits.

Really?! They are wind chimes not death metal being blasted at full volume. How can something so innocuous annoy you to this extent?!

I don’t get the hate for these - there are worse nosies. I don’t have them myself but would rather listen to them than our neighbour’s dog barking all day and night.