To think garden wind chimes should be banned?!!

I agree with this. The constant calls on Mumsnet for things that are irritating ‘to be banned’ are bizarre - some people want to live in a police state I think.

Wind chimes are annoying. You could perhaps go and talk to your neighbours about it. One possible solution is for them to hang them just inside their own window. Then they’ll chime when they open their windows, but are much less likely to annoy other people.

Not everything annoying requires 'banning'.

YANBU to find garden wind chimes annoying. YABU to think this needs government to pass legislation.

I have some as do my lovely neighbours next door. We love them. I do hope someone is annoyed by them though considering what we have to put up with.

Well I’m not taking mine down. My disabled adult son has some outside his bedroom window - his room is downstairs. He has such a shit life and so little he can actually enjoy. He likes them so I’m not removing them.

If my neighbours complain then I’ll start complaining when they have fireworks, or a party, or a noisy barbecue or run their hot tub or everything else that pisses me off but I keep to myself.

This. Unless you have acres of land, the sound will travel, especially at night. Anyone who claims their neighbours won't hear - unless you're on a farm in the middle of nowhere - it will. And yeah, it's not a loud barking dog, or shouting, or revving, or whatever. But it is gratingly unnecessary noise pollution. There is no acceptable reason for it.

We were given some large chimes as a gift. They were hung up for about a week before we removed them. You couldn't hear them in the house if the doors and windows were shut, but as we sleep with windows slightly open the noise at night was affecting our sleep. We did consider taking them down at or tying them up at night but decided we weren't keen on the noise in the day anyway so got rid of them. Small wooden ones might be OK in a very gentle breeze, but I wouldn't want to inflict the jangling sound of metal ones on my neighbours.

I think there’s worse noises personally. I’d rather hear those than the shit music someone on our street enjoys playing whenever the sun is out, or the cackling witchy laugh of the woman from that house (can you tell I’m not a fan?)

Trust me they ca hear them and they curse you 😂

Hadn’t considered the sellotape approach, might be more stealthy than scissors

Good point. I sometimes have morning coffee in bed with the back door open, just so I can enjoy them. And I'm closest to them.

We have them on our front porch and I genuinely can’t hear them inside the house unless I’m basically standing right by the door, so I’m not entirely sure how the neighbours would be hearing them, let alone being bothered by them.

My sister has them and they irritate me so much. I cellotaped them all together last time I was there. I bet she hasn’t even noticed as she’s not mentioned it yet. I reckon her neighbours have noticed more than her!

I have big wind chimes hanging from a tree, they’re about a metre tall and have a very low chiming sound, not at all tinkly. I love them, and don’t care what my neighbours think as they let their dogs yap all the time.

I thought I was the only person grumpy enough to hate wind chimes. DH gets to listen to me complaining about the selfishmess of them. Our neighbour behind us has them. I am so desperate to pull them down (they're oddly on the outside wall of his house, but in his garden), but he also has a CCTV camera there too. Probably because he suspects someone will one day rip them down.

I find the noise from wind chimes quite spooky 👻
I don’t think it’s just me…or is it?

If they are tuned ones they will be harmonious and go together. Cheap ones are horrible.

My response to a request to take them down would depend which neighbour you are to me. The ones on the right. "Sure. Sorry." The ones on the left? "No."

They are so bloody annoying! The randomness of them with tinkly notes that don’t go together arghh. My neighbour had some and I had to ask them to take them down because they were driving me insane and waking me up.

personally i like them better than shouty neighbours etc

I accidently voted the wrong way and now I can change it! I have this problem too! Lying awake listening to them whem you cant get to sleep. So annnoying!! I have visons of chopping them down 😂

Yes, the dickheads two doors down have them and I fantasise about snipping the strings with scissors under the cover of darkness.
Weirdly DH, who is ADHD and can’t bear the noise of a child playing or a shirt being ironed, commented recently how charming he finds them. Bloody idiot.

That's lovely. My DD also loves wind chimes. I did tell her that if she wanted to put them outside her bedroom we'd need to check with the neighbours. They have a bedroom on that side, though I don't think it's used. She decided she was happy for them to go on the other side of the house, so now the neighbours that don't deserve asking have to deal with them. For all I know they like them anyway.

We have them, we have no near neighbours. My dd was given them by her uncle shortly before he died. She’s autistic, but finds the chimes soothing, and a nice memory of her uncle who was one of life’s rare gems, and a thoroughly decent bloke.

But do you also say, "Anyone who wants me to be quieter in my own back garden can go fuck themselves" ? Because my neighbours are like that and are finding out that what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Yes. And can we have restrictions on times for lawn mowing? Drives me nuts.

It is relentless, selfish, infuriating, utterly pointless noise pollution. Anyone who has them up can go fuck themselves.