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AIBU to ask for suggestions to keep up with the neighbours?

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StayGoldenPonyGirl · 30/07/2026 08:46

Unfortunately, I do not have:

  • 4 daughters under 12 who have dedicated their summer holidays to hourly competitions on who can scream the loudest (and associated rehearsals)
  • a super charged motorbike that gets started around 6.30 am, revved a few times then left to idle and splutter for 10 minutes before speeding off the estate
  • a partner who walks up and down the street at all hours talking endlessly on speaker phone using his outside voice
  • A dog that never gets walked and yaps constantly in the garden from 6am to 11pm
  • Teenage sons who have tons of mates that drop them home anywhere between 11pm and 4am and play a few tunes nice and loud with the windows down and always give between 5 and 25 pips of the horn to say bye

So please, tell me, how can I keep up with my neighbours? What should be my thing?

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realitychick67 · 31/07/2026 17:13

shellyleppard · 30/07/2026 08:50

Move to a deserted island somewhere?? 😁😁 I live on a council estate and the sounds of summer for me are.... screaming kids/teenagers. Barking dogs, motorcycles racing along the pavements and someone, somewhere playing music very very loudly while singing along tunelssly.

Just wow. 🙄

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StayGoldenPonyGirl · 31/07/2026 11:33

Krazylegs21 · 31/07/2026 08:43

We must live on the same road. You have just described my neighbours perfectly, including that dam annoying bike, which gets wheeled down to near my house to start, because he doesn't want wake his own household up....😡

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Oh, that has made me angry, selfish bastards!

I have one that often stops almost outside my house in the car, leaves it running and has phone calls with the car speakers turned up to 11. It's not even juicy gossip or an affair, it's just work nonsense, no reason he couldn't just go in his house a few doors down and speak on the phone at a normal volume. It's actually quite violating being looped into a work meeting when I'm just getting up.

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Krazylegs21 · 31/07/2026 11:26

DangerousAlchemy · 31/07/2026 10:57

Honestly I'd be out there on my drive having a little word with him. That's beyond selfish.

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I've tried, unfortunately by the time I've stirred from my slumber and jumped (?) Out of bed and made myself half decent he's gone...

DangerousAlchemy · 31/07/2026 10:57

Krazylegs21 · 31/07/2026 08:43

We must live on the same road. You have just described my neighbours perfectly, including that dam annoying bike, which gets wheeled down to near my house to start, because he doesn't want wake his own household up....😡

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Honestly I'd be out there on my drive having a little word with him. That's beyond selfish.

DangerousAlchemy · 31/07/2026 10:57

Gardenisablooming · 30/07/2026 08:58

Early morning vacuuming.
Wind chimes .
Environmental health about the barking .
Horn beeping is illegal. Non emergency police report .
Radio in the garden. Turn it up when the screaming gets louder..
Turn it down when they go quiet.

Worled a treat training ndn to get his dog to stfu

Did your NDN ever say anything to you? or apologise about his noisy dog?

Jackrussellmansion · 31/07/2026 10:41

I'd go passive aggressive tutting.

Krazylegs21 · 31/07/2026 08:43

StayGoldenPonyGirl · 30/07/2026 08:46

Unfortunately, I do not have:

  • 4 daughters under 12 who have dedicated their summer holidays to hourly competitions on who can scream the loudest (and associated rehearsals)
  • a super charged motorbike that gets started around 6.30 am, revved a few times then left to idle and splutter for 10 minutes before speeding off the estate
  • a partner who walks up and down the street at all hours talking endlessly on speaker phone using his outside voice
  • A dog that never gets walked and yaps constantly in the garden from 6am to 11pm
  • Teenage sons who have tons of mates that drop them home anywhere between 11pm and 4am and play a few tunes nice and loud with the windows down and always give between 5 and 25 pips of the horn to say bye

So please, tell me, how can I keep up with my neighbours? What should be my thing?

We must live on the same road. You have just described my neighbours perfectly, including that dam annoying bike, which gets wheeled down to near my house to start, because he doesn't want wake his own household up....😡

Krazylegs21 · 31/07/2026 08:39

Elieza · 30/07/2026 08:54

i think i live on the other side of those noisy bastards from you.

they have no consideration.

i also particularly “enjoy” the youths gaming upstairs with the windows fully open shouting swear words into the headphone’s microphone at full volume.

i “enjoyed” that A LOT during lockdown.

I want to move and am still looking but haven’t seen anything in my price range that i like as yet and still have stuff to fix here first.

I think we have the same neighbours 🤔

Level1469 · 31/07/2026 06:50

I second the bagpipes.

That has to be a job opportunity, for bagpipers to travel the country delivering karma to noisy neighbours.

superduperbuper · 31/07/2026 06:43

Haha, I wrote a poem about this recently when my neighbours were driving me mental.

The beeping drives me crazy
It makes me fucking mad
And just don’t get me started
On next door’s shouty Dad

The kids are screaming loudly
The wind chimes clang and cling
No-one told me earlier
I’d hear each bloody thing

They’re having a loud barbecue
The smoke goes on my clothes
Assault my ears each single day
And now they’ve got my nose

Thud thud thud. There goes the bass
It’s 10am my dear
A brand new build housing estate
With thirty neighbours near

Look here come the motorbikes
A makeshift cycle track
Vrooming, zooming up and down
I think I’ll turn to crack

vipersnest1 · 30/07/2026 23:04

Borrow / buy a hot tub and have loud raucous sex parties.

WerewolfOfLoudon · 30/07/2026 22:56

Become a childminder and teach them all bagpipes/accordian/tuba/Tibetan throat singing/yodelling.

Brokentoes85 · 30/07/2026 22:50

Call the police, whenever they do any of these things and say you've heard a disturbance. Every single time.

FarmGirl78 · 30/07/2026 22:49

It's warm weather and people are sleeping with their windows open. You need to go outside and shout 'Bye! Next time we'll come to you!" loudly to each other at 2am, and slam your car doors several times just so everyone knows you're definitely leaving. Or for better effect play a tractor engine sound effect really loudly so it sounds like you're getting in a taxi instead.

AgentPidge · 30/07/2026 22:39

I can second the cockerel. But it will wake you up at 4am too, of course. Our old neighbour had two of the bastards that used to try to outdo each other. It was torture.

Also bagpipes - another torture. Drums?

Jan24680 · 30/07/2026 22:32

Would you like to borrow my 2 year old and 3 month old?

Gentlydoesit2 · 30/07/2026 20:51

A screaming toddler, pizza oven on the hottest days of the year creating thick smoke, screaming at your children because you're terrible parents

Voneska · 30/07/2026 19:46
  1. DRUM KIT
  2. COCKERELL
  3. ELECTRIC LAWN MOWER/ STRIMMER.
  4. HAMMER DRILL
  5. GARDEN BONFIRE.
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StayGoldenPonyGirl · 30/07/2026 17:55

Thank you for the suggestions!

Blasting the drilling noises reminds me of something funny that happened in my village growing up. One neighbour had annoyed another with a long DIY project, so for a bit of revenge, the other neighbour attached a big square of plywood to the adjoining wall and would just hammer nails into in for 15 mins here and there at times he knew it would annoy them. The other one did get irritated and did similar but with drilling screws in and out of a lump of wood. Was going on few weeks before they both told a mutual neighbour what they were up to at separate times and she broke the deadlock!

I can't do that - my next door neighbour is actually fine - it's just a few others and it's a new build estate with not much greenery so the noises really echo. Thank god the shaggers are having a dry spell.

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InveterateWineDrinker · 30/07/2026 17:35

mrswhiplington · 30/07/2026 10:36

I can definitely vouch for this. Went to see a show in China. That's 2 hours of my life I'll never get back.☹️

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I actually quite like Chinese opera.

Now Klingon opera on the other hand...

Scotiasdarling · 30/07/2026 17:33

Vu vu zelas. (Sorry don't know how you spell that!)

Projectprincesschaos · 30/07/2026 17:30

You need a project - ideally an outdoor one that included multiple deliveries, dust, people cutting across their driveway, and power tools oh also a deep based radio to song along to

worldshottestmom · 30/07/2026 17:27

Have you ever considered learning the trombone? I think you should start a brass band.

When my old nob head neighbours used to be pricks to me, I used to put on a '12 hour drilling' video on YouTube through speakers; positioning the speakers so that they were facing their wall, on full blast. Then I went out for the day. Once did this overnight when staying at my ex-partners. They soon stopped. 10/10 would recommend.

OldrNWisr · 30/07/2026 10:39

AutisticMumOf2 · 30/07/2026 08:50

Take up learning the bagpies.

YES!!!! Brilliant

Passaggressfedup · 30/07/2026 10:37

The most horrendous sound is someone starting on the saxophone. OMG!

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