Need to ask neighbour to take down windchimes - can I write a note?

[GreatDalmation]

I know windchimes sound pretty insignificant compared to some of the troubles people have with their neighbours, but they are very very annoying.

Their garden backs onto ours so we never speak to them or see them in the street. Would it therefore be okay just writing a polite note to ask them to take them down? I don’t want to sign it. All the previous threads say just go and ask but that would be really awkward and I’m no good with confrontation

Thanks

I have to be honest if you did that to me I would ignore the note.

Would you ignore it because it was a note? Or another reason?

I wouldn’t ignore the note, but I’m not dick enough to have wind chimes up.
Could you explain in the note you don’t like confrontation?

I bloody hate windchimes, so I'm with you there OP. To be honest though a note is a bit snotty and a lot of people wouldn't react well. Personally I'd pop round with a £5 B&Q voucher and ask whether they'd consider buying a hanging decorative thing to replace them, ideally one which doesn't make the exact frequencies which turn (me) into a homicidal wreck

no one likes confrontation. they will most likely be fine and sorry to have disturbed you. most people are decent.

however if they are not decent people, a note will most likely spur them on to buy more wind chimes. be brave.

I'd pop round with some garden shears when they are out and chop them down. I have actually done this myself. I want to hear the wind in the trees. Not the horrible clanging of other people's wind chimes. If they like them so much they should put them inside their house.

Id respect you popping round politely may be say it affects your cat/sleep whatever and would i mind awfully taking it down. Leave me a unsigned note itll go in the recyling

If you knocked my door and asked politely I wouldn’t have a problem. I’d probably disregard an anonymous note, sorry. It’s cowardly and impolite.

Are you one of my neighbours as garden next to mine has them drives my batty

"I don’t want to sign it."

Pease don't write them an anonymous note. Far better to (a) go round and explain, in person, how much the noise disturbs you or (b) write a note with your name, address and phone number on it - explaining same.

By all means write an anonymous note, but it won’t make a jot of different. They obviously like them, and don’t give a shiny shite what their neighbours might think.

I like the garden shears idea. Or tree loppers, if you need a bit more reach.

I think that an anonymous note is the wrong approach. I think that it's best to ask in person, it's far easier to read things into a note, particularly an anonymous note, that aren't intended.

What’s wrong with wind chimes

Why does it have to be a "confrontation"? You just knock on their door, introduce yourself, explain that the noise is disturbing you and ask politely if they'd consider moving them.

That's not confrontation. Confrontation would be going round and threatening to ram the windchimes down their throats.

We have chimes to stop next doors dog growlin/barking g at us when we are outside- so if someone asked me to take them down I would want to talk to them to find middle ground... unless it’s the dog people ...... they made their bed

I'd take them down if you asked, I'd ignore an anonymous note.

Thank you all so much. Great to have different views. Think I need to be brave and go round.,,,

If they like them so much they should put them inside their house.

But, there's no wind inside, so how will they chime!?

I love the sound of them, I have lots 😁

You presumably live in a built up area so surely you just need to suck it up. I'm not a wind-chime fan but if my neighbour is, then that's that.

What’s wrong with wind chimes

The bloody clanging all through the night.

I would politely ask. Our neighbour's security light started flashing constantly, into pur bedroom, and I had to go round. We didn't know each other and she seemed a bit offish but she did sort it out.

The IDEA of wind chimes is lovely.
The reality is a clanging discordant irritation akin to fingernails down a blackboard

"What’s wrong with wind chimes"

Nothing, if you're only hearing them en-passant! I regularly walk past a house, half a mile away from me, which has lovely tinkly wind chimes in their garden. There's no way I'd want to be their neighbour though

I feel your pain OP. I'm sitting here working (cough cough) and all I can hear is my next door neighbour's bloody wind chimes and it's not even that windy!

Same neighbour likes to burn gardening waste in the chimenea. If I was going to fight one of these battles I'd probably go with the horrid smoke issue.

excess pointless noise is what is wrong with them. Unless you live out of earshot of anyone else, take them down and dont be a dick.

Maybe try a part approach like ask could they take down/muffle them at night - hopefully they'll get bored of doing that and take them down entirely.

Def in person not a note