Sun is out, neighbours are out. Who else has annoying neighbours..

[GoldenPineapples]

Yes everyone is allowed to enjoy their garden and yes especially when it's sunny.

Unfortunately I live next door to the cast of Shameless.

First real hint of sun, out comes the Stella, the shouting, the kids screaming, the bbq.. it sounds like I live next to a loud pub garden..

I tried sitting outside with a nice cider about half 5 but had to come in because of the loud noise that is coming from next door. Sadly they are the type of neighbours where it could shut up about 9pm or it could go on until the early hours..

They've had police called on them (from other neighbours) for shouting, swearing and fighting in the street, they don't care for the law or anything else and talking to them have proved pointless in previous years.

Not a lot I can do, just feel like a whinge in here and not looking forward to another summer of them.. it's not forever because one day I will be able to afford to move.

Until then..

We cooked a bbq but at half six our next door neighbour decided he was going to do some sort of diy project with very loud tools. We've had to eat indoors as it was constant and unbearable, he's still going now

I have to read this thread to put my own pretty OK neighbours into perspective! We live in a terrace house in a not so nice part of London so you have to expect noise and it could be SO much worse than it is.

My dream is a detached house with a big private garden in Surrey (or somewhere similar) but then probably the birds would annoy me

Both my neighbours are fairly loud. One side has their daughter and her dopey partner visiting, with their squealing 4 year old. The kid goes to bed fairly early though. They are fairly friendly but really stare at us when we go out.

The other side are having a bit of a piss up and singing along to music, Leo Sayer at the moment. They do this periodically and usually quieten down later. They annoy the very pompous bloke at the back, so I can tolerate a bit of drunken warbling to Leo! We had a bit of Elton earlier, Crocodile Rock, which I found quite funny.

My sympathies to anyone with really awful neighbours, mine are irritating but not that bad.

I feel your pain op
For 10 years we had a lovely quiet neighbour, just her and her adult son.
They moved out 18.months ago and last year a new family moved in. A mum and 3 kids. She is pleasant enough but omg the kids, they are so loud! I don't think they speak to each other just shout!
In the garden this afty all I could hear was shouting, screaming, football against the fence and then a bonfire.😖
Oh and another neighbour a few doors up decided to burn old fence panels at lunch time😤.......oh how I love summer!

I had good neighbours who moved and rented out their property to the cast of Shameless and then some. Today they've had knuckledragger friends round boozing it up and swearing non stop at their kids in their garden. Every five minutes they were screaming at each other or at their kid "don't fucking do that Oscar" . They throw their fag ends in my garden as well. Gobby stinking dragon breath twats.

My neighbours, who I like very much generally, are constructing the mother of all sheds. All day...again...with every power tool known to humankind.

4th bonfire of the week and really bad reggae this evening. Shouting has started at each other, so no doubt it will devolve in to fighting later. These are new neighbours and gardens back on to each other. Seriously considering letting the hedges go wild to block them out.

Mine too. They've just moved in today after 6 long months of having an extension and total refurb. So much noise throughout.

Today was the first day without builder's noise

So instead... they invited loads of people over and began shouting in the garden....

it's usually really quiet in our street, many people came out looking befuddled and wondering what the kerfuffle was.

Another neighbour had a stern word, he's very blunt and a bit older so has some gravitas.

Then the noise stopped.

Our NDN’s are generally OK (Mum,Dad and DS8 with some mild SN.

However as soon as the sun comes out they have the paddling pool out, no problem with the pool however they let the DC have the hosepipe to fill it and he takes great joy squirting it over the fence soaking my windows, washing, cats, table & chairs and parasol with water

Then he’ll start flinging sand over when his DM FINALLY takes the hosepipe off him!

He’s got a friend round at the moment and the pair of them are barrelling about screaming and banging while the DF encourages them with an ear piercing “WAYHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!”

I have to be up v early in the morning so will ensure I make enough (not really loud) noise to wake them up, plenty of banging about is in order!

It's 10.40pm, our bedroom is hotter than the seventh circle of hell, one-year-old DS won't sleep, all our windows are open and neighbours two doors down are harmonising caterwauling away to an acoustic guitar while sittings a fire pit in their garden.
Sounds like a cat stuck in a fucking mangle.

Here I go.... brace yourself....

Neighbour 1 - musicians. Enthusiastic. Single glazed windows. I’ll leave that there.

Neighbour 2 - yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap dog. Day and fucking night.

Neighbour 3 - party couple. Think doof doof doof music from pub closing till 4/5/6am. Frequently.

Neighbour 4 - DIY man. 8am till 8pm, chainsawing, chopping, mowing, hedge trimming, building, obsessive.

Neighbour 5 - hard of hearing. Alcoholic. Likes to sit in his garden listening to a talk based radio station all-fucking-day-long from April to October.
My entire summer is spent listening to his radio, very close to my fence. I visualise the radio exploding many times every day.

But what really boils my piss is people saying ‘if you don’t like it, go and live in a field’.... well don’t you think I would if I could? Who is going to pay for this field living? I’d be there like a shot if it was possible.

People should be categorised and live together. If you’re a noisy fucker radio/yappy dog/party person, you go in a cateorgy of house type to suit. Then you can all piss each other off and leave me in peace!

Wow! so many selfish people not thinking that everyone wants to be able to enjoy their garden.....

I have no idea if this is a pro OP post or an anti OP post!
So many selfish people ruining others enjoyment of their garden and homes with their noise and other irritants?
Or so many selfish people moaning about other people having fun in their gardens?
Hard to tell.

I have living next to me:

noisy football playing kids thwack thwack thump of the ball against the fence or wall all the bloody time

noisy little barky dog

CM - children in the garden, noisy but I zone it out mostly

Weed smoking

I thought they were bad but positively angelic compared to some of these !

another reason we live a million miles from other folk. I hate other people and all of your experiences would make me murderous.

All I can hear in my garden is chickens, birds, the odd tractor and DS2 quietly playing golf or a bit of football.

We camp and when other campers are inconsiderate with their music etc I seriously want to go and stab them

Sorry to hear everyone's horror stories. Whatever NDN's (semi-detached) builders did when they had an extension, it destroyed all sound insulation. We can hear their Alexa clear as anything in our bedroom and their music and "singing" when they have parties. They're on other side now at a get together which we haven't been invited to though half the street seem to be there... heyho. Roll on Tuesday.

We've got a nice old lady on one side, and a couple with 4dc on the other. Plus the dw is a childminder! She walks past our house every afternoon after picking up about 8 children from school. But we never hear a peep from them! Maybe they're all doing their homework.

Can you "instruct" their Alexa?

After having to move house last year because of the scum bag lottery winners next door. Today we have had the police roll up next door, someone has been flying a drone from there, it's affected Doncaster airspace, they only moved in last week, it's not looking promising for the future.

This has cheered me up immensely as at least I know that I'm not alone.
My neighbour has a lawn mower so loud that the first time she used it,I thought it was a helicopter overhead. And she takes a minimum of 2 hours to mow the bloody stuff - ours takes about 20 minutes max (similar size).

Yep we've also had the bonfire,screaming kids ...and I mean screaming...,random building and diy noises plus ice cream vans every 5 minutes today.

I'm sorry everyone is having such a horrible time with their neighbours.

Our house is half a mile from our nearest neighbour in any direction, and we bloody love it. In a couple of years we'll relocate to the nearest market town for secondary school, so I'm making the most of the peace and quiet.

Our neighbours are all lovely but I am a bit worried. The elderly lady in the cottage next to ours has passed away and it’s up for sale. It’s quite a big cottage with a lovely big garden, just right for a family. Am seriously worried now after reading this that our rural bliss will be shattered.

Thankfully our neighbours are quite mild compared with some on here, but today I had to put up with listening to about two hours' worth of Mrs NDN yacking loudly on and on about their garden and giving poor (fairly deaf) Mr NDN his orders.
Sweep this, tidy that, there's a pot here and a tub there and we need plants to go in those, and what are these here? Oh tomatoes - what happened to the flowers that you bought, we need to cut that stump back and put something down to kill the root, and the ivy needs trimming. Fred .... Fred? Where are you? FRED!!! Oh, there you are. What happened to that plant there, I thought it was a fern and will it come back again and will we get more apples on the tree this year........ on and on ad infinitum all afternoon. Poor bloke. It wouldn't be as bad, but she's one of those people who asks endless questions and doesn't listen to the answers. Still, at least her voice drowns out her two yappy dogs.

(and yes, if any of my other neighbours are reading this, yes you will recognise this description!)

Oh god I feel everybody's pain.

I've just got shot of mine after 5 long years (they moved in soon after me sob) and I'm anxiously waiting to see if the new people are reasonable. So far so good.

My current pet peeve is the trend for al fresco living and bifold doors. They're probably okay on semi-detached properties but we live in terraces and it just doesn't work in terms of noise and privacy. I hate the doors being folded back against my fence and the obligatory decking has reduced my 6ft fence to 5ft. They're just so imposing (bifolds are 7-8ft tall from my patio level) and internal house noise is uncontained.

I can see why people love them but it's crap for neighbours!

Lol at "Fred"

I started wearing ear plugs full time in the house due to the previous arsehole neighbours. I've discovered they're quite handy in the garden for cutting out power tools, music and children screeching. They certainly take the edge off anyway