noisy neighbours support thread

[Cinammoncake]

Anyone else's neighbours having a partaay this bank holiday? Mine have got the music cranked up already.. this will last well into the evening. Bit of shouting too. Might sit it the garden but it will be very noisy..

Live and let live otherwise you will just sit there fuming which is a waste of energy really unless you can change it.

That's a fair point sargasso I need to get more zen like you are. Have decided staying indoors is best.

I'm trying really hard to adopt the 'live and let live' attitude, it's hard though. I'm currently trying out 'if you can't beat em....' and not even attempting to be a considerate neighbour, not sure I like it as it goes against the grain but we'll see, maybe it'll be liberating Support thread is a great idea though, mine is quite a saga and very much ongoing!

Thanks hidingtonothing mine's not a one off either. Basically my garden is unusable unless I want to listen to loud neighbours, it's like having a pub garden. With music. Staying in is one thing, but it's when it's the evening and you can't keep dcs windows open etc..

My next door neighbour has a cannabis farm in his garage and the police are totally disinterested.
His girlfriend and him stand in the street shouting at each other and he watches porn in his living room with the curtains open.

Ooh Hiding same here. Our neighbours never ever seem to leave the house- they don't work either and are in the garden all goddamn day.

Today they started with loud, yet tinny, soft metal music at 9am. And for the first time I've retaliated by playing the radio as loud as I dare (not very loud). They then turned theirs up louder.. and so on..

It really doesn't sit right to be playing tit for tat, but I'm fed up of then controlling the whole outdoor area and us having to sit inside.

I'm fed up of then controlling the whole outdoor area and us having to sit inside.
Exactly that. It does get irritating over a period of time. I'm sure if I wanted to blast out the Macarena in my garden at 3am they wouldn't have a live and let live attitude.

Yubaba they are true nightmare neighbours.

My neighbour barks at his dogs to rile them up. He also laughs like he's from a cartoon. You can literally hear him from the road. It sounds petty but we can hear it through the walls and having the doors and windows open just makes it worse.

cinammon the landlord is in the middle of evicting him.
I live on a really quiet street full of older couples and families, so he really stands out. I have no idea why a young 20 odd year old lad wanted to rent a 3 bed family house on his own in the 1st place. His girlfriend doesn’t even live there.

I returned from my brief trip out to find dh having a music battle with the neighbour. Neighbour had some sort of drill lite type thing on and dh had Radio 3 string quartets going. What a bloody racket. I went indoors as I like neither and together it was torturous 😂

yubaba maybe they thought it would be a good cover for their drug business! Hope they get moved soon.

pottedshrimps

Ha ha @pottedshrimps - reminds me of the 80’s - someone playing Michael Jackson for the benefit the entire street and my dad puts on Bach v loudly!!!!!!!!! I was soooo ashamed.

Jeez - I’ve got neighbours now playing the most god awful naff music all freaking summer in their back garden so I’m counteracting with huge beat dance music to disrupt them back and my kid really ashamed.

Circle of life😂😂😂😂😂

We have: (yes, there's a list!) NDN, alcoholic mum, kids in and out of care, lots of parties, loud music, people coming and going at all hours and general noise. She also has a dog which attacks the fence everytime my dogs go out for a wee and a garden full of rubbish which the dog uses to climb on to attempt to get over the fence, I doubt it will be friendly when it eventually manages it.

Then there's next door but one the other way, no idea of the family set-up there but we mainly see older teenagers/young adults coming and going. Their parties can last 3 days and they have an awesome sound system so we all know about it. I often wonder if I should just go round and join in tbh, they know how to throw a party at least.

And then there's the kids from pretty much every other house. Before I start I will say that I fully support kids being able to play out, but there is a limit to anyone's patience. Screaming competitions seem to be very popular this year, as was smashing to pieces the fridge freezer someone left outside their gate, presumably hoping a scrap man would take it (they won't), the drawers and shelves of which are in bits all over the road and it now has a big hole in the side where they've hit it repeatedly with sticks which I'm sure isn't safe.

They use the footpath (which runs right under our window) as a race track for bikes and scooters so we run the gamut every time we step out of the door, we've had numerous close calls. There's also a slope just past our window they like to scoot down, but it has those textured slabs so folk don't slip so it sounds like thunder in our living room. Obviously that's more fun than scooting on the flat so gets lots of use, it drives me mad and makes my dogs bark every time

There's an absolute absence of parental supervision, I would be mortified (and putting an immediate stop to it) if my DC behaved like that in the street and made my neighbours life a misery but we never see any parents, it's like the kids are out of sight out of mind for them.

So that's how it is, HA do nothing except send out blanket letters which everyone ignores and we're now wondering whether the security of a HA tenancy is really worth as much as we thought it was. Seriously considering private rent even though the insecurity terrifies me and increased rent would be a struggle Sorry for everyone in the same boat

I'm so grateful for our neighbours now, elderly couples on both sides. Our last neighbours were awful, 4 couples in one house, about 9 vehicles taking up the whole avenue, loading and unloading vans at all hours, loud bad guitar playing...all much worse in the summertime

Fortunately only one side/neighbour is playing music today, which makes it slightly more bearable. I'm just staying inside, away from it. I do hate how some people think they should share their music ...

My next door neighbour is beating the crap out of his girlfriend in the bedroom with his window wide open so we can hear it all clearly. Then the neighbours across the way (who have obviously heard him) are shouting curses at him and telling him to stop. I'm in the middle wondering at what stage you call the police..... happy Bank holiday!!

Now Time, call them now. It might do no good, but it might be her lifeline

Timeaftertime42 what are you waiting for? For the GF to be killed? WTF.

timeaftertime you should be calling the police no question

@Hidingtonothing

We jumped to private let. Expensive. But we don't live next to families with 5 kids, a German shepherd, come and go fellas, parties, arguments and toddlers running into the road unsupervised.

I'll miss my secure tenancy but when I get arsehole neighbours in private let the complaints actually do something. HA do fuck all. God help you if you live next to the temp accom like we did.

(Just to be clear, from my experience HA tenants are no more or less likely to be rude arseholes. Just the HA are useless here)

Done, we've been here before though. The police are really good and come out promptly but then they go quiet and don't answer the door so they eventually give up. Thankfully no children involved but still

Timeaftertime42 what are you waiting for? For the GF to be killed? WTF.

And I've never understood the mumsnetty need to give such nasty replies to people 🤷‍♂️

Last BH of the year, go out and join in instead of moaning on here!

Mine are just starting. I plan to get the kids in PJ's then let them stay up until they can't stay awake. DH and I have wine and might go enjoy the music vicariously instead of being annoyed.

That sounds a good plan MsMarvellous