Things your neighbours do which are reasonable but irritate the bejesus out of you

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Mine trundle their bins out at 11pm. Under my bedroom window. Wakes me up every week.

He has a banjo which he plays badly. He's playing it now. At least he practices?

Not the crimes of the century but I do want to give them the stink eye.

We don't have wheelie bins (some random by-law) and so we have to leave bags of rubbish outside our houses on bin day. We put ours out on the morning of bin day, the bin men come at about 7am so not ridiculously early.
Every week without fail my neighbour puts their rubbish out the night before and every week without fail a fox or foxes rip the bags apart and distribute their rubbish all along the street... only for one of my neighbours to leave home at about 6.30am and step over all of their rubbish on their way to work.
Just put it out when you leave!!!

Plus they park their car in such a way that a bay for three cars can only fit two and they barely drive so it stays like that for days at a time.

In other ways they are lovely. I think they would be upset if I raised these issues with them.

@PotteringAlong I think I have the answer to no-knicker-gate. My neighbour told me a) that we are not allowed to hang washing out in our area (N London) and when I ignored her & carried the fuck on, b) mentioned that "ppl could see my underwear". The only ppl with a view of my patio was her. Ffs, I like airing my knickers!

Illeana my neighbour does similar to yours and it drives me nuts too. We have a corner plot and the drive comes in one one road and out on the other so you can drive straight across it without turning. One neighbour always parks right across one of the dropped kerbs so I have to either reverse on or off my drive. I feel it’s too petty to ask them not to do as I still can use my drive and their house has no parking. But it’s also bloody cheeky to just do it without asking.

The majority of these are actually massively unreasonable!
In the true spirit of the thread title 'reasonable things your neighbours do that are irritating' it should be normal activities that impact you to a massive degree. I think @Bargebill19 wins the thread...

Ours have really annoying electric gates - they interfere with our tv signal

These are all horrific. So pleased I don't have any of these!

Our former neighbours used to barbecue almost every day in summer, with very little warning, and right near the house. A little head over the fence to warn us to shut the windows and get the washing in would have been really appreciated.

Also endless controlled crying sleep training in a terraced house set up so that the babies were much nearer us than them and so I was woken by their baby constantly (as well as my own). That almost broke me.

I suspect in our new neighbourhood we are the problem neighbours as we have moved to a quiet area full of elderly residents and we have two unruly small boys

@Strictly1972 this is just gardening waste and not too bad; I actually feel fortunate when I read these threads because if that's the extent of my annoyance then I am very lucky indeed.

Mine is too nice. Gives us advance warning of everything that goes on in their house, even if it doesn't affect us in any way.

Can't get out the car without him pouncing on me.

My one isn’t reasonable but I’m saying anyway.

He washes his car everyday without fail even in the dark. 10.30 last night he was doing it with one of those pressure washers. He’s even done it in light rain. He’s obsessed.

@Blankiefan my old neighbour did this. I was heavily pregnant. It drove me mad. Turned out he had broken his leg!

One side don’t bother us at all - occasionally hear the kids but so rarely I worry we’re irritating them (were a shorty family 😕)

The other side - if it’s sunny they always, always have a barbecue. Usually while my washing is out - it always stinks. If it’s. It warm enough for a barbecue they light their wood burner. And that also stinks due to a very smoky chimney. Blee.

Our back window overlooks next door's garden and so we can see his washing hanging up. Every time I see his boxer shorts neatly hanging with two pegs each I get a little stab of annoyance.

Why do they need two pegs each? He's slim so his underwear isn't that big. One peg would be perfectly adequate. Why does he go to the trouble of putting two pegs on each pair?

Our neighbours started some banging and drilling at 12:20 am last Thursday!
Even on a weekend I count that as unacceptable but on a weekday, I was livid. Disturbed all the kids and I made sure they knew we weren't happy

Cars for sale in the street there’s eight today.

Bloody yappy horrible Jack Russel that is clearly let out in the garden and left out. It’s starts barking constantly when it wants to come in...and they ignore it.
A bloody yappy horrible kid too. Literally screams for seemingly no reason. Makes his friends that go over cry and then makes sure he cries the loudest. Both constantly making noise all summer...all.day.long...sunrise well into darkness.
They park like cocks too

My neighbour puts bin bags out that stink of shitty nappies, fish and god knows what else on our communal landing it absolutely reeks

Mine have this very precise parking schedule of their car in their drive.
Overnight it’s in the garage.
Mornings it’s parked outside in front of the the garage straight on.
In the afternoon it’s sort of parked sideways in front their bay window.
In the evening back in the garage it goes.
Every single day.
It has absolutely zero impact on me but it just irritates me as it just seems so precise and anal.

My neighbour dug steps into the snow that was formerly my kids' favourite sledding bit of my garden and then told all the other neighbours up the hill that they could just waltz on down said steps (on my land) to get a short cut to the bus.

I mean.. actually I know he's been unreasonable as fuck and I'm raging, but to be fair I wouldn't mind the kids doing that because it's not safe walking down their road when the pavements don't get cleared of snow so they have to walk in the snow. It's the sheer presumptuousness of it that grinds my gears. Still, I'm attempting to (mostly) sit on it this winter in the knowledge that in the spring he's going to come to discuss a permanent path and I'm going to refuse it to be on my land so he'll have to dig permanent steps into his OWN bloody garden instead (which is steeper). It's going to be so sweet.

I was not above sledging a new slippery sledge route right next to his snow steps and sending my kids up and down that hill for 2 hours though. Not above that at all. Compacting snow steps = ice.

Get drunk and sing on a microphone at 2.30 am in their ‘ bar ‘ 🤬

My neighbour on one side is deaf & the tv is so loud I can’t hear mine so I have to put subtitles on, the irony, my neighbours the other side smoke weed & it make my house stink, plus their garden is an absolute mess as well!

Breathe

the owner of the house had got a lovely dog only barked when someone was at their door then they got another that whinged all night keeping us up- god knows they managed to ignore it. barked all day everyday when they went to work until i had listened to it from 8am til 8.30pm i went and rattled their door telling them to shut the bloody thing up before i exploded. they now rent the house out to a couple who smoke weed (my house now stinks if i leave a window or door open) slams the doors, shouts and they have a dog who barks at any noise it hears oh and he has a motorbike thats parked in the back garden which he needs to rev and leave running for a good 20 mins before going out it sounds terrible like there is a hole in an exhaust.

I hate my neighbours, hence why I got my wind chimes! 🤣

One side of me are a nightmare they have parties where they r singing and shouting till late their guests kids r also there and r left to run around the house banging into our walls and on the floors and running up and down the stairs they don’t come round and warn us they r having a party. Christmas last year we were kept awake and our kids woken up and they were banging and running up and down stairs till 2.30am Easter bank holiday weekend they had a three day BBQ music all day till late then up again for breakfast on the BBQ. They also play loud music went and asked her once to turn it down I had just got in from work she said it’s 2pm but i could hear it all through my house but apparently they have every right at 2pm to disturb my peace. They constantly bang doors and the front door on Monday they came back from a weekend away at 2.30am and slammed the front door which is right by our bedroom and woke me and my husband and one of the kids up. Other side we never hear we are mid terrace and we have spoke to the side we don’t hear and they say they don’t hear us but my kids I have 3 are told not to run up the stairs and slam doors. Our house is for sale and we r buying a detached house.

Watches action movies in their bedroom (our bedrooms share a wall) and I can hear every gun shot, shout, explosion etc... Drives me bonkers. The walls are thin, and although it obviously doesn’t wake their kids / my child it keeps me up and I feel like screaming. If I ask them to turn it down they do so until they assume I’m asleep then turn it back up which wakes me...