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How would you handle this? Neighbours and noisy late night TV

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NutellaOnButteryToast · 26/05/2020 10:40

Hi,

Our adjoining neighbours moved in about 8 months ago and after a quiet first few weeks, we quickly realised that that was clearly just a honeymoon period...

They work long hours and our walls are thin, so we have been understanding and bitten our tongue up until now.

They're out the house, usually before 7 every morning - at least 6 days a week and are out the house for about 14 hours, so we would be very unreasonable to immediately pipe up and begrudge them some TV down time.

But, their TV is on full blast, every night, to the point our walls actually
vibrate. They also do a lot of shouting, not arguing, so communicatiing I think Confused but at 2am, it's just so bloody inconsiderate! The have kids too, so god knows how they ever sleep. This goes on until about 3am, sometimes later if they have a few days off! We don't actually understand how they do it. They can't get any sleep, but that aside, it's driving us absolutely crazy!

We have a spare room, but it's also DPs office, so pulling out the sofa bed and making it up is an absolute pain in the arse, as obviously DP doesn't want to have to put it all back again every morning before starting work.

Basically, about 5 in 7 nights, we end up giving up in our bed and making up the sofa bed by about midnight and it's not particularly comfortable, so we're knackered all the time.

Anyway, because we're in the process of moving, we thought we'd just suck it up, but that has obviously been delayed for a long time and there are no guarantees that it will go ahead at all, so should we go round and ask them to keep it down, with the risk of them telling us to fuck off and then potentially getting worse or just continue to suck it up and keep everything crossed that we do eventually move?

TIA

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fiftyandfat · 26/05/2020 10:50

Can you move the rooms around? Is the office big enough to turn it into your bedroom?

Zaphodsotherhead · 26/05/2020 10:56

Even if the office isn't big enough, move all the furniture around, put your mattress on the floor in there. If you are moving anyway, then a bit of chaos in the furniture line isn't too much of an upset. You can leave your clothes in the original bedroom. As long as your DH has enough space to work (can he work downstairs when the neighbours are out?).

NutellaOnButteryToast · 26/05/2020 10:57

Not really @fiftyandfit. I'd consider it a small single, borderline box room. It's not big enough for a proper double bed. The sofa bed is a 3/4 mattress.

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SunbathingDragon · 26/05/2020 10:59

I’d just set up the office as your bedroom for now but if they are too noisy for you to bear in the meantime, go round and politely ask if they can keep it down at the time it’s happening.

NutellaOnButteryToast · 26/05/2020 11:12

@Zaphodsotherhead, not really. We only have two rooms downstairs and DD and I will be in one or the other and DP is in dial in meetings a lot of the day, so needs quiet and privacy. Plus DD is obviously being homeschooled.

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Zaphodsotherhead · 26/05/2020 11:22

Ah, I see. You hadn't mentioned your DD in your OP, so I thought you may just be a couple.

Can you move her into the small spare room and you and DH have her room, if it's bigger?

NutellaOnButteryToast · 26/05/2020 11:40

@Zaphodsotherhead, ah, yes - I probably should have done Confused I suppose because she doesn't appear to be affected by the noise, so wasn't really involved iyswim. I can't understand it though, because her room is against the same wall.

Actually, that idea did pop into my head last night, but it would be a real faff and I would hate her to think she was being dumped into the smallest room in the house. She did used to sleep in there on occasion when our previous neighbours used to have really loud parties (we clearly lucked out in the neighbour department! Hmm ) Dp and I just used to have to endure it, but because it wasn't every night, we could cope with it.

This is different.

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Zaphodsotherhead · 26/05/2020 11:53

It does sound like hell! Modern houses tend to have very thin walls.

Could you try going round there one evening (when the TV is blasting out), and mention the problem? Maybe ask them to pop into your house to hear how loud it sounds from your side? They may not realise just how badly the sound travels, especially if you are mostly quiet when they are home. You could suggest headphones for the TV?

If they are nice, then they may turn it down. If they aren't nice - well, you're hoping to move anyway.

lifestooshort123 · 26/05/2020 12:42

Sounds a bit grim to me. I agree with the go round once idea - could you turn tv down please as DH has a bad migraine? Be careful if they are not considerate neighbours as you will have to declare a falling-out when you come to sell if it gets to an acrimonious stage. How selfish of them.

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