Working from home with noisy neighbours! Please share

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I can’t be the only one. Currently sitting at my desk trying to work while neighbour on other side of the wall is watching a movie at full volume.

Can you wear headphones/put music on?

Noise cancelling headphones help a bit but not completely! And putting my own music on would just make everything even louder.

Just the daily old bloke with an angle grinder doing the world's slowest garage extension here

Well that’s normal, if you was at a office it wouldn’t be silent would it?

Can you move where you’re sitting or wear earplugs between calls ?

I can’t move my desk (nowhere else to live it!) and ear plugs don’t block it out. Oh well...

I think some people are just really noisy. I never hear neighbour on other side..

I was on a zoom meeting earlier. My neighbours above me thought they'd join in by having really loud sex.

This will possibly be outing, hence the name change, but my neighbours have a Ukelele band that have been practicing in the garden during lockdown.

One side doing extensive house renovations, the other watching TV really loud all day. There is a quiz show she watches every day at 3.30ish with a plinky plink timer countdown sound that actually started to make me feel sick yesterday. Turn it over!!

Can't really complain though, we win the yelling, stomping and slamming doors championships out of work hours, sadly.

It’s traded here - we were the noisy neighbours for the first part of lockdown as we were getting an extension done, so lots of banging, grinding, drilling etc.

Balance has now been restored and the neighbours are the noisiest again with screaming toddler tantrums

It’s one of those aspects of wfh that does not get talked about. Many of my colleagues live in big detached houses with a lovey quiet office.

Our neighbour is extending and redecorating from past 3 years. I had a thread here a while ago. I don't think anyone works in their home and they are constantly hammering and scraping something. It's constant even on weekends. Every evening the Hoover is on for an hour which I think is a clean up of all the diy mess. Moving my table to other wall partly helped. Cupboards are on the shared wall so I work more from bedroom. Luckily have normal neighbors on other side :)

That sounds tough redferrari. Yes, thank god for normal neighbours...

Our lovely neighbour died before last Christmas.

The new owners are doing a complete refurbishment including loft and cellar conversions and an extension.

They started just as lockdown began and I had to work taking calls from home. 🙁

@Notcontent

It’s one of those aspects of wfh that does not get talked about. Many of my colleagues live in big detached houses with a lovey quiet office.

definitely. my work internal comms got a lot of slack recently due to sending out handy hints about moving to a different room for a break or how to set up your home office - hit the wrong note for the lower paid staff in one tiny room in a 6 people houseshare

I was trying to deliver training over zoom yesterday a) trying not to get distracted and b) hoping the people on the course couldn't hear "her next door" screaming about her boyfriend reading her messages and shagging around....

I think my neighbours at the back are self-isolating at home. Kids weren’t at school today. I don’t mind the children, but the mum has a voice like a fog horn - and does a constant commentary on everything going on in her garden. VERY loud parenting.

I wouldn’t usually notice, or mind. But she spent quite a long time playing on her kids trampoline which is right next to our fence and while the children were subdued she was EXUBERANT.

We live in a terraced house and I am afraid we have 2 very traumatised boys (both adopted). They are 5 and 9 and are immature. One is non-NT.

Our neighbours are so intolerant - during lockdown no 1 when you were
Only meant to leave house once a day - if they were playing castles and knights - we would get hammering on the wall and told to “shut the fuck up”. Several times.

Not really surprising - when it was our youngest’s third birthday - he was outside in small back garden, wanting to play with his new cleaning toy and was washing the windows. Ok - it was 7.30am. But they came and knocked on our door and complained about our 3 year old chattering and laughing to himself.

We all need tolerance. It has become horrible. Very mindful of how we need to be quiet but some people (like our neighbours) forget how noisy they were when they had kids!!

We have a very loud barking dog next door as well as their renovations. I find myself wearing head cancelling headphones and streaming YouTube videos with titles like 'study' and 'deep concentration' it genuinely helps. No good for calls mind...!

I moved. Really noisy opposite, sometimes noisy next door, then both got planning permission for extensions. I rent, so I ran away to a house surrounded by fields.