It's sunny, therefore the neighbour has dusted off their stereo.

[JorisBonson]

I've posted before. Just want a little rant.

Now the weather is nice my horrible next door neighbours have Heart FM on from 8am until they go to bed. Full blast and with the back door wide open.

They have some scummy friends round who enjoy shouting, while their children get in their 10 hours of screaming a day.

Any requests for quiet are met with laughter or "they're just kids".

I wish I could move / sit quietly in my garden.

[vodkaredbullgirl]

Im going to ram next door music up their backside.

[Jennifer2021]

I'm working from home in the middle of a global pandemic and I do not want to hear anyone else's music.

Yes I think that's what's most inconsiderate at the moment. Not just no consideration for those who have to leave for work in the morning but many peoples homes right now is their work place also.

[JorisBonson]

Sign me up @DoubleTweenQueen! I don't bake but I always have booze!

[DoubleTweenQueen]

I hate how some people will just take advantage.

DH just noticed our horrid neighbours to the east have put a for sale board up. Come and live next to me! I’m nice, and I bake x

[user1471538283]

I've just had to shout (several times to be heard over the music). No apology but a "yeah". The apartment is 20 feet away from my heavily insulated and sound proofed apartment so the noise must be deafening inside.

I'm working from home in the middle of a global pandemic and I do not want to hear anyone else's music.

If it happens again, I will go postal. These people know they are loud and rely on us putting up with it. Not no more ...

[JorisBonson]

I may do that on the days I go to the office, OOPS I LEFT THE RADIO ON SILLY ME

[DoubleTweenQueen]

Have you considered trying to counter with some noise of your own? Classic FM on full-blast, from 7am? Let them know what it’s like?

[JorisBonson]

For today's drink and read in the garden I have headphones in blasting my music and it's bloody brilliant. Still not fair, but I'm having a lovely time.

[JorisBonson]

Young Hearts Run Free, at 9am, with singing, is new.

[JorisBonson]

They are!

[Abracadabra12345]

Sounds like they’re as feral as the parents....😬

[JorisBonson]

My neighbours kids aren't just shrieking in delight at playing in the garden. They're screaming bloody murder from early in the morning until late at night, kicking my wall to hard that pictures fall off, breaking our fence, kicking the living shit out of baby gates that are attached to my wall. And this is the tip of the iceberg.

I would LOVE to hear the merry laughter of children playing nicely in the garden.

[chocolatesaltyballs22]

@loopyapp

Im going against the grain here a smidge .. I absolutely detest loud music in gardens. Especially in built up areas.

However. Children have as much right to enjoy their garden too. This last year has left them with pretty much only the garden so if theyre out on tacky trampolines or splashing in pools or just playing cant you cut them slack??

My older ones are 11, 10 and 6 and in the last 12 months they've lost twice a week skiing training, ice hockey, swimming lessons and for fun and weekly meet ups to play footy with mates at the school playground.

All the stress and unused energy has gotta go somewhere.

But the thread is about loud music being played in gardens, not the noise of kids playing 🙄. Or did you mean to post on the screechy kids thread?

[loopyapp]

Im going against the grain here a smidge .. I absolutely detest loud music in gardens. Especially in built up areas.

However. Children have as much right to enjoy their garden too. This last year has left them with pretty much only the garden so if theyre out on tacky trampolines or splashing in pools or just playing cant you cut them slack??

My older ones are 11, 10 and 6 and in the last 12 months they've lost twice a week skiing training, ice hockey, swimming lessons and for fun and weekly meet ups to play footy with mates at the school playground.

All the stress and unused energy has gotta go somewhere.

[Roomba]

Ah, I see you must live the other side of my next door neighbours, OP!

Next door spent lockdown constructing an outdoor bar with shelter, so they can invite their entire family and friends round to join them in their 3x daily BBQ. I can't hang washing out as it ends up stinking of charred meat. They appear to own only one CD, a selection of football related songs that they play on repeat, all day, every day. If I hear 'Football's Coming Home' once more I may scream! They're not ridiculously loud, but my kids bedroom overlooks their yard. So it's hard to get kids to sleep when we can hear their chatting five feet away every evening (the music has usually stopped by then, so I feel churlish asking them not to speak in their own yard). I'm praying they move when their lease is up in a few months.

[Abracadabra12345]

We’re getting more and longer heatwaves, especially here in the South East, so more long months of “outdoor living” and open windows and bifold doors

[Abracadabra12345]

@BeforetheFlood

I really would like to see a big public health campaign about this, in the same vein as the Keep Britain Tidy campaign and the Green Cross Code ones years ago.

Housing is getting more and more densely packed, and at the same time we're having a big mental health crisis. Add in a pandemic which means lots of people are working from home (and probably will be much more in the future now we're all fully versed in the joys of Zoom) and it really is a huge issue for a really significant number of people.

If there were adverts on TV and radio, and stuff in the media - people talking about it on This Morning and Loose Women and The One Show etc - maybe over a few years we would gradually make noise pollution from loud music etc as much as a well recognised anti social problem as leaving dog crap on the pavement or chucking your McDonalds packaging out of the car window. It is selfish and harmful.

(Here ends the party political broadcast from the BeforetheFlood)

I so agree with you. And then there’s the ads for outdoor cinemas, hot tubs, outbuildings to encourage more “outdoor living” (perfect place for setting up speakers) and so it goes on..and on...

[BingBunnyIsAnnoying]

Petrol strimmer left on tick over in your garden all day. See how they like that

[CausingChaos2]

Jennifer2021

[CausingChaos2]

I like them too Joris but hopefully your neighbours find them unbearably irritating

[Jennifer2021]

Definitely time to express your love for classic FM

Think you may be my (nice!) neighbour @CausingChaos2!
Day off today but felt sorry for the surrounding neighbours who were treated to a a loud garden party until the early hours last night. Left classic FM on possibly a little too loud on my way out.

[JorisBonson]

I think I might be the only person on earth who really likes windchimes 😂

[CausingChaos2]

Definitely time to express your love for classic FM. Oh, and purchase a dozen windchimes while you’re at it.

[JorisBonson]

(Janis Ian over the strains of Heart FM and screaming children, obviously).

[JorisBonson]

I'm very quietly listening to Janis Ian while I read a book in the garden. That'll learn them shakes fist