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.

[SheldonesqueTheSecondComing]

All those suggesting Rammstein must know my ex

He also used to play Charles Nanson - live at San Quentin.

I believe that would be equally neighbour friendly....

[crankysaurus]

Our neighbour was playing continuous Simply Red today, I'm not sure even Rammstein could counter that. I've asked to work in the office tomorrow.

[PickAChew]

@crankysaurus

Our neighbour was playing continuous Simply Red today, I'm not sure even Rammstein could counter that. I've asked to work in the office tomorrow.

You have to sing along to that. Very badly.

Howlding bayk thyur teeyurrrrs....

[crankysaurus]

He already does, to his dog. I can't top good awful one man kareoke.

[crankysaurus]

*his not good. It's really not good.

[TheMirrorofHerDreams]

Our old lodger was from NY and very passionate about being a good neighbour.

He was utterly incensed that the NDN in our terrace had porch at the bottom of the garden with a radio that went on at 8 am. They would turn it on, go into the house get tea/breakfast and then come out to sit in the sunshine.

He admitted, after he left, that he became a crack shot with a slingshot and could hit the radio on the first go from the loft window. He would wait until they had gone indoors and would shoot the thing off the table.

The neighbours, as there was absolutely no way anyone could access their garden, thought that there was a set of angry squirrels - and after a while stopped trying to replace the repeatedly damaged radios.

He was a epic lodger - we still miss you Alex :D

[SheldonesqueTheSecondComing]

I think I would love Alex too

Angry squirrels 🤣

[TheMirrorofHerDreams]

I should be clear. He didn't tell us till years after he left.

Also that the neighbours had asked us if we have problems with 'angry squirrels'

We had absolutely no reason to think the blessed sudden morning silence had anything to do with Alex or his absolute hatred of their radio.

They still, to this day, don't have a radio on the porch.

[mumwon]

Go classic the 1812 overture with cannons
& cymbals
& full orchestra
Military bands are best a recording of the military tattoo

[adrianmolesmole]

That's really shitty. I work from home in my boiling hot bedroom and I'm dreading hearing my neighbour blasting out his disgusting dance music. I need to focus in my job and have the windows open. I might go postal if he starts.

[BruceAndNosh]

Place your phone right next to their fence with this....

[Whereisthewarmth]

Op I am sending you my utter sympathy, our row of terraces has a raised bottom which bounces sounds all around, someone playing music 4 doors down sounds like its my own garden.

My garden is my salvation and sanctuary...I have not been able to sit out due to one neighbors horrendous loud music combined with atrocious music taste.

In this modern age we can use headphones, wireless etc.....no excuse.....

[Whereisthewarmth]

we all have the right to enjoy our gardens, more needs to be done re bonfires, any smoke that goes on and on and also music.

One offs, parties, i have no problem with but repetitive stuff ....

[timeforanewnameagain]

Oh don't, you'd think headphones are torture devices.

My neighbours soundproofed their downstairs wall when they moved in and proceeded to them use a professional level sound system to play loud music which reverberated through our house. When I raised it (nicely) they said 'oh, you can soundproof too!'

Ok, we'll go to the expense and disruption of ripping down our internal wall just so you can listen to music at a level that's appropriate in a professional music venue shall we? Erm no! Just turn the bloody bass down and lower the volume a bit! When I suggested wireless headphones they looked at me like I was crazy.

Luckily we have a management company that had been made aware of their noise (not by me) and issued them with a decease notice and it has stopped.

Thor soundproofing is enough that I don't hear a peep through the walls, ever, so the music was really played at utterly excessive levels. They must be half deaf by now.

People are odd.

[JorisBonson]

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

[JorisBonson]

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

[CausingChaos2]

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

[JorisBonson]

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

[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.

[CausingChaos2]

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

[CausingChaos2]

Jennifer2021

[BingBunnyIsAnnoying]

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

[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...

[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

[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.