Please can I just rant about my neighbour

[Movinghouseatlast]

Having moved to a rural position partly to escape a vile neighbour I have now got myself a neighbour who has more machinery than toolstation. Angle grinders, mini diggers, chain saws, professional standard strimmer and pressure washer with a huge petrol engine you name it he has it.

Just as summer starts he has decided to terrace his entire 2 acre garden himself with his mini digger. He has lived there 30 years and we have had the whole of fucking lockdown but no, he has to do it now.

The noise us horrendous. He has only done about 12 feet and he's on his shitting digger 8 hours a day. I can hear it in the house and of course in the garden where I would like to sit out at last. I have my headphones on full blast but can still hear the bastard thing.

I know there is nothing I can do so I am just ranting. What are your neighbours up to?

i am no bloody help as i am pissing myself laughing reading all the messages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Wallpapering

You can hear Pebbles on beach Onlyyelliwroses ? Do you have your own private or secret beach as when sun out anywhere round here where there is bit water and sand it’s backed like sardines and pet peeve loads think it ideal place to disposable bbq on the ground with little kids running about

Ha it's pretty rammed up the main sandy tourist end by the look of it but we live the other end which is quieter usually as it's furthest from the town and people get put off by the big pebbles

Today, blissful peace. I can hear cows & sheep, making their gentle noises. At night there are owls in the nearby woods.

However, we live on a building site. Have done for over a year. Monday-Friday there are diggers going past every few minutes, with loads of topsoil, laying paving, pouring stuff, etc, etc.

Last year we had a 120ft crane standing 10ft from our front door, for 2 months. It was rather less peaceful. The big yellow bastard was visible for absolutely miles.

Sometimes they decide they've dropped too much mud on the road, & spend a few minutes scraping it off the road surface. With a digger. One time they were trying to move a 2 tonne skip into position, because they'd put it into the wrong place, only instead of picking it up with a suitable vehicle, they got a digger & started belting it with the shovel end. The noise was indescribable. The rest of the men stood & watched, & gave ribald commentary. Then they all pissed off back into their hut to finish lunch...

And every day they send a weird lorry round, looks rather like a bin lorry, but instead it washes all the mud & crap off the road. Sometimes 3 or 4 times a day. Why? Even when it's raining. That thing is loud.

My neighbours got a puppy about 2 months ago and oh dear Lord - the shrill baby voices they insist on doing when talking to the dog. SO LOUD AND HIGH PITCHED. At first it was comical hearing 'OH SOOTY WOOTY, YOU GOOD BOY, WHO'S A GOOD BOY. YOU THE GOOD BOY. YES YOU ARE. YES YOU ARE, YOU ARE!' now it makes me want to turn on power tools just to drown them out!! 6.30am they start most days with it

Not my neighbours but my sons'. DS2 went to ask the semi detached neighbour to turn down the music at 11.30 pm. Neighbour had to be restrained by his son from hitting DS2. Mrs Neighbour came out and accused DS1 and DS2 of smoking weed as she had smelt it. (Untrue as they don't do drugs due to chance of losing their jobs if caught.) The week before, neighbours had gone away and their burglar alarm rang all week! To think I told them really nicely that their dogs (huge German shepherds - 5 of them) were sh*ing on sons' front garden without their owners' knowledge. Ha, I was wrong wasn't I?
Oh I do love to read these neighbour problems.

Mine are perfectly nice but still manage to get on my tits.

Mowing grass at 8.30pm just as DS is going to bed
Fecking hot tub jets and accompanying shrieking kids
BBQ right beside our fence so they are peering straight at us if we sit out
Performance parenting in loud sing-sing voice "oh well DONE boys! That's SO clever!"
The 6'5" dad bounces on the trampoline so looms over our fence at every bounce
Endless visitors who are also performance parents
Can't get themselves into their car without making as much noise as possible
Early morning piano bashing from the kids
The dad bellowing songs from The Greatest Showman at the top of his voice

I'm sure we're just as irritating so c'est la vie! Also, I'm just jealous because they have much more fun than we do.

Our neighbour knows we are both on night shift. Dh has been since we moved in. They have asked what time he goes to bed. (Note not my time!). They said that they wouldn’t use noisy machinery after that time. We said that’s lovely and thank you. (We in no way asked knowing it’s our problem for working nights).
So what do they do - yep use all the nosiest machinery they have just after them time dh goes to sleep. We’ve have no idea why they bothered to ask! Doesn’t bother us, if that’s the plan as dh sleeps like a cat anywhere and through every noise including smoke alarms.

We’ve been lucky. Very quiet next door (joined to us) despite having teens. Retired the other side. Couple of families around with small children but we don’t really hear them much. Teens further up who sometimes have mates and music in the garden but that doesn’t bother me as mine do the same occasionally so that makes me feel better.

We moved from noisy neighbours to a fairly quiet area but our next move will be in the sticks with no neighbours. The entitlement of some people drives me mad.

My one neighbour must be dying inside after the state he came home in last night and the fact he was blasting music til 4am this morning, we have been in the pool all day so he's had his windows shut and shouted out a few times shut up🤣 my other neighbour is having a brick shed built but the builder has been so quiet! He's just started playing music now probably to drown out the sound of the kids arguing in the pool 🤣

Thought my neighbours would be hating us today after DP was out all afternoon angle grinding copper cable
But, NDN just smashed a chest of drawers open in their upstairs bedroom and has thrown each piece out the window onto the slabs in the garden. Some is in ours too.

However, neither me or NDN give a toss because we're not speaking to neighbours 1 and 2 anyway who've been overly quiet all day. Muhahaha

I have been reminded of our old NDNs; one side would have daily BBQs and bonfires throughout the summer and the other side would be fighting 24/7 and inviting the local drug dealers round. So glad I moved to a rural location, the only sound I can hear at present is birds.

I don't mind talking, chatting, laughing... I don't mind the odd party..

Light radio music or noise..

But I cannot bear louder music at all, or power tools.
Op that's so bloody awful.
Huge sympathy.

Prof workers are actually limited for the time being they work so maybe it's something you couid mention, ask him to work in standard working hours.

And bonfire

@LyndaSnellsSniff

Hilarious!! 6.5 ft dad looming over the fence at every bounce 🤣

We used to do early morning karaoke after my neighbours had their all night parties.

My other neighbour (ex prisoner) constantly does diy. I don't know what he's changing and half-suspect he's carving up corpses. He's very shouty about his parking place.

I'm hearing impaired but they still manage to be loud enough to wake me several times a weak.

[quote NotMyCat]@HyacynthBucket I think I have your neighbours relative opposite me. He seriously uses a strimmer for hours on end, daily. There's nothing left to strim! It's all razored to the ground [/quote]
Yeah we've got one of these as well. He has a postage stamp sized lawn but he is up at the crack of dawn strimming the fucker for hours all day Saturday, then all day Sunday.

As per bloody usual they have the windows wide open and the volume up high.

Kind of ironic that they were banging on the door of the guy downstairs for exactly the same reason midweek.

No empathy whatsoever.

@Lemonmelonsun

Hilarious!! 6.5 ft dad looming over the fence at every bounce 🤣

And shouting “oh wow boys! We’re going REALLY high! Wheeeee!”

@Movinghouseatlast

You are right it's better than music!

I am proof that when people say " go and live in the middle of nowhere if you don't want noise" they are wrong. Noise happens everywhere!

He is otherwise a good neighbour but he is the sort who can't sit still so always has heavy machinery doing something or other. I just wish he had done this in lockdown.

I just want peace and quiet.

@Movinghouseatlast and @HyacynthBucket I would go and have a nice friendly chat with your loud machinery-obsessed neighbours and maybe agree on one day a week (or even one day on a weekend if you're lucky) where there's no machinery so you can sit out?

What do you have to lose?

The neighbours at the back talk to each other over the fence using loud voices and are the sweariest people I've ever heard. F this f that, one was calling her husband a c**t - affectionately of course. Its constant. Theyve got nothing interesting to talk about either. It's all sweat laden accounts of going to asda.

Meanwhile my 6yo is playing out with that as a soundtrack.

They also play music stupid loud.

At least I cant see them cos of big trees.

Barking dogs. Constant. Barking. Dogs. But only when the neighbours are out, which is nice for them.

The performance parenting doesn’t last I waited 2years for Noah to rebel at performing tricks for his parents, I was sat in garden

No Noah put the bucket of water down, whilst asking child and long winded why not throw bucket of water at parents and their performance parenting friends, I silently willed noah to just do it.

Although I didn’t expect him to throw bucket also, he was well chuffed after as he slide down slide shouting bitch .

Mine are having a very loud party, the music is shit and they are all shouting rather than talking, I’m not really complaining though, as it’s a one off and it’s nice to be able to have a get together.
I just hope it doesn’t go on into the early hours (killjoy)

My neighbour watches us doing mundane activities in our garden from his bathroom window, while shaving his head. He looks like the Pale Man from Pans Labyrinth. I don't have anything nice to say about him due to past shitty behaviour on his part.