Selfish neighbours

[Rosebel]

Neighbours two doors down from us is having another party. They seem to do this frequently on Sunday or Monday night and it's annoying.
The music is so loud you can't hear the TV even with the windows shut. DD2 is pissed off as she has an exam tomorrow and can't sleep. DS is kind of asleep but every so often a noise will disturb him.
DH went round and asked nicely if they could turn the music down. Over the music I heard the neighbour literally bellow fuck off you fucking prick. And then turned the music up.
It's the first time we've ever asked them to turn the music down in two years. I know they aren't breaking any laws as it's not 11 yet but why do people behave like that? Is it worth calling the police if it's still going on after 11? Or will they not be bothered?
So selfish.

Some people are just selfish. You could log a noise nuisance with the council - they will ask you to keep a record of the noise over a period of time. Police probably won’t do anything sadly. I know it’s no help now but noise cancelling headphones are wonderful. We have white noise on ours.
Exams are crap - is it GCSE Maths? DS has just gone downstairs for a glass of milk, which is a sign he can’t settle.

It's annoying but from experience, no the police won't do anything, they just advise to report to environmental health and keep a log of everything, even then they can't do much apart from warn them, its useless, I once had to move house before because of neighbours.

Best thing is keep a diary and report to council/environmental health. I'm the type that's always afraid to annoy anyone so I don't get selfish assholes like this, I've lived beside them before myself and it's not nice.

Call the police. It's a disturbance. Seriously totally shit behaviour

I would call the police on the basis he called your dh a fucking prick. It’s harassment.

Call the out of hours environmental health officer. They can come out and monitor and have the power to remove equipment if your neighbours persist. Even if they don’t comen,logging a complaint means a picture is built up so do it every time.

They stopped about 1:30. DH wouldn't let me call anyone (worried about consequences) but we have made record of it. DD2 and DS finally asleep.
Unfortunately (probably because I'm so angry) I now can't sleep!

Yes, it is Maths GCSE. She's good at maths but just very stressed out in general.

Do you know if they're renting? If so you could try and contact their landlord/agent. We had similar problems (sympathies as it was terrible) and we persistently complained to the land lords and it now seems to have done the trick.

Calling the police would have had no benefit but created a dispute which you'll have to declare on selling the house......

I think they rent, as do we as virtually all the houses on the street seem to be rented. I think the house might be social housing (a few are) but not 100% sure.

If they rent (privately or from the council) then contacting the landlord every time there is a disturbance is a good strategy. They won’t want the hassle.

I once had a neighbour that had massive parties (and was abusive when you asked them to turn music down) - and I was sent the landlords number by someone and they were kicked out.

Have you asked other neighbours if they have the same issue? Multiple complaints probably help.

I know next door are annoyed too but she won't say anything to them which is fair enough as she's a single mum with young children (I imagine if he's happy to say that to my husband he'd be worse if it was a woman).
I'll have to see if I can find out who he rents from and take it from there.