How annoying do you find wind chimes?

[wildfellhall]

I mean there are worse sounds of course. But it seems so invasive of all your neighbours' environments to impose so much sound on everyone else.

I would not dream of doing it. But my neighbours' chimes are dinging away all day today as there's a breeze.

I could say something of course but it just feels that it will be hugely resented. She is a bit scary and I want to keep relations positive.

We sleep at the back overlooking the garden and the only time we can hear ours is if it’s wild outside - and then they’re just more tinkly. I’d never put those massive loud ones in the garden though.

My neighbours' one is tinkly. They say they can't hear it. Which begs the question WHY have it then? I hear it constantly in my bedroom. I hear it right now. It's not loud. It's just high pitched and so constant. I loathe the thing. I spend most ofu time in earbuds in the summer 😭

I hate any kind of chimes that are outside at night - little tinkly ones and bamboo ones included. Surely no one, even the people who own and love wind chimes, wants to hear that noise at night? And surely they must understand that even if for some reason they do, that their neighbours very likely don't?

I can adjust to sleeping through some noises like the constant whirring of a fan in the bedroom in the summer because it's a continuous, relatively quiet background noise, but the sudden clanging whenever there's a gust of wind just as I was drifting off to sleep and repeat all night 😡 I can't have the bedroom windows open at night even when it's hot, I have to just leave them open for a couple of hours before I go up to bed and then close them and have the fan on.

It really pisses me off because we are very considerate of those around us - we don't smoke, don't have fires in the garden, don't have a log burner, don't play music outside, only mow the grass at reasonable times etc and even after explaining to him politely how it affects us and asking for some kind of compromise, he just doesn't care.

When my neighbours stop using their 90 decibel leaf blower five times a day to sweep their driveway, shut their screaming kids up and stop communicating by shouting, I will worry about the effect of my wind chimes.

Until then, anyone who doesn't like them can F off.

Bluddy hell @BettyBardMacDonald ... That's a bit much. "Anyone who doesn't like it can fuck off? "!!

How about we all try and be more considerate of imposing noise on other people?

They don't jangle! They're musical. They chime.

I would never hang a wind chime within hearing of someone's bedroom and I would certainly remove it if anyone complained.

I absolutely love wind chimes.
I don't have a garden tho sadly (or happily depending on your perspective!)
My dream is to live so rurally that I could have a bunch of windchimes in my garden and it would bother no one

I once rented somewhere that was detached and surrounded by woodland. So I bad a big beautiful windchime under my bedroom window.
But I had my parents staying at christmas and they had my room whilst I slept in the attic as my mum isn't good with stairs. And she was woken in the night by the chime and got so annoyed that she went out and cut off all the chimes with her nail scissors

I personally find the sound really relaxing and it helps me sleep. I'm always happy if a neighbour has one out. But as I said I don't currently have any as I don't have a garden.
Tbh as a night worker when I'm trying to sleep during the day I wear earplugs so I don't get people's insistence on complete silence at night. It's hardly ever silent outside ever anyway.. I don't see what the problem with windchime sounds is?

They don't bother me at all, I love them.

Very very annoying imo

They don’t bother me at all

I love wind chimes. I didn't have any for a long time to be considerate to the neighbours, however the neighbours have been inconsiderate with some noise from their place, so I decided to fill my dream and get the chimes I've always wanted.

Has your mother always been that crazy and over the top in her reactions? I'd report her and get a bigger set.

I love them. My grandparents used to have them so they sound all soothing and nostalgic to me. I don't have any though, as I feel like hearing them regularly might ruin it a bit!

Ha, I was about to go and take my windchime down as I didn’t realise people hated them, but my neighbour does indeed have endlessly barking dogs, so screw ‘em.

Mine are large and have a lovely low sound, not tinkly or clangy. They were hung out there when we decorated a room a few months ago, but they look nice on the tree and I like hearing them (also the room is still not finished)

Wind chimes disturb birds sleeping apparently, so not environmental friendly. Just another man made noise adding misery.
I thought they were a thing of the past as nobody I knows has these.

Hate them. If you want them you should take them down at night and when you’re not there.
A guy near us has a flag pole, and the rope on it clangs on the pole repeatedly when it’s windy. I can’t see how he thinks it’s ok to make that much noise.

Why do you like annoying your neighbours?
it’s so bizarre
Why not keep noise makers indoors as it’s so often windy and rainy in U.K.?
Wind chimes and other inane noise makers are torture for people with sharp hearing.

They are desperately passé but the wolf howling at the moon sweatshirt and crocs brigade still like the torturous things .

Oh my, @oakleaffy! Heaven forbid we should ever be seen as desperately passé!

I love mine. It hangs inside the summerhouse and only makes a sound if I open the doors, when I'm sitting in my garden. Slightly distracts from the racket the neighbours kids make.

Or pissing people off.

I love hearing them at night. All the neighbour's bedrooms are on the other side of their house, so they shouldn't hear them. I don't really care if they do. Until they get their kid sorted, they have no say about anything coming from our side. It's not like it's even often.

It's interesting how many of us see our noise as transactional for a neighbour's noise. I definitely see it in that way.
Children and dogs are huge noise polluters as is DIY and playing music outside.

I genuinely believe in give and take, live and let live. My problem with the wind chime in principle is that it's an imposition regardless if you're even in the house. It's left outside to create noise for other people even if you're not there. I could not defend it myself. Notwithstanding everything everyone says here in terms of noise deserved as revenge for neighbours.

Have them indoors by a window by all means. But dinging in the garden at 4 am! Indefensible in my view.

@wildfellhall exactly. It's the constant and pointless intrusion that gets me. My neighbours claim they can't hear it and yet I hear it all the time and it really gets to me..

Children and diy are temporary. Can be annoying if it goes on and on or done at thoughtless times of course.

The chimes are permanent. Won't ever stop.