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Noisy neighbours woke me up at 4.45am

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Poodlelove · 26/04/2026 23:49

My neighbours are noisy , 6 of them in one house , 3 generations.

Teenage children.

I just want the odd lie in , but they regularly go out as early as 5am .

They shout from the car to someone in the house , they seem to slam their ten door car , we can hear this at the back of the house and the end of our garden.

They come back late , they are awake until 1am.

Every morning they are shouting from the house to another family member in the garden , as early as 6am.

Last week they woke me up going out at 4.45 am .I was so tired at work as I didn't manage to get back to sleep.

My friend told me to just move.

My husband has specifically asked me not to speak to them about it.

What would you do?

OP posts:
Coffeeblanketandabookplz · Yesterday 16:10

No advice but I have the same problem, hammering at 3am, kids on the phone with their friends chatting and laughing so loud, basket ball hoop on the inside wall and the kid playing basket ball at 2am. I tried texting and got a three paragraph reply with about 6 different excuses and nothing changed. We put wardrobes in our room against the adjoining wall and filled it with books and open the windows at night, for some reason the outside traffic noise drowns out their banging and is more bearable.

Threesloths · Yesterday 16:14

We have a neighbour whose voice just seems to “carry”. It’s a certain timbre that echoes. I saw someone at the weekend tell her to pipe down. She replied “don’t tell me to be quiet or I’ll just shout even louder”. Sometimes there is simply nothing you can do apart from be baffled and embarrassed for the person.

Coffeecakeandspice · Yesterday 16:21

Some people have absolutely no awareness or concept of their own noise. I have seen this before op, we have a neighbour whose voice echoes so much, she almost sings to the people in the house, lovely and friendly but it isn't appreciated at 5am!
And these people that repeatedly slam car doors, I have no idea how such a small amount of people getting in or out of a vehicle require twice the number of slams. I feel like shouting out the window, "are you sure you haven't forgotten anything?!" 🤭

Whettlettuce · Yesterday 20:00

You have my sympathy op. My next door neighbour has 6 children ranging from 15 years to 10 months. Ive never known noise like it . At all hours. The husband is currently jet washing his patio and if its not the kids it a constant stream of garden noise, he does everything but help with his children. The children were throwing nerf bullets and sweet wrappers in my garden earlier while I was out but my older teen daughter dealt with it. Im dreading the summer holidays

Freud2 · Yesterday 20:37

Aim4Lesscortisol · Yesterday 02:21

Sorry for your trouble - take care to search around the topic as I read making a verbal complaint can count as a "dispute with neighbours" which you may have to declare on a property information form during a house sale

I thought this was only if a dispute was recorded for instance if there had been a complaint to the council.

Ca2026 · Yesterday 20:57

Bellavida99 · Yesterday 04:55

I’m a bit shocked teenagers are up and going out with their family at 5 or 6am. Must be a very different breed of teenagers to mine! Where on earth do they go at that time? We only go out at that time once or twice a year to go on holiday!

My teenager is a bus driver who leaves for work as early as 3:30am and returns as late as 1:30am (not on the same day obviously!). We do occasionally have to remind him not to sit on the drive finishing phone calls on hands free or rev the car too much when de-icing etc.

We try our best to be quiet but we do have several comings and goings all day. DS may leave super early, DH leaves at 6:20 ish, then me & DD at 7:30 for example.

DS’s gf might come after her retail shift finishing at 10pm, then DS get home at 11pm etc.

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