How to cope with a neighbour’s loud music until we move

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I’ve lived in a semi for ten years next to neighbours who on paper are lovely and will do anything for you , but their teen son has driven me crazy for the last five years playing full blast music whenever his parents are out. The walls are paper thin so my poor daughter who is currently sitting her GCSE’s is driven to distraction trying to revise.
hes 19 now and doesn’t work do the second he gets up the sound system goes on.. full volume , drum and bass .. and doesn’t stop until his parents get home around six, then as soon as they go out , maybe to visit friends, it’s goes on.
we’ve asked do many times over the years for it to be turned down, the parents don’t see a problem and he promises to turn it down when I ask him then a few days later it’s back on full volume .
we’ve bought another house and are moving in August, the whole situation has literally made me ill , I can’t even hear my own tv for the constant thump thump, I’m counting down the months until We go - help me keep my sanity until then, appreciate light hearted revenge ideas 🤣 or just coping strategies

We move in four months- I’m just trying to preserve my sanity until then🙈

I think Tiffany would definitely drive anyone crazy 🙈🤪

Noooo… if you’re planning to rent it out it’s time to nip it all in the bud. Come on, no one deserves that and you’ll struggle to get peace even as a landlord. Do they rent, or are they home owners?

Youre acting as if once you move it isn’t your problem. It will be

Just white noise can be quite effective rather than music - that has worked for me in the past. First thing in the morning when he is trying to sleep. Maybe try that - but frustrating and annoying beyond belief.

My husband had this when he was at uni, one day he put 'Cotton Eye Jo' on repeat really loud and went out!

I know it’s a pain but do go down the environmental health route. Maybe warming letters from them will make a difference. We had good tenants move out because of noisy neighbours. We didn’t know so couldn’t do anything about it.

Well if your new tenants are noisy, they have to live too eh? I honestly cannot fathom this level of non consideration to others. It really doesn’t level until you have to live nextdoor to these type of cretins.

We are saving to move to a detached house, ours act all lovely out the front, but are fairly rotten inside the house, arguments, music and a non stop yapping dog left alone so much, adult kids have drug deliveries so county lines realise it’s a safe space so those transactions too out the front of the houses.

they say we should move.

where has humanity gone?

So many people are inconsiderate these days. No thought for anyone else. Thankfully I live somewhere peaceful these days but have been in your shoes OP and it’s horrendous.
We were subjected to years of loud music, weed smoking 24/7 so we couldn’t open our windows or sit in our garden, dogs barking day and night, huge groups of people arriving all day and night.
Drove me insane!
But sadly it just seems more and more common these days. Lack of respect for others

I’m trying to be evasive to avoid outing myself (in case neighbours are on here and this info would give it away ) but the house is ex social housing, neighbours rent from HA.

We’ve had an offer from that same HA to buy back our property but not at market value but we are considering accepting their offer.

I’ve tried that but the walls are so thin and the music is so loud it doesn’t work .. I might get some noise cancelling headphones

I think they’d turn very nasty tbh and it’s the reason I didn’t do it .. One time when I went round and they were in and it was late evening, they agreed to get him to turn it down then but glared daggers at me for weeks and clearly had a huge problem

@Noodles1234 Im so sorry you are dealing with this 😢 it sounds horrific

@redblock It wears you down doesn’t it - there’s nothing worse than the smell of weed

Definitely get noisy tenants to move in. And in the meantime, a trumpet, played at 7am every morning. And 8am, 9am etc. until he gets the message.

Oh that's interesting. Why below market value? Is it due to the noise or is this just standard HA buyback behaviour? Getting shot of it gives you a clean break.

I just don't get why you won't complain. They aren't going to take the boy away! All that will happen is they will get a warning letter and it will escalate from there.

The family giving you evils doesn't sound as if it's going to escalate that badly.

The fastest most effective route is to make life very uncomfortable for the parents as well as for the son. You will need to have nerves of steel but choose a time that disturbs them eg an hour or two after they have all gone to sleep. Play some heavy metal with speakers right against the wall at top volume. You will likely need your kids moved out for the night. Play it for about half an hour at least if not longer. That should get the message across. If they come round to complain- perfect. Explain to them that this is what you have to put up with day in day out and then close the door. Sometimes people need to understand what you are actually dealing with and to realise that you can make their life as miserable as they are making yours before they will change.

I work from home have to ensure a lot of builidng work from neighbours. Makes the house shake. Noise cancelling headphones playing classicial music help me. I wear them all the time - over my ear ones work well. But my daugther swears by her Airpods for cancelling noise (at least that is why she claims she can't hear me yelling!)

@bignewprinz non standard construction, the estate is earmarked to be “redeveloped” in the next ten years

@Owly11 Im seriously considering that as right on cue the music went on..yesterday evening booming through my walls yesterday , I went round only to be greeted by his mum.. she was happily sitting in the house and had zero problem with it .. I really nicely explained that it was unbearable in my house and she said “we can’t sit in silence, get a bloody life”
so at this point .. I’ve decided to lodge a formal complaint with environmental health

@insomniacalways building work is horrible to put up with .. that wears you down .. I work from home too which is why this isn’t helping

@Growingaseed because they are shall we say .. a bit unpleasant and I suspect that we’ll find ourselves with slashed tyres and lots of trouble .
we just want to move ..
however today it’s ten times worse and I suspect it’s because I went round and actually complained to the mum. .. I am complaining to environmental health but I doubt very much a letter will do anything and given I’ve been having cancer treatment , I don’t really want to put myself through the stress of potential reprisals and escalation

Get the parents number and call them every single time.

I think I’d seriously consider taking the HA offer too as your new tenants will just be on to you all the time about the noise. I’d prefer a clean break. You could always buy a different property near to where you’re moving to (if you’re moving further away). Would be easier to manage as well. Try and push them up in price.

@Timetakesacigarette yes we are seriously considering it , it will make life easier all round and tbh with what this house is worth we could actually just use the money to buy a different and better house for ourselves where where we are moving to and still bank some (it’s a very expensive area and we are moving to a cheaper area to be near family )
Ive got the parents numbers but they work and won’t be able to take calls

@insomniacalways I’ve just found my headphones and am listening to a calming anti stress track !