AIBU to want to open my windows? (noisy neighbour question...)

[woollyideas]

Some new people have moved in five doors down. They've only been here six weeks apparently but since the weather got hot we've been treated to loud reggae music blaring out of their house. Yesterday I bumped into the guy outside his house and had a chat to him about it (very non-confrontationally - quite cordial in fact) but was told that I should live and let live, that he didn't mind how I lived my life, so why should I mind how he lived his, that he was 'in the zone' and 'being in the zone stopped him from getting angry and aggressive'.

These people are about fifty years old - not kids.

It's that bass that goes right through you, making your furniture vibrate etc. God knows what it must be like for his immediate next door neighbours...

He pointed out that as it wasn't 'after 11 o clock' I couldn't complain. So AIBU in thinking that level of noise isn't really okay whatever the time of day, except for a party or something, but certainly not from midday through til late evening for several days on the trot...

It's a rented house and I though it might be worth finding out who the landlord is (but how?) and asking him to nicely have a word with his tenants.

AIBU? And WWYD?

Last time I planned to say, "Your music's very nice, but I'd like to listen to mine sometimes. And with yours this loud I can't."

(NB not actually planning own music, but it's a thing they can get their selfish little heads round.)

But I never tracked down which front door belonged to the radio-in-garden, so haven't road-tested this.

I did say this to him... Basically said I could hear his music over my television. He shrugged.

Oh dear.

I think the council may be your next stop, as there may be byelaws or something, but will depend whether the council actually care/have the resources.

Environmental health at the council. They'll ask you to monitor it. The 11.00 thing is nonsense.

if its that loud the council etc can do things about it.

I'd even ring the non-emergency police number. They get called out to stuff like this and will tell people to stop it/turn it down. Which is immediate ratehr than waiting for the council, who aren't always at work at weekends, etc. Our local one isn't anyway.

Oh and talk to the other neighbours so you can present a united front.

Noise abatement. That bass makes me feel violent when it comes pounding through my flat. I feel your pain!

Would also call the police; might not be strictly their bag, but IME they come out and their mere presence often cows people into compliance.

Definitely worth a call to the council.

Good luck, I've been there so I know how you feel.

Thanks everyone. I will try the council.
Feel so frustrated. I mean why do some people think it's okay to disturb half the street? I've almost got to the point where even when it's quiet I'm on tenterhooks waiting for it to start again...
[buangry]

Do you own the property, if so all neighbor disputes are now recorded and it could be that you cannot sell your own property if you get the council involved.
We have a yapping little dog next door from one, locked in the garden most of the day and yet nobody is interested in sorting out the noise.

SPF what a great idea did the neighbours ever find out it was them!