AIBU to complain to the council about my neighbours' indoor rollerskating?

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Long story long:

We've lived here 4 years (upstairs flat), they live downstairs, 2 kids. They've always played loud music, and a few weeks ago I finally had enough and reported them to the council.

Since then the music has stopped (even though they told the guy from the council that they didn't do it), but they've taken to banging their door 3 times every time they go in/out, and for a while now their kids have been rollerskating indoors. At least that's what it sounds like, could be a skateboard or something. They have a tiled floor in their corridor, and it's really really loud in my flat, lots of crashing and banging also goes along with it. They do it at the same times each day, when the youngest gets home from preschool (my DD's nap time!) and when the older one gets home, and at bed time.

To be fair to them, until my daughter was born 2 years ago I used to play loud music in a passive aggressive way to drown out theirs, and now my daughter is a toddler, she too can make quite a bit of noise.

So, would I be unreasonable to report them again?
(They're slightly scary people, so I don't want to talk to them in person, have in the past about the music though, to no avail.)

Next time she starts screaming like that after midnight, which I predict will be after midnight tonight, I'm ringing the cops to just get rid of her once and for all because I can't abide steamers and druggies who just can't shut up at night.

Expat, I wish there was a Like button on MN I like your post!

She's a piece of work, Evenstar. Only moved in a week ago Thursday and I've had to complain in writing and start keeping a log.

All the mates who come over are males. . Always after 10 or 11PM.

The other night, Wednesday night, her bass started thumping at 11. So I crashed a chair on the floor. Again.

This schemy looking guy with his hood up comes and chaps on the door. I said, 'What do you want?' He said, 'Could you open the door?' Um, no. He said it wasn't 'that loud'. I said I didn't give a rat's arse, it's after 11 on a Wednesday and it's a homeless flat, not a party venue.

Like most pathetic steamers, she keeps trying it on, probably because she's pickled her brain with that Buckfast shite.

Well, she's had written warning from the council. One more letter and the council is no longer legally obligated to house her, this is her last chance.

This isn't a very PC thing to say, and I'll get flamed, but after living over drug-dealers, junkies and steamers for the past nearly 2 years, some people honestly don't deserve a flat. None of the horrid neighbours we've had there (not all, mind you) are interested in living like a normal human being. So I've really lost sympathy for certain folks, tbh.

We did have another steamer living there a while back. He thumped bass one time and when I knocked on teh door, he turned it off and we never heard him again. We knew when he was home, however, because he was such a boozer we could smell the drink through the floorboards. Yes, I kid you not! But he was quiet, so we didn't care.

I'd gladly take some kids playing to the 'BB' as I call her. :o

YABU to expect quiet during the day. Life is sometimes a bit loud.
I spent a year living under a miserable git who complained to the LL every time my dog barked (not that often, and never for long), or if I had music on during the day. He genuinely thought that I should stop doing normal activities and get rid of my beloved pet, just because he didn't like it.

You've also lowered yourself to their level with the tit-for-tat music. As long as it's not at night, it is really their business.

'As long as it's not at night, it is really their business.'

That's actually not the case. By man council guidlines, loud music for long periods of time, even during the day, is considered a nuisance.

I honestly don't 'get' the need to blast music at all. Get some headphones.

But as long as it's for short-ish periods in the day - not hours on end - and not ridiculous (a mate had to get Edinburgh council involved because his neighbour's bass was so loud, all day long, it interfered with our mate's right to 'peaceful enjoyment' of his flat. he actually had a decibel monitor and video evidence that people couldn't speak to each other without shouting in his flat due to the neighbour's music) that I can deal with.

Loud, thumping bass and drunken parties that last all night, fuck that.

Alright, alright, I get it!

I shall try to lighten up and be glad I don't live where Expat lives.

They're just generally bizarre people and as I'm moving in a few weeks, I wondered if I should get some revenge for how annoying they've been the last few years. Clearly I shouldn't. Point taken!

Thank you for getting my point exactly, WhereYouLeftIt !