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Original poster

to be irratated by a wind chime my neighbours have?

39 replies

Thunderstruck · 31/01/2013 13:31

It's driving me around the bend especially in these high winds.What shall i do? Any advice would be greatly appreciated?

Does anybody else find them annoying or is it just me?

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Flobbadobs · 31/01/2013 13:33

No advice apart from to ask them to take it down while its windy.
I love wind chimes but you've just reminded me why DH has absolutely forbidden me to get one... Grin

ThreeBeeOneGee · 31/01/2013 13:33

They don't bother me too much if they're in tune...

Nancy66 · 31/01/2013 13:33

they're really annoying. I hate them.
Just ask them to take them down.

familyfun · 31/01/2013 13:34

i hate them too, my neighbour loves them, i dont say anything though, its her choice

Megglevache · 31/01/2013 13:35

I LOVE that noise.

Don't have them.

I am not your neighbour Grin

mademred · 31/01/2013 13:35

I saw something on tv about this once , and you can contact environmental health noise team who can measure how loud they are and if they are then they can be requested to take them down.but is it worth falling out with a neighbour over a wind chime? Id just buy sum bigger ones.

50shadesofmeh · 31/01/2013 13:35

I'd cut it down when they aren't in

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Thunderstruck · 31/01/2013 13:36

I feel it is a tricky one when it is their garden and their perogative and they obviously love it.I really don't want to make a scene .I went and took it down today while they are out at work

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specialsubject · 31/01/2013 13:36

nick it and tell them you saw it blow away. Or ask them to put it down the other end of the garden as the noise irritates you.

these things are a nightmare and only for those with no neighbours, and no sense.

kalidanger · 31/01/2013 13:37

Even reading this is giving my the heebie-jeebies YANBU

DoItToJulia · 31/01/2013 13:37

^ this.

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Thunderstruck · 31/01/2013 13:37

shall i put it back up and have a word with them?

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LeChatRouge · 31/01/2013 13:37

My mum 'accidently' snipped through her neighbour's wind chime strings with the shears after being kept awake for three nights. She had asked if they would mind taking it down when windy, but they didn't do anything, so......

DoItToJulia · 31/01/2013 13:37

Oh, x post! Cut em down!

MinnesotaNice · 31/01/2013 13:38

YABU if you haven't said anything to your neighbors. I personally love wind chimes, but would take them down straight away if a neighbors asked as I understand not everyone likes them. Unfortunately, I never got the option as mine were stolen within days of putting them out. Angry

FeltOverlooked · 31/01/2013 13:39

I was the offending wind chime owner once. Woke up one day to find the chimes all taped together with smiley face tape. Don't know who did it, but I thought it was quite funny and charming and took the wind chime down.

dexter73 · 31/01/2013 13:40

MinnesotaNice - do you live next door to Thunderstruck? Wink

GandalfsHat · 31/01/2013 13:40

YA SOOOOOOO NBU!

My neighbours have TWO in very old, very beautiful, listed Yew trees, they drive me absolutely nuts. It is not loud, it is just there, in the background, the constant tinkle tinkle, its like chinese torture!

But have no advice as I'm still growing my backbone to 'have a friendly chat'.

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Thunderstruck · 31/01/2013 13:40

ok thanks everybody i don't feel so bad now but i think i will phone them up later and tell them what i have done

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atthewelles · 31/01/2013 13:40

YANBU. People living in close proximity to other people should have a bit of sense and realise that wind chimes -especially in really windy weather- are just not on.

BabyRoger · 31/01/2013 13:41

I would think that it is much more polite to actually just talk to them and ask them to take them down rather than stealing them/breaking them etc!

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Thunderstruck · 31/01/2013 13:42

I compare the noise of the chimes to a dripping tap tbh

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Scholes34 · 31/01/2013 13:42

I'm sure a friendly squirrel could be persuaded to gnaw its way through the string holding it up.

imogengladhart · 31/01/2013 13:42

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Thunderstruck · 31/01/2013 13:43

good advice babyroger i agree with you.

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