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AIBU?

To hate the neughbours' bloody windchimes?

52 replies

Verycold · 14/04/2013 23:39

Wooden. Can hear them clunking away. They probably dont even hear them as they sleep on other side of the house.

Aaaaargh

Would it be ok to say something do you think?

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SchroSawMargeryDaw · 16/04/2013 11:19

I feel your pain.

There's a house in the middle of the oval we live in that has wind chimes, we're about the highest point in Glasgow, no high flats for miles around so the wind hits everything. You can hear them loudly from here even though they are down the road.

MoetEtPantsOn · 16/04/2013 11:14

My mum had this issue with her neighbours. Took 6 months to build up the courage to casually mention how loud they were on windy nights. The neighbour was mortified. Took them down straight away. She was deaf in one ear so couldn't hear them as she slept on her good ear.

The moral of the story is to bother to ask nicely. Doesn't have to drag on.

Quenelle · 16/04/2013 11:00

I agree DonDraper, what are they for, if not to annoy your neighbours?

They would make a little more sense if they performed some sort of function, even if it is a made up woo one.

So far nobody has posted about how much they love listening to their neighbour's wind chimes all night long have they?

arabesque · 16/04/2013 10:57

Also, even during the day they must be bloody annoying if someone's working from home, studying, or ill in bed.

ChairmanWow · 16/04/2013 10:55

Get an ASBO slapped on the fuckers.

arabesque · 16/04/2013 10:54

I can't understand why people who live in close proximity to others think its okay to have wind chimes out in the garden. Even if the neighbours don't complain there is every possibility they are lying in bed on windy nights gritting their teeth and thinking VERY BAD THOUGHTS about you.

YoniRaver · 16/04/2013 10:51

I have a very small set hung up on the downstairs loo towel rail (just put them there temporarily and it stuck). You now know if someone has washed their hands or at least wafted the towel

DonDrapersAltrEgoBigglesDraper · 16/04/2013 10:46

What is to like about wind chimes - I don't understand...? Repetitive, monotonous noise, akin to a tap dripping, or a Godforsaken pigeon that has moved its family wholesale into the guttering outside your bedroom window and instructed them all to twitter in unrelenting shifts 24 hours a day.

Just ... why....??

Can someone who likes them explain it? And don't give me any 'soothing' BS; they're the very antithesis of 'soothing'.

LittleBairn · 16/04/2013 10:22

YANBU I spent YEARS hating my neighbours wind chimes I used to lie in bed fantasising about ninjaring over the fence and cutting the bloody thing down in the middle of the night.
I didn't, I moved in the end. New neighbours don't have wind chimes but are 'sociable' people.
We need a house in the middle of a field with only sheep for neighbours surely sheep can't be half as annoying...

DoTheStrand · 16/04/2013 10:08

Our neighbours have metal wind chimes and I hate them. I am not a 'woo' person but if I'm on my own and I can hear them tinkling away on a dark and stormy night it really freaks me out. I think it is because it sounds like the background music on spooky films that comes on just before some daft girl investigating her basement at dead of night wearing only a slinky nightie realises there's someone behind her...

Sorry do you think I've been over-thinking this?

specialsubject · 16/04/2013 10:02

quenelle love the idea of a woo function.

OP - just ask, explain they are disturbing you and ask for them to be removed. They are bloody annoying in the daytime too.

waikikamookau · 16/04/2013 09:29

but I hate my neighbours windchimes in the day.

EeyoreIsh · 16/04/2013 09:29

I could have written your op this morning! bloody wind chimes keeping me awake for the last few nights as it's warm enough for our bedroom window to be open.

during the night I came up with various plans to chop then down I wouldn't really, but Argh, the annoyance of them.

normally I would ask neighbour to take them down at night, but as we've been making lots of diy noise recently, I don't feel I can complain.

waikikamookau · 16/04/2013 09:28

indeed, yanbu, I hate my neighbours windchimes.
aargh.

thermalsinapril · 16/04/2013 09:25

YANBU! They're dreadful things, clanking away day after day. Small but extremely irritating!

DorisShutt · 16/04/2013 07:11

We hung our set up from our curtain pole in the living room.

It's a great reminder to shut the window!

whiteflame · 16/04/2013 06:48

YANBU. I had a flatmate once who owned the clunky wooden ones. Right outside my bedroom window of course. I think a lot of people genuinely don't realise how noisy they are at night, and are happy to take them down once they know.

cumfy · 15/04/2013 23:35

Buy them an electric fan, and excitedly tell them how they can use them indoors.

aldiwhore · 15/04/2013 23:32

How long have they been annoying you?

I only ask because it's been very windy here for the last two days and my windchimes have annoyed me so much I've taken them down... they've been there for 9 years and upset no one (friends with neighbours both sides).

If they've been bugging you for months, definitely say something... if it were me, I'd LOOK at the chimes, go to the local garden centre and buy something quiet of the same style (like a bird house) and take it around, say "your windchimes really bug me but I thought you might like this instead as I know you didn't mean to offend" - but then, I'm always chasing brownie points - and thinking on, my neghbours have both given me bird houses in recent years....

Verycold · 15/04/2013 23:26

Windy night...
Definitely saying something tomorrow!!

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WorraLiberty · 15/04/2013 13:14

YANBU, it's just selfish/thoughtless to have wind chimes in your garden unless you live in a detached house in the middle of nowhere.

Why do people think it's ok?

I'm assuming they wouldn't think it was ok to play music all night in their gardens?

Blu · 15/04/2013 13:08

Awful things. Total noise intrusion. If you want them have them indoors and leave them where an open window will cause them to plink away.

I would ask neighbours to take them down in the day and night - I don't want that noise all day when I am out enjoying the garden.

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mumnosbest · 15/04/2013 13:08

Oops. I have 2 and love them , especially at night. Never thought about neighbours. May need to take them down :(

Quenelle · 15/04/2013 13:03

What are they actually for? Just to make a noise? Or do they perform some sort of woo function, like dream catchers?

Out of genuine interest, does anybody like listening to them at night?

FryOneFatManic · 15/04/2013 12:59

My mum had been given a large sized set of wooden windchimes. She loves them, but once she put them up outside and realised how loud they were, she immediately took them down and they now hang in her kitchen.

I would speak to the neighbour. Mum would be horrified if her chimes had actually caused a problem for someone else.

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