to put on the music channel. Loud.

[MichelleRooJnr]

I live in a terraced house. I've lived here for 9 years and the walls are very thick - we have never really heard anything from other side, never any noise problem.
A few months ago our neighbours moved out and put their house up for rent.
Now I think a man lives there alone most of the time but on some weekends and school holidays lots of others come and stay. LOTS of others.
And when they do - god, the fucking noise!
Kids screaming etc but most annoying TV on incredibly loud. They must have huge speakers on the floor that rumble into our lounge.
We try to ignore, go out, make allowances etc. But ... urgh!
Right now it sounds like they are playing a racing car game on the tv, so loud with shitty music to accompany the car rrrrrrrr noises.
I'm in my pjs and just trying to watch the news, but it's soooo loud.
So I've just turned over to VH1 and turned it up really loud just to let them know that sound travels. AIBU?

yabu if you havent gone round to give them the opportunity to turn it down, as they may not be aware that you can hear it

Don't do it - it will start a war.
Your old neighbour probably has something in their lease about acceptable noise levels during the day / night.
Do you know which estate agent leased it? You can contact them directly if you can't get hold of the LL.

I'm in my pyjamas.
They must know that having it THAT loud is gonna travel in a terrace.
Because it really must be quite loud.

But I get you, I know I need to speak to them.
Shitty bollocks. IABU.

I think I will contact the letting agency.
I'm worried because we are going to be putting ours on the market soon so I really don't want a neighour dispute on the cards.
I know I should speak to them. I know.

Have you tried banging on the wall or shouting "please turn it down"?

If that doesn't work put a coat on, over the pj's, and go and bang on the door.

Explain that up until now you have tried to be neighbourly but the noise is unbearable and could they please try to be a little more considerate.

Or you could always write a note with that and stick it through the letterbox in the morning.

It could be genuine ignorance rather than malice though, so there isn't any need to be rude, yet.
At our old house we had a similar situation, after tolerating it for weeks I finally went around. It turned out they had previously lived in a house with extremely thick walls where no sound carried, so had gotten used to no having to worry about noise they genuinely had no idea their music/tv was so loud. After a quick chat the problem was resolved.

Thank you.
I will speak to them.
We have been giving them the benefit of the doubt, but given how thick these walls are they must be being really really loud for it to carry.
But I understand that they may have lived somewhere detached before now.
We're not rude people,
I turned up the music channel and my OH came running in "turn it down turn it down - that's not the way to deal with this". So I turned it down.
And their noise had stopped!
So maybe they didn't know.
But now it's right back up. It's half past midnight!
I'm going to bed (with earplugs).
But I will speak to them.
Thank you for advice.

Good luck, I hope it goes off soon, if not send your DH round.

Thank WeAreEternal
I've got bigger balls than DH so if anyone's gonna go round...
I'll let you know.

Good luck. I had terrible noisy neighbors and I approached them with a bottle of wine and that REALLY helped!

I moved into my flat 6 months ago and my neighbours TV was really loud nearly every evening. Our front room walls are connected and his TV must be near our joint wall with what sounded like a surround sound system too!

After nearly crying with frustration over it all (and being a wimp and not wanting a confrontation), I simply put a polite note through his door and he seems to have taken heed and I haven't heard the TV since (and that was about 6 weeks ago now). So maybe try that first and see how you get on.

I was pleasantly surprised when I finally plucked up courage to talk to next doors about noise (big scary-looking bloke) - he was lovely and said he would have done the same if I'd been making the noise. Never heard anything since. Always recommend starting by talking to your neighbours - it might work and even if you have to take stronger measures later you have put yourself in the right by starting with a friendly request.