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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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To be livid that my afternoon in the sun has been ruined?

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Drywhiteplease · 13/07/2013 18:35

By my neighbours' teenaged son and his crap band practicing with the windows open for 3 hrs? Happens every Saturday and is worse when it's hot. All the neighbours are livid, some go out, but none of us want to say anything for fear of upsetting them . I'm sick of it and im not even either side! It's so selfish and anti social.

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Sparklingbrook · 13/07/2013 18:36

YANBU. 3 hours? Could you phone the council and complain if you don't want to upset them?

WillSingForCake · 13/07/2013 18:36

Go and speak to them.

Meringue33 · 13/07/2013 18:37

Tell them to get a rehearsal room. They are not expensive.

valiumredhead · 13/07/2013 18:38

Go and knock on the door and ask them to keep it down!

TylerHopkins · 13/07/2013 18:38

You need to mention it to them, how else are they to know it's causing you a problem if you don't. If you can't do it face to face pop a note through their letterbox. If you get nowhere with that then report them to environmental health for noise pollution.

WorraLiberty · 13/07/2013 18:39

Do they turn into Gremlins when 'upset' or something?

fridgealwaysfull · 13/07/2013 18:40

3 hours is way too long and inconsiderate. Go round and have a word or pop a note through the letterbox to see if the situation improves

perplexedpirate · 13/07/2013 18:44

They will get less crap if they keep practising. I think it's nice that they are putting all that effort into their hobby, and it's better than them hanging round the streets drinking or whatever.
Is it only for a few hours a week?
Couldn't you put some music on or something?
I imagine it is quite intrusive, but then John Lennon's neighbours probably thought that too

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Drywhiteplease · 13/07/2013 19:22

If John Lennon lived next door I'd still be livid ( and I adore him!)
yes, I know I should say something . I will perhaps investigate Environmental Health too.
It's the lack of consideration that annoys me tbh.

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DoraExplorer1993 · 13/07/2013 19:24

You and your own neighbours should each start your own band and practice at the same time as the offending teenagers. They'll soon go somewhere else.

DaddyPigsMistress · 13/07/2013 19:26

You are all livid but no one has actually gone round to speak to them?

Yabu walk round and knock.

FannyMcNally · 13/07/2013 19:29

Well if they do it in the morning someone will complain it's too early/just done a night shift. If they do it later someone will complain their children can't sleep/they can't sleep. They probably think they are being considerate

specialsubject · 13/07/2013 19:31

wow, somebody needs to grow a pair, unless this lot are known to be violent. As teens they will have no consideration.

hours of music practice is not reasonable. Bang on the door and say it is to be done with the windows shut, for an hour max, or they go hire a hall.

Fenton · 13/07/2013 19:38

Yes, you need to say something - they may think you are enjoying it.

Is there a parent in the house while they're playing or do they bugger off out too?

We have a neighbour two doors down who plays an electric guitar and his son plays the drums. - Thankfully it doesn't seem to happen too often these days but I did think they were a pair of irritating knobs at the time.

Now we have a neighbour over the back who seems to have his own saw mill in the garden shed - I HAVE said something about this and he insists he is doing renovations to the house FOR THE PAST THREE SUMMERS

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Drywhiteplease · 13/07/2013 20:05

The parents are in and aware (must be wearing ear protectors!) it's stopped now....seems to b every Saturday 3/4-7pm. I will say something.

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isitsnowingyet · 13/07/2013 20:18

I think YABU. You all sound quite miserable on this thread. Grab a tambourine and ask if you can join in. It might lift your spirits a bit. Anyway, they've stopped now, so what the hey!

chinam · 13/07/2013 20:22

Please do say something or else one night after the band has ruined every Saturday for months you will loose the plot, run down the drive with your dressing gown swinging behind you, screaming like a banshee about the inconsiderate little gits who, in fact, have not got any better even with all their practice. It will be very embarrassing for all concerned. Or at least that's what I've heard will happen.

crashdoll · 13/07/2013 20:29

Don't call Environmental Health, just talk to them!!

NakedPanpipeLady · 13/07/2013 20:30

I agree with those who say 3 hours is too long. Having been the victim of noisy neighbours myself, I feel your pain (my ex neighbour used to play the same old dirge on his guitar for what felt like hours on end - seriously he was crap).

IsItSnowingYet (great name by the way) - we may sound miserable to you but for having to put up with 3+ hours of continuous noise can irk the heck out of some (understandably imo).

My ex-neighbour could have been the next Carl Perkins and it still would have driven up the wall as we were in small terrace houses with tiny gardens and nowhere to escape. It can be irritating to some (it certainly was to me, especially whenever I had really bad migraines which I had a lot of at the time which I appreciate was not my neighbours problem - but he really was inconsiderate and I think the OP's neighbours are being inconsiderate). (PS. I'm new to MN, please don't take this as attack as it certainly isn't intended as one).

Thing is these days, it can be hard to approach people as you never know how they react (my ex-neighbour pulled a knife on me when I finally spoke to him politely about it so this has really put me off approaching others about noise in the future - although I know this isn't always the case - there are neighbours out there who can be really nice).

Fuzzysnout · 13/07/2013 22:20

Pop round to the teenagers with a couple of middle-aged neighbours. Tell them you think their music is cool or use phrases such as "wicked tunes guys" or "hey dudes, your music is sick". Insist on staying for the whole rehearsal and dancing to the 'groovy melodies'. Make sure you impress on them how much you are all looking forward to coming back 'for a boogie' next week. There won't be another rehearsal

sonlypuppyfat · 13/07/2013 22:23

Oh the twat next door has been grinding in his shed all day, he's built 4 sheds in his garden its like a shanty town.

5Foot5 · 13/07/2013 23:38

So they do this every Saturday but its only a problem when the weathers nice and you want to sit out in the garden? Not criticizing, I can understand the annoyance but maybe they just haven't realised that it is more annoying in these circumstances.

Had something a bit similar today. We went to visit my mum and I had taken a picnic lunch which we planned to eat in her garden. However, the people who have the garden backing on to her had decided to spend today with the very loud and powerful hedge clippers trimming the hedge. So noisy you couldn't hold a conversation. But how can you ask someone not to cut their hedge at lunch time?

NoComet · 13/07/2013 23:46

They probably haven't a clue how loud they are.

I would have told the boys next door to turn down their Tecno din, but DD2 would toddle down the garden and dance to it

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Drywhiteplease · 14/07/2013 08:15

fuzzy that's a great idea! I also thought of wheeling my piano outside their front door and getting my dd to play and wail her One Dorection medley....Ending with Adele's "someone like you" which sounds like a dog howling!

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differentnameforthis · 14/07/2013 08:52

but none of us want to say anything for fear of upsetting them

Yet they are upsetting you?

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