to let DP turn off neighbours electric

[pinkie1982]

He insists on playing either Elvis or Bryan Adams at full blast (we live in the flat above him) 3 morning this week, waking us up at 4.45am, going on for a whole album??!!

I have spoken to him about it before, in the street last Summer, and it stopped... until this week. When I spoke to him to explain that his music is waking us up well before we need to set our alarm for work and it wasn't fair he decided it wasn't him and that 'maybe it was the new people that moved in upstairs?'! THAT IS US! Then he said 'I will hold my hands up and say it is me but I don't think it was'.

He is an old alcoholic and TBH I just don't think he even knows what time it is, let along what day. If you ever knock on the door he doesn't answer it.

DP has decided that tomorrow morning he is going to turn off the electric in the box in the communal area. Half of me agrees with him.

Lol, not my problem then!
With the last place they put someone in there within 3 weeks! I was just so glad to be out if it I didn't care in the end. I did let them know there was an injunction in place though as HA didn't tell them and it was including residents in the whole street as well as (namely) us.

This one isn't threatening or anything like that. He just lives in his own time or in hospital or police station after his sessions.

Thankfully this morning there was quiet!!

Does the communal area have a camera?

You will be evicted if you touch someone's else's electric, it is a criminal offence, as well as breaking your tenancy contract.

Go down the correct environmental health/anti social behaviour route. Phone the police etc, it will direct alcohol services to him, as well.

The danger of tampering with the electrics, is that he might go and have a look and try to fix the problem, whilst drunk.

Also it might start tit for tat and that isn't someone that you want with an alcoholic, if you have to work 12 hour days.

That's really a tough one. We had a very similar situation a while back -- downstairs neighbour blasting music all day, he was quite old and lived by himself and smoked a lot of weed. I felt very sorry for him actually, he had obviously lived there forever and no one ever visited, he had no support. But the music drove us crazy!

It's all well and good telling you to speak with him, get environmental health to speak with him, but when people are not really living in reality it doesn't do much good. My husband spoke with our neighbour and he insisted it wasn't his fault and my husband should go tell the radio station not to play their music so loud.

I would be pretty tempted to flick the electricity on and off -- as people said, it will just stop the player so hopefully wouldn't harm him in any other way. If he's passed out and probably won't notice, isn't it actually less harmful than siccing police and services on him? But only do it if there is no way to prove you did it (ie cameras).

But at the same time, it doesn't really solve the problem -- he will still put the music on, you will still get woken up. So really all you can do is move. In the meantime definitely get earplugs.