Stop Stop Stop doing it

[Leafitout]

It is so annoying everytime my next door neighbours go out Bang goes the front door. First the wife does it at twenty past seven in the morning,then the husband at eight in the morning. They do it when they both come home separately. At weekends it can be upto five times a day. I sound like a miserable cow but when I have had pictures falling off my walls, my gas meter being knocked out and cracks appearing around my frontroom windows its pissing me off. It is so loud when they do it

But if you've never said then they'll just carry on being inconsiderate tossers
We used to live in a flat and the hall was only like an interior stud wall of course and their noisy piss head friends would laugh and shriek on the way out at 3 am
we stewed and stewed, the flat owners were mostly ok but when we finally told them they were very apologetic and it vastly improved. Just wish we hadn't left it 5 odd festering years of fury

No wouldn't move out as I have been here longer than them and the neighbours before never used to slam the frontdoor.

My neighbours do the same, they slam it so hard that our house shakes and we are detached! Proper detached, too, not cantouchnextdoorshouseifyouleanoutofthewindow detached.

They are in a semi (a mixed street of Victorian semis & single detached) so goodness knows what their poor attached neighbour hears !

Your just going to have to go round and talk to them. If she knew your gas was turning off as a result I'm sure she'll be helpful. .

Your issue is, as you say, not knowing how to approach it.

But you MUST tell them or it will never stop.

Do you want some suggestions for what to say / do? I've been there myself.

Op - no point keep going on about it really is there if they don't know it's a problem. Speak to them or the HA.

Tbf I wouldn't immediately assume that I'm causing cracks to appear on the walls next door just by slamming a door shut. I'd expect houses to be much sturdier than that. You need to speak to your neighbours, chances are they are not aware they're causing you all these problems.

but are you actually going to ask them to stop?

Lots of people have asked you this question and you aren't replying, just going on about how loud it is still.

Ask them to stop, then come back and let us know hat the result was!!

This is what might happen...
You could speak to them
They could stop
It could be as simple as that or you can carry on fuming about it and do nothing.

My SIL next door does this. It drives me insane - it's a plastic door and just needs to be pulled to and the handle lifted - she just yanks it and let's go of it so it slams and sticks - I don't know how they've got a front door still on the hinges. It's utter laziness and not giving a shit to be honest. She has been told numerous times but you might as well tell the wall. Always does it just as my baby is asleep or if comes in at 3am.

YANBU

Linerunner yes please I want to know how to approach this and not come across as telling them how and what to do

Ok, this is what I did.

I waited till I was having a general chit chat with the neighbours, and said that I'd noticed how they had to slam their door really hard to close it, and how mine used to be like that till I got it fixed [fib!] and would they like me to contact the landlord for them.

Or a variation of that. The point us, you are letting them know they are slamming the door whilst coming across as helpful. It opens up the channels of communication.

If they are normal people they may well say, 'Is it really that noisy?' And you can say, 'Well, yes, to be honest it is quite loud especially at night. I'm assuming there's a problem with the door.'

Funnily enough, my neighbours did actually have a problem with their badly fitted upvc door, and we did get the landlord to fix it! Job done.

I used to live with someone like that who claimed "it's impossible to shut the door without slamming it". Funny how everyone else managed...

Have you considered talking to them about this? Yes it's inconsiderate, but they might not be the sharpest tools in the shed so don't realise. (Pretty dumb, I know, but there's nowt as queer as folks!)