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Original poster

to kill my next door neighbours

34 replies

wtfisgoingonhere · 12/04/2015 10:56

Long time lurker here and this is my first post

I work full time and Sunday is the only day I get a lay in.

Next door seem to enjoy playing their (country? Blues?) Music full volume on a Sunday morning. I say full volume as it has woken me up and through the (general well insulated) wall the resulting music is louder to me than I would choose to listen to music or tv on a morning or late at night

We spoke quite a bit when we first moved in but haven't seen them to talk to in ages (eg don't bump into them as we leave for work etc)

Have already moved the bed to the other end of the room as could hear it more (obviously) when my head was against the joining wall but right now I feel like I'm going crazy. I need sleep! !!
Aaargh they've just turned it up
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OP posts:
pictish · 12/04/2015 10:58

It's 11 o'clock though. Not that early.

RoseWithAThorn · 12/04/2015 10:59

Half the day is almost gone Shock. YABU

chockbic · 12/04/2015 10:59

Can you go round and ask them to turn it down?

Or bang on the wall, shouting you fuckers Grin

reni1 · 12/04/2015 11:02

Yanbu if it started at 7, Yabu now. Go and knock on the door though, they might have no idea their music travels so well.

Original poster
wtfisgoingonhere · 12/04/2015 11:04

But its also a Sunday.
Never mind the time though I didn't think it was courteous to play music so loud it drowns out the tv??

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Icimoi · 12/04/2015 11:05

Politely knock on the door and ask them to turn it down. How difficult can it be?

TheCowThatLaughs · 12/04/2015 11:05

Maybe they don't realise you can hear it? I completely sympathise with your desire to kill them though.

Original poster
wtfisgoingonhere · 12/04/2015 11:06

I work full time all week and Sundays the day I get to lay in if I choose. My husband has been unwell for some time so affects him too plus I'm recovering from my first ever long haul flight.

Why shouldn't I get to relax on a Sunday morning?

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Original poster
wtfisgoingonhere · 12/04/2015 11:08

It's difficult when I'm asleep in bed (and wake up angry as I've been disturbed) to pull myself together to ask them calmly to turn it down. Plus it means getting up and dressed which kinda defeats my lay in!

Will lurk around outside and hope to bump into them later and ask

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Icimoi · 12/04/2015 11:12

But your lie-in's been defeated anyway, so why not talk to them whilst the music is still playing. Almost certainly they have no idea how loud it is in your house.

popalot · 12/04/2015 11:14

The only way they'll know is if you'll tell them...hope they respond and turn it down for you. Some people like music whilst they hoover and don't realise it gets so loud.

thornrose · 12/04/2015 11:14

What time do they start playing it, generally?

Purplepoodle · 12/04/2015 11:16

What time?

keepsmiling2015 · 12/04/2015 12:01

It depends on what time they start playing it tbh. Just because it's your only morning to lie in the whole world doesn't stop.

Maybe their way to relax on. Sunday morning is to chill in the kitchen listening to some country blues. They might not realise how loud it is.

DrankSangriaInThePark · 12/04/2015 13:53

A lie in when you're an adult is till about 8am. You can't expect the rest of the world to know you're still in bed at 11!!!
Our upstairs neighbours washing machine is above our bedroom and, yes, it wakes me on Sunday, but you can't tell people off at 11.

sabrina00 · 12/04/2015 14:00

It was 11am for god's sake - get up! Stop being so lazy.

drbonnieblossman · 12/04/2015 14:02

sangria 8.00am a lie-in? Surely you're not serious?

If I've been up at 7.00am mon-fri, I want until at least 10.30 at the weekend.

Knock OP, and just ask them to turn it down a notch or three. If no-one tells them how loud it is outside their own walls, they're not going to know.

VanitasVanitatum · 12/04/2015 14:05

Can't believe the amount of judgement about OPs lie in!!! Get over yourselves you lot who the hell are you to judge when she gets up.

If the music is that loud inside OPs house she's hardly wanting 'the world to stop' - that's a completely unacceptable noise nuisance.

You'll have to brave it and get up and tell them OP, they probably just don't realise or haven't thought.

DrankSangriaInThePark · 12/04/2015 14:26

Er, yes, completely serious. I have to get up for my job at 6 am, 6 days a week, so a lie in until 8 would be great.
DD is older now, but obviously when she was younger, 8am as a lie in would also have been but a dream...

keepsmiling2015 · 12/04/2015 14:33

Who are we to judge? She asked a question in AIBU LOL!!

honeyroar · 12/04/2015 14:35

I'm an adult, I love a good lie in. So does DH. We even pay a teenager to do our animals on Sundays so we can have a lie in. I envy those that can get up early on Sundays and enjoy the full day, but we like/need to lie in.

JustJanice · 12/04/2015 14:45

I'm firmly of the opinion that as far as possible, someone living in a semi/terraced house should endeavour to make sure that neighbours don't hear a thing from them.

WHY does music have to be so loud that next door can hear it? What possible reason could someone have for playing it that loudly? Because they're stone deaf themselves? Then buy some headphones.

juliascurr · 12/04/2015 14:47

show them this - I reported the selfish git to environmental health and this was the result Grin
www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/the-music-will-not-go-32218/#=

EatShitDerek · 12/04/2015 14:50

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drbonnieblossman · 12/04/2015 14:55

Fair enough sangria if that's the lie in you get but I read it as though it should be sufficient for every adult.

Plus of course getting up time is often in accordance with getting to bed time!