To think this isn't how you get off to a great start?

[jorahmormont]

New neighbour is moving in next door. We are in a first floor flat and share a staircase with them, doors are about a metre and a half apart.

It is 9pm and he is currently moving all his wordly belongings (and there are a lot of them) up and down the stairs, slamming both the flat door and the front door as loud as possible and smacking furniture into our door as he goes past, chatting to whoever he's moving in with at the top of his voice.

DD should have been asleep at 7 but is currently restless in her cot and every time she falls asleep, the door slams and wakes her up. It is perfectly possible to shut these doors quietly, they're not fire doors or anything.

This calls for something stronger than gin.

and OP

I am a terrible neighbour. No tea, no coffee, no doorstops. I'm not prepared for these eventualities!

Yabu, one noisy night never killed anyone I'm sure

There's nowt better than a bit of mumsnet to calm your pmt and get a different perspective - hope you and your baby get a good nights sleep and you get to meet him properly in the morning

Thanks Neath

Think he's left with the removals van so I'm guessing he'll move in properly over the weekend :)

Ahh fair play to you OP for conceding you might have been a bit unreasonable.

Ooh, are you wondering if he's left with the removal van to get more stuff and this might go on until 3am? If so, offer the man a doorstop!

I haven't got a doorstop to offer!!

I'm laughing here, picturing a seven year old sleeping in a cot!

I'm with the poster, IME single men neighbours arent the greatest in flats where noise travels: different lifestyle & keep different hours. 9pm is late to move. I have done an after work move after not being allowed time off and it was all done and dusted by 8. And its only common sense/thoughtful re your new neighbours to prop the door open with anything handy. My last single guy neighbour moved in at 10pm on a work night and was a nightmare ever after, also on work nights, usually 3 times or so a week, with 3am shouting, shrieking session in the hall as he escorted latest conquest to the tube station. (after they had done same shrieking/shouting session coming back earlier at 1am).

Are you in London OP? I'd never have thought of a two bed block as likely to contain children until now, but it occurs to me that they probably do in the more expensive areas of the south east.

Nope, up north. I don't know of anyone around here who lives in a 2-bed without kids, singles and couples tend to just have one beds.

Wow. That really surprises me. I'm in the north too, lived in a few blocks of flats with 2 bedders, pretty much all young professionals. In about 4 years living in that type of accommodation, I think I saw maybe 2 babies living there, and no older kids. It was very much young adults.