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AIBU?

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Just moved into a new house and neighbour said to keep the noise down!

43 replies

Rosamund1 · 25/09/2016 21:40

My sister moved into a new house over the weekend and we were helping. We did the big furniture in a van and several trips by car as they were moving within the local area.

Anyway around 4 in the afternoon the neighbour knocked on the door and said 'can you keep the banging down'. There is a moving van parked outside, we are moving beds and wardrobes upstairs, manoeuvring sofas etc. Of course there's going to be banging. AIBU to think this neighbour is a nutter.

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Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 25/09/2016 23:26

Ooh I don't envy you. It looks like you're stuck next to crank.
I'd understand if it were 4am, but not 4 pm.

Lemond1fficult · 26/09/2016 01:36

If she's going to be a problem, it might be worth your sister keeping a log of all the times she complains from day 1 (for proving harassment).

Bogeyface · 26/09/2016 02:14

Is she renting? If so then she needs to start looking now for her next place as that neighbour is going to be a PITA.

Was this house a bargain by any chance?

Booboopidoo · 26/09/2016 02:25

Pictish's response is exactly how you deal with people like this. They're basically bullies, stand up to them from the get go and they soon back down when they realise you're not going to entertain their ridiculous demands. Educate your Dsis quick OP, this needs nipping in the bud or they will make her life a misery.

Only1scoop · 26/09/2016 02:54

Blimey they should have been making you a brew not complaining.
Moaning knobber

PixieMiss · 26/09/2016 08:19

When I moved into my place a few months ago, the neighbour came round at 6.30pm and asked to keep the noise down the babies were asleep.

I was happy as we have a 6 month old ourselves and they obviously are noise conscious.

Ha! The drawer banging started at 7 this morning and the yelling and bashing will go on till 7pm tonight. They have also got a dog now which makes such a racket once they go to ber at 10pm ish. I don't think people hear their own noise tbh.

pictish · 26/09/2016 08:32

Booboo it really worked. And if the tossbag had dared come back on the whinge again I'd have simply told him, "Phone the police then."

He complained about the radio, the telly, the baby crying, when we had visitors, when we did DIY, the hoover, our tiny windchimes in the garden...he lived in a flat, yet believed he had a right to absolute silence.
It's incredible the amount of people who wrongly believe they are entitled to silence.

Anyway, he was a pest and a downer. Telling him to take it to the police was an excellent move.

EveOnline2016 · 26/09/2016 08:40

When I have moved in the past I put a little notice on new front door stating the date I would be moving in.

4pm may have been early but you do t know if your new neighbors are night shift workers and if they did one the night before and then again that night you may think differently.

manyathingyouknow · 26/09/2016 09:07

What the OP isnt Telling us is that they had the happy hardcore music blasting and there were actually 42 people in the house helping them to move in.

Just kidding, op

The neighbour is bonkers!!

dowhatnow · 26/09/2016 09:17

Pictish, I'm with the neighbour on the wind chimes one. Tiny or not, they are bloody irritating.

pictish · 26/09/2016 09:27

If that has been all be complained about, fine. I wasn't especially attached to them or anything...they were a gift and I put them in the garden by the back door to show willing to the giver. I can appreciate the tinkle tinkle would grate but unfortunately he was such a massive pain in the arse, I didn't give a fuck.

pictish · 26/09/2016 09:28

*had
*he

edit facility please

dowhatnow · 26/09/2016 09:57

Our neighbours had some at the beginning of the summer. I hated them but didn't want to say anything as they are nice neighbours, but they also sleep with their windows open and must have annoyed themselves as well, because fortunately they disappeared after a few weeks. I had been trying to pluck up the courage to ask them nicely though.

pictish · 26/09/2016 10:07

Honestly...if he had been a normal kind of guy and come to the door saying they were annoying him, I would have good-naturedly taken them down. As I say, I have no great love for them...they were a gift and immediately popped in the garden by the back door to show willing. They were tiny and quiet and didn't bother me at all.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 26/09/2016 10:25

Well, I want to say he sounds like a horrible neighbour, but I was accidentally this person a few weeks ago. We have a passageway beside our house that gives access to the back of the house behind us. It's tiny and cramped, but it's easier to park on ours street so they were using it to go to and fro from their van. I came out to show them where to hook the door back to the wall, so they wouldn't have to keep pushing it open, and said something like 'this way it won't keep banging to on you'.

Five minutes later I hear one call to the other that the woman in this house is annoyed by the banging.

Not what I meant!

Mycraneisfixed · 26/09/2016 10:42

Wind chimes are annoying and antisocial

HyacinthBouquetNo1 · 26/09/2016 10:49

When moving once, we had been there about on hour, the van was parked outside whilst we moved big items in, and the neighbour came and complained he did not like the van being parked outside! FFS its not as it was going to be a permanent thing! He was an awkward neighbour, bit deaf and every day he turned his radio on full blast in his bedroom, which was next to ours, at 4am!!!!!!!!!

pictish · 26/09/2016 11:31

Mycrane so is going out at 7am every morning and revving your boy racer souped up shitbox for 15 minutes outside your neighbour's bedroom window to warm it up, but we lived and let live.
He was a sad, irritable, youngish man who lived alone and was very into his car. We let him rev his bloody car and didn't complain.

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