Garden trampolines. I expect most will think IABU.

[jamdonut]

Totally fed up. Next door have a trampoline which ( it seems) is in constant use ( or rather, whenever I am at home it is).

I have a nice , garden . Ex Local authority, so on an estate. I'd like to sit and relax in it, but all you can hear is the sound of squeaky springs, usually accompanied by kids screaming, or, teenagers who bounce so high you can see them over our fence. (Most of these kids do not live at the house, it seems the whole neighbourhood visits to use their garden [ hmm] )
I'm all for kids having fun, but in small gardens, is it fair to subject your neighbours to the accompanied noise/ inconvenience caused?

If you've got the sort of garden that is big enough to not overlook anyone else, all well and good, but I feel like I'm going to have nervous breakdown if I have to put up with this noise or the sight of shirtless teens above my fence any longer. It's like torture.

My neighbours are not the kind of people you can just " have a word with", either.( We lived here 8 years with no problems, before they were moved in 5 years ago)

I just wondered what the consensus of opinion is - am I actually unreasonable or have I turned into a miserable ' old' person? ( My own kids are 17, 20 and 24...but I would never have allowed them to annoy the neighbours like this).

You have my full sympathy. I went through the same for 3+yrs!
Absolute hell between endless trampoline and footballs being kicked at our walls/windows.
We found no other escape other than moving. And still it haunts when ever someone moves near to us incase said hell starts over.
Summer is the hardest time. Makes trips away or even the odd hotel night seem so much more blissful!

Plant some really tall bamboo near offending fence, get noise cancelling headphones, enjoy some peace in your garden :)

i feel some parents are inconsiderate and don't think of the neighbours the way our parents did with us when we were young !!! .. i lived in a street where there families with 3-5 kids in each household and you knew you had to keep the noise down esp if there were elderly neighbours nearby definately NOT out in the garden yelling screaming from 8 in the morning till sometimes after 10pm You could ask for info from the local council im sure there is a law about excessive noise constantly

Buy them a trampoline tent as a present

I understand where you are coming from. Ex neighbours used to have a large trampoline, I didn't really have an issue with the kids but it was the adults who would jump so high they would then stare into my kitchen. I found it really intrusive. I ended up putting up a really high fence. Where I live now there is a family 6 houses away who have a really squeaky trampoline, adults use it for exercise and they will spend up to two hours bouncing on it in the late evenings with their earphones in. Sends my 10 year old mad because he can't get to sleep. WD40 would help with the noise of the trampoline, but they simply can't be arsed which I find really un-neighbourly and selfish.

So, the kids are having a good bounce on a trampoline, rather than loitering around the local Coop....

Will read on.

Another one with kids on the spectrum, here. We currently live in a terrace. DS1 sometimes gets annoyed with the neighbours' noise, particularly when they have family round "what's going on next door?"

My reply is usually "joy."

Squirt them with a water pistol when they look over the fence. Or throw bees at them. Or just ignore them.

A water pistol or sprinkler would just increase the squealing.

YANBU I think trampolines should be banned from surburban gardens. Luckily no one has one by my garden we are all sensible buggers.

Put up with it, use earplugs or headphones or loud music, plant bamboo. Put up trellis on fence. Know that it will not be forever, kids grow out of trampolines.Be glad that kids are playing outside in a healthy activity instead of on video games. Casually remark to neighbour about squeaky springs and would they like some WD 40? If they are bouncing on trampoline at 11.00 pm surely you are not sitting out in garden then?

Reow: Yes.

OP: I guess others have said this too" a) angle your chair the other way so you aren't looking at them bouncing, b) silicone ear plugs or noise cancelling headset, c) sneak out in middle of night with garden shears and cut a big X in the bottom of it.

Good luck and no, YANBU.

YANBU - people on here and in RL seem obsessed with rights without taking any thought for their responsibilities towards others. But it seems the 'liberal' way sadly.
OP - I suspect it will not get better any time soon. Noise cancelling earphones is the way to go as well as higher fencing

I'm all for children being outdoors and active. But I totally get the OP. DS & DDIL could easily afford a trampoline, but they live in a nice neighbourhood where the neighbours all consider one another and where the gardens aren't massive. So until now, my poor, deprived GC haven't had the joy that is trampolining! 🙄 They are in the process of moving to a house with a big garden, and it's on the GC's wish list.

Just round the corner from me there's one in a front garden. Looks a bit better than an old sofa, but still somehow seems incongruous given that the houses have back gardens.

If you want complete silence you should move into the middle of nowhere
Then she'll be moaning about the cows mooing and the chickens clucking

BollardDodger

It's the screaming.

Kids scream, and no-one stops them. It's been going on for a while.

So they grow up screaming and become shrieking adults WHO CAN ONLY TALK LIKE THIS.

I miss quiet people.

YANBU OP.

Not necessarily. My DS screams (ASD). When he does I tell him to calm it and use his 'inside voice'.

If the OP is this wound up about it now I suggest they book a very long holiday for the summer break.

We have a no screaming on the trampoline rule. If they scream, they come off. It's not hard.

Just read your comment pixies - mine wasn't a reply to yours! Really sorry if it sounded that way!

There used to be one next door. At the first scream or shriek their mum ordered them off. She also made sure they weren't facing into neighbours' gardens but were facing their own house.

Simple consideration goes a long way. They were never on it for longer than half an hour at a time.

If only your neighbours were so considerate, OP. Some people are just too entitled and think you have to suck up their dreadful behaviour.

I think yabu.

If you want total control on your environment then move to middle of nowhere.

Same goes for people with dc who complain about lawnmowing or sounds during children's naps of course. so it's all swings and roundabouts (and trampolines).

If only your neighbours were so considerate, OP. Some people are just too entitled and think you have to suck up their dreadful behaviour.

Hear, hear whatever happened to having a bit of consideration for others? It is NOT ok to let your children scream for hours on end in their garden!! Start parenting your dc for goodness sake.