Neighbour won't fix creaky door

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It's driving me mad.

Neighbours have 2 teenage kids who stay up all night and open and close said creaky door (I believe it is the bathroom door) waking me up practically every hour during the night.

I've tried to have a reasonable conversation with neighbours but they are completely stonewalling the issue, literally ignored me when I went round to try and resolve the problem. Although the issue may have been that the parents are of Turkish origin and possibly don't speak much english. However, the 2 kids were there and DO speak perfectly good english.

The following day I got a note through the letterbox saying that it didn't bother them so they weren't going to do anything about it.

I don't understand why they can't just put a blob of grease on the hinges and solve the problem.

WWYD?

Op, on youtube there are 10 hour long white noise recordings designed to help babies sleep.

Try one of those rather than spending money on a wn machine.

Id write a pilote letter, in their language and give it to them with WD40.

If nothing changed, I'd knock on the door until the Parents were up, every time I was woken up.

We had Students never having keys and knocking through the night, on the third knock I started going out with a hammer in my hand and offered to smash the door open for them, as a good neighbour. They soon stopped. Disclaimer, I had a Newborn.

However, I'm not easy intimidated.

""Can you not just put cat poo through their letterbox?""

No that's an offence.

But if you hear strange noises, when people should be asleep and you're concerned because you know that the householders may not be able to summon help, because they speak poor English, then as a good neighbour, you need to knock and see that the Woman of the house is ok.

Wax earplugs are extremely effective.

I wonder if you could find a Turkish speaker to help? Either to speak to them in person or write a short note enclosing a can of WD40 and a small gift of food. I would take the line that there has obviously been a big misunderstanding and you would like to be on good friendly terms and are only asking, politely for the door to be oiled.

If that fails give the earplugs a try and consider moving.

You see if you are speaking to the teens who are making the noise it's quite possible they aren't actually translating correctly as they perceive you to be complaining about them.

Yes, good point Matilda.

Come to think if it, the kids were more hostile and defensive than the parents who just seemed a bit bewildered.

I'll drop a very conciliatory note with a can of wd40 and some chocolates. Hopefully this will make it absolutely clear that we're looking for a positive neighbourly relationship.

Ask around for somebody who can translate, then you can add a friendly message.

To be fair I'd look a bit bewildered by a neighbour knocking on my door with a can of grease asking to be let in because I had a squeaky door!

Evinizin içindeki kapı gıcırdayan bir ses çıkarıyor. Lütfen durur böylece menteşe üzerine biraz yağ koyabilirsiniz. Beni uyurken uyandırıyor. teşekkür ederim

Google translate. the door inside your house is creaking and is waking me up from sleeping. please can you put some oil on the hinge! try this x

Sunny

Matthew Wright is covering this post (or something completely unrelated that just happens to be about a neighbour's squeaky door that they refuse to fix )today on the Wright Stuff at 10:45 C5!

I'd do a land registry search to find out if they own or rent - it'll cost less than a tenner. If, happily, they rent then contact the landlord who will be listed. Might take some online staking/detective skills to trace the owner (I did this a lot for land searches in a previous job. Hard to break the habit! I know exactly who I'd need to contact to persuade to donate some shit arable land to build a new access to our local A Road thus alleviating huge traffic issues in a local village, but I digress)

Otherwise you're shit out of luck. You could escalate but they might escalate back! Then you'd have to disclose if you were to sell that you were fighting with them.