To ring my neighbour's doorbell every half hour

[Bellini81]

To make sure they are up? Back story is we have a house of "professionals" who live four doors along (no idea how many live there, but there is a few of them) and come the summer months they hold regular parties that spill into their back garden and keep us all awake, we knock when they wake our kids up but they are always so very pissed and it's like talking to a bunch toddlers when asking them to take the party indoors.

Last nights party went on till 3am, we went and knocked 4 plus more times before the noise settled down. I've got work today so I can't have a lie on go catch up on my sleep

Would I be unreasonable to go and ring their doorbell every half hour with a cheery smile to make sure they don't get to sleep off their hangover?

I've just lodged a complaint with the local council but I'm sitting here so tired and fed up.

It riles me that people could be so inconsiderate after reading all your stories, if this was a one off I'd let it go and have done in the past but I'm well fed up now.

My neighbour at the back of our houses is currently revving a very noisy motorbike for 5 mins now, maybe that's his revenge? Or he could just being a prick too. It's going to be a long day.

"Oh good your awake"

I wonder if later on she'll start to think she was still pissed at 8.30am and imagined it?!

One of our neighbours a couple of years ago had some sort of summer of love festival going on in her back garden and every weekend all we'd hear was her and her mates yawping along to Coldplay on karaoke and shouting obscenities about men til 5am.

I chose to go down the screaming-child route and would release the DCs into the back garden at 7am (given she'd only retired to bed at 5am it would be that exact point where you're sleeping a really deep, lovely sleep) and giving them bubble wands, getting them bouncing on the (horrible squeaky) trampoline and generally encouraging them to make as much noise as possible. So often she'd come round and ask us to keep them quiet and I'd have to laugh and say "but I asked you at 1, 2, 4 and 5am to be quiet and you didn't manage, so I'm afraid you're going to have to get over it". She learned the hard way.

I also jet-washed the patio very early some mornings, and mowed the lawn at ridiculous o'clock, got the dog all riled up barking and played classical music super-loudly. Ride of the Valkyries is a fucker when you're hungover. Sometimes you just have to fight fire with fire.

We had some awful neighbours once that kept us up all hours with their fighting and music. Tgry also had a Great Dane that was never walked so he leapt around the garden all day barking and throwing himself at the fence ( he was taken away by RSPCA in the end). After one particularly long night I encouraged my children to spend as much time in the garden the next morning bouncing a ball and offered them each a £1 if they could bounce it 100 times without stopping. This kept them busy for hours. Luckily we had no neighbours on the other side at the time.

Oh PLEASE put one of those air horns through there letterbox every 30 mins each morning after a party.

Thing is, and as OP already has mentioned, fighting fire with fire by making a huge din yourself just risks pissing off other neighbours who've done nothing wrong and have to put up with your revenge racket too.

I think the best option is definitely for OP or her DH to have a civilised conversation with them when they're sober. Knocking on the door every 30 mins isn't going to get things off to a good start, although I really can understand the frustration.

This is the thing, I would love to throw the kids outside to kick up a storm but the twats are 4 doors down and my other neighbours are all lovely and if I start pissing them off I'd be upset. It's just these inconsiderate fucks, hence the doorbell ringing by myself.

I've been again, a different bleary eyed woman answered and said 'is this her?' To someone behind her, I just said 'nice to meet you, enjoy your hangover' and walked off, she watched me walk into my house house so I waved.

I'm not going back again but I feel a tiny bit better but am a bit worried I'll get reported for harassment if I go back again.

Do it! My neighbours are twats too. Not necessarily loud garden parties, just generally noisy and inconsiderate from the crack of dawn onwards. Because they don't seem to sleep, they assume nobody else does. We like to return the favour by having loud garden parties, particularly when we know they'll be up at 5am

Do it! My neighbours are twats too. Not necessarily loud garden parties, just generally noisy and inconsiderate from the crack of dawn onwards. Because they don't seem to sleep, they assume nobody else does. We like to return the favour by having loud garden parties, particularly when we know they'll be up at 5am

"I think the best option is definitely for OP or her DH to have a civilised conversation with them when they're sober. "

Exactly. OP - you should have gone round every 30 minutes from 6am to have a civilised conversation with them when they are sober.

Do you really think this will stop them having more parties? It won't, you're just going to become their house running joke. I have sympathy since you say it's a regular occurrence (if it was a one-off then that would be completely different), but this really isn't a very effective way of dealing with the problem.

Could you report it to environmental health, the number should be on your council website. You can find out the owner of the house by going through the land registry. Can you remember if there was a lettings board outside the house?

You can log onto Land Registry pay £3.00 to get a copy of the register of title. It will tell you who owns it and an address to contact them. Also google the address it may have been up for rent previously and if you hit lucky the agents may also manage it now. Assuming it's rented. But definitely the ASBO route too!

www.gov.uk/search-property-information-land-registry

OP I like your style! Next time the new neighbours complete fecking arseholes a couple of doors down have an all night party I'm going to do this!

Good for you OP. We have similar problems here. It's infuriating, and I'm a bitch from hell when someone like that wakes my DCs up.

A friend of mine said when he first moved into his house with his wife, within a few days their neighbours did this, the next day he put Iron Maiden on and pissed off to the coast for the day! 😂

They haven't done it since!

Depends how ballsy you are but yes maybe better to go down the proper channels.

But yes I appreciate the problem, like you say retaliation like this will disturb your more immediate neighbours too and it isn't their fault.

Once when I had a young baby and work the next morning (when mat leave was shorter) I had this. I went round at 7am and read the riot act to the hungover guy in his boxer shorts. He never did it again. Don't just say hello, get them to come to the door and then explain to them how inconsiderate they have been and the impact on you. I should add we got on well after this and I came to his aid when he was injured, so just be straightforward.

While revenge in ringing the doorbell may feel sweet when sleep deprived, it will not help reaching a resolution. Try to enlist a couple of neighbours who are disturbed by the same group but live the furthest away from them, as the next door neighbours will be worst affected by any backlash and you need to try and prevent that happening. If 2/3 of you go around to explain just how bad the noise is and try to work a compromise for all parties (persons not incidents) involved. Remain calm and reasonable (easy to say, hard to do), possibly apologise for feeling that the only way to stop it was to call the police, but the children are the worst affected by this noise. GOOD LUCK.

Print out a note and put it through the doors of all the other neighbours on the street asking them to please call to complain about the obnoxious set of neighbours. Make it easy for them to do: include all the contact numbers for the council, environmental noise, etc. Point out that a barrage of phone calls would be in all your interests!

Any children you can round up to make lots of noise so these 'professional' but ignorant people don't get to sleep off the hangover.

YANBU - they are poor neighbours

Even if it's a one off...I can't understand why one group's wish for a special party trumps the right of thirty families to watch TV, have a quiet barbecue, put their children to bed, go to bed themselves and sleep through the night....I can't get how any adult could have grown up so blinkered and entitled.

I agree with @RhiWrites

It's funny to think of it, but actually repeatedly ringing the doorbell is not making you look clever.

Speak to the other neighbours, make sure that they are afraid of conflict rather than "not actually being disturbed" and find out who you should be complaining to officially.

I have dreamed about sticking down doorbells with chewing gum after a sleepless nights but never done it.

Are you at work OP?

If not, couldn't you have been sleeping for the last two hrs?