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.

Can you get the door bell off the door and, or give it to one of the kids and keep pressing. Those things have a pretty good range of working.

Our student neighbours were like this. We used to live in the flat below. We'd jam a matchstick in the intercom buzzer on our way out in the morning. They lived on the top floor. grin

I don't get it??

Don't know about the op but I'd certainly not be allowed to sleep for two hours especially by children who'd been kept up all night

Are you British op? I'm not sure you can be!!

Play CBeebies loudly in the garden. It will drive your noisy neighbours mad, but anyone with small children will be immune...

"as my husband and kids now sleeping the sleep of the dead "

That's why I wondered why Op was pissing about rather than either sleeping or being at work.

Glad you pissed them off, you are a braver woman than me

I think I'd do an adult version of Knock Down Ginger and not wait for them to answer after ringing. But then I'm a certified coward.

If you travel to work by car, sound the horn when just past their house. After all, an animal could have run across the road?

I think probably, in hindsight, when I was a young professional housesharing we were probably sometimes a bit unthinking about holding parties. I'm also sure that I've attended many, many house parties over the years that neighbours weren't thrilled about. When I was 22 if the neighbours' kids had woken us up we wouldn't have seen that as 'revenge', just as proof that their lives sometimes disturbed us, ours sometimes disturbed them, all's fair. If someone had come round and knocked on our door every half hour we would have thought it was hilariously bizarre. If, though, they'd come round and politely explained just how much we'd disturbed them we'd have been mortified, apologetic, and much more thoughtful in future.

Maybe pop round to say sorry you've been a pain and bring a gift? A beautifully wrapped box with a loose bottom full of glitter would be perfect.

Blame OP, you are brave.

Or else desperately pissed off.

You and your neighbour are both exceedingly inconsiderate.

Get an air horn should do the trick!

People who are pissed and loud and disturb everyone within a 1mile radius aren't generally known to be able to hold civilised conversations, even momentarily sober ones.

"I don't get it??"

Babyledweaning

By jamming a matchstick in the intercom buzzer it would ring constantly. As the people were in a top floor flat they would have to go down to the ground floor main entrance to remove the matchstick and stop the noise. Presumably a sure fire way of waking them up and getting them out of bed

Sorry, that should have read BabyLedWhining

Chase your complaint up with the council on Monday. Don't just let is lie in possibly the wrong in-box. If you call someone they should be able to let you know the correct place to complain.

I think visiting a third time was probably a mistake but I'm sure you could ask your nice neighbours to consider visiting and talking to them.

Totally agree with MargaretCavendish

You are on your way to being a hilarious story to tell at the next loud party they have. They won't be deterred at all.

Yes I made it into work. Looking tired but still I would, wouldn't I?

Yes I'm British, born in Glasgow and raised in east London and now living in north London.

I don't regret what I've done, I feel like I would have regretted if I hadn't but I understand not everyone is feeling as crappy as me today and thinks I'm being unreasonable, that's fair enough.

I had set my alarm for 7am this morning to get myself sorted for work and get the kids organised (ironing etc) so that's why I didn't bother going back to sleep this morning while they snoozed on (and it didn't help that I was very pissed off, I can never sleep when stewing about something.)

Thank you for the land registry tip, definitely going down that route before any future parties break out as I'm sure it must be rented out, there is too many people living there for it not to be I think.

Thanks all who listened to my tired ranting this morning. I can't wait to get into bed tonight!

winbigky oh! ooh that's evil

I think the few times you've rang the doorbell is enough now really!

When I used to go clubbing and we wanted an after party (usually quite tame with trance music etc) one of our group of friends lived in a detached house with very good triple glazing etc, we'd go there if we wanted our after parties as no one ever complained or heard us - he checked with neighbours.

Agree with sleep now is maybe the time for noisy pet birds or alternatively a cockerel!

Are they renters op? I'd find out and be hassling the landlord constantly

I'd have let the first party go. The second time, I'd have run Environmental Health, found out who owned the fucking house, who is letting it out and logged and complained to all fuck. These people are rude, inconsiderate cunts. Having a loud party that goes on past 11 in a residential area is a cunt way to behave. Wouldn't bother saying a dicky bird to these twats. How on Earth do the neighbours on either side feel?

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. We live in a Victorian terrace. Our next door neighbour is a divorced 50-something nurse with 2 teenage kids. Her eldest dc had a party 3 times a year, and hired in some sort of massive speaker to play blast music out with. They went on til at least 5 in the morning, but he's gone to university now. Yay! we thought, peace at last.

Nope. Youngest now has a fucking drum kit and the mother has taken to going on the piss at the weekend and brings about 5 or 6 mates back and starts playing music at full volume at 3 in the morning along with cackling their heads off and singing along. I hate her, she's a fucking selfish, thoughtless cunt.

Op, ultimately, I don't think your neighbours will really care but I completely understand where you're coming from, childish or not.