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.

Love that you actually did ring their doorbell several times! Good on you OP. I'd like to say I'd do the same, but I doubt I'd have had the guts .
Btw a little tip.. sounds like you live in a flat? Some flats have the electric boxes outside in the communal hall.. if so and they have another party.. I'd cut their power. Keep causing them problems, so they don't want to 'entertain' at their home again.

I love DianaT's suggestion

Sounds like houses not flats?

Kali110

Sorry my first line was quoting whatsinausernane, the next two lines are my response.
Will try to make it clearer next time

Dominithecat
I apologise, i completely agree with your comment!
I'd have been knakered if id been at my old job on my feet all day with no sleep, even on those hours!

"Also you were still at home at 9:30, so the earliest you started work is like 10 and it looks like you were done before 3? Not exactly a day down the coal mines."

I'd argue that length of time worked comes secondary to concentration needed:
OP might have had to perform incredibly intensely as Air Traffic Controller, for example: 2hr maximum, before a (legally enforced) 15-45 mins break.

These neighbours are causing disturbances regularly, refusing to compromise when reasoned with...very different to the occasional, rowdy party, which everyone's entitled to hold.

(Surely plain common courtesy in residential areas that you minimise exceptionally loud party noise after midnight, even on weekends, by taking it indoors/ turning music down etc., and flagging up an occasion expected to extend well past then in advance to your neighbours? Esp. those you know with young DC).

Maybe I'm now just getting less tolerant with age (mid-40s!).

YANBU at all !!!! With you totally on ringing their bell every half hour. They keep you awake .... only fair to do the same 😄. We have neighbours (bloody inconsiderate & dnt give a s**t about anyone else) so YES I definitely encourage my DS & DD to watch TV in the morning & make whatever noise they like.... karma 😏😏😏

Get yourself a vuvuzela and go nuts right outside their window .

YABU. They have a right to see friends and in the summer that's going to spill into the garden. I'm sure they've been woken up by kids in the garden at 8am. It's just one of those things you are going to have to suck up. Invest in some earplugs!

How often does this happen? I think it was a bit weird to go round loads and just sort of stand there. You made your point. You could have even put a note through, calmly saying you thought it was off and then they would know. Keep a log of parties for the council but I think by going round and just knocking and smiling you're basically starting a bit of a war. I realise they were unreasonable first but they sound quite selfish anyway and probably didn't really see what they did as a big deal. The letter would have told them it was.

I love and admire your persistence!!

Next time the party starts, dress up, go round there and sit down next to the music and keep switching it off. Refuse to leave.

YABU. They have a right to see friends and in the summer that's going to spill into the garden

They have every right to see there friends but there is no way that it's ok to regularly have parties in the garden until 3 am. That's obnoxious and selfish behaviour.

You need to learn the bagpipes. You can then pipe outside their window/door the morning after each party. Alternatively rent a room to a piper for a discount and have them on permanent stand-by...

People are so selfish I would be so upset if my neighbours behaved like that, so disrespectful. I would go with your husbsnd & impress on them that it is unwanted noise at unreasonable times, that you want to get on with them & don't want to fall out. If that doesn't work you have no choice but to go down the official route

YABU you've complained to the council. Let them deal with it. You doing that is just gonna make you seem childish and give them a reason to try and turn it around on you.

Just to add, if you find out where the lead tenant works work you can also send the piper to visit their workplace for a special appearance with a note to say why. The parties will soon stop.

Do you have their landline number?

You could anonymous call it all morning next time.

We used to play Knock-Door-Run as kids......played it a few times as an adult when dealing with inconsiderate neighbours......

Some years ago, I rented a terraced "town house" (yeah, I thought that was a bit pretentious, too). The parking was behind in a courtyard, and somewhat limited. The neighbours on one side decided to have a very loud party one Friday night, with blaring music until well after 4 am. I had work in the morning...and discovered their guests had parked inconsiderately, blocking me in.

Cue me ringing the doorbell, hammering on the door, knocking on the windows, yelling up at the windows, kicking the door....until someone very bleary eyed arrived in the doorway. "Excuse me" I said, very politely "But your guests are blocking me in, and I have to get to work". He looked totally bewildered "But it's Saturday". "Yes, some of us have to get up to work on Saturdays".

Most of the party goers had to drag themselves up for long enough to manoeuver their vehicles out of my way...lucky for them it was a private parking area, or I could have called the police about them drunk driving!

Of course everyone has a right to see their friends and get a bit rowdy but this is a regular thing every spring/summer and even in the dead of winter occasionally, they bring people back after clubbing and stand in the garden smoking and then all of a sudden there is dozens of people out there and they bring the music out with them etc, it's so predictable now and I'm sick to the back teeth of it.

It is thumping loud music and screaming and screeching at the top of their voices. My children really don't need to be standing in my bedroom at 3am asking what was going on and saying they couldn't sleep, it's totally different if they sleep through it, but they don't.

We live in a London, we're all on top of each other, a little consideration goes a long way... I could let my kids go wild from when they wake up at the crack of dawn, but I don't because I'm mindful of my neighbours. It's called respect where I'm from.

I spoke to someone from the anti social behaviour team at my local council who rang me after I sent across my complaint yesterday and he was very sympathetic and told me to ring their number as soon as they do this (they work all hours) again and they can keep a log of it, come and visit whilst it's going on to tell them to shut it down/take the party inside and even serve them a notice if they insist on carrying on and he advised me to ring the local housing office in my area on Monday to report it there too but didn't explain why I had to do that and he gave me a reference number, he said it doesn't matter if they own the house, rent it or council tenants, its not acceptable.

Yy to Land Registry, then letter of complaint to landlord signed by as many neighbours as possible. And I think you did the right thing today, personally.

Cross-post.

I bet you'd also vote for Donald trump if you could. If you do this, you are worse than them. While not being unfair, I think I would call you a fanjo of the highest order, because in doing this a you would create no actual pleasure for yourself, unlike your neighbours, who probably actually enjoyed their party. Why can't you do the same? You're just jealous your life is more crap than theirs.

I'm really tempted to learn the bagpipes now I've got a few Scottish weddings this year I could double up as an annoying neighbour and a wedding entertainment

But definitely the ASBO route too!
You cannot get an ASBO or whatever they are now called without months and months of proof of consistent anti-social behaviour.

As annoying as this party noise was, it is nowhere near being the kind of thing that an ASBO is intended for.