My Neighbour BU!

[PracticallyPeeved]

Don't think I am BU here. have a neighbour I don't get on with. We did until a little while ago but that has changed through odd behaviour on their end. They've been quiet since they were totally and utterly unreasonable about 2 weeks ago (long story, outing specifics which is still an ongoing underlying issue on their part).

Anyway, I'm currently ill and didn't get to sleep until 8am which isn't my neighbour's problem but I was woken up at 11am by loud music and I mean so loud it's slightly distorting the songs! I could hear every bloody word of the song, it was so loud I have had a headache. I tried to move to my living room and it's also loud in there, I know it must be deliberate because my neighbour keeps having to walk back into a different room to change the song. I can hear it in my kitchen at the opposite end to where my bedroom is so there is no way they could be listening to it comfortably at all. I'm trying to snuggle up on the sofa but if I want to watch TV, I've got it on level 20 as opposed to the normal level of 8 because I can't bloody hear my own TV so I'm sitting here wondering what I can do.

I'm booked in to have my baby next week and want to get this sorted. I don't really want to approach them as their behaviour is extremely erratic but would feel a bit bad about blindsiding them if I went to the council about noise. I can contact their landlord but apparently their relationship broke down due the neighbour's behaviour too. I know they're going to be unreasonable so has anyone had experience of going to the council about loud music during the day? I have a feeling if they turned up to listen to the level they'd turn the music off/down.

You poor thing .

If you really think he's doing it deliberately, is it worth going out so that he doesn't get satisfaction?

If that's not an option, or he does it again your only choices are to ignore, report or speak with him....

Not really helpful I'm afraid. You do have my sympathy for the position you're in and being booked in to have your baby next week. I hope everything goes well for you

report it to his landlord and the council noise abatement team (or whatever its called).

you never know, the landlord might just be looking for that one extra bit of evidence to turf him out.

Could be a she, not a he!

When you say it's deliberate, do you mean deliberately loud to annoy you, or deliberately loud because they wanted it loud? Because moving to the room where (presumably) the songs are coming from to skip to the next one doesn't necessarily prove that they are doing it to annoy you.

You have my full sympathy though and it must be a living nightmare. I would HATE that. I would ordinarily say approach first, not because of feeling bad about blindsiding, but just because it's the adult and sensible thing to do. But you mentioned their behaviour is erratic. If you feel like you could put yourself in trouble and more importantly because you are having a baby soon, then just go straight to the landlord/council. And who cares if the landlord and the neighbour's relationship broke down, it's their job as a landlord to make sure the tenants are living in reasonable conditions and if they are not, to sort out the problem. The problem in this case being your neighbour's loud and antisocial music.

In a week you will have the perfect erratic weapon with which to retaliate. I hope you have carefully planned the cot position . (Lighthearted to cheer you up).

Baby Karma was my thoughts as well

Deliberate to annoy me. They have their music on during the day sometimes and it's usually at a reasonable volume, sometimes it isn't when they're cleaning and I get that in that scenario it isn't on purpose. Due to recent issues it's definitely on purpose, today it's music, a couple of days ago it was slamming their front door so hard my windows shook. They were well aware I was home as they watch my car like a hawk, though that's another issue on itself.

I'm keeping a noise diary but I don't really see how they work. Neighbour is retaliatative and could easily just make stuff up when presented with this or smash up my car

I spoke to their landlord and mused as to whether I should try to approach the neighbour somehow as a courtesy, even if in writing, and they advised against it that neighbour has warned everyone off not to approach them about anything (including neighbours) Not sure where that leaves the landlord although they said they'd try to sort something but it definitely limits my choices, I'd have to go to the council to get this sorted. Do councils take noise nuisance during the day seriously? What can be done?

You said your baby is due soon, well if you can hear them, they are sure going to hear the baby, it will take longer to make them be quiet than it will take you to have a baby, and as soon as baby comes home it will be them shouting about the noise at odd hours of the day and night, and if they are stupid enough to wake the baby, by gosh they will know about it.

Wish i could offer advice but can't, just hang in there.