To ask neighbours to take wind chimes down

[DorothyL]

They're wooden and so bloody annoying

Would it be bad form to ask?

It depends. If you are in Scotland and facing storm Dylan, so they are chiming constantly, you could ask them to take them in "for safe-keeping". If you're anywhere else and they are only chiming occasionally in the breeze, yabu.

And if you're my neighbour, they're not wooden, they are metal and sound very tuneful.

Nah, just ask them they could be oblivious. I had some at my back door years ago, ndn asked me to take them down in winter because they were below her bedroom window and blowing like mad. Now I only ever put up in summer and not next to other people's windows.

Not unreasonable at all. I think it's unreasonable to put up noise makers and expect everyone in the area to be ok with it. People wouldn't put up with someone playing the flute or the piano 24 hours a day outside their windows either.

Mine are in for the winter! And they are bamboo, actually.

I am guilty of moving a twig to look guilty, when I hacked through the strings of one neighbours chimes. They were really irritating tinkle tinkle and boop boop of ceramic and bamboo mixed pieces.

It fell to the floor with a bit of a clatter and, because that twig cut though the string really, really low, they would have had to be re-strung if they were to be re-hung, so they never were.

I'd have seen that twig go down for Wind Chime Murder, the noise was so sodding intrusive!

You would not be unreasonable to go over when they're out and steal them.
Horrid things.

We used to own a caravan in a beautiful rural park in Wales. I loved to sit out and listen to the wind in the trees. Then one of the other owners got some big clanging wind chimes. Cue me out at night cutting them down with big garden shears! Actually.I think it's incredibly selfish to expect other people to listen to the clinking and clanking of your wind chimes

Shoot them down. The chimes, not the neigbours, obviously.
They are horrendous, antisocial things.

Wind chimes are anti-social and noise pollution. YADNBU.

Last time I went on a caravan holiday, the selfish bastards next door had wind chimes.

I ended up going out at 3am with a roll of parcel tape and sticking them together >

I love the sound butwould never have any. Why should other people have to listen to them?

I hate wind chimes. All that clinky clinky shite gets on my bloody nerves!

Can you hear them indoors?

Loathe the things. I like the idea of taping them together.

Windchimes never ever sound pleasant, only discordant

Antisocial stress inducers.

Kill them

Should be banned. Totally shite.

I loathe wind chimes so much, and our neighbours have them. Not the easiest of neighbours, they complain about our kid's cars (parked perfectly legally opposite our house) which is daft as theirs are going to be learning to drive soon. But because of this I daren't complain about their bloody chimes. (I may complain to their landlord though who used to live there)

I think you should ask. My Nieghbours asked me to take down a mirrored wind ornament that I'd hung in a tree. I likes the little flashes of light but they didn't. They were polite and I happily moved it so it wouldn't annoy them any longer.

I hate being able to hear wind chimes. They are incredibly annoying.

Don't ask, because if they refuse (and you have to have a degree of anti social behaviour in you to put up wind chimes in the first place so risk of refusal is high) then suspicion will fall on you when you end up stealthily cutting them down in the dead of night

I think you should mention that it is sometimes lovely (warm summer evening) but sometimes really unpleasant. Can they be moved to another part of the garden where you can't hear them?

I really love the sound of wind chimes and find them very relaxing, in my garden I have 0 wind chimes though. It's not fair on the neighbours. I agree they're a noise pollution, ask nicely, they might just be a bit dim and not realise how annoying they might be to others.

I find the sound soothing

Do what I did and pay a local kid £5 to "hide" them.

Or put them in a padded envelope and post them through the door in the dead of night. They'll get the message.