Trampoline Ettiquette

[BouncethfOFF]

We've just moved into a new house and we're trying to think where to erect the kid's trampoline.
I want to put it up round the corner (L shaped garden) so we don't have the eyesore of having it directly outside our living room window..
OH says that if we put it round the corner it'll be impacting on the neighbors because it overlooks their garden, which isn't fair on them.

Who's right?

Yeh, yeh, yeh -pull the other one

Or, you could just tell your children to stop shrieking!

Have fun, yes by all means, but screeching and screaming should not be allowed in any part of your garden!

I'm actually loving the OP's honesty. There's a difference between thinking something and doing it. Is far rather tuck all the children's tat round the corner out of sight and sod the neighbours. In reality though I couldn't be so inconsiderate.

The trampoline overlooks the neighbours garden, but their house is quite far away. Does that make a difference?

No

They're elderly as well so I think there will be only three months of the year, tops, that they will spend in the garden anyway.

So you want to inflict your screaming children on your elderly neighbours and destroy their enjoyment of their garden? If they're anything like my elderly neighbours, they will spend a considerable amount of time on their garden

You never know your luck OP, your elderly neighbours might be deaf!

Anyone awaiting a thread from the neighbours?

'AIBU to build a MASSIVE 12ft fence and cover it with soundproofing thistles?'

Its overlooking neighbours for now. Come summer I will have a rethink.
~Thanks for the opinions.

Your neighbours will soon tell you that your husband is right!

You might need a favour from your neighbours one day.

Don't piss them off.

Very selfish of you. I hope your children grow up to be nicer people.

Trust me, I don't want to get on the wrong side of the neighbors.
That's why I posted here.

Our neighbours have rendered our garden unusable with their fucking trampoline. They all feel the need to gawp when we have the audacity to want to use our own garden. Then Dad delights us by bouncing topless and yawping like a fuckwit. There are plenty of ways to get some exercise and enjoy your garden without pissing off your neighbours.

You're probably very wrong about the neighbours and their garden enjoyment. In my experience, older people love to potter round their gardens and I can't think of anything worse if I was happily enjoying a spot of pruning etc than some idiotic neighbours screaming brats bouncing up and down next to my fence. Of course it's not just the sound of the brats, it's also the continuous boing boing boing from the springs...

Breathtakingly selfish, OP.

Yeah, give the neighbours a break. Who wants to see and hear someone else's children bouncing on a trampoline? It needs to be in your sight and hearing, not your neighbours. And how do you know they would only be out and about for about 3 months? DF used to potter about his garden in all but the most extreme weather.

I'm actually loving the OP's honesty

Me too 😂

OP, I don't really see this as much of a problem as even large trampolines are easy to move. If you let your kids mindlessly shriek and scream on the trampoline you are being very very unreasonable. There us nothing stopping them having a fantastic time without ruining your neighbours peace and quiet.

BTW my neighbour trampoline is next to my fence. It generally doesn't bother me but occasionally, if the neighbours kids have friends over, all the friends stare over the fence and comment on whatever I'm doing. Its really irritating. I'm glad the neighbours kids themselves don't do it. I actually like my neighbours kids. They kick balls over the fence all the time and they can be noisy but they are ever so polite. It's really noticible that some of their friends aren't so well brought up.

So, @BouncethfOFF - why not do as I suggested - have the trampoline outside your window/near your decking unless you are entertaining outdoors, in which case you move it temporarily to the other spot.

It is not fair to make your neighbours put up with the noise of your kids on the trampoline, so that YOU don’t have to - that is selfish, frankly.

And the fact that they are elderly doesn’t mean they won’t want to use their garden all year round - my mum is in her 80s, and is out in her garden all year round.

If it was overlooking my parent garden your kids would get accidentally hosed.

Oops poor frail old person with dicky eyesight and feeble wrists.

You sound a charmer, I'm glad you're not my neighbour. Your kids, you put up with the noise and the 'eyesore' of the trampoline. FFS some people!

Don't put it up at all....and if you must, put it nearest your house, not theirs....and...tell them to not stand staring at their neighbours...and monitor how long and how noisy they are.

This must be a joke!

Trust me, I don't want to get on the wrong side of the neighbors.
That's why I posted here.

You’re a selfish prick OP.
So because your neighbors are old (and presumably enjoying their retirement years in peace) they deserve the inconvenience more than you? Just because they’re old doesn’t mean they won’t be out in the garden in the winter ffs.
You don’t want to spoil your entertaining.. oh so you’re a snob too then.
Your kids, your problem. I feel really sorry for your neighbors. I’d slash the fucking thing if you pulled that shit with me