Do all neighbours turn into inconsiderate twats during hot weather?

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Why do they send their children out to play in the street right in front of my house every evening whilst I am trying to get my toddler to sleep? They have perfectly good gardens!

Why do they think chucking their dogs in the garden to bark at 4:20am is acceptable? Maybe if the dogs were walked the poor things wouldn't be so frustrated that all they do is bark!

Why do they think it's OK to be having parties until gone midnight in their gardens, rev engines, blare music, use power fucking tools to change alloys at 8pm right below my toddlers bedroom window!

I am so frustrated with the total lack of consideration!

Slarti I wouldn’t consider wanting to hear yourself speak to your kids or not get a headache from the noise of your neighbours music 4 doors up being a fun leech!

YABVVVVU. To complain about your neighbours being inconsiderate twats in the hot weather. You don't know you are born! My neighbour is an inconsiderate twats all year round! Sun, rain, snow they never change!

Why my neighbour has decided that the middle of a heatwave is the best time to start 'sleep training' her 7 month old I do not know.

TBH though I haven't noticed anyone being particularly inconsiderate. Everyone's hot, everyone's going to have windows open, there will be some more noise... but we live in the centre of our part of the city, just off the high street which is also the major bus route, main road connecting the city centre to the next town, between two major hospitals etc, so it's never really that quiet anyway. I imagine if you're used to real quiet, you'll notice any disturbance a lot more than otherwise.

Yes. The loud music starts upstairs from us at about 7 and carries on until 10. My DC and I are all in bed by then, because I've been waking up at 3.30, possibly because of the heat. 😠

I now live on a street where all the other houses apart from 3 are bungalows.

No anti social behaviour on an evening or morning, no dogs barking or children playing in the street, no loud music. It's bliss, live surrounded by the elderly who are also lovely neighbours.

However..........there are two schools on my street so at starting and leaving times I get far more anti social behaviour from school run parents than most other people so it all balances out.

Mine decided to start Saturday evening off with three hours of the BeeGees blaring in the garden complete with singalong fun (I fucking hate the BeeGees)... then as they got progressively more pissed the vuvuzela came out. Drunken attempts to play the national anthem on a vuvuzela at 10.30pm aren't fun - then we had the inevitable repeated slurring of Three Lions for an hour, followed by the goodbyes to their pissed mates where they were really trying to be quiet but being louder than they would have been if they'd just spoken normally.

We've had to move the kids into the master bedroom and have the box room ourselves because these twats are so bad with garden noise all spring/summer/early autumn.

Yesterday - it was music blaring and they'd added the parrot to the equation sat out there in splendour as well.

Neighbour wants to live an outdoor lifestyle - so when it hits 16 degrees they go into summer mode - kids in a huge deep padding pool screaming for hours weekday after school and all day weekends - daily bbq etc. She plays the most awful pop music - 3 songs on a loop. We have to shut our windows for noise and smell. Dreading the school holidays.

The odd time she’s alone she wants peace and 🤫

Yeah we get the constant barbecuing too. Every bloody night from early March till late September (the rest of the year they live on takeaway - I'm becoming sceptical they have a flipping kitchen). I take consolation in the fact the amount of red meat they put away they'll drop down dead given enough time.

I feel so lucky now! Our neighbours all seem perfectly reasonable, no noise complaints for anyone. We did hear next door's baby crying for the first time ever, but it's hot and totally understandable. Lasted all of a few minutes. People are out enjoying themselves but nothing obnoxious at all.

Ours are pretty considerate, and I would like to think that we are too. I had been worried that we were not being as considerate as we should be yesterday evening, as DH was watering the garden at 8pm yesterday with radio 5 on, and I asked him to turn it down as I could hear it over the noise of the hose, so the neighbours could too. That is the only thing I can think of and now I don't feel too bad.

Our neighbours have a nightly BBQ and eat at 8:30/9. I've learnt to make sure there is nothing drying on the clothes line to absorb the smell of BBQ smoke, after one too many times of having to re-wash a line full of clean washing.

There is someone/some people local to us though who burn what I think must be waste of some nature in their garden. I get so cross by it. It means that everyone has to close their windows in the warm weather, or put up with a smoky house. For someone else not to either (a) pay for waste collection, or (b) save themselves a trip to the tip like the rest of us. I find it really selfish and anti-social.

But reading this thread, I feel very lucky indeed.

The only neighbour who annoys me tbh potters in his garden from 6.30am until 8.30pm when the weather is nice. However it does mean that nobody else uses their gardens at all so as to avoid the mindless conversations he likes to have with all and sundry and so there are positives it has to be said. I have a gardener once a fortnight and so I don't have to venture out there at all

PhewNowIKnow, we don't make noise past 8pm, we don't blare music, our dog doesn't bark, we don't smoke weed, we only park in our drive, we keep our boundary and it's fence in good condition, we take round any parcels that have been delivered here and we don't have bonfires. What aside from those things could be classed as being an inconsiderate neighbour?

As for the PP who said something along the lines of "intolerant fun sponge" you're one of the inconsiderate twat types aren't you?

I reckon there are enough of this type of neighbor that most people have one nearby (and if not, maybe it's you? )

Mine is a neighbour in my block of flats who shares our communal garden (that 8 flats share). His 4 kids don't even live here yet somehow they're in our back garden every single day after school and all day at weekends. He's put a huge paddling pool outside my windows and his kids fight and literally scream at eachother inside it. I'm on the ground floor so it results in hearing screaming inside my flat the whole time they're out, even with closed windows.

I'd love to spend more time in the garden with DD but when we go out, not only does she obviously want to go in the pool and play with the other children, but the neighbour also then starts feeding the children literally everything in his fridge in some weird generosity display. As soon as they finish something he brings the next thing out. The garden door is right next to my front door too so there's no getting past them and into our flat without disappointing DD if I just can't be dealing with him and his brood.

Getting out there before them doesn't seem to be a big enough hint that we want to use the garden either.

Slarti because we're sleep deprived because of the heat and then the fucking noise. I'm lovely when I've had enough sleep. If you live above a flat with a 6yo in it, turn the music down by 7.30 please. And it starts again at 8am. I can hear it now.

OP totally with you! We have to shut our windows as a couple of our neighbours are so loud.

My NDN's kids were having a really loud argument in the bathroom at 11.30pm last night. They are 9 and 12 and the windows face each other only a few feet apart. I was seriously considering shouting at them to stop arguing and go to bed.

Same neighbours have had a daily bbq since this weather started. Does wonders for my washing. And they had a very smokey bonfire at 11.30pm on Friday which filled my bedroom with black smoke. Can't wait for the rain.

I think one inconsiderate or noisy neighbour can make others more likely to follow suit. If you move into a quiet area, you’re more conscious of making noise. We are anyway!

Most neighbours are probably still perfectly decent. Unfortunately the twattish ones are more obviously twattish because their doors & windows are open and they're spending more time outside (or inside but have been drinking and become even louder than normal so you can hear the drunken shouting through the open door because they're thoughtless loud wankers).

In all fairness, the kids may be playing in the street because their siblings are playing in the garden/parents are gardening so better outside than inside in this weather!
Can't really walk dogs during the day due to the heat. Mine is long haired so even when clipped short it's too hot for him so he does a canny few laps of the garden when it's cooler. Dogs will be getting frustrated being kept in and all hot and bothered. Can't really reason with them.
My toddler won't sleep either at the moment so is shouting and crying more than normal (hayfever, overtired, too hot etc) and again, he's too young to reason with.
Everyone's windows are open, everyone is hot and bothered, everyone is getting grumpy! I play music in the house while I do housework- not loud but with the window open the sound does travel.
Everyone complained about smokers smoking indoors so they all went outside, now because it's hot, the non smokers don't want them there either. Smokers aren't going anywhere in afraid. Pretty soon they'll be back freezing their bollocks off again and you'll be warm inside.

We all annoy other people at times, if you think you don't then you're delusional.

Sharon needles, no the dogs don't get walked at all in any weather and bark year round, that one annoys me the most because I feel sorry for the dogs. I manage to walk my Shiz Tzu, we have skipped a few days but other than that we take him by the river so he can go in to cool off or keep to cooler times/sheltered areas and yes I know my neighbour is more than capable/able to do the same.

I don't think kicking your kids out to play on the street saying "wah wah all you do is annoy me, I just want to relax" then going and sunning yourself in the garden is OK, the poor boy looked crestfallen.

Lazy parents. Lazy dog owners. Twats.

Two things send this country crazy: the weather and football. Currently both are occurring therefore the people of Britain (well, England for the latter) are losing their shit. Just the way it goes. We can’t handle any extreme weather.

I totally agree with you.

Screaming kids on the trampoline from 7.30 am, dogs barking constantly and bloody music blaring from morning till night so I can never enjoy my own garden in peace.
It's very much 'I'm alright Jack' where i live.

Mine do.

The bloke next door has installed a large screen TV in the back garden so he can watch football and scream at the tv to his hearts content.

Coupled with his world famous rock star son who is back at home following a world tour and his loud music I despair!

In fairness most of the time they’re ok and I admit I’m probably a bit noise intolerant. It’s just whenever I want to enjoy a bit of sunbathing and read a book in the garden I can’t bloody relax and it really spoils my enjoyment of the good weather! Why on Earth they can’t buy some headphones to listen to music/tv I don’t know.

I’m thinking of getting noise cancelling headphones....anyone know how they actually work? I thought they were white noise which I wouldn’t want. If I get some will it just be silence? Which would be ace!

I feel like this every summer. Barking, shrieking, outdoor parties. Massively exacerbated by having to have open windows. All other times of year I’m hardly aware of my neighbours.

Reading this thread its the first time EVER I actually don't feel like I'm missing out in my teeny, gardenless apartment! No outside space, no outside noisy wankers. Just inside noisy ones