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I have a twat of a next door neighbour who seems to delight in having his tv really loud to the point I can distinguish voices.
We were previously best mates but for several reasons are now not. Him deliberately disturbing my daughter at night with noise so she was crying in frustration at not being able to sleep being on of them.
I've asked several times, politely, for him to turn down the volume. When friends I was having to ask most nights and he always turned it down although he said it wasn't loud and got annoyed with me. Since we are not friends anymore he has blocked me and I can't text him late at night to ask him to turn it down. I'm not getting out of bed to go knock on his door at gone midnight and he wouldn't be able to hear me knock over the volume of his tv anyway.
He used to claim deafness but then said he'd had a hearing test at work and had perfect hearing so my conclusion is he's just being deliberately noisy a twat.
Tonight it sounds like he's watching porn.
Having asked nicely and got nowhere, and the fact he seems to be doing it to annoy me, would a white noise machine do the trick? Can anyone recommend one? I like darkness and silence to sleep preferably but love the sound of heavy rain and find this soothing so would sleep through that.
I do tend to fall asleep ok but then get woken up by his tv as he seems to turn it up as he gets more drunk. Then he's crashing around the place on his way to bed where he proceeds to groan half the night.
Sorry, it's turned into a bit of a rant 
Bottom line: AIBU to think a white noise machine will solve my noisy neighbour's tv problem?
P.S. I know some will say to make a complaint to the council but I don't want any aggro from him. His house is owned and I privately rent and he's already made a malicious complaint to my landlord about me. I just want a quiet life. Literally!