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Neighbours wind chimes

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Tinkerbell1956 · 10/04/2019 13:31

I love sitting in my garden listening to the birds and "white noise" but my neighbour has put up wind chimes both tinkling ones and on that sounds like horsed hooves! I suffer from migraine and high pitched noises affect me. I am almost dreading the warmer nights when I need my bedroom window open. My neighbour is not an easy lady to speak to. Help!

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MolyHolyGuacamole · 10/04/2019 18:14

@BloodyDisgrace best advice yet 🍷

ToEarlyForDecorations · 10/04/2019 18:32

I sellotaped my old neighbours ones together when they went on holiday, they never realised!

I applaud this^

Nice to see so much approval of trespass and vandalism! If they dislike something innocuous in your garden I assume that they have carte blanche to enter your property and adjust it to their liking!

[Biscuit]

I hate the anti-social noise that wind chimes make. The unwanted noise stresses me and makes me anxious. Early hours of a summer morning, lovely bird song chirruping gently, the cool breeze in the leaves. But no, we can't have this can we ? Oh no. It's got to be the clank, clank, rattle rattle of bloody wind chimes. So I end up closing the window to shut the noise out and miss the quality of life of that moment Spring or Summer moment. Or weekend afternoon etc. Again and again. As for the people that can hardly hear their own wind chimes. Question: WHY DO YOU HAVE THEM ?

Oh, and all the posters saying it's not as bad as revving engines, loud parties, doors slamming etc etc. Unwanted noise is unwanted noise. The volume of it makes no difference what so ever.

TiIIy · 10/04/2019 20:29

The ones I sellotaped were literally cow bells, and they had kindly hung it in their back garden when they slept in the front of their home. So when I asked them to move them, the answer I got was "but we sleep in the front bedroom, they're too noisy!"

Well I sleep in the back bedroom and it drove me mad during pregnancy. So I sellotaped the damn things and regret NOTHING! 👍🏻

IceCreamAndCandyfloss · 10/04/2019 20:34

I love them, we have a few sets as do lots of neighbours.

Living close to others I expect some noise, be it wind chimes, shrieking children, music etc.

flyingspaghettimonster · 10/04/2019 20:53

My neighbours have 5 different wind chimes on their porch (semi detached)... usually they don't bother me much, but one night it was really windy and I couldn't sleep... I could hear the blasted things clear as day and my bedroom is at the back of the house, through two closed doors and a wall... I felt bad for my boys in the room at the front who have to hear them every night.

nonevernotever · 10/04/2019 21:34

I liked the suggestion from a mumsnetter on a similar post - sellotape them together and leave a post it note saying something along the lines of "we just want to hug..."

EdWinchester · 10/04/2019 21:39

Only selfish wankers have wind chimes.

DantesInferno · 10/04/2019 21:43

its interfering with the quiet enjoyment of their garden

why do people have to make a noise? its like hummers and whistlers, stop it, its fucking annoying

fluffiphlox · 10/04/2019 21:46

Long-handled loppers.

EggysMom · 10/04/2019 21:47

We put up chimes a couple of years ago, neighbours have never asked us to take them down (and we are on speaking terms with both sides). It probably helps that ours are Woodstock Chimes, properly tuned, and not just pound-shop bits of metal.

ToEarlyForDecorations · 10/04/2019 21:53

It probably helps that ours are Woodstock Chimes, properly tuned, and not just pound-shop bits of metal.

Competitive snobbery over windchimes. Mumsnet at it's finest !

EjectorCrab · 10/04/2019 21:54

@EggysMom I’m not sure there’s such a thing as properly tuned wind chimes, if you hate wind chimes, you hate them, I can’t imagine they’d ever be tuneful to someone who hates them but has to live next door to them.

Celebelly · 10/04/2019 21:56

I wouldn't care if someone's wind chimes played a note perfect rendition of the Moonlight Sonata. If they have them hanging where other people can hear them in their bedrooms they're a twat.

RubyViolet · 10/04/2019 21:57

Next door neighbours put two sets up and they were so loud, all the immediate neighbours hated them. So we asked very very nicely for them to come down. They refused so we said ok we will play the radio in the garden to drown it out. We did and the chimes were down in a week.

user1474894224 · 10/04/2019 22:00

I had two sets in the garden but slept at the front of the house. Never knew how annoying they were until I slept at the back one time. Please tell your neighbours as they might not have realised.

SilviaSalmon · 10/04/2019 22:08

We have wind chime wars raging where we are. Row of tiny terrace cottages in middle of nowhere. Blissfully quiet. Until middle neighbour puts up wooden wind chimes. Now it is like the 4 horses of apocalypse constantly galloping outside my kitchen window.

Not to be outdone and to drown out wooden crashing, other neighbour has put up 3 metal ones. Any breeze at all sounds like a cacophony of toddlers let loose on triangles and xylophones.

I can’t take it any more and we’ve put our house on the market.

Cherrysoup · 10/04/2019 22:22

Agree, any extra noise is extremely anti-social. Why do some people think that’s ok? I don’t allow my dogs to bark, in or outside, nor do I have the TV on loud or play music in the garden (that’s a fucking grade A asshole move) because I respect the fact that my neighbours should not have to listen to noise they haven’t decided upon. Part and parcel of living in close proximity with others. It’s called being considerate. The constant clank or tinkle of wind chimes would drive me nuts.

Mrsjayy · 10/04/2019 22:26

I have 2 neighbours who have them i hear tinktinktinky tink in bloody stereo they drive me bonkers if i have windows open at night

StoneofDestiny · 10/04/2019 22:33

Can't imagine why anybody thinks it's ok to create noise that spreads outside their own home boundaries like playing music loud in the garden, playing music inside the house with the windows wide open, barking dogs or loud clanking wind chimes.

I can't understand anybody not considering the impact of what they are doing on their neighbours.

Nanny0gg · 10/04/2019 22:34

@Cherrysoup
Agree, any extra noise is extremely anti-social. Why do some people think that’s ok? I don’t allow my dogs to bark, in or outside, nor do I have the TV on loud or play music in the garden (that’s a fucking grade A asshole move) because I respect the fact that my neighbours should not have to listen to noise they haven’t decided upon. Part and parcel of living in close proximity with others. It’s called being considerate. The constant clank or tinkle of wind chimes would drive me nuts

Very well put. Sadly many on here won't agree or care.

MidniteScribbler · 10/04/2019 22:52

I absolutely adore them, but I live on a large property so none of my neighbours would be able to hear them. I wouldn't have them in suburbia because I know they send some people into an absolute rage.

WeepingWillowWeepingWino · 10/04/2019 22:55

We asked our new neighbours to take there’s down within a week of moving in, we were sleeping overlooking the garden and they were awful. They did straight away, admitting that as they were at the front they couldn’t hear them at all at night.

So I’d ask them to take them down.

campion · 10/04/2019 23:02

Tinkly ones can be a little irritating but larger ones with a deep resonance can be very soothing

They most definitely can't. Put them inside your house if they're so soothing and leave the rest of us alone.

MaroonFlame · 10/04/2019 23:10

I took my mother’s down as she lives in a terrace and her NDN’s had a newborn whose room was at the back. It was like one wind chime with 3 seperate little chimes it was horrendous. I felt I was doing them a massive favour. My NDN has one but luckily my bedroom’s at the front of the house!

CandidaAlbicans · 10/04/2019 23:12

If people want wind chimes, fine, but not somewhere where their neighbours have no choice but to listen to the bloody things. If they love them so much why don't they hang them in their house with a fan going. Keep your tinkley shit to yourself!