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about our neighbours' inflatable hot tub

140 replies

LuluJakey1 · 21/04/2019 12:26

Our neighbours are nice enough people. We chat if we see each other take in parcels for each other etc.
There have been occasional niggles - eg he complained that our drive being re-laid had blown dust on his car and it could have been scratched if he had just washed it with a sponge and bucket. DH apologised and said we should have told him so he could have moved his car.
I was unhappy when their builders put scaffolding outside our bathroom window and I found myself using the loo with a builder on the other side of the glass. They apologised.
Their children had a trampoline in the garden which the son bounced on from 6.30 in the morning until 10 at night (not continuously) in the summer and it was a horrible repetitive noise that drove me mad. We never said anything and it was removed last year as he had outgrown it.
Nothing serious, never fallen out.
However, for the last few days we have been aware of this horrible electrical buzzing and noise which is constant and sometimes much louder and seemed like a motor of some kind. Turns out they have bought a large, inflatable hot-tub which is what is making the noise. They were out somewhere all day yesterday but the buzzing/hum was on all day. Today they have used it this morning and they were having to talk really loudly to hear each other over the noise when the motor bit was on. It is against our side of the garden because it is sunny and sheltered there.
I can't bear it. It is a contunual droning humming sort of noise.
I wsnt to say something. DH thinks I shouldn't but we couldn't sit on the patio in the sun this morning or in the kitchen with the french doors open because of this noise. It is only April. It could go on every day for the whole of this summer and however many summers to come.

AIBU?

OP posts:
Oly4 · 21/04/2019 15:46

This is just a downside to having neighbours surely? If you don’t like it you need to move to the country!
They are entitled to have a hot tub. You can’t just say ‘we need to live in peace and quiet in OUR garden.’
If you need total silence, you’ll have to move

Oly4 · 21/04/2019 15:47

Or play music yourself at a level to cover the noise?

LakieLady · 21/04/2019 15:56

DP's ex got a hot tub. One night she got forgot to put the cover on after using it, and found a dead rat in there the following day.

DSS says she's never used it since.

Perhaps you could get your hands on a rat carcass and lob it over the fence into the tub, OP ...

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 21/04/2019 15:56

They are entitled to have a hot tub

Yeah, It's right up there in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  1. Every grown up has the right of a hot tub.

No one can take that away from you.

BluntAndToThePoint · 21/04/2019 15:58

Smoke them out - literally! Buy a fire pit or spend a lot of time practising new BBQ recipes outdoors.

Carnivorenomore · 21/04/2019 16:03

Throw a poo in it

Sparklingbrook · 21/04/2019 16:08

Generous squirt of Fairy Liquid? Grin

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 21/04/2019 16:10

Put a bird feeder next to it, especially for goldfinches, they create a horrible mess.

ScreamingValenta · 21/04/2019 16:13

See if you can attract ducks or other waterbirds into it. They won't want to use it if it's full of bird poo.

DontDribbleOnTheCarpet · 21/04/2019 16:24

I'm so disappointed in my neighbours. They don't have a sex pond, or loud parties and their adult children are all lovely. I must ask them to try harder, they are failing in their duty to provide entertainment/things to whinge about.

NoWittyNamesAvailable · 21/04/2019 16:26

My neighbours have a hot tub, I'm waiting for the constant him to start. I get used to it after a couple of days, but I wouldn't ever dream of saying anything as I have 3 sons aged 4, 3 and 1. The noise from our garden is way louder than the noise from theirs, no matter how hard I try to get them to play a bit quieter.

TSSDNCOP · 21/04/2019 16:28

An inflatable sex pond? What fresh hell is this now! Like the adult equivalent of a trampoline, why must the owners of such annoying pieces of equipment erect them in such a way that they’re as far from their own houses as possible?

TSSDNCOP · 21/04/2019 16:29

Witty I honestly wouldn’t be trying too hard.

TSSDNCOP · 21/04/2019 16:30

Chardonnay 🤣

FlyingElbows · 21/04/2019 16:30

Mine is literally 6 feet from the French doors in my living room! Pmsl, I love the MN sex pond hate, it's hilarious.

Sparklingbrook · 21/04/2019 16:35

But if you have it near the house all the chemically fumes will waft in surely?

TSSDNCOP · 21/04/2019 16:37

Not so much hate. It’s more that they’re just so try hard in a “get us, we’re so sexeh” kind of way. Hair piled up, ballooning cozzies, red splashed faces and Prosecco all round.

Wannabeyorkshirelass · 21/04/2019 16:38

Urgh so tacky and gross. Luckily the novelty will wear off, OP.

Bringbackthestripes · 21/04/2019 16:41

It’s a very quite hummmm a fan or radio on low would cover it.

Why should you have to make noise to drown out next doors noise when all you want is peace and quiet?

Carnivorenomore · 21/04/2019 16:45

Why do people with a hot tub feel the need to post endless pics of it on social media? They always look like a joint of gammon in a saucepan

Geekster1963 · 21/04/2019 16:46

You have my sympathy our neighbours had one last summer, and our bedroom is on the garden side of the house. We had our windows open one night and lets just say they were enjoying some adult time in it! We quickly closed the window and put some music on.

It seemed to go out of favour quite quickly and they have got it up for sale now. I wouldn't want it Wink

FinallyHere · 21/04/2019 16:46

Could you invite them round for a drink and let them find out for themselves how loud it is from your side ?

JaneEyre07 · 21/04/2019 16:49

I'm finding it harder and harder to live around people, and we're in a very small quiet village. Our new NDN's have installed a pizza oven this weekend, and we had to come inside from eating our own meal outside last night as thick white wood smoke was billowing over the fence from theirs. We had to shut all the doors and windows. All so they could eat a facking pizza that would have tasted exactly the same cooked in their kitchen oven Angry

We sat outside today after lunch, and our other NDN started trimming his hedges with a petrol trimmer so we all had to come trooping back inside again.

I seriously want to live at least a mile from anyone else these days.

viques · 21/04/2019 16:53

I think you have to wait until they are in it then play je t'aime on repeat, with added sound effects.

Guiltypleasures001 · 21/04/2019 16:53

Yep as another poster said, a meat skewer through the fence