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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?

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TheCatDidSay · 21/04/2019 16:56

Today’s gardens just are not made big enough. We should all be able to enjoy our own gardens be that hot tub, bbq, children’s trampolines. It’s give and take.

Oblomov19 · 21/04/2019 17:04

I bet that constant humming would drive anyone nutty after a while!

cuppycakey · 21/04/2019 17:04

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

Or a poo?

Now we're talking Grin

I agree with PP - in my area (South East) hot tubs are seen as a bit chavtastic. It wouldn't bother me if a neighbour had one, but the humming noise would drive me batty.

LuluJakey1 · 21/04/2019 17:06

The gardens are biggish (at least I think they are) about 70ft x 35ft. The houses have been extended at the back and have patios in the same place on either side of a 6ft fence. If they moved it I could live with it but they won't want to move it because it would be infront of their sitting room glass doors if they moved it to the other side.

I am now more upset after a PP said you can't turn them off and the thought they might use it for sex. We eat at that end of the kitchen- who wants to listen to electronic buzzing or sex when they are having their tea?

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ChardonnaysPrettySister · 21/04/2019 17:06

Today’s gardens are definitely not any smaller than the gardens of any Victorian terrace or Thirties semi, TheCat.

It’s some people who do the take and who expect everybody else to do the give.

ZazieTheBruce · 21/04/2019 17:08

Lawn darts.

TheCatDidSay · 21/04/2019 17:11

I’ve moved from houses built in the same year and there has been a huge difference in garden side let alone new builds with stamp box gardens.

No it won’t be turned off, yes they my have sex in it just like anyone can have sex in their gardens. It’s not a sound offence.

You are going to have to live with it or as mn often says buy a detached house in the middle of know where Grin

ASilhouetteAndNothingMore · 21/04/2019 17:13

The hum of our tub is drowned out by all the yapping "fur babies" in the vicinity.

EngagedAgain · 21/04/2019 17:19

Also as per your original question, I can't be sure about the effect of the cutting down of sugar, as I have cut down on other things too, cheese, carbs and fatty food, and have lost a little bit of weight. I think the evenings are hardest as I'm not usually busy.

EngagedAgain · 21/04/2019 17:20

Blast! Haha wrong thread 🤣

ShowOfHands · 21/04/2019 17:20

Our neighbours have a nasty little sex pond as well an enormous paddling/swimming pool, a portable karaoke machine and the world's largest supply of Stella Artois. Some weekends it's like Sodom and Gomorrah.

BingandFlop2019 · 21/04/2019 17:22

25 Degrees outside you say? Why yes! Let's jump in some bubbling hot water! 🤷🏼‍♀️

twofingerstoEverything · 21/04/2019 17:31

Why not put on music to drown it out and then your neighbours on the other side can put on music to drown out your music and their neighbours on the other side can put on music to drown out the other neighbours' music etc etc, because we are ENTITLED to enjoy our gardens even if it means pissing off other people...
God, people are selfish fuckers.

twofingerstoEverything · 21/04/2019 17:33

And while I'm ranting... no wonder our environment is so fucked when we NEED heated plastic pools of water to make our lives complete...

TheCatDidSay · 21/04/2019 17:35

Im sure a plastic heated pool
For a few months does less damage than a car all year round Wink

CorlysVelaryon · 21/04/2019 17:43

Thecat, I'm sure they'll have a car all year round too. Car + hot tub worse than car alone, surely.

TheCatDidSay · 21/04/2019 17:46

I have no car so I’ve earned my few months of hot tub Wink those with solar panels running sea salt will be even more eco friendly too. Cars are much much worse.

Insomnibrat · 21/04/2019 17:46

These hot tubs, inflatable or otherwise...they're just so obnoxious.

Sparklingbrook · 21/04/2019 17:49

I can't drive to work in a hot tub.

LuluJakey1 · 21/04/2019 21:00

DH went to sit outside with a beer to get a bit of peace from DD (2) who thinks he is a trampoline and he had a vasectomy on Thursday so isn't up for being a trampoline at the moment. He has come in looking fed-up. They are in the hot-tub, talking loudly over the noise of it and drinking prosecco.
DH muttering about 'just wanting a bit of peace and quiet in my own garden for just half an hour'.
I asked if he thought they were 'up to anything' but he said they were talking about the football team their son plays in and getting a new vacuum so probably not.

Between DH's vasectomy and me being 24 weeks pregnant no one will be 'up to anything' in our house either.

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LuluJakey1 · 21/04/2019 21:02

I know IABU but I think it's all a bit naff, prosecco in an inflated giant paddling pool at 9 o'clock at night.

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LuluJakey1 · 21/04/2019 21:04

Thecat We have been talking about moving to the middle of nowhere Grin

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mummmy2017 · 21/04/2019 21:05

A friend got a garden waterfall, it covers the sound.

Bluelonerose · 21/04/2019 21:18

Do you think a hot tub would be enough to drive my neighbours inside to scream at each other instead of doing it in the garden? misses point of thread

mummmy2017 · 21/04/2019 21:24

Try Classic FM... Used to drive mine inside.