To mow the lawn, maybe do some drilling at 7am

[lastqueenofscotland]

Next door to me are a family of three the parents are away and their teenage daughter has taken advantage. She got a taxi back with lots and lots of shrieking and high pitch teenage laughter in the street before she went inside and has proceeded to put insanely loud music on, I never hear them through the walls but it’s like they in the room with me. I’ve been round to knock on twice and been ignored.
Police near me don’t respond to noise complaints anymore as they have more pressing things to deal with.
I don’t have a day off all the long weekend I need to sleep which I’m not going to get.
I’m a semi but I’m the end of the street and on a bend so a long way from the next house , so if I mowed the lawn or maybe decided to hang all the pictures I’ve been meaning to hang before I need to leave for work would that really be that unreasonable?!

tell the parents, if it was my teenaged DD I'd want to know

Someone else in the street must have mentioned it as the parents have come back this morning...

I'd have made sooo much noise this morning and have texted the parents.

was the party still going on when they arrived?

Glad they’re back.

Next time (if there is one) txt the parents half hourly - the pinging noise as they’re trying to sleep should focus them;

& i’d be ringing the doorbell / door knocker every 45mins from 6am onwards. Just enough time in between to let the little lady drift off before being woken again. Lawn mowing from 8am.

If I was a neighbour i’d be cheering you on.

Drill and mow but please don't tell the parents. She's just a normal teenager who probably leads a very restricted life when they are around

As a parent to a teen and one who will be a teen in a few years, yes definitely notify the parents. It's all great posters saying not to, I wonder how many of those have experienced raising teens as it's a world away from being one.

YANBU to wake them up at 7am - or earlier - and text the parents - I see your update says someone else has! However, it's probably due to the parent's strictness she's gone a bit crazy (no excuse though).

I was going to say text the parents but I see that's been done, if the girl isn't used to drinking I'd be worried she might come to harm as much as being annoyed by the noise.

Tell the parents.

I had it with next doors kids (17 and 15) they were up until 4am on a Sunday night during the holidays when I was working the next day. Cars coming back and forward with loud talking, wheel spinning every 1/2 hour. Music was loud but we are detached so not too bad.

When I went to leave for work at 6am I noticed their gran (who came in the mornings to mind them) had arrived so knocked the door and told her about the shenanigans. She was fizzing and told me they would be up and out of bed within the next hour.

Their dad came around with two knocked looking teens that evening and they apologied, and he said sorry for the noise, but thankfully no one was drinking 🙄 it was just high spirts. I said follow me, and took them around the back of the houses to the field where they'd dumped their huge pile of empty bottles and beer boxes and asked if they could tidy up their rubbish 🤣

*knocked = knackered