To ask about noise from neighbours?

[Motherof3feminists]

What would you find acceptable in terms of tv noise?

Guy next door has surround sound. If he has a film on I can hear vehicles accelerating, voices (not far off being able to make out the dialogue sometimes), every crash, bang etc. His tv is against the adjoining wall and my bedroom is directly above my living room. He often prevents me getting to sleep or his tv wakes me up in the early hours.

Asking him to turn it down would be a daily occurrence and polite requests to lower the volume have been met with complaints of its not loud and he's got surround sound so 🤷🏼‍♀️This has gone on for years and it really bugs me that I can't enjoy my living room or bedroom to read without earplugs or my own tv on to help drown out the noise.

I now have to sleep with ear plugs every night. I do have sensitive hearing and suffer sensory overload at times.

How much noise is acceptable to put up with?

Mine is awful too. No advice, just sympathy!

Having surround sound is not an excuse for being a pig. He is the unreasonable one. He could use headphones late in the evening.

I have a similar problem. The bedroom floor literally vibrates. I’ve mentioned it and they now try not to be so late...

It's not acceptable. Its fucking selfish to have surround sound in a semi detached house. I'm sorry you have to do all that to get any sleep in your own house.
You could try a white noise machine in your bedroom to drown it out.
Personally I'd move.

There's very little you can do about it legally (unless you can afford surround sound) but YADNBU he is being very selfish and inconsiderate.

No advice but we are on the other side of this - our neighbours bang on the wall, objecting to an imaginary noise that they are convinced is coming from our house in the middle of the night (when we are all in bed). They’re moving soon. I’m so happy.

Massive speaker against his wall, blaring music to ruin his film. Fight fire with fire.

You have my sympathy 100%. Last year new people moved in next door to us (terraced houses). Most days they play music so loud my dad thought it was me playing it when he came to visit, and they sing loudly to it as well. And pretty much every night they have their tv on in the bedroom. It is directly on the wall right behind our bed, it's extremely loud and often goes on until 3-4 in the morning. It's also sometimes on during the day as well. Getting to sleep is impossible most nights.

Maybe he's read the thread as it's gone quiet. Apart from him stomping up to bed. He would frequently do a lot of groaning at 2,3,4,5 am if he'd been drinking (so about 50% of the time) and shouting out in his sleep. The ear plugs are a blessing but I now have to use the baby monitor as my son's room is on a different floor and I can't hear him if he shouts me.
I hate him. We used to be friends believe it or not then I realised he was a flaming fuckhole and we've not been friends since.

We love this house and don't want to move. He was always saying he was going to move because of the noise from the neighbours on the other side of him so I live in hope of seeing a for sale sign go up.