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Noisy neighbours

71 replies

granadagirl · 29/06/2019 19:32

Since 8 this morning we’ve had an electric saw going next door till about 4 pm this afternoon. They been out till then.

Now there in the garden, daughter is round with her 2 kids.
They don’t talk they shout, our doors are on on our living room but it’s 30*
I’ve heard top of there voice Alexa play wheels on the bus. Alexa play grand olde duke of York
They having pizza I gather, because that’s all we can hear pizza pizza

Honestly the more I hear them, it’s winding me up. Why can théy just not talk. It’s the same when she’s on the phone or FaceTime we can hear everything.

I feel like shouting shut the fuck up, I want to listen to my tv.

OP posts:
Devonishome1 · 29/06/2019 22:17

I hate neighbours. I wish I could live away from them maybe in the countryside!

Al203 · 29/06/2019 22:18

Can one still buy stink bombs?

werideatdawn · 29/06/2019 22:20

This weather brings it out, especially if they're usually inconsiderate. Our neighbour a few doors down is off his face shouting and cackling and arguing with Alexa 🙄 hoping he will just pass out soon. He's always extra when it's hot.

StoneofDestiny · 29/06/2019 22:22

8 hours of sawing?

Doormat247 · 29/06/2019 22:26

I'm currently listening to my god-awful neighbour shouting with her scummy friends in the back garden so I can completely understand your frustration.
All day she's been drinking and sunbathing yet still feels the need to be out in the garden at almost 10:30pm. She has no concept of an indoor voice and can't do anything other than shout and scream. It drives me mad but I daren't tackle her about it as she's aggressive and I'm home alone.
I'll soon want to go to bed but they're pretty much underneath my bedroom window playing their shitty dance music and screaming and shouting.
Why can't these people have any sort of common decency? My bf can't stay over anymore as he works weekends and can't cope with the lack of sleep from the noise.

She's friends with the old couple at the other side and I can't for the life of me understand why they don't ask her to shut the fuck up. She'd at least listen to them without hurling abuse like she would at me.

boredboredboredboredbored · 29/06/2019 22:27

I've had to keep my doors shut too all day. R&B music, kids plus more friends kids screaming and shouting. The mother shouting at them. Urban bliss.....not!!

Anarchyshake · 29/06/2019 22:31

Start peeing in a bucket, all of you. Pour it directly outside their back door and on the ground where they usually sit out there. Do this for several nights.

Or don't, it's wrong. But I bet they'd stop going outside for a bit

FlamingoFlamenco · 29/06/2019 22:44

@Doormat247 - do you live in my street? I've just been talking about that very thing on another thread - To think that people in general are becoming more selfish - My noisy neighbours are still at it, they also have elderly immediate neighbours too.

I'm off to Whitby tomorrow, first to do something I've arranged which won't take long - then off to look at properties - far, far away from the crowd.

Original poster
granadagirl · 29/06/2019 22:52

Ther 8 hrs of fucking electric saw, think it’s a wooden floor from the size of the boxes stood up against our fence.

Just the god we’re detached and I’m not bloody joined to them. Although I don’t need to be, as she’s constantly outside either shouting or on the bloody phone shouting. Don’t think she’s heard on speaking low or even normal .

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Doormat247 · 29/06/2019 23:02

@FlamingoFlamenco I've been discussing this issue at work recently as I work with 3 other people and 2 of them have similar issues to me with their neighbours. It seems to be becoming a really common theme and shows no signs of abating.

I hope your neighbours quieten down soon. I have my tv up loud to cover their noise and all my windows and doors have been closed all day due to the noise so the house is unbearably hot - so no sleep for me then 😒.

I wish I could afford to move somewhere quieter but I fear it would be hard to find anywhere that has decent neighbours that are respectful.

Jocasta2018 · 29/06/2019 23:03

@Doormat247

Maybe the elderly couple the other side are deaf????

Notcontent · 29/06/2019 23:09

I have some nightmare neighbours at the back. They don’t seem to realise that if you live in a row of small terrace houses, back to back with another row, then perhaps you should refrain from holding regular social gatherings in your tiny backyard with loud thumping music and drunken shouting until 3 am...

They are at it now. I can’t imagine doing that. I would be so embarrassed.

FlamingoFlamenco · 29/06/2019 23:13

@Doormat247 - sadly I think you are right, but with the cutting of council services such as noise abatement etc, it isn't going to get much better.
I've not been round to these noisy ones to ask if they'll turn it down, nor do I intend to. They're loud, mouthy, and seem to love a good bust up.
On the other thread I mentioned I spoke of buying an air horn and inserting it into their letter box at approx 3am to reciprocate their sharing of all things ear shattering .
But, only in my thoughts. I'm couldn't do it to either the neighbours, andI was brought up to be considerate to others.

Hope you get some sleep - as I hope for me too - got a long drive tomorrow!

EggplantVestibule · 29/06/2019 23:17

I with you on the electric saw, we have a carpenter behind us. His saw is going all day every Sunday. Every single Bloody Sunday. It drives us up the wall as we can't ever sit out or have the windows open due to the noise. No amount of complaining seems to work. We moved three years ago to get rid of selfish, extremely noisy, scummy neighbours and ended up with an electric saw instead.

EggplantVestibule · 29/06/2019 23:19

*I'm

Doormat247 · 29/06/2019 23:34

@granadagirl hopefully you won't get another day of sawing tomorrow Thanks

I really don't think these people understand how loud their voices are. They probably wouldn't care even they knew though.

Doormat247 · 29/06/2019 23:38

@FlamingoFlamenco I did once try to contact the unsocial behaviour rep for the council but she never answers her phone or replies to letters Hmm.

It seems unwise to speak to them directly but you can't actually report them until you can prove you tried to sort it out yourself face to face. My neighbour threatened to kick my head in when she first moved in, and purposefully tries to aggravate me. I never respond and ignore her as much as possible.

The air horn is a good idea - I just wish I had the balls to try it. But like you, I was brought up to respect others.

PeevedNiamh · 29/06/2019 23:50

Mine are so loud tonight I've left my bedroom and am on the floor in the front facing lounge. Honestly I wouldn't mind if they were retailing but they are shouting so loudly I can actually hear every word even with the window shut (please tell me being sweat will help me lose weight, DH thinks not but I need an upside right now). Honestly they have this massive extension that is actually causing their insane nonsense to echo.

cleanasawhistle · 29/06/2019 23:59

I really feel for you OP....

My neighbours thought it was a good idea to lock their dogs out for a few hours this evening.....constant barking so no sleep here.

I watched for the secruity light coming on so I opened my window and heard the neighbours walking round the back or their house....dogs still barking.....I shouted STFU....so now they know we have heard them.If they do it again I will be round there,hate selfish people.

HazelBite · 30/06/2019 00:08

I live in a detached house on a large plot, sports fields to one side and woods to the rear. However I have a school to the front and a sports club the other side.
Its usually a quiet and peaceful place especially at the weekend. I was aware that the school were having their annual school fair today but was not aware of the Indian wedding at the sports club, both functions playing live music at the same time.
It was so unbelievably discordant we had to shut all the windows, the ds's wore earphones.
It is now midnight, the parents barbecue has finished as has the wedding. I shall go to bed now!
Fortunately this is a very occurence.

HazelBite · 30/06/2019 00:09

Even a "rare" occurence

nancy75 · 30/06/2019 00:14

I bloody hate neighbours, mine have a dog that is left to bark all day, kids that just scream & crash about and then to top it all off they do performance shagging with sex noises that can be heard in every room in my house.
Recently they bought some kind of fire pit that they have kindly positioned on their patio, meaning all windows have to be closed or the house stinks like a bonfire.
To say I fucking hate them would be an understatement.

madcatladyforever · 30/06/2019 00:15

The 5 kids two doors up literally scream and trampoline all day long.
They have their friends over who do the same.
I'm moving to a cheaper county in a couple of months into a remote house with no neighbours in the middle of the countryside. I can't wait.

NewtonPulsifer · 30/06/2019 00:15

Solved a noisy neighbour problem one summer, they moved after the constant smell of the drains drove them away. It wasn’t the drains, it was me soaking 6X manure in tubs by their fence. That stuff stinks. I figured I wasn’t going out in the garden anyway because of their noise, i’d stink them out. Grin

HairyFloppins · 30/06/2019 00:17

YANBU

Since the warmer weather my neighbours have turned into the most inconsiderate fucks alive with their shitty hot tub and garden parties. I don't think they realise people still have to work at the weekend.

If I had my way I would live on a lighthouse with a big steel door.