Noisy neighbours

[granadagirl]

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.

We used to live near someone who would have a full on sound system outside and start MCing at full volume. Until 4am. Every time the sun came out, so we could never use our garden. You could hear it several streets away. I remember walking down to the shops and seeing confused looking people wondering what festival was on. Thankfully he moved away. I still remember the stress, so have huge sympathies for you.

As my polite friend says ...’they’re feckless’

Sounds very grim.

Glad I live alone on an island lol.

It is Summer. Part of the package. But agree some people with alcohol on board just do not realise how loud they are. Same with constantly barking dogs and ahem.... electric saws all day (that is not nice at all).

Noise cancelling headphones work well. And then look forward to Winter. lol.

Don't get me started on trampolines. My next door neighbour has one and it is about 2 foot higher than my fence, they kindly put it right next to my patio for their grandchildren to bounce the hell out of. If that was not bad enough neighbours on the other side of me have got one for their granddaughter so I now have a lovely view of 2. Whatever happened to considerate neighbours, I would never do that.

Do t believe ‘it’s part of the package’ now it’s summer. I’ve lived many summers without disturbing my neighbours and always enjoy summer. You can bbq without playing loud music, drink without shouting and cackling, have kids and pets without expecting your neighbours to suffer for it. It really is!

@Thefemalekeithrichards A few of them were of that ilk, one of them not.

Just shocked at how many shouty arguments there were today just going about our business.

I'd place a massive speaker facing them and blast some foreign tunes at them.
I've done it to dickhead neighbors before - and it works!
They're forced to discuss/behave reasonably or put up with listening to 'jingly jangly shite'
(I understand the foreign language so it doesn't bother me)

There is no such thing as society. I'm sure Thatcher meant that in an economic or whatever sense, and I never liked her at all.

But it was taken on board, and laissez faire results. You can do what you want really.

We have some new neighbours behind us, it's their first summer here.

Their bastard bacteria pool with constant bubble function I assume and trampoline is bad enough. But yesterday they opened their back door and blasted old skool rave music for hours on fucking end.

We are in our 50's, fairly quiet apart from the odd meltdown from ASD son but I'm seriously considering getting my ancient stereo and speakers out next time and blasting some Bollywood music out of the back door after pre warning all the other neighbours I'd be happy listening to it and I'll take the same attitude as them, I don't give a shit about my neighbours.

I used to live next door to two ladies (using the term loosely) who had 3 dogs, loads of cats and would happily beat the shit out of each other most days. It would also sound like the animals were joining in. We would pray that one day their dogs would just eat them but it never happened. As well as beating the shit out of each other they caused lots of neighbours to move away from the street with their endless shit music which they played throughout the afternoons, plus evenings and into the early hours. This wasn't just reserved for weekends but also during the week. It was a naice area where we lived and you wouldn't really expect that sort of neighbour living next door.
I lost the plot one day and got quite ragey when my 7 week old baby couldn't take a nap and I hadn't slept properly for weeks. So I went round but it did nothing. 2 weeks later we left. Luckily we rented (so did they but their landlord lived in a different part of the country and gave not a single fuck to our misery) so we got out. We lasted 5 months living next door to them. Now when I see one of them riding their bike through the local town I fantasise about running her over.

I'm seriously considering getting my ancient stereo and speakers out next time and blasting some Bollywood music out of the back door
Do it!
I did and it felt great!
I had my response ready when one of the twats complained that he could hear my 'shit' music - "yea, i had to drown out your shit!"

I think I would take music over the ultra loud performance parenting that's been going on next door to us: "Oh you are such a clever boy"; "did you pick up the car?"; "look at you in your sandpit digging a hole!" on repeat. Loudly. All. Bloody. Weekend.

I wonder if I live near you
I nearly came on here at 2pm to write the same
I’m fucking fuming they have ruined my sunday

Our new neighbours have a puppy and a baby, don't mind either making noise but hearing the dad screaming "SHUT THE FUCK UP" to them every 30 seconds is actually infuriating! They also leave the puppy poops on their AstroTurf and the smell in this weather is suffocating. Literally can't open windows it's so bad.

My sympathies OP. I used to have neighbours like this. It was one of the happiest days of my life when they moved (and my new neighbours are lovely,hardly hear a sound from them). I do wonder,just what is it about hot weather that makes some people behave like total morons? My ex neighbours used to start the minute it hit 25 degrees. The hotter it got,the more cuntish their behaviour got. Constant DIY from 7am until midnight,accompanied by loud music. Continual screaming and shouting at their kids,barbecues on the go constantly all weekend,a never ending stream of visitors shouting and yelling at all hours of the day and night,a dog that never stopped baring because they'd continually wind it up,revving up a motorbike in the back garden,blowing stinking exhaust fumes everywhere...... Seriously,at it's peak in the summer of 2006,I thought I was going out of my mind,it was that bad.

Sounds like where I live.

The neighbours have zero volume control, consequently their kids are loud too. My neighbours kids are on their very large trampoline which is higher than my fence & constant yelling/screeching is like nails down a blackboard.

When I'm home I need noise cancelling headphones to stop me losing the plot.

Consideration is obviously a forgotten commodity, but as long as their kids are having fun whilst the parents ignore them, that's all that matters right??.

Can't wait to move, it's a really horrible place to live now....

OP - Shout "Alexa - play the entire Metallica album"..

I feel really bad because we have cats, we have a small boy who plays out in the garden by hiself and sings for an hour or so after school, and I don't cut the grass very often. (Wildlife, not laziness.) So I feel a bit sorry for the very tidy concreted neighbours who live next door but one.

On the other hand, I now know how shit The Cure were at Glasto last night, because me and Small Boy got to listen to their set at 10.15 last night while he was trying to get to sleep. (Bloody awful version of "Burn" IMO) So next time they complain about my noisy little half-Siamese cat who does not understand the concept of cat flap, wanting to come in at breakfast time, they can fuck right off.

It annoys the fuck out of me when people don’t know how to position play equipment. Trampolines need to be down the bottom of the garden, well away from the house. We have purposely grown our trees and hedges a little higher than the top of the trampoline. You need to oil springs in the winter so they don’t get creaky. Kids need to be calming down and coming inside/doing chilled activities by about 7 I think rather than running round still.

I think it’s okay for people to play a bit of music quietly, especially if they’re sitting outside having dinner; but it needs to be off by 9pm latest, and the volume needs to be kept in check.

Whenever my parents had a BBQ in the summer, they’d pop their head over the fence and let the neighbours know so they could take in their washing. I always let my neighbours know, but they have never ONCE extended me the same courtesy.

I should also say that kids in by 7 and music quiet and off by 9 only applies at the weekends/dinner parties.

I don’t mind the noise of playing kids, but where we used to live during the summer holidays it was just full screaming... and I mean screaming, non stop from 7am-9pm. Every single fucking day. The neighbour was the grandma and she’d just chuck 5 kids out into the garden and let them go ham at each other. They actually had screaming competitions 💀

The other side were perfectly lovely. I used to quite like sitting in the garden and hearing her potter about to radio 4 on a Sunday morning Always knocked and let us know or slipped a note through the door if they were having a party/get together as well.

I think we should start a trampoline thread. I am currently trying to grow bamboo in pots to shield the massive one next door higher than my fence and right next to my patio.