To be fuming at unnecessarily loud neighbours

[Reallyhopethisworks]

Not sure why I'm posting... other than wanting to vent.

Neighbours are having a dinner party with the loudest guests ever! They are sat in their kitchen, with doors wide open onto their patio. I can hear them braying loud and clear three stories up in my kids' bedrooms. It is sweltering. Have to have windows closed so the kids can sleep. But, I can still hear them. Neighbours let their boys (primary school age) stay up really late. They are often bouncing basketballs on their patio, which has high solid walls and no greenery so the sound just reverbates. Husband doesn't want to tell them to be quiet.... possibly because we have a 2 month old that may disturb them sometimes. Not really the same thing is it though?

Please share your stories of noisy neighbours to make me feel better.

I dont think you can tell them to be quiet at 8.30pm.

Its only 8.30pm

Annoying as hell!!.

I used to live in an area dedicated to 3/4 story flats. Advertised as 'apartments for young professionals'. Each building had around 20 flats. Anyways, our flat faced into the huge shared courtyard area which was designed with outdoor seating, BBQ area etc. Was really nice! However, some young professionals seem to equal roudy fresh-our-of-uni people who were still in a student mindset. We all had balconies and there were about 5 balconies all together who were awful. They threw their doors wide open and played really loud drum and bass music, often 10+ people in each flat shouting and screaming, one had a huge sofa on their balcony and the others tried to climb down from their balcony onto the sofa. I remember when the world cup was on, I didn't even need to turn my TV on as I could hear theirs so clearly across the courtyard. So happy when I moved out of there

Noisy neighbours to me:

Leaving dog in at night alone, who then can hear a cat that has been shut out cry for 2 hours and dog also barking 2 hours at 11pm at night down our quiet road

Loud frequent parties with music and rowdy after midnight in the week

Stomping up and down communal stairs and slamming doors

Mowing lawn or something equally awful at 7am on a Sunday

People having a dinner party in their garden at 8.30pm on a Sunday doesn’t strike me as horrific

Dinner in the garden at 8.30 on a Sunday seems reasonable to me. Sounds lovely in fact, I'm envious of them!

My neighbours are really, really lovely kind generous helpful people...but...in their culture, the kids stay up til gone midnight.. And their kids in particular, though absolutely lovely polite kids, screech and about a d sometimes scream for no reason until gone midnight in the summer, all night, school nights included. It's a bit exhausting 😴

I have to agree with PP, it's only 20.30, hardly late. They sound like they are having a nice time, it may be frustrating but it's not unreasonable.
Neighbours needs a bit of give and take, your child will have many nights of keeping them up and that will be frustrating for them, but again, not unreasonable from you.

Ok, so it sounds like I'm not being entirely reasonable... but they were so loud! And it's so hot with the windows closed! I guess I'm just being particularly grumpy today. I know that there needs to be give and take with neighbours. But sometimes it feels that there is more give on our part and a lot of take on their part. Thanks for your stories of really noisy neighbours. Helps to put mine into perspective.

I don’t know where you are in the UK but I am SE and it really wasn’t that hot after about 9pm with a really cool quite strong breeze. It was really hot yesterday but not as hot today or tonight!

I meant to add, just have the windows open? Unless DC are very particular sleepers and then this might one issue, mine would sleep if tired even with noise of people talking

Our local bigwig farmer throws a bit of a party this weekend and the music goes on til 0600....haven't really slept in 2 nights, can hear it thru my closed windows from 5 miles away

We've got new neighbours over the road from us. They have moved out of the local chavvy town and out into the country but they have no idea of how much noise they make. They have constant visitors meaning bbqs and meals outside, complete with loud music and lots of alcohol. Cars coming and going all hours, slamming their gate, dogs barking morning noon and night. And he stands like Dom Joly on his fucking mobile on the drive taking calls all hours of the day and night.

We can't work out if they've won the lottery or robbed a bank, tbh. Either way I frankly wish their house would fall into a massive sinkhole but DH thinks we'd still hear them..............

Well we have an ultra loud motorbike that goes past every single night at 11.45pm just as I’m about to drift off to sleep and the neighbours opposite us have friends that beep their horn whenever they piss off home after a dinner party ends at fuck knows what time.

Why do people do this?! You’ve just said bye, now get in your car and drive the fuck home. Why do you need to beep your horn?

Can you tell I’m sleep deprived and annoyed...?

I really sympathise; I disliked summer nights with a baby for that reason. Unfortunately they aren’t doing anything wrong though.

I used to have a neighbour that for some unknown reason every bloody morning at around 6 am used to drag his motorbike into the joint passage between our houses and rev it for about an hour
5 kids and 8 months pregnant it wore thin fast
His was a smallish bike but by god it was loud
He soon stopped the morning my dad came round on his much bigger motorbike and didn’t even glance at neighbour
I swear to god this bloke thought it was a case of ‘bigger the bike,bigger the ego,bigger willy’
We moved a few months later