Please tell me if I'm being precious

[Imupallnightto]

My neighbor is having a party, that's fine it's 7pm it's summer, I'm happy for them (wish I was at one truth be told). My baby can't put himself to sleep because the base on their reggae music is shaking the house. It's not even the noise it's the vibrations.
Would I have a leg to stand on to ask them very nicely if they could lower the base for even half an hour so he can put himself to sleep?
It's literally shaking my walls.

Commiserations, OP. Bass frequencies can be a bit miserable at lower volume than treble frequencies (someone else can come and do the proper scientific explanation, but my former neighbours, who also favoured bass-heavy music, managed to bring one of my kitchen cupboards off the wall.)

I went round to my neighbours with my crying baby in my arms...and they did nothing.

I did make sure I went round again at 6.30am to ask if they'd had a nice party (may have banged loudly on their door until they answered)

"Complain to the police - you tried to be nice x"

You can't complain to the police about noise at 7pm!

Of course you're going to be up nice and early in the morning aren't you? Music on, cutting the lawn, kids running round in the garden screaming. Then maybe they'll ask you to turn the noise down for 20 minutes so they can get a cup of coffee to ease their hangovers. Selfish buggers...

Wake them up at half 5 in the morning. Normally I'd be against being so petty but these people sound like complete pricks.

Report them to the council too. There's absolutely no need for that kind of noise, regardless of time.

Absolutely inconsiderate, as it is of anyone having a loud party. If you want to have parties, then either buy a house far away from other people, or hire a pub/hall. It’s never okay to make so much noise that people can’t sleep or relax in their own home.

"Wake them up at half 5 in the morning"

Why? They had loud noise at 7pm, which is completely reasonable. She would be waking them up at an unsocial hour and she'd be the one in the wrong.

Okay so the rain has arrived and put a stop to a delightfully firework display. DS had woken but luckily he is back asleep now.

I won't make noise at 5am but I don't think we will be borrowing any sugar from each other now

Hire a pub or hall? Pubs and halls can have loud music at 7pm as well.

@OldUnit what a twat comment. You should feel embarrassed for yourself

Glad it's calming down op

unbelievable assholery

I would absolutely be mowing my lawn at 7am with power ballads blasting out of the windows.

Having music so loud that it makes your neighbour's house vibrate is never OK, even if it was the middle of the day. It's selfish.

Fingers crossed it's quiet for the night now!

There's an idea. Pop round at 6am to borrow sugar :)

This would give me the rage

I know MN general opinion is you have to be terribly laid back about such things but I would be fuming.

There is no need to have such loud music in a house party. And the fact you were so nice about it and then they metaphorically flicked you the bird is just rotten

You absolutely have to do some noisy performance parenting at 5am all week now

Mowing the lawn with power ballads blaring also affects all the other neighbours as well.

Hope all was quiet after that OP.
if noise continues and is antisocial ie suspected drugs, very loud after 9pm (I think. Your council will have info online about it) then just involve the noise abatement team. Most councils have one.
Try and avoid going to war with your neighbours, so to speak because that’s really stressful. Fingers crossed that’s the end of it

You got rain last night? I'm so jealous, it's sweltering here