What do we do?

[BackOffKaren]

First post, long time lurker.

I moved into a new house 6 months ago. Mostly fine except for the neighbours. We live in a row of 5 terraced houses and on one side, there lives 2 couples.

We don't generally hear much from them during the day but every weekend they have all night parties where the music is just thudding through the wall constantly. It's now 3.35am, my partner has been and asked them to turn it off and it's still going. I am 27 weeks pregnant, I have 2 kids and it's driving me mad.

What do we do? I know the police aren't interested, we've reported it to the council but they sent us a log and only gave us a month to fill it out. And we've tried speaking to them but they don't care. I try to give them a bit of leeway, I know my kids can be loud in the day but it's just too much hearing it all night.

What a nightmare for you. Unfortunately I think if the street attracts that age group ( as our first house did) then you always be in earshot of a party. We moved when dd was 1 year old.

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I’d be tempted to warn the neighbours the other side, wait till they have a loud party and all goes quiet..... get the kids up at say 6am, then go out for the day leaving every loud device in the house on. Speakers up against the adjoining wall....
What’s sauce for the goose and all that! They might be more considerate if their hangovers are disturbed in the same way your sleep is.

Give your kids a drum set and tell them
To play until their hearts content in the garden or a room that’s closest to their bedroom. Should fit in nicely with a hangover! Defo need to speak to them in the morning it’s a joke is that. Do they have kids?

That's just not on! I'd be just mad enough to start drilling, lawn mowing or whatever other loud activity you can think of as early as possible.

The other people who live in the row all have kids, so I don't think that it's the type of people in the area.
I wouldn't mind if it was a one-off but it's every weekend and it's driving me insane. I'm going to put the music on this morning, and I know the girl from the other side of them is as well (she messaged me on Facebook at 4am) but I don't know what the long term solution is.
We've spoken to them, whilst it's happening and afterwards and they just don't really care.
Moving isn't an option at the minute either.

Can you complain to their landlord?

We had this. I was at the end of my tether with it and ended up going round there on a random midweek day (so not when a party was happening) and went a bit crazy at them. Told them I had already been in touch with their landlord, the council and my next step was the police and they could rest assured I wasn't the right one to be trying it with and I would not stop until they were evicted.

None of it was true by the way, I'd just lost my shit mentally after yet another weekend of a party all hours in the garden with someone dressed as a fucking Pineapple arguing with me when I asked them to please turn the music down. I remember actually saying the words "I'm not arguing with a fucking Pineapple "

Anyway, it worked, after my door stepping and acting like a psycho, they stopped!

Just phone the police every time and say you think there are drugs being sold at the address.

Which there probably are. So you’re not lying.
Every single time.