To ask neighbours to keep it down?

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Neighbours 2 doors down have had one of those wooden rooms built at the bottom of their garden, and for the past few months have been having fairly regular gatherings/parties in there of a Saturday night. 9/10 times it’s the late teen children and their friends, sometimes the grown ups.

Anyway, at the moment it’s practically every Saturday night. Last weekend we went to bed at midnight and there was still loud music, singing and lots of shouting and screaming (this was the kids). This week, DS was was woken at 1:30 by the grown ups singing.

I take absolutely no issue with someone having a party in their own home that is as loud as they like, and as late as they like, for say a birthday, anniversary, or other special occasion. I also understand that a parent of a late teen (although I’m sure they are over 18) would rather have them safe at home than out god knows where, getting up to god knows what.

BUT if it’s so regularly, AIBU to ask that they firstly, try and keep the noise down a bit, and secondly, that they take it inside the house at a reasonable time?

Completely unreasonable. If they are like this in November I dread to think what next summer holds in store!

Wow that’s totally unreasonable of them!

I’d certainly have a word - noise ought to be kept down after 11pm. I remember turning the music down at my 40th at 11pm and we were indoors in a detached house, with patio doors occasionally open (it was winter).

I’ve just come back from a holiday let in a semi detached house, where the guest information specifically said to turn noise down at 11pm.

If it continues, you can monitor it and report to environmental health.

YANBU
Are the parents reasonable types?

I’ve been taking recordings with my phone out of the back door so they are obviously timed and dated. It winds me up that people can be so selfish but they might not realise if no one has said anything.

I haven’t ever really had anything to do with them before except for telling them to move all of the shit they piled at the end of my garden when they were having the wooden hut built and whenever they have taken a parcel in for us and I’ve picked it up the husband is always miserable as fuck. (We take their parcels in too).

Are you in south Yorkshire? My sil has one of these..

Nope we are much further south!

I think I’m going to knock in a minute and talk to them about it. I was tempted to knock at 7am but thought that might seem a bit passive aggressive for the first compliant

It’s getting really cold now - they must be freezing out there! Hopefully the novelty of the new shed will wear off soon. But YANBU at all OP.

You should go round as early as you can!

Just went and knocked, wife answered and said ok fair enough will take on board the noise and times etc, but was adamant that they have only ever had 2 parties in the hut (this week and last week) and never had any though the summer! Which is absolute bullshit, it’s practically every week! I said maybe the kids were having parties they didn’t know about when they were out? She didn’t even flinch so maybe?

Anyway, I have been silently seething for a while so I’m glad I’ve said it now. We’ll see how it goes in future.

Yes, wake them all up. Catch them unawares.

Can you go along with another neighbour? I am sure you are not the only one affected.

Or get them to go over separately........keep the pressure on them all day.