More a WWYD next? Neighbour’s alarm

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Two alarms set off to go off at 5am, yesterday 6am. So clearly they are being reset. It’s been going on for about a month.

It’s a beeping alarm that is very loud and is left to beep until it turns itself off an hour later.

Spoke to the husband yesterday, whose response indicated they sleep in separate rooms and he would speak to his wife.

I’m amazed it doesn’t wake up their household because the beeping can heard throughout my upstairs. It is very loud.

I think this is going to be a battle of wills. I suspect she is of the opinion, ‘don’t tell me how to live in my house’.

How long before I have the second conversation? How do I phrase my request?

My final strategy would be to move out and rent to a bunch of students. AIBU

I could have wrote this myself. My neighbour does the exact same thing. It's been going on a long time now and we dont really know how to approach it. For context my DP is partially deaf and it even wakes him along with my children on the other side of the house but clearly dosnt wake them. Il be interested to see how you deal with this as it may give me some inspiration.

I feel bad as my alarm clock is incredibly loud (horrible metal ringy thing) and I’m sure my neighbours must hear it. I work shifts so I get up at all sorts of antisocial hours from 4.30am onwards.

However quieter alarms just don’t wake me up, before I bought this, it was entirely Russian roulette what time I’d wake up - I don’t even switch them off half asleep, I just solidly sleep through it.

However it makes such a horrendous noise I do leap across the room and silence it as quickly as I possibly can so hopefully they don’t hate me too much.

@6000milesaway They probably do hate you. If I was being woken up at 4.30 am by a neighbours alarm that neighbour would soon be being woken up by loud blasts of music at random intervals. Luckily my neighbours aren't inconsiderate.

Can't you try a wake up light in conjunction with a quieter alarm & put that alarm next to you, not across the room!

Not much you can do really is there? They have the right for their alarm to go off when they want.

YABU to treat students with such disdain in your OP though. Just shows what type of person you are. I hope they set it even earlier.

@Butterbeeeen, what makes you reluctant to speak to your neighbours?

The beeping stopped after 45 minutes this morning suggesting it had been turned off manually. So hopefully progress.

@homeishere Agree that they have a right to set their alarm for when they need/want. It is unreasonable to leave it beeping for an hour unnecessarily during antisocial hours.

Re my comment about students. You’re right to point out that students shouldn’t be assumed to be noisy.

Just bumping up folks for the evening traffic. Top tips very welcome.

Do you have the lady’s number? Why not ring her continually after 5 minutes of the alarm ringing, stating you heard her share, it’s still going off so you’re ringing to make sure she’s awake as surely she’s set an alarm at that time as it’s important.

If I had this problem I couldn't put up with it long, after 10-15 mins surely you go and bang on the front door?

If you don't like confrontation you can seethe silently and say you're checking they're ok because no one could sleep through the beeping waking up all the houses... Surely? Then do the exact same thing. Every. God damn. Morning.

Having youbang on the door will hopefully be a deterrent.

If not, council noise team!

You can get a wireless door bell for about a fiver on Amazon, depending on the range you need to stick the doorbell onto their front door - or the outside of their bedroom window (depending on how much effort you want to put in with a long stick) to your bedside table. As soon as you hear the alarm clock, start ringing your doorbell.

Go round and bang on the door and tell them not to do this. When I was younger I did thissnooze/snooze and it drove my neighbours mad. Was totally my fault. Same for you. Just tell them it's not acceptable and show anger. Unless they're nuts they'll stop doing it.

Thanks all. There’s always the ‘what if they turn out to be selfish’. Alarm stopped thank heavens.