Neighbours from hell or normal noise?

[lonelyonee]

Long one to try not to drip feed...
So me and partner have recently moved into a house. Upgrade from our apartment where we had to walk up three flights of stairs with no lift/other access.
For context I'm 32 weeks pregnant with our first & moving into a house was important and very much needed. & we are renting.
So first couple of days there has been A LOT of banging from our adjoining neighbour (semi detached house) in the evenings.
Partner has gone round and spoken to the lady to which she has said oh the children are having a party I'll try to get them to calm down a little.
Only problem is it had not calmed down at all. 2 days later (today) I arrive home from work and all I've heard is banging. It's honestly like they are moving furniture or kicking balls up the wall. I can hear it over the tv.
Now I know children make noise but this is excessive noise IMO. I can't hear them shouting or talking or anything, just the banging.
Now my question is aibu or not to escalate this to some kind of complaint? & if so what's the best way to go about this?
Clearly talking to them isn't working as we've now told them on three separate occasions (2 on the same night).
(I really need to be napping as soon as I'm home from work as I'm exhausted and struggling to sleep at night due to baby moving & needing the loo so much).
Ty in advance!

What times do the noises/banging stop? How long does it go on for?

Can your landlord or.rental.agency.help at all by coming round to listen. Environmental.Health have a noise nuisance website.

How many kids and how old are they? What hours are you talking about? During the day there is little you can do about noise.

And soon you will have a little one who will exercise their lungs at all hours of the day and night. If the walls are thin, this will impact on your neighbours.

I would think carefully about how you proceed.

You'll be the neighbour from hell when the baby is born.

Hey @SunOnAll it's happening as soon as I get home and continues right until around 9pm (when I assume kids go to bed).
I know it's not happening during the hours of 11pm-7am but it's so loud & surely we shouldn't have to sit here for 4 hours every single night and listen to this? I don't know what to do... I can't block it out to get any rest. (& I understand it's not their problem I'm pregnant and can't sleep but I wouldn't dream of making the level of noise I am hearing).
We didn't even hear the neighbours in our apartment that often and the walls were quite thin there tbh!

Unfortunately you cant control the noise of your neighbours
Doesnt sound like its a party at all hours of the night? But noisy living noise?

I hated hearing my neighbours. Really would set me on edge and I also hates the thought of them hearing me!! Pure luxury and I know not everyone has this luxury but I stuck it 5 years then moved to a detached.

Im not sure who you would complain to? If im honest i dont think think there is much to do unfortunately

As above your house will be the one making noise with a screaming newborn soon.

Imo you will get sweet revenge in approximately 8 weeks...

Unfortunately its what happens when you are a terraced or semi.

And you with your new born willgive them more than payback 😂

Is it pipes/heating? Seems odd that it’s very regular

I really do feel for you, but if it's 4 hours and stops by 10pm then there's nothing you can do to enforce them to stop.

You've tried speaking to them, but sadly they're not listening.

Like a PP says, your household will soon be making noise when your baby is born! You never know, maybe it'll make them realise how much the sound travels...

Google statutory noise nuisance- doubt this level of noise will meet the threshold.

You've only just moved in- it might just be a short term thing.

Neighbour wars will more than likely cause you a helluva lot more stress than a bit of banging in the long term - I'd definitely weigh up how you really want to address this.

To those saying I'll be a nuisance or rather my unborn baby will (but harsh) I'd doubt they'd even hear him since I can't hear them talking/shouting or much of anything else.
Literally just the constant banging.

& it is definitely not pipes as when OH has gone round it's gone deathly quiet, then steadily ramped back up to the same level of noise again.
I'm well aware people make noise and I have no issue with hearing them now and then and day to day noise but it's SO LOUD.
Short of me banging the walls right back to make them realise I don't think they care in the slightest! Just looking for a solution to stop it being so excessive.

They will realise how much the sound of dc travels soon....
They are blinkered to their little cherubs atm.

And this was the exact reason I bought a detached house and moved when I was pregnant. My neighbours weren't overly noisy but they slammed cupboard doors and stuff which annoyed me.

You could just make the same amount of noise on their walls? Maybe they'll realise how bloody annoying it is.

Do you know what they’re actually doing? It’s pretty unlikely that any child would keep up the same noisy game for four hours, let alone for hours every night. Can you hear it everywhere in your house?

I think it sounds like normal noise for a house with kids. Of course you will hear banging (children running about, playing with toys etc).
And of course you'll be able to hear the banging but no talking, how loud do you think people talk?
Kids running around on the other hand sounds like an elephant stampede, I know. But I don't think you can do anything about it, they're not doing it at unreasonable times and at the end of the day they are kids who sound like they're enjoying themselves.
Also like other PPs said, you'll be making your own noise soon enough, don't forget your child will grow up too, and in turn I'm sure they will get sick of your noise.

Agree with others, you'll give them hell when your baby comes along.

We have noisy neighbours - 4 person family, kids make noise but the dad only communicates by shouting and swearing, either at the kids or the puppy. Also plays loud Spanish music and has boozy nights in the garden with his mates on weekdays. Easily solved - took my speaker outside and played Limp Bizkit at full volume during a very noisy summers evening. They shut the hell up pretty instantly. In the evenings we turn the telly up extra loud when they're arguing, even at midnight.

It's a new house for you so plenty of shelves and pictures to put on the walls, preferably the ones facing them...?

Is it the stairs? Running up and down the stairs?

@MoonlightBonnet yes I've put my ear up against the wall. Sounds like the kids are running around and banging into the walls and stomping on the floor, maybe even launching themselves off the settee or something? (which I can only guess is wooden and not carpeted). As I'm writing this it's managed to get even louder! Which I didn't think was actually possible. I honestly feel like crying as I feel like I've traded one problem for another and I genuinely don't know what to do!

I wonder, if they're fairly young, if they have one of those little indoor trampolines with the bar that you hold onto while you jump. Littlest DD had one in the dining room and I moved it into her bedroom over Christmas, on the solid floor downstairs I never heard it but once it was upstairs - thump thump thump through the whole house. It was very quickly moved back to the dining room. Or maybe they're jumping on their beds.

Unfortunately it likely won't meet the thresholds of statutory noise nuisance as its children and its stopping by 9pm so would be classed as living noise. On the bright side, the nights will soon start getting lighter so there's every chance they'll start playing outside instead of in their room(s) and by the time next winter rolls around they'll be too big for jumping on beds.

Op the solution is...
1 detached house
2 earplugs

@picklesdragonisawelshdragon that's what it sounds like but the stairs are situated against the outlying wall so it can't be.