AIBU to give neighbours a taste of what they expect me to tolerate?

[Pricklemyfancy]

DH and I work full time and are up at 6am Mon-Fri.
My DH and our 2 DDs (4 and 7) live in a semi-detached house which has been built without our stairs forming the 'barrier', iyswim. Our bedroom is next to their bathroom; my DDs' room is next to their younger child's (18) room.
Neighbours have 2 adult (18 and 20-something) children living with them.
Their "children" bang doors into the early hours, play Youtube stuff at a volume that can be heard clearly in our rooms, play some sort of Call of Duty style war game so we can hear the bangs and groans and explosions... this frequently goes on until 2am. We can fall asleep, but then are woken up repeatedly throughout the night.
I approached the neighbours some months ago and explained that we could hear their noises and were being woken up, and to ask if they could be quieter past around 10pm. They were lovely, but nothing changed.
I went around again last week to ask again if they could be quieter. This time I was received a bit differently, with the father saying he couldn't "tell people what to do". One night last week, the noises were so loud that I went around at 1am to ask them to be quiet. The 20-something adult child answered the door, said they had all been asleep (!) and told me to get away from the doorway or they would call the police.
Only one of them works; the others seem to mope around in dressing gowns all day when they eventually do get up. Would IBU to leave for work on Monday having turned my sound system on loud and directed at their walls from 6am?

@Pricklemyfancy - I think you’d be perfectly reasonable to play music at them all day.

Have you considered a playlist, or would you go for Baby Shark, played on a loop for 8 hours straight?

I work nights and my neighbours often play music when im trying to sleep. On my nights off I feel like blasting my music at 2 in the morning lol.

If you do retaliate then Peppa pig on repeat should do it.

@SchadenfreudePersonified It would make no difference if you saw the garden! Letterbox sounds like a plan though lol

It seems as if we have the same evil nature, @TheHagOnTheHill - if slightly different ways to implement it!

Play peppa pig loudly all day. War is war OP

I've just been looking up soundproofing and it seems like it might be a cheaper option than moving.

My imaginary revenge playlist would include the worst ear-worms out there. Love the idea of Peppa Pig! Or just sound effects - tanks and grenades and people screaming for mercy...

Oh yes. I've a song more annoying than baby shark, tortinos tortinos hot pizza rolls it is the most aggravating mind numbing song, My DC love it. There is an 8 hour repear track on YouTube.

@pricklemyfancy you may want to get similar to one of these for when your own DCs are out of the house. I know that my DCs hated the cat deterrents that we used to have.

www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/why-mosquito/sound-deterrent-for-under-25s/

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It's such a shame that you feel your only option is to move house! What inconsiderate hastards they are!

Our next door neighbours are nice people but when their kids were younger it was pretty unbearable. Screaming and shrieking all day and all night and banging doors all night because the kids refused to stay in bed etc.

Have you asked other neighbours about the history of the neighbours noisiness? coukd be a history there that would be helpful. Or could be used against the last seller you bought from if they did not disclose the issue?

My friend phoned the police and the council and they came out. That night. And three other nights.

They monitored the situation and eventually the neighbours were threatened with an asbo for being too loud. At which point they packed in the noise. Job done.

If you can sort this problem out with the council you won’t have to move. Seems the sensible option.

Wonder if there's something you could do to disrupt the WiFi the game players need after 10pm as sounds like that's the main issue? See someone has beaten me to the suggestion re: the sonic device as well!

Sounds hellish. Can you afford soundproofing, or moving house?

If they won’t wear headphones...you don’t have to either 🧐

I so feel your pain!
We are upstairs to awful neighbours downstairs who have dogs that bark the whole time they are out (which both working full time and long hours way into the night ) is a lot!
We approached them about it was meet with no compliance then after a complaint was made to the council by another neighbour which the obviously assumed was us they reported us to family protection services apparently my husband verbally abuses me
All lies just wanted to retaliate in the most awful way!

I would suggest reporting a noise complaint to the council - make a log of the times and take audio if possible.

Some neighbours are just disrespectful.

Ring Cycle on 24 loop! Loud

Could you get your DC to learn the violin of which they have to play in their rooms before school. Or drums. Either or are really good for childhood development ;)

Just move!
This thread is bringing back terrible memories of our last place, a flat under the most inconsiderate toddler family ever. In the mornings, they'd RUN back and forth in the flat getting ready for work: presumably the shirts were kept in a drawer in this room, socks in that room, pants on the washing airer in another. All while shouting. As soon as the toddler was old enough, he'd run around madly in the morning too (learned behaviour) but then would trip and fall and hurt himself and then bawl in pain. Daily. Goodness knows how bruised his legs were. It was torture to listen to, actual torture.
We live in a glorious detached house now, with a quiet retired couple on one side (who are such lovely, lovely neighbours) and a guy who's usually abroad on the other. Bliss! In the silence I can just hear the birds chirping in the trees.

@Glasscabinet oooh that's a good idea, can I throw in a trumpet as well - my sis had one at school it was horrific 😂!

I played 'She fucking hates me' by Puddle of Mud on repeat for five hours after several months of weeknight parties till 5am and being told to just suck it up. It worked.

Move, but in the meantime I would need to vacuum all the adjoining rooms early each morning, hitting the skirting boards head on all along the wall. More subtle than music but bloody annoying for them, particularly if their bed is on that wall.

Don't be so sure the council will be that responsive. Ours wasn't in a similar situation. Pretty useless in fact. And handled it badly so NDNs knew. They were dangerous people so it was a very stressful situation. We moved.

After the way you were spoken to I'd say that is part of the problem, the children are in charge of the parents and don't listen to them, they are probably very rude and disrespectful to them as well.
Maybe go to work and leave the radio on all day, if they come to your door say the same thing say I forgot to turn off and like your dd said to me if you don't go away I will call the police. X