Neighbour talking on phone in garden all day and taking calls on speaker phone

[UnshakenNeedsStirring]

Since the lockdown the neighbour has decided to sit in the garden and work. He talks all his call in the garden, talking loudly. Its 6:30 pm and he is still on his phone. I can hear him in my living room! I can also hear all the the participants on the phone! It starts at 10 am and goes on till 7 pm. I cant keep the patio doors open or the noise will be horrendous! Talking to him wont work, they are not the type you can reason with.Its driving me mad! Any suggestions? Maybe I should play music, loudly!!

Oooh I'm sorry that was me today!.I had two very long loudspeaker calls in my garden today! My neighbours were out in their garden talking to each other so didn't think it was any different?

@Grumpylockeddownwoman just wanted to say fair play that you’ve decided to change your behaviour after reading someone else’s thread. It’s surprising that when you’re on a call you don’t actually realised how loud you are.

clap and bang saucepans loudly - who says it has to be 8pm on Thursday?
that interspersed with singalonga baby shark should do the trick.

Pressure washer or a leaf blower are your friends here. Much noisier than a lawnmower and you can use them for as long as you need and as intermittently as you like. Much more annoying not knowing when a noise is going to stop

I flipping love you lot.

Rammstein, Goldie Lookin Chain, Eminem and the Bloodhound Gang sounds like part of my dream festival line up. If I was your irritating neighbour I'd be shutting up to enjoy the music!

I’m just here for the update.

10am untili 630pm is hardly unsociable hours.

It is, if you’re the neighbour that has to listen to it all day. It’s one thing to chat on your phone in the garden, but some people talk that loud you’d think they were using two cups and a string!

A few days ago my neighbours either side of me decided to have a phone conversation, which I thought was nice as usually one decides to shout hello Mr Other neighbour and have a bit of a chat OVER MY GARDEN! But, one had their phone on speaker so I could hear the other neighbour in their garden, and then I could hear them on speaker!! Grr!

There's only one song that's a cure for this type of situation. I present to you Chas and Dave, preferably on repeat until he cops on

Record his calls and play them back, very loudly.

My previous neighbours were quite annoying and I got my sander out and sanded down the gas meter box several times over just to get my own back. They went inside in the end. Game, set and match to me.

Is he just talking shit?
Like nothing confidential?

I'd go for any music and if he says anything say you'll put it on so he doesn't have to worry about monitoring the calls and you feel like you shouldn't be listening to his work calls so it's just to help

My neighbour is the loudest man on the planet who thinks he owns the street.
He does what he wants every minute of the day with no thought for anyone else.
Radio on full blast with his door opened from 5am-8pm, takes it in the garden if he goes outside, hammers, drills, shouts, swears, fights with his partner, constantly tells her she’s just a stupid woman...
Last summer we found out the only way to get him back indoors was to play with our dog with ALL his sqeaky toys!
He had a maddy shouting about the fuckin noise! Then retreated indoors.
Works everytime!

• start learning the violin
• move your ironing board outside and put on sing along Hare Krishna music with enthusiasm
• put a Bavarian dress and start dancing on Yodel
• move your TV and gaming console outside and learn to shoot zombies and make sure to swear every 30 seconds. And shoot shoot shoot non -stop

@LeGrandBleu I'm liking the yodelling utilisation rushes of to scout Amazon music for Frank Ifield for own annoying neigbours

Sign up for singing lessons via zoom. Do them in the garden.

Hosepipe

Loving the yodeling suggestion too. I was going to suggest something like Bing Crosby’s greatest hits, or maybe bagpipes.

Pressure washes are exceptionally loud.
I always think, if I had bad neighbours, I’d play really loudly, some really random stuff like Morris dancing music, folk, Gregorian chants, Mongolian throat singing, anything to throw them off balance and cause them to go indoors.

I would power wash the fence with headphones in and accidentally splash his laptop/phone

This is hilarious sits down with cup of tea

DH is a landscape gardener. He owns a chainsaw, several very noisy strimmers, a petrol driven powerwasher which is VERY loud, a cement mixer, a power saw, four lawnmowers, a leaf blower, a site radio with a VERY deep bass and a pneumatic drill. He also has very good industrial grade earplugs. We have no problems with noisy neighbours at ALL

Unshaken - great thread and lots of very funny suggestions. I especially like the idea of recording his calls and playing it back to him- it has a weird vibe to it which amuses me.

I quite like Eminem as per my suggestion but only listen twice a week as I have a very Loud neighbour who performance parents in her garden from 7am every day. Just occasionally I have a little play of White Americans and it does send her indoors. But my DC then come and complain that my music is too loud!

When my neighbour annoys me I play Fuck you by Lilly Allen

Many years ago I was singing in the kitchen when someone banged on the wall from the next flat. Now it was a reasonable time and the two kitchens were together, so its not like I was keeping someone awake. I tuned the radio to an opera station and left it full blast against the wall for the remainder of the evening.

It never happened again.

Bit of peaches should do the trick

(Although your other neighbours may then be complaining about you)