Fucking neighbours.

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Neighbours used to have a party most Saturdays and be a little loud but always finish by 11.30 and you could barely hear them.

Now it's summer and lockdown they have one every Saturday. They shout and sing in the garden til 2.30. I can hear it through my closed window which I am pissed off about having to close because it's hot.

They're even doing it in the week occasionally.

Would you call the police after a certain time and see what they do? Assume nothing but worth a try? What else could be done? I don't want to knock on their door. They obv don't give a fuck and I don't want to put myself as being the one that's bothered.

They're mostly nice, keep to themselves (apart from turning in the cup de sac with music booming in their car at all hours) and say hello. There were loads of them living together but now it's an older couple, a younger couple and a few kids. Maybe 2.

If it was over by midnight it would be fine but it's so inconsiderate it does my head in!

Tripple glazing is a wonderful sound excluder.

We have new ‘neighbours’ ... travellers who have moved onto farmland behind us .... they’ve spent every night racing their cars up and down tooting horns, spinning .... until 3/4am. Every neighbour has phoned the police and they say there’s nothing they can do

Now, this is all hypothetical, obviously but...

... do you know where their electric utility box is?

If it is outside and accessible grab a utility key and flick the switch. They'll never figure it out!

No. I have never, ever done it

Some people just don't give a shit and have no consideration. The police should sort them all out. Selfish wankers.

Luckily our neighbours are considerate, but if not their master fuse is inside our house :-)

I hear you
Noisy neighbours can be a nightmare

Can I just ask though, as I noted it here and also on other threads, is is usual to swap mobile numbers with neighbours or do you actually talk with them on a day to day basis ? Just that I have no neighbours numbers nor they mine,.

That seems unusual (but useful , lol) @WaffleCash

@Livelovebehappy

icansmellburningleaves They do. I’ve called them for a noisy party which was midweek, still noisy at 2.00 in the morning. And they came pretty quickly. There for five minutes, and whatever they said worked as the party stopped. Often it’s not just inconveniencing one household, but several, so of course the police should attend.

It probably depends when. A Friday and Saturday night the police have got enough to deal with and there's so many house parties anyway. Midweek and they're probably quiet and it's considered more anti-social on a school night.

We must live close by OP because neighbours here have done the same thing, and have been blasting shitty rave music out since 09.30 🙄

I wouldn't call the police, because they will tell you it's nothing to do with them. They will advise you to contact the local council, who have very limited powers and resources to address this particular issue, unless the people doing it are Council tenants.

It's absolutely a priority to be tolerant of neighbours especially now. Maybe you or another neighbour makes a noise in the morning on the weekends? That's not fun either. Loud children, lawnmowers, it's all part of living in a crowded place.

I live in a detached house, in a street of detached houses. My neighbour 3 houses along had a party in their garden (lockdown dontcha know) so loud it woke me out of sleep and woke both my kids at 3.30am this morning. They’ve had the same kind of party every Saturday and Sunday since lockdown eased.

I’m happy to be tolerant if their happy to care for two very grumpy, sleep deprived children. Consideration goes two ways.

I had the opposite problem - when I lived in my old (detached) house, place next door was a 'weekend house' for Londoners who came up one weekend and had a party, with DJ and music that went on from 10pm until 5am next morning.

The ENTIRE VILLAGE was up in arms about it! Except me, I was next door and just ran my audio books overnight and slept through most of it. Apparently they kept everyone else awake, because practically the entire village stopped me next day to ask how I could stand it.

It was ONE NIGHT. An offspring's 21st birthday.

But in consequence, the village now has a Facebook page where we can all decide whether a party is going on too long, and if we do, the Biggest Bloke in the Village (tiny village 100 people) goes round and asks them to turn it down. This has never needed to happen so far...

It’s a noise issue and it’ll be your council to deal with, are they tenants or home owners?

Did you report the fraud to www.actionfraud.police.uk/

A few times over the years I've called the antisocial noise nuisance number (Lambeth in London) and noise has been shut down within 20 ish minutes? Maybe we are lucky?

If it's immediately next door (terraced houses, so we share a wall) I've stormed over myself in my dressing gown a few times at 2am (mainly the sleep deprived baby years) Nothing makes you look or feel more middle aged than this, combined with threatening to call their landlord

Ask them politely if they could turn it down after 11?

Please don't call the police!! 🙄

The police don’t do noise, you need to contact environmental health and they’ll send you the equipment to record to get evidence

I once actually got the noise people out and they sat in our living room and listened to the racket. They then wrote to the neighbours and Cced is in (duh).

They did eventually take away their music centre and the burgers bought a karaoke machine.

@WaffleCash

Luckily our neighbours are considerate, but if not their master fuse is inside our house :-)

Mine too. Not had to use it yet.

Wish it worked on the yappy dog though

This is definitely about frequency and degrees. Jelly cats I would not be at all impressed with this. 2 nights every weekend? That's just inconsiderate and rude. Very unfair on your children too.

Even the OPs neighbours are being highly inconsiderate if it's every weekend and if it wasn't lockdown (no pubs open) and somewhat inconsiderate as it is.

I had neighbours like this for ages, behind me somewhere and it was annoying. Not as bad as the Heathrow flight path (every. fucking. morning. From 4.30 on)

But the options are
-get the police out to it instead of them stopping a burglary or whatever (resulting in very pissed off neighbours)
-have a word with them nicely and hopefully they will tone it down at least some if the time
-say nothing, seethe and lose sleep
-buy earplugs and become oblivious if everyone in the house would find that helpful (no use on the flight path as they fell out by the morning and the planes are actually very stressful so you aren't going back to sleep)

It's whatever is right for the situation really. I'd ask very very nicely if I knew them.

There are some awful people out there and reasonable neighbours who you get on with are worth making an effort for. I do, my neighbours do, and it works. I looked at another flat when I bought this one and then saw the neighbour. Clearly unhinged and aggressive. No wonder it was so cheap.

The end terraced house next door to mine (two up two down) has been converted into 3 flats (two upstairs, the front room). Supposed to be three females living there, all have their boyfriends and others there (all pissheads and druggies). No building regs or planning permission (they've installed toilets and showers to make them ensuite). Arguing and shouting at the top of their voices from 2am onwards, they played music until 7am on Friday morning.
We called the police at 4am because it sounded like the house was being smashed up, they did sweet F.A.

I had a neighbour like this when I lived in a terrace. I think he fancied himself as a DJ. Despite many polite attempts to get him to stop at reasonable times and turn it down were ignored I decided to give him some of his own medicine. I faced my speakers to his bedroom wall set the timer for from 7am - 10am. and went to visit my friend for the weekend.
After that he never played his music late or loud I think he got the message. Just be noisy while they are trying to sleep if you have exhausted the polite requests avenue. If you contact the police its likely the council enforcement officers will give you a sound monitoring recorder to log daily disturbances. This is a long process of data collection but might lead to prosecution.
Could you perhaps collectively with other affected neighbours send a letter our meet them, they might then realise how resentful all their neighbours are of the antisocial behaviour.

I lived on a tiny street in Notting hill once and a young relative of someone in the street (a very nice street I might add!) died and they had a week long wake. In the fucking street complete with massive sound system, plastic glasses everywhere and people on the road. Not quite as bad as carnival but not far off. Till 5 am as well!

The police did come (there were drugs too) but the thing died out of its own accord. Awful for that week though!

My neighbours have a very yappy dog. They also have a lot of power tools. At the beginning of lockdown they built a huge shed in the garden & have used power tools in it a LOT since, not every day but regularly. To me it's annoying, but to my autistic son it's a huge problem. He shuts his windows & wears ear defenders, but the noise can still cause him a LOT of stress. He's trying to work on his degree but his anxiety is through the roof. I haven't spoken to the neighbours, they don't really speak to us much. And I'm m a wimp.

WalkersAreNotTheOnlyCrisps
Suggest you contact the council planning and building inspections department there are strict requirements for HMO (houses of multiple occupancy) regarding fire safety, fire detection systems, and fire doors. As you correctly said this needs to be done with planning approval. They could prosecute the landlord.

The thing about reporting a noise disturbance, unless someone from the council or police attend while is occurring its just your word against theirs that it happened.

I live in a masionette which is over 2 floors, and then below me is a masionette spread over my floor and my neighbours, their property faces the road, the front of mine faces the woodland. My bedroom however is directly over their maisonette and when its hot I like to have my window open, and the parties they have are held in the communal area out the front so I hear everything, and the go on very very late, as I mentioned earlier the last one on Friday ended at 5.15am . So far I have tried white noise, a fan, closing my window, ear plugs but none of this has worked.

If it was a one off or ended at midnight I wouldn't be so annoyed but its at least 3 times a week since lockdown and the nicer weather, and there is no respite during the day as they blast out their music for all the resident to hear from about midday (sometimes earlier)

They seem a nice enough family, but very loud on a typical day, I could tell you everything going on in their lives, who is leaving who, and who is pregnant etc, I don't hear my other neighbours so its not as if the walls are thin. I am thinking of moving when Lockdown is over as I am getting too old for waiting for the partying to finish so I can sleep.