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To wonder if lockdown has turned anyone elses neighbours into monsters?

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Magicra84 · 13/07/2020 11:10

My ndn is being a nightmare. Constant noise starts at 4.30am when he gets up and bangs about getting ready for his daily sporting activity. It makes me jump ten foot into the air. He doesn't seem to realise or doesn't care that banging his bicycles while taking them down from wall mounts on party walls makes an awful lot of noise. Add tiled floor throughout and it's a racket. When he goes out around 5.30 to 9am it's pure peace.

When he comes back he bangs about for an hour putting the bike back on the wall, slamming doors and then his heavy bass dance music goes on which seems amplified in my bedroom in particular and then it's on day. I've spoken to him about the music before when it came on at gone 11pm one night and sounded like a rave next door and he was mortified and very apologetic and he has turned it down considerably but omg the constant noise. When the sun is out and I feel like relaxing in the back garden, I can't. The music goes on full blast so all the neighbours sitting out can hear it too. Except I can't escape from it indoors because of the bass banging on the walls.

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Magicra84 · 13/07/2020 11:11

Oh and then the garden is constant noise even when his music isn't on - wind chimes and water features on all the bloody time.

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YeahWhatevver · 13/07/2020 11:26

Our NDN wasn't previously a back garden user, they've bought an inflatable hot tub, a gazebo thing and built a "tiki hut"

Rain or shine they're outside which I don't have an issue with but they're really loud, speaking at a volume that can be clearly heard 3 or 4 houses down and they swear constantly. No joke, every sentence is peppered with fuck, cunt, shit, arse.

Makes using my back garden difficult (we've got a 7 and 10 yo) even makes having the windows in the back of the house open difficult.

Asked them to keep the noise and language down, they were apologetic and it was OK for an hour but then back to usual. Old habits die hard I guess. 😤

EmbarrassedUser · 13/07/2020 11:35

We had a weird experience with our NDN last weekend, not sure if lockdown or just the fact that they have a new born. About a month prior he had popped round to ask if he could fix his fence which adjoins onto our garden but he may need to come into ours. We said no problem. A month or so went by and we heard nothing. DH went by and knocked on the door to ask whether he was still planning on fixing it and before DH could even say why he was there NDN yelled ‘are you around here to complain about the noise again, fuck off’ and slammed the door in his face.

For context, in 22 months we have asked them
To be quiet one time when they were having a party. It had gone 1am and I’d had a tonic clonic seizure. We have never complained at all about them having two screaming babies. Stress I guess 🤪

AntiHop · 13/07/2020 11:39

You need to speak to him again op. Explain how loud it is for you. I've plucked up the courage to speak to noisy neighbours in the past, and it has worked.

rosiethehen · 13/07/2020 15:01

The constant low frequency hum from the neighbour's hot tub is very disturbing and we can't use our garden any longer.

We're subjected to a 20 questions session from the woman opposite if she sees us when we go out of our front door. She's like a tarantula spider emerging from its lair to grab us. I send ds out to do the front garden as I just can't face the nosiness. I hope she goes back to work soon.

lyralalala · 13/07/2020 15:12

I'd ask him if there was any chance he could take his bike off the wall before going to bed. Hopefully realising you can hear it so clearly would shame him into doing things quieter

The anti-social house in our street has just got worse and worse during lockdown. They're the most selfish people I've ever met.

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