Next door's fecking chiming clock!

[mintyfreshh]

Next door bought a chiming clock a few weeks ago, it chimes loudly and elaborately every half hour 24 hours a day. It must be on their living room fireplace, which backs onto ours (semi detached).

I am way too awkward to say anything to them about it but it's so bloody loud and driving me to distraction. And this week they've gone on holiday and the thing is still fecking chiming all day and night long!

Am currently sat on the sofa thinking of ways to break in, disable the clock, and leave without a trace.

Well, it could be worse....it might chime on the quarters, too!

Could ask them politely if it has a feature to turn it off at night.
My sister used to have a house with loads of antique clocks - they were never completely in sync, and by the time one finished chiming you knew another one would start in a few minutes - used to drive me mad.

At home I have a university clock, fortunately set to chime only form eight to eight or similar. It always used to run early, so when it started chiming I'd start getting my tea or whatever ready to sit down for a zoom meeting. A couple of weeks ago someone sorted it out, it's on time now, I had a week or two of being late for EVERY meeting!

If you're too awkward to talk to them about it then I guess you're stuck.

@ShebaShimmyShake

If you're too awkward to talk to them about it then I guess you're stuck.

This ^^

You’re going to have to put up with it if you’re too awkward to speak to them about it.
Could be worse. My in-laws have a clock that makes different bird noises each hour (every 15 mins)!

It will fade into the background in a while and you will hardly notice it, just like if you live near a railway or airport. Our neighbours got a similar one and at first I was the same, noticing every 1/4 hour but now I either don't notice or its useful as an extra OMG its 6am and I should be up!!

Buy a louder one and 'out-chime' them?

Why can you not just ask if they can disable the chime at night? What's awkward about that?

@WhoWouldHaveThoughtThat

Buy a louder one and 'out-chime' them?

Genius. Or find a 5 year old, give them a drum kit and pay them to play it in your house every evening.

Say. Something.

Stop being such a wet blanket. Just go round and ask them to move the clock or adjust the settings so its doesn't go off all night. What's 'awkward' about that? Are you 14?!?

Molly500
What’s upset you

If you must know @Molly500 I have severe anxiety, but thanks for the insults

Well aren't you lovely Molly

Molly was blunt but basically: either you work out a way of speaking to them about it, you learn to live with it or you move house to get away from the clock. There aren't many other options short of criminal damage, and having anxiety doesn't change that!

They're probably totally unaware that you can hear it! You definitely need to talk to them and at least see if they can turn it off at night.

Oh OP, this sounds like a new kind of hell a neighbour has come up with! I’ve read a fair few on here.
I think you’ve got to find the courage to politely ask them to move the clock or at least turn the volume down if possible and set it to daytime hours only. This is noise pollution surely!
Perhaps they don’t realise how loud it is through the wall, genuine question could they have hearing impairments?

There is a difference between being blunt and just being nasty. You came across as the latter....

Put a note through their door asking nicely if they'd check whether it has a facility for turning off chimes at night, and/or if they could move it to the other side of the room.

I have a chiming clock and love it, it's an old Victorian one so doesn't have a way of turning it off at night. Fortunately I am somewhere where no-one can hear it.

In my previous place, I was too near the neighbours and they had small babies that needed to sleep, so I had to stop the clock chiming somehow. I managed to slip a piece of rubber over the chime hammer so it made no noise. If you talk to your neighbour there should be some way they can either move the clock's position or else dampen the chime.

@mintyfreshh

If you must know *@Molly500* I have severe anxiety, but thanks for the insults

Well the noise won't make that any easier. You'll have to choose between talking to the neighbours or living with the clock and decide which one will do your anxiety the least damage.

Are you getting help for your anxiety? It sounds crippling if you cannot speak to your neighbour.
What exactly are you worrying about? Can you avoid that happening. Could you text them?
Hope you can address your anxiety.

put a note through the door if you can't talk face to face, anxiety is cripplingso i feel for you op. but let's remember,molly was possibly harsh because so many people on mn don't like to say anything even to neighbours they get on with, and many dh /dp refuse to engage with it full stop.
hope things work out for you, in the mean time could you try ear plugs until they come home ?