To think my neighbours are inconsiderate knobs?

[Magicra84]

My neighbours are noisy. It's just two adults, a wife and husband in their early fifties who live there. They often scream, sing loudly late at night, put their TV and loud with a surround sound bar which is on the party wall with my house and the husband starts noisy DIY very early at weekend, every weekend with his radio turned up loud so I can clearly hear it in my house. The walls are thin so I let it all pass as normal household noise and they're just noisy bastards.

Yesterday, however, they had turned their TV up with some music programme really loud that I struggled to hear mine properly so I could hear their music and the commentary of the programme. After an hour or so they turned it down. Thank goodness as I was looking forward to a quiet new years eve by myself. I fell asleep early on after a really exhausting day but at midnight they woke me with singing auld Lang syne really loudly over and over again and lots of whoops and cheers. All from two people. If they were quiet the rest of the year I wouldn't perhaps mind, but they're noisy fuckers. Wibu to be pissed off last night?

What do they say when you ask them to turn it down?

My neighbours (next door but one) sound just the same only it's them screaming at each other, his son, their friends or bloody karaoke at all hours.

The entire village has had enough now (although their direct neighbours are too damn chicken to say anything to them) and people have taken to calling the police and turning off their electricity at the fuse box (on the outside of the house).

It's an awful situation to be living in and we can't wait to move to get away from them.

Same, we have a family with two kids next door with literally no standards at all. I really hope they move one day as I love my house and can't really afford to move.
You can report it to council, you have to keep a diary and record the noise and send it all in

Could they be losing their hearing? My family start going deaf at this age and if they've listened to a lot of loud music that can also cause hearing loss.

That said how you'd persuade them to consider hearing tests is anyone's guess.

My neighbours are the same. They have 3 huge dogs that bark at all hours day and night because they never get walked. Rather than going down to shut them up they bang on the ceilings or floors which makes it worse. Now they're building a massive extension at weekends only!!! No joke it has been 5 months so far and they only just have a roof on the front, not even the back!There is not a single trades person here during the week, just his mates who start at 8am on a saturday and sunday and work all day long! He then comes home from his 9-5 job and works all evening until gone 9pm sometimes. The arguments and screaming matches theyve had about it as well are mad. I've had to go round and tell them several times weve got a toddler so he needs to pipe down but its exactly the same the day after. I'm 38 weeks pregnant so needless to say I dont think I'll be getting any catch up sleep as a new mum this time round....it really does amaze me that two people can be so unaware of the noise they make, and our houses are very well constructed so they really do have to make a considerable racket for us to hear.

I sympathise, our neighbours are just so inconsiderate, every door is slammed shut, cars left running for ages very early in the morning and the dog is by far the worst. Left outside for hours at night barking, last night they went out and the dog barked solidly for 6 hours.

We've been in but they do nothing we are keeping a noise diary as advised but it's awful to live next to, we love our house and the location is great so really don't want to move but it is so draining.

Well have to actually told them you hear them? Its not clear from your post. If you haven't ever actually complained they might have no idea how much you can hear them?

Ask them to keep it down and to move their sound bar away from the party wall, OP.

If they carry on as they are, then keep a "noise diary" with dates and times and after a month or so, report to the council's environmental health department.

Even my crap council are good at dealing with noise complaints.

Surely it's not on to have a sound bar on a party wall!! Very selfish ! We live in a detached house and have a big media wall where my Dh loves to watch movies super loud but it affects no one except me !🙄.. amazing how selfish some people are .

Talk to them first, then there are the options to go to the council or police if they ignore you.