What time?

[CyberdyneSystems]

In the warmer months to come if you were in your garden drinking, talking, playing music etc what time would you call it a night?

I'm thinking 11:00pm is a fair time, this is a city with neighbour's very close by, not at all rural

Curious for individual opinions, thanks

City garden, not 40!

@SchrodingersImmigrant

You want opera. Specifically this one, with this singer. It’ll cut through anything.

Please don't play music in your garden, and please keep your voices down. Some of us would like to spend some of the warmer evenings out in the garden too, listening to all the natural sounds you'd expect in a garden.

After last summer, I'm seriously considering buying a few loudspeakers and turning a cd of the dawn chorus all the way up to 11.

@Wannabecheerleader unfortunately one of the players is partial to opera so it would look like I am actually helping them😂

Bloody impressive the voice!

@Howdoin

I wouldn’t play music in the garden and, if out talking and drinking, we would move indoors by 10pm so as not to disturb the neighbours.

Yep agree. Same here. No daytime speakers/music/radio either.

I never want to hear other people's music. The only time I've ever enjoyed it was when one of my neighbours had Celine Dions greatest hits playing and then they turned it off because I was singing along

[quote SchrodingersImmigrant]@Wannabecheerleader unfortunately one of the players is partial to opera so it would look like I am actually helping them😂[/quote]
Perhaps they'd get the message after 10 hours of Scotland the Brave at full volume 😜

m.youtube.com/watch?v=jNyB4bvEzSQ

😂😂😂

How long this could be on loop before someone smashed my windows?

We don't play music in the garden but we do chat. Our garden is very private though. Because of the position of our house it blocks the neighbors house from our garden so we only have one neighbouring garden/ house to worry about and our garden is very long with our seating area at the furthest point.

We goon when we want. But like I say we aren't disturbing anybody anyway.

I would never play music in my garden if I had close neighbours.

It's a really cunty thing to do.

So sorry for you OP if you have arsehole neighbours who do this.

I'd never play music in my garden. I don't want everyone else's taste in music. So why should they listen to mine.

@Wannabecheerleader

I get up at 05:30am for a 13 hour shift. If you were doing that every night, i’d be getting rather unhappy OP.

Yep. Same here!

My neighbours play music in their garden constantly in the summer and it's one of the reasons I'm moving. I don't want to listen to someone else's shit music and their noisy voices as they talk over it.

If I want to listen to music while I'm gardening or relaxing outside then I use headphones. I wish others would do the same

If anyone wants to have a word with my neighbour about this and stopping kicks at a reasonable hour that would be lovely. I am sat inside now and can hear his awful house music blaring away in the garden. It happens every weekend, Friday and Saturday till at least midnight. My DD goes to bed with ear plugs in

This year I am going to start playing music in the garden. Purely because I'm fucked off about having to listen to every other bastards garden music every summer, day in day out sometimes until 5am, especially when I'm inside upstairs in my own bedroom with the windows shut. For the past 5 years. Thumping house music from next door plus next door but one, Westlife on the other side. It's heavy metal time this year. I won't be antisocial with my music hours but I'll make my point.

Don't play music in the garden. It's so selfish.
And the talking can stop by 10 pm on a weekend too. You don't get to keep people up, regardless of it's a Thursday or a Friday.

930/10 on a week day, 11pm on a weekend

Music volume should take into account how close your neighbours are so you need to be a more thoughtful if you live in a terrace as opposed to a detached house

Thank you for all the replies

Firstly I would like to say that I am referring to what a neighbour three houses along from me does. It's got worse year after year

They often stay out until after 1.00am. They sit on the patio area not in the middle of the garden and the music is played from just inside the house. I've had many, many sleepless nights the last couple of years

I'm dreading the warmer months and that's why I wanted to ask for opinions. I can see us having to speak to them. I don't like confrontation but sometimes you have no choice. I'm one of the most considerate people you will ever meet and a light sleeper which makes it even harder to accept

Most replies said earlier than my 11.00pm estimate so it seems I'm being very fair by thinking upto 11:00pm is acceptable

9:30 weeknight, 10:30/11 weekend. We like our neighbours!!! Music would never be high even earlier - that’s just a gross imposition

Hope they are reasonable OP. Good luck

@CyberdyneSystems

Thank you for all the replies

Firstly I would like to say that I am referring to what a neighbour three houses along from me does. It's got worse year after year

They often stay out until after 1.00am. They sit on the patio area not in the middle of the garden and the music is played from just inside the house. I've had many, many sleepless nights the last couple of years

I'm dreading the warmer months and that's why I wanted to ask for opinions. I can see us having to speak to them. I don't like confrontation but sometimes you have no choice. I'm one of the most considerate people you will ever meet and a light sleeper which makes it even harder to accept

Most replies said earlier than my 11.00pm estimate so it seems I'm being very fair by thinking upto 11:00pm is acceptable

I have a neighbour like this. She irritated the shit out of me last summer, playing music in her house 3 doors down and then sitting outside yelling at her mates for hours. I could hear her from inside my bedroom on the other side of the building 3 doors down with all my windows shut (which wasn't great in the heat). She's been silent all winter but I'm dreading the return of nice weather. It would be nice to be able to sit in my garden on a warm evening with a drink, enjoying the breeze and the birdsong, rather than hearing all her horrible bass music and hearing all about her sex life.

I'd say 9 during the week and 10 at weekends
People nearby might be working and need their sleep

We play music in the garden very very rarely, and even then it's usually turned fairly low - even if we have visitors we tend to sit and talk around the fire pit rather than put music on - save that for indoors.