Dickhead neighbour has the radio on in the garden...it's 7.45am FFS

[RainbowBriteUk]

I have had massive problems with my NDN's. Since I moved in 7 months back, the constant noise has been an issue. DIY with loud power tools every single day, music in house, music in garden, TV turned up if a music programme is on. Today takes the biscuit though. Usually he's out from about 8.15am on a weekend wielding his power tools. Today they already have the radio on in the garden and it's 7.45am FFS! Good job i'm moving soon!

Please do report it. Just because you’re moving out, the next person who moves in will have to deal with it. If you report now then it will give them a head start when they no doubt have to do the same thing!

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Oh my god that would drive me insane. Surely all the other neighbours hate him too. What an absolute arsehole.

I really feel for you Op, it’s so shit to not be able to relax in your own home. I hope the moving day goes well and your next home is a calm, tranquil space. 💐

@DifficultBloodyWoman
I hope your friend has lovely neighbours now

@Mischance

This sort of dispute can get out of hand - I know it made mother mother really ill. Please try and put it from your mind - you are moving soon, thank goodness.

Good luck with your move and I hope you will be happy in your new home.

Absolutely true. These things escalate so much when it becomes tit for tat, you are moving soon so I wouldn't do anything silly like keying his car etc. If he is as much of a total moron as you say he also might be dangerous and if he finds out where you moved to the abuse might follow you there. Just focus on moving and getting away. We also had nightmare neighbours for a couple of years, sounds exactly like yours, music blasting every night (they didn't work) until 3am, turning it UP when you complained, open intimidation when you were out in the garden with groups of their friends, screaming and shouting constantly, open drug use, masses of unparented wild children screaming and running rampant, banging on the walls etc. It was a total nightmare and really affected our marriage and mental health. It's so wearying not to be able to relax in your own home and have no refuge from it. I can totally see why some people just snap and end up killing someone when these disputes escalate. I'm sure a lot of the people saying to retaliate by spraying water / keying cars/ turning music up / posting dog crap etc have never actually lived next to people like this. It's not worth the risk to anger these scumbags, and I know that's why they get away with it (and that's sad) but if you genuinely fear for your safety/property then you just can't do things like this and hope to not have any king of retribution against you. I hope your move goes well and you find peace in your new home.

I would leave Environmental Health with a full on noise diary and recordings, to help the next tenant.

Situations like this make me wish I could rent out my ex DP to deal with twatty men like your neighbour. He's 6'4", beligerent, could pick a fight with thin air, smokes weed and likes listening to dark psy music extremely loudly.

I could rent him out on a hourly basis to sit in people's gardens with a huge pa system and stare down problem neighbours. If they protest, he'll happily engage them in a 4 hour argument where he'd win through his superhuman ability to chat utter shit until the other person gives up. I might do a kickstarter.

Oh OP, be grateful that you’re renting this place and didn’t actually buy it with no chance to move, that’s a hell that I don’t wish on anybody except my old neighbors that were exactly like your next door wankers.

Also I would complain to the council, the police (after you leave, explain to them you feared the consequences and just want to protect the next tenants) and also inform your landlord about this. At least morally, they also have a duty of care towards the next person who rents the place unaware of the arseholes that live there.

Once we had a child neighbour who used to hide behind the hedge where the garden backed onto a field and repeat everything we were saying - it was bloody annoying!

One day he was in full flow and I whispered to everyone to carry on chatting......I tiptoed off and fetched a bucket of water and chucked it over the hedge onto him....bulls-eye!!!

My poor OH was saying OMG his Dad is a big bloke! But the Dad said nothing - he knew his lad was being a pain.

Thanks for all your replies. They don't rent. Their house is bought.

They think they rule the whole street.

@Melroses

I would leave Environmental Health with a full on noise diary and recordings, to help the next tenant.

oh yes. You are very lucky you are renting, it won't affect your move or anything.

Don't let him get away with it. Do report it.

He actually came over in my garden to get to a bit of his DIY! What the actual fuck? CFuckery at it's best!

After you've moved out and everything is settled - send him a glitter bomb.
You can buy them online and they cannot be traced to the buyer.
Wanker.

I told my agent who said they would have to inform the next tenants but I don't think they will. Already got a whole lot of viewings booked.

Put ear plugs in. You’re leaving soon so ignore him.

Park removal van in front of your house or his on moving day, or shift furniture over fence and use his back garden, as he did to you, if he deliberately blocks the back ginnel.

Pop note through his door that new tenants are viewing this week so he’ll be sure to turn the music up loud when they arrive.

Tell viewers it’s like this every day. They won’t take on tenancy. Letting agents will tell noisy neighbour to sort it out as they can’t let the property because of him.

Report him to council before you leave, a letter from environmental health about noise nuisance will deter new tenants too if you show them it. Make sure to video for evidence.

I had neighbors like this but I was lucky enough to get them evicted. The noise was constant 3pm or 3am, constant noise - music, loud talking etc. I really did understand one day why people snap and do something drastic.

Start singing along to his music but out of time and out of tune

@CindyTrevaskis

Please do report it. Just because you’re moving out, the next person who moves in will have to deal with it. If you report now then it will give them a head start when they no doubt have to do the same thing!

What a nightmare OP, so glad for you that you’re leaving. I think it would be good to report it so that there is something on record (perhaps there is already a catalogue of complaints from former tenants?). He must be costing your landlord trouble and money too. If I owned that property I’d want a solution as they must have a high turnover of tenants. Did the landlord used to live there and now has to rent it out as it’s difficult to sell with a catalogue disputes and incidents? I just wonder because a friend of mine is in that position with a property she owns but is difficult to live in, sell or rent out because of one man living next door conducting a campaign of harassment (noise) that’s really hard to prove.

Proving a noise nuisance is quite tricky. We had lots of problems with a neighbour including his dog who he would let out in the garden at hourly intervals through the night and each time it would bark for about a minute. Doesn’t sound much but it was impossible to get a nights sleep. The council gave us a recording device which, each time the dog barked, we’d have to leap out of bed and switch it on and it would then record a 30 second burst. Leaping out of bed 6 times a night to put the recorder on which had to be positioned the other side of the room is a challenge and sometimes we didn’t get to the machine in time. Consequently the council said we were fussing about nothing, but never being able to sleep was causing us real problems.

In the end his other much more serious behaviour caught up with him and he’s now living rent free courtesy of her Majesty. I really pity his next set of neighbours.

I hope you’re new home is more peaceful @RainbowBriteUk!

I really fucking HATE people who inflict their music on other people AT ALL and think they are absolutely inconsiderate cunts. NO ONE wants to hear it and you can use wireless headphones.

I hope you get moved soon.

@KatherineJaneway

I had neighbors like this but I was lucky enough to get them evicted. The noise was constant 3pm or 3am, constant noise - music, loud talking etc. I really did understand one day why people snap and do something drastic.

Living next to people like this made me conclude that some people don't deserve a home at all. They really fucking don't.

@MrsAudreyAlfredRobertsOBEHmm

Grasp the nettle and go and say something now

What’s the point when she’s moving.

That's a shame that they own the place so you can't go to their landlord.

However I'd still advocate for getting together with your neighbours. Like you say, if you have a problem then chances are they do too. You will feel much less alone if you tackle it as a community.

I think put a note through his door saying you are having something delivered so please don't park his van in front of the house. That should ensure the back alley is kept free.

Aim your hose at his speaker, that should do it. Whoops!.