Sun out-dickhead neighbours out. What are your neighbours doing today to annoy you? (lighthearted

[Adultasd]

My neighbours do my head in year round as they are so bloody entitled in general but when the sun is out it's worse. Loud music, they can't talk, they shout to each other and when they have visitors it's even worse and that's before they get the outdoor fire going and force us indoors after quickly getting the washing in.
I have massive sensory issues with noise due to possible ASD (awaiting assessment) so I know IABU and need to find ways to manage. Unfortunately moving to an island isn't an option although I did eye up that advertisement for a caretaker of an unpopulated Scottish island with interest and wish I could live somewhere like that.
What are your neighbours up to today that's annoying you and how do you deal with it? Stereo wars? Hosepipes at dawn? Penguin bollards (CFs have been known to park on or across my drive and then make out it's me being unreasonable), playing the sweariest music you can find at full volume? I'm not actually going to do anything but humour me here.

I can deal with most noise apart from this dog that doesn’t stop yapping

Neighbours kid screaming at the top of her voice in the garden all day. Not playing, just almost blood curdling screaming. We put the house up for sale after last summer, can't wait to move.

Neighbours are fine, it's the ones opposite and behind that are horrendous. I don't know why they have parties because they seem to hate everyone! They have those bifold doors that open the whole kitchen dining area up to the small garden opposite my kids room. Swearing and the adults getting into a punch up sets in after an hour of head splitting loud music, flashing lights and shouting. The screaming goes on another hour or 2 before they settle into just blasting the music and lights til 2am. Couple of nights a week and always on the nights so hot you can't close the windows! Often have those horrible fireworks that sound like bombs but have no light scares the crap out the kids and pets.

The people behind like bonfires on a hot day. Definitely not a bbq, huge smoke belching bonfires. That and getting hammered by 10am and spending the rest of the day singing to reggae so loud and out of tune it's almost funny, interspersed with loud bouts of swearing.

The neighbourhood is very quiet except for these people. The days they are out you could sit in the garden and hear a pin drop!

One neighbour... smoking weed, coughing guts up whilst smoking weed, blowing the snot out of his nose on the floor, shouting instead of talking, leaving his engine running for half hour whilst he’s indoors, among many other things. But this is just a usual day for him.

I can trump you all. I live in an old converted to flats house, have done for many, many years. Seen many neighbours come and go.
Current upstairs tenant is not only,

1. very stompy - blows my lightbulbs around one a fortnight
2. throws litter all over the garden
3. has surround sound system on his gigantic mega screen TV
4. constantly leaves the front door unlocked, or his favourite, propped open so it’s butt up against my foot and I can’t get out
5. talks so loudly in speaker phone can hear him from around 50 metre vicinity
6. sits smoking on wall outside in his very short dressing gown with his legs open and nothing underneath
7. opens his bathroom sash window whilst on the loo so that everyone passing can see him, whilst also talking loudly on the phone
8. has a shrieking, nasty devil child that stays every other weekend and school holidays BUT MAINLY Is a DJ and percussionist who practices almost every day, 10am - gone midnight.

Imagine! Bongo drums to loud house music, same bar, over and over again on top of your bedroom!!!!!

He is actually very good percussionist but knows Jack all about being a polite neighbour

It seems like every hour of every day someone one on the horseshoe shaped estate has a different gardener / grass butcher revving up a petrol mower, strimmer, or worst of all leaf blower. Grrrrrrr

Why can't people cut their own grass in a Sunday morning like they used to.

Oh the other pet hate is that our house is the communal collections point for the wheelie bins. Several of them leave their bins out from Tuesday to Saturday. In the basis they could either wind me up or I could do something about it I used to take the bins home for them but now I've started taking the bins further and further away.

It's Bin carnage on windy day.

A few of the neighbours get some bloke to come and jet wash their bins after they've been emptied. He rocks up (with loud petrol powered jetwash in a clapped out van jets around the bin tops it over and pours the water out all over the pavement at the front of my house and repeats for the next bin.

We don't really drive so we then have to walk through the scummy bin juice into our house. I've taken to putting the bins back up outside the far house when I remember or am around so he goes down and does them at a different place.

Personally don't see the point, never washed a bin in my 40years and no horrid dirtybinitus has got me!

Everytime I open my windows or doors outside someone starts up lawn mowers, blowers or whipper snippers (line trimmers?). They seem to tag team it.

Power tools. My neighbour behind me has a man cave tinkers all day. The one beside me is making kitchens from his garage as a business. Two doors down is getting ready to sell so is doing all the reno & repair stuff with every power tool on the planet.

Oh and planting massive trees and hedges along the fence line that have no affect on their homes but have blocked my lovely city views completely and are right along the fence near my living area so light is blocked and WE have to trim them. One is a Jacaranda. With millions of purple flowers in Spring. Look it up if you don't know. A real messy menace.

I'd move back out of town in a heartbeat if I could. I miss it so much.

Friend of mine lives in a flat, block of 4 with communal gardens. Last lockdown the oiks from one flat set their barbecue up right under her window and put their radio on really loud. She had to close her windows as they were there all day, every day when it was hot. Then they left the barbecue in the back garden all winter with various bits abandoned on the lawn. It "disappeared" late one night when the bin men were due next day. She rung me at 2am one night to tell me, (don't ask how she knew, as I have no idea!) recently told me the oik has been looking out looking for it.

"Been out looking for it". ^

@RealhousewifeofStoke. I don't know about hot tubs but I know of someone who was driven mad by noisy brats in a blow up paddling pool next door, 8am til past 9pm day after day. She spent a while taping together 2 long broom handles and a very sharp fork "happened" to get fixed to the end which was lowered over the fence late at night and 'might' have come into contact with the base! The device was then dismantled Could you find a way to squirt something in the hot tub, water from boiled fish, mixed with sand to clog the filter, cabbage water - unsocial behaviour deserves some payback, but garden fork could be too obvious!

Washing machine starts rattling at about 5.45am
They do washing for half the street it seems. (OK, their two daughters and their families who do not live there)

The good thing about this is that it means he's not having a bonfire that day. He collects up wood from people up the road and burns it. Horrid and smoky and usually at the weekend when EH aren't available.

Then he cuts his grass regularly. But only after using a petrol strimmer around the edges. Then he cuts his hedge.
He only does this about fortnightly.

They have loud music on when he's doing DIY in the garden, but his musical taste isn't too bad so don't mind that much about that.

She has the most fake laugh in the world when she's trying to impress people. It's not funny to listen to though.

They go to bed very early so don't make much noise at night which is a blessing.

Their grandchildren running round the house is noisy but not frequent (Ha, covid was blissful) and their daughter's dog is a beeping nuisance as it barks a lot and it gets out on the road and into gardens. The dog isn't there much anymore.

Apart from that they're very quiet.

Absolutely nothing! Which makes a change from last year in our old house as we had a football against the fence constantly and then the other side a yappy little bastard dog that started at the smallest ruffle of a sleeve in the breeze and the little kid who whined constantly in between screams as his big brother tormented him.

I don’t mind music, it’s the nude sunbathing that gets me.

@Codebreaker

I don’t mind music, it’s the nude sunbathing that gets me.

I would have no idea if my neighbours were nude sunbathing. Don’t you have fences?

We are in a flat that's part of a house converted into 3 flats. One neighbour mowed all the shared grass. 🥰 One is most certainly a drug dealer. 🤬

@Loubiemoo

Playing Coldplay loudly.

All this thread has reminded of is how much I love the smell of bbqs and bonfires

Some of my neighbours play shit music constantly and are always screaming at their kids. In turn the kids scream and yell and then the mother yells even more like 'why are you screaming' oh I wonder....let me think.....

Silly and doesn't annoy me to the point of anger, just a bit annoying in the summer days when you want to enjoy your garden!

We can't all be blessed by being nice considerate humans with better taste in music, can we?!

It’s a kind of trellis thing.

2 of our neighbours have burners and it always stinks! I'm sure they burn plastic sometimes. The whole street smells soo acrid and it comes in the house though the vents. There is no escaping it.
Evenings in summer; one gets the karaoke machine out and they sound like cats being strangled.

@Lippy333

Small yappy dog sticks his snout under the fence as I'm hammering in a border post. Was it U to crack him with my 5lb lump hammer? I'm sure I heard and felt something break. Maybe I did it a bit hard, but I think it is fair payback for all I have had to ensure from that little f'er

Fucking hell thats cruel! I hope this isn't true!

@Patup5

Breathing

Same!!

Also fixing cars ALL DAY EVERY DAY . One particular neighbour does this pretty much every day, different cars, same noise.

@Salt14

😢💐
That’s awful 😢

@purplevamp

Sounds like your neighbour is running a business from home - see what your council have to say about that.

Oh there are worse businesses you can run from home. Oh yes. Worse...