To ask neighbours to turn muscular down at 8pm

[Babybabybabyooooh]

It’s a downstairs neighbour, the music has a lot of base and all I can hear while trying to put the babies to bed us the constant thud of his music and it’s waking them up, one of them has tonsillitis and I just need them to go to sleep, but it’s only 8pm!

I definitely meant music!

🏋️ Too much muscle yep

it will be football noise for next few hours

@SorrySoldOut The football is never usually a problem, it’s just the thud of the base of his music travels straight up the wall from his living room into the kids bedroom and it’s awfully loud! I think if they didn’t share a wall it wouldn’t be as awful honestly!

You can try explaining the situation to him, but eight is very early to be asked to be quiet.

@KrisAkabusi I thought it was probably too early! Luckily he’s swapped to football which I can barely hear so I’m hoping to get them off to sleep before the music picks back up again!

It probably is a bit too early to ask - I'd ask after 9pm though.

I do feel for you though OP, no matter what your circumstances (young babies or not) it's not very neighbourly to force other people to listen to your shitty music at loud volumes.

My neighbour waits for her husband to go to work then blasts 80s music for hours. I find it so ignorant!

Surely people can listen to music without heavy bass, I wouldn't play music loudly if I knew it disturbed my neighbours

@Babybabybabyooooh

Do they rent. Contact landlord

If you were my neighbour I'd be happy to turn it off, particularly given the tonsillitus. If you wanted quiet from 8pm every single night, that might be too much to ask.

Ask them to turn the bass down permanently. It's not a big ask, so don't worry. You need peace and quiet at home day to day (doesn't matter if a flat or whatever, it's just basic respect). Before long you'll be on edge every day just waiting but not knowing when it will start again. Best to sort it now before it gets to that point.

Could you swap bedrooms with the children if this is a regular thing, so that they're not directly above his living room?

They are probably trying to drown out the screams of your child. Or at least make up for them!!!
No op. Sadly 8pm is insanely early. Get used to it

As long as your children aren’t waking your neighbour with screaming at 6am ….

Tonight is unfortunately going to be a really bad one for noise

Parties galore, many of them outside.

DC are older, so have an extensive vocabulary, but all the neighbours with small children (several (terraced) houses within easy earshot) will have learned a lot - all undesirable - from the language coming from next door as they spectate with beer and amplified music

I feel fir you, but think you're on a hiding to nowhere tonight. Are they often noisy?

Knew some Ms Trunchball's would be along to compare the sound of children to somebody playing thumping music.

It's not the same.

@KrisAkabusi

You can try explaining the situation to him, but eight is very early to be asked to be quiet.

^ this

I’m sorry your little ones are ill.

@lemorella
Your right. Constant screeching. Wailing screaming at all hours. Especially early is MUCH worse. Unless your the parent and then you think it’s fine. But it’s really not fine

Thank you for all the replies, the music is still pretty loud so I’ve put two white noise machines in their room.
I’m not going to ask him to adjust the volume because he seems very aggressive from what I can hear, which I’ve never heard before. I’m home alone with the children so I don’t feel comfortable.
And thank you to those who have wished my daughter well, unfortunately it’s the second time she’s had tonsillitis and it really sucks but she’s hanging in there!

Do they rent. Contact landlord

Because they’re playing music at 8pm?
I own a flat I let out and if I received a complaint like this I’d tell them there was nothing I could do!

OP, speak nicely to them and explain one of your DC is I’ll.