To kill my neighbours?

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Light-hearted... Maybe.

Our baby has decided that sleep is an unnecessary part of existence recently and I am exhausted.

So DH said on Saturday he'd take him early morning and I could sleep until my heart's content. Blissful.

Except about 20 minutes into my sleep this morning, my neighbours have started BANGING (They are doing some form of DIY, don't be filthy) and it sounds like it's actually in my bedroom.

I could cry.

Accept this is just part of living near other people or bury them under my patio?

5 years ago my neighbours had a baby that screamed 24/7. I felt dreadful for them and offered to push her around the village for 30 mins just to give Mrs neighbour a break. They, grim faced, said thanks but it won't last forever.

She's still screaming. Massive tantrums daily that penetrate triple glazing at 50m, screeching at her parents, bullying other children. Little brother has the odd howl (normal) but she is an absolute banshee stil. A few months ago my DS10 was having a rare rowdy afternoon in the garden with his pals and Miss Banshee marched up to the fence and started screaming at them, scolding them for making a noise. Mrs neighbour said nothing. No "be polite" no "lol, sorry" nothing.

Since then, I have been banging, clattering, drilling and playing music to my hearts content. Letting my little dog bark. I'm not going to fall out with these people but let's just say, the noise gloves are off. I'm getting a new puppy too. Gun dog breed, barks like fuck apparently .

(Before anyone starts, Miss Banshee is NT. She's just extra and her parents are in her thrall)

@dubyalass that's bloody grim.

I'd have shone a torch on them! Or clapped at the end

It is fucking minging, and as if nobody could hear! We’re in a terrace with neighbours on all sides. It’s just the others are a bit further away than me. Thankfully I rent and am trying to buy, so it’s not forever.

If you want to practice, you can deal with mine first.

I've been battling some seriously distracting pain for a couple of weeks.

I have a looming deadline, the kind that breathes its hot, fetid breath down your neck whilst rubbing itself up against the back of your chair in a very icky manner...

First cool day with nothing loud going on on the building site (estate, 55 houses, joy) behind my house...

I sit down to 8 hours of writing.

Next doors teenager, pre-teen and friends swarm into their yard (it's approximately 3 metres from where my office is)... and sit there making ridiculous noises.. not talking.. nooo... they are recreating the noises the diggers and trucks make on the site when they are there.. beeping, banging, yelling of builders in brummie accents.. They did this for TWO HOURS solid, behaving like toddlers.

Then Mum came home from work and replaced them with loud conversations on her phone to everyone she knows, to tell them all the same story about how she stepped on a dead bee (getting more dramatic each time of course)...

If these weren't terraced properties, I think I'd have seriously considered burning their house to the ground!

re building/DIY noise check your local coiuncil website, here you can't make that kind of noise before 08:30 or after 18:00 Mon-Fri and at weekends only 08:30-12:30 Saturdays and not at all Sundays or Bank Hols. obvioulsy you can't complain to them till after the event but they do send out letters and if the neighbour repeats they prosecute.

I'm in a terrace.

My neighbours, with whom I share a doorstep, along with their extended friends and relatives, use it as an ashtray, pissoir and spittoon, with butts and nut shells all over the pavement after an evening's chinwag.

The younger guys have started bring their cars over, as combined, they have all the tools needed to tune up their cars.

This means chat, machine noises and near constant engine revving late into the night.

Add the odd screaming rampage row where I've called the police a few times and I could cheerfully strangle them.

The only good thing I can say about my neighbours is that they are NOT noisy. In fact they go to bed at 9pm and get up at 6 am. This means that YOU are supposed to creep around at those times so as not to disturb them.

They have:-

stolen my mail
dumped rubbish on my garden
sent workpeople into my garden without notice or permission
turned my garden into a building site
snitched to my (then) LL about things when were not the LL's concern
Constantly whinged about trivia.

I no longer open the door to them.

There is a SF film called "The Purge" where the law is suspended and you can go out and kill anyone. I wish there was an open season on neighbours. I hate the creatures.

However I would not bury them under the patio. Just leave them out in the open for the cats, foxes rats and birds to dispose of then sell the skeletons to medical students.

We live in a terrace. We have lovely neighbours, both sides really kind (the lend us gardening equipment, bring our bins in after bin day, pop round with baked goods, kind of lovely) retired couples with no dogs or friends or family. But I still find the noise coming from their noise irritating when I'm trying to sleep.

DH now takes DS every morning, and I tend to any and all night wakes. I used to be unable to fall asleep in the mornings due to hearing the general bustle of the house/neighbours. I have a solution.

PITCH BLACK room. Fan on (heavy duvet and blankets if winter - they key is cold room but warm under the duvet). LOUD white noise or rain/wave sounds. I also have one of those headbands that people wear when they're hiking that covers your ears which makes me feel snug and blocks out even more noise.

Better to try it than kill your neighbours, though I get it (and appreciate we must be infuriatingly noisy to them too).

Get yourselves on Amazon the soft squashy earplugs work a treat and don’t make your ears sore. I use the yellow/orange ones. Work brilliantly.