We live in a small row of terraced houses in a cul-de-sac, neighbour to left is end of the row. He is a night-time taxi driver, leaves the house at 2pm and comes back at 2am. Every night he wakes me up parallel parking outside the house but I deal with it - he lived here before us and living in a terrace you have to be realistic about noise. Right?!
So herein lies my issue. I sell a lot online and I also work full-time, so I have a courier come to the house to collect my parcels rather than drop off, as I don't have time. Courier turns up this morning at 11.30am. I hear a bit of to-ing and fro-ing outside. Open the door and my taxi driver neighbour is saying in fairly defensive terms 'You're too noisy mate. Everyday the beep on that machine wakes me up, and your voice is too loud'. I ask what the problem is, and I'm told the same thing. I say 'But the problem is, it's daytime?!' and I'm told in no uncertain terms that he wants the courier to be quiet and that he's within his rights to ask - then shuts the window.
Now. Who is in the wrong here?! I feel as though the beeping on a Hermes couriers machine at 11:30 in the morning is really not too much of an annoyance, is it?!
I would also add - this neighbour can be extremely difficult. When I was pregnant about 2 years go he would have loud parties, which we could hear in great detail through our paper thin walls. I got so stressed I ended up stayed at my parents house for 2 weeks and my boyfriend almost had to threaten him with loud noise in the day, when we had previously been quiet thoughtful towards him as we knew he worked at night.
He also once attempted some DIY and knocked a hole through the wall into our outside cupboard (weird Victorian house quirk) and actually asked us to pay for the damage as 'the damage would have happened anyway'.
I just feel like he is a nightmare and I want to up sticks and move ASAP - looking for some reassurance that's not too extreme of a reaction?! My partner seems content to put up with it!