My neighbour has two teenage children. One sitting A-level and one GCSE's which means they're on study leave apart from exams.
They have a kind of teenage snug at the end of their garden - glorified shed really with lights and speakers etc. This means that from 11am every day they are blasting (bad) dance music till 11pm at night. The night time I can cope with, but I work from home, and the only place I can work is the dining room - which is their side of the house. I am really struggling with working and having meetings with incessant music and screeching of teens. I mentioned it to neighbour who rolled her eyes and said to just ignore it.
I've got 3 months of this ahead of me! I don't have an office I can work from to escape it. And soon I will want the window open too. How can I explain that this is an issue and that EVERY SINGLE DAY and constant music isn't really acceptable?
AIBU?
Teenagers next door
purplephazersettostun · 01/06/2022 13:20
Am I being unreasonable?
359 votes. Final results.
POLLHereIAmBrainTheSizeOfAPlanet · 01/06/2022 13:34
Study leave lasts 3 months?!
Speaking to the parents might be a waste of time. They sound scummy. You could ask them to turn the music down between certain times.
LilacPoppy · 01/06/2022 13:40
Just work in a different room, unless your whole property consists of a dining room and bathroom only then it’s possible.
orwellwasright · 01/06/2022 13:26
I feel for you. When I was this age if the neighbour had come round to my parents and said I was disturbing them all day, every day I'd have absolutely been told to wind it in and stop being antisocial.
But that was a billion years ago and now it's all MY LIFE MY RULES and the Mumsnet favourite 'if you don't like noise go live in the middle of nowhere on you own'. Rampant individualism reigns on here.
All you can do is keep asking them to tone it down. You're not being unreasonable. Good luck.
orwellwasright · 01/06/2022 13:26
I feel for you. When I was this age if the neighbour had come round to my parents and said I was disturbing them all day, every day I'd have absolutely been told to wind it in and stop being antisocial.
But that was a billion years ago and now it's all MY LIFE MY RULES and the Mumsnet favourite 'if you don't like noise go live in the middle of nowhere on you own'. Rampant individualism reigns on here.
All you can do is keep asking them to tone it down. You're not being unreasonable. Good luck.
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Alliumpoppyrose · 01/06/2022 13:56
Download or look up "15000 Hz 15 kHz Sine Wave" on you tube or internet.
Play this on an outdoor speaker or portable blue tooth speaker placed as close to their shed as possible on your side of fence and hide it with plastic sheet or cammo net. Generally older people will not hear it and its difficult to record to report.
Play it when they go out, no one will hear it apart from them. leave it going on full volume on repeat. As its high pitch its poor at penetrating solid walls so no one should hear it in side the house. If they complain just claim you have a cat scarer and you cannot turn it off 😄
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