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Teenagers next door

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purplephazersettostun · 01/06/2022 13:20

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?

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WowIlikereallyhateyou · 02/06/2022 17:08

Jees, there are some ignorant people.
Nobody has the right to impose on others, everyone should be able to enjoy their own home. If the kids are playing music too loud, OP should not have to put up with it or go elsewhere to work or wear earphones etc.
Mosquito noise sounds fair enough, or record and report to council. Sounds like their mother is a complete waste of time, so not worth trying to reason with that.

Somanysocks · 02/06/2022 17:14

I thought my neighbour and her power ballads was bad enough.

Orla83 · 02/06/2022 19:27

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 😄

Sneaky!

😅

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purplephazersettostun · 08/06/2022 18:39

It's a rite of passage I believe. But while reading something else I was just linked to the following

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/fun-mum-slammed-letting-teens-24134729

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KettrickenSmiled · 08/06/2022 18:41

I mentioned it to neighbour who rolled her eyes and said to just ignore it.

& what did she say next, when you told her you cannot ignore it, because it is preventing you from working?

Svara · 08/06/2022 18:55

TheWayoftheLeaf · 01/06/2022 17:22

This won't work because lots of adults like me can very definitely still hear it (at 27 years old)

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16 year old could hear it but not bothered by it, just upset the cats. So more likely to just annoy your neighbourhood cats and set off dogs barking. Teens can just turn the music up.

BarrowInFurnessRailwayStation · 08/06/2022 19:19

quietliving.co.uk/devices-to-annoy-neighbours/

Some ideas here.

Svara · 08/06/2022 19:50

Why would you want to start a war with ways to annoy neighbours before going down the normal reporting excessive noise route first?

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