I just want some peace in the garden!

[jmh740]

It's a glorious day and I just want to sit in my garden and relax, we have a corner plot and there's about 5 houses that back onto ours, one house has the radio on really loud and next door recently got a trampoline they have 6 kids and there is always someone on it and it squeaks like mad,
I know I might be a bit unreasonable and everyone has a right to enjoy their gardens but I just wish people would enjoy them a bit more quietly

Buy WD-40, have a chat and ask them to use it (nicely) - problem sorted.

Our NDN's are normally as quiet as mice, but yesterday they had family around all day. And quite small whining kids up until 9pm...... we were going to eat our tea outside but couldn't hear ourselves think they obviously stayed overnight as it all began again at 7am.

I've taken a deep breath as it's unusual for them but all I've wanted to do all weekend is use the garden. Thankfully the really noisy people in the close have been away all weekend!

I moved for this very reason.

sotting in my old back garden was hell.

new house in area with bigger gardens and more considerate neighbours. It’s bliss. I can hear occasion chatter - earlier there was a water fight. So much nicer than the dance music and swearing from my old neighbours 😊

My dog is like this.
I've just asked for some quotes for a one on one trainer as my neighbours are understanding but I'm mortified. I just can't train the little shit. I need some extra help with him.
I adopted him at seven months old. He's become worse since being castrated.
My other dog is fine.
Everytime the new dog barks I feel my anxiety and blood pressure go up because all I can think about is how much I'm pissing off my neighbours.

Why do people take it to the extreme and say @jmh740 is demanding silence ?

I was pretty sure when I opened the thread that half the posts would be saying that if the op wants absolute silence, she should move somewhere without neighbours. The thread hasn’t let me down!

not everyone is able to move esp in this current climate cant afford it

I love hearing children playing in the pool. It's lovely. In fact haven't heard any kids playing this year and miss it.

We were all.kids once and enjoyed the paddling pool. Chill out.

Presumably your own kids were noisy growing up? Maybe your neighbours then got annoyed. It's just part and parcel of living in a neighbourhood.

Kids playing is one thing. Screaming is something else. YANBU OP

I couldn’t get worked up about trampolines or kids playing but anyone who regularly plays music out loud in their garden when they have neighbours is a dick, end of. One off for a party fine, but people who do it every day like my neighbours should be banned from living in town!

Gosh this makes me realise I need to pay more attention to my kids noise levels. I like my neighbours , I don't want to make their life a misery! DS does get a bit overexcited sometimes but when it's happy noise I feel bad telling him off.

I don’t think people expect silence they just expect consideration . We have children to gardens beside us one way and at the back all around the same age , both sets have a trampoline . The ones to the side play out and you get usual childrens noise , the ones to the back scream at the tops of their voices , whatever they are saying it’s yelled and hence everyone in the road can hear them .

My DC get a 3 strikes rule in the pool. If I hear the third shriek they are out of there. Normal noise levels are fine, but I can’t bear children that scream or shriek for no reason and there is no way I’m inflicting it on my poor neighbours.

We all have doors and windows open into our gardens. It’s just unkind not to consider how your actions are affecting someone else.

My neighbours are on corner plot so about 4 gardens all with kids around them. They are older and no kids. They always wear earphones in the garden 😆

Yanbu! We have kids on both sides and over the back. The kids literally shriek all day long at top volume on their squeaky trampolines. Over the back also have a dog that barks every time a bird moves in a tree. I wish I could afford to live in the middle of nowhere!!

We moved a year ago from somewhere with no neighbours and it was absolutely silent in the garden. I was lonely and isolated and though it was beautiful no-one ever popped in or visited because we were in the middle of nowhere.

Now we have neighbours who chat and I hear trains and planes and dogs barking and music playing and I love it! It's vibrant and exciting and I love the sound of life happening.

There's no one size fits all, you have to find what suits you.

My neighbours at the back drive me mad. They spent 2 years building the house, so bang, bang, drill. Then when they moved in they seem to have every power tool known to man - lawnmoving, hedgetrimming, leaf blowing, tree cutting, used to excess. And then they fancy themselves as musical. The Van Crap family singers I call them. Piano practice (awful, with doors open), family sing alongs in the garden. 3 hours of My Heart Will Go On on the recorder one day when I was trying to read my book had me shouting, "Will you please shut the fuck up" over the back fence. Then lots of shouting about how they were going to poison the foxes, magnolia tree destroyed, screaming at the kids every morning before school. Their house is worth about 1.5 mio euros and they are the worst neighbours I ever I had in my life.

Noise cancelling headphones - and / or play relaxing music from your phone while you potter around.

I am never without mine. I love to spend days reading a novel on a lounger in the sunshine with a nice glass of wine, and do so often, oblivious to my neighbour's dog yapping, baby's crying, kids bouncing, teenagers blasting monotonous rap, Mr DIY sawing and sanding... They all don't exist for me now.

In goes the wireless bluetooth in-ear headphones, on goes the relaxing Sebastian Plano... If anyone needs to speak to me, they phone me as the music is streamed from the phone and will cut out immediately.

Bliss.

I make the most of the quiter times from 6am until 11.30am and then again 20.00hrs onwards. 11.30am until 20.00hrs I can hear the kids playing on the trampoline, dogs barking, music playing etc...

I dont want silence I want consideration for others, yes my kids play/ed out but they were brought up to be considerate of others if they had screamed outside they would have been told to stop.

I'm not bothered about the sounds of children playing, I'd rather they were playing out that stuck inside on screens, its the squeaky trampoline right next to my fence from 8am till 10pm that winds me right up. Even my 12 year old is fed up of it its right next to his bedroom window.

This is why we moved here we are a large corner plot of a culdesac of 8 houses no immediate neighbours and the only house behind us is the vicar it’s bliss no on lookers etc
we have teens and a younger one and they still know to respect the neighbours and screeching and loud noises are defo a no no

@limitededitionbarbie

I wouldn’t mind if they acknowledged it. In colder weather I imagined they were leaving it in the garden alone. But in this heat they must have the doors and windows open.

You shouldn't have to put up with other people's music but kids plying are going to make noise.

Our immediate neighbour is the vicar he's usually very quiet and considerate 🙂
It just feels like people don't have any respect for those around them, we've been here 4 years, and every summer has been a night mare

Our neighbours had a bbq yesterday (we were invited), other neighbours had a pool with their children enjoying it, others were sat under sun shades talking. None of them felt the need to scream, play music or force their fun on others - they all respected boundaries - and clearly all had a great time.

That is normal behaviour and respect for others.