Privacy and quiet to enjoy garden

[onanotherday]

My lovely neighbour built a cabin/pagoda on our boundary during lockdown. They have hooked up a TV and Mr likes to watch sport or films...fine...but it is hard to avoid the noise of feeling like in "room" with him. Last week I sat out having lunch to the soundtrack of a football mach and commentary. I'm all for live and let live so not sure how to approach this as unless he wears headphones there is no getting away from the noise. Ideas please for approaching this?

Not sure there's a lot you can do about it really, you could ask him but he's entitled to use his garden too

It's definitely reasonable to ask him to use headphones, especially if you offer to pay for them

If you want absolute quiet and privacy in your garden, you'd better move to the middle of nowhere.

People living their lives makes noise. As long as it's not at unsociable hours, you have to suck it up.

Just ask nicely about headphones

Tell him the TV sound is intrusive and ask him to please wear headphones.

Is there anywhere else in the garden you could sit that would distance yourself from the noise?
We are (v slowly) working on our garden and I'm moving our seating bit to the opposite side. This means that the two neighbours seating areas are as far away from ours as I can get.
I do understand it's difficult, but if it's during the day and not excessively loud, I'm not sure there's much you can do.

I feel your pain, my garden and next doors is more like a large patio, yu cannot get away from noise, just waiting for winter when its too cold to be outside

Your neighbour is being totally thoughtless and inconsiderate. Yes, everyone should be able to use their gardens, but not by making so much noise that it becomes a nuisance to everyone else in the surrounding area.

That would drive me nuts, you watch loose women really loudly near him or some other such female centric stuff that would piss of a misogynistic football obsessive

Fucking hell. Mumsnet has gone mad today 😂😂

I know, but it would annoy the selfish prick

Set up a tiki(shite, cheap) bar on their boundary, next to said pergola, blast opera or Peter Andre(whichever irritates most) at full decibels, EVERY time they venture into their penis extension

I think you can perfectly well ask him if he’d mind using headphones, maybe ‘except when there’s a big match with friends round’, and I’d also say you’d be happy to cover the cost of a good comfortable pair of headphones, say £100 - £150.

He is of course at liberty to say no, although if it’s happening all the time it must be annoying. Ear plugs?

Why not buy yourself some headphones?

Buy a petrol strimmer and leave it on tick over for a while

Or chainsaw

How close is it to your fence? If it’s closer than two metres or above a certain height they’d need planning permission. Depending on how long it’s been there you could contact the council about them taking it down.

Yes. There seems to be a trend for people turning their gardens into another ‘room’ in their home, outdoor bars, tv rooms etc. but there was a reason those things were in houses. They contain the noise and mantain privacy for all!

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He’s clearly a selfish arsehole. I don’t think idiots like this think beyond themselves, sadly. They think they have the right to inflict their noise on neighbours and don’t give a shit.

I'd probably play music at just enough volume to mask his noise or wear headphones, but if you want just the sounds of a quiet garden, that won't help.

I'd dread speaking to him about it, since he's not technically doing anything wrong (though inconsiderate), but if it's happening often, a polite request might be worth it.

Is 'lovely' sarcastic? I would try speaking to them rather than allowing people on here to tell you he is an arsehole. It's entirely possible he doesn't know it's bothering you

'Why not buy yourself some headphones'

Really! Why should she, he is the one causing the noise and he is the one who should be considerate!

Go round and explain its really loud or if he isn't very friendly just get an outside speaker and play your music/radio so it just drowns out his noise.

We have had similar and on the boundary line.

Have planted some large shrubs on our side and or will take a year to grow up and block out. Also good for blocking out noise. Is this a possibility? We spoke with the a online nursery and they gave us some excellent advice.

Don't be bloody ridiculous. Why on earth should OP shell out £100 on headphones for her neighbour?

Maybe she could offer to buy him a season ticket for his team and pay for all European travel so that he doesn't have to watch it on the TV?

I usually stick up for people making noise in their garden, kids in paddling pool etc, but I just think putting a TV out there is so selfish!!