To not get rid of the hot tub?

[SunsetsInVenice]

We use the hot tub in the evenings, usually from 9PM-10PM. It does get quite loud but we only use it of an evening.
However, noticed next door neighbour is clearly not happy about it. Keeps looking out the window, opening and then slamming the windows and today told me the sound is carrying and stopping her from enjoying her evening especially as the noise is so distracting. Aibu to say we are hardly in it all day and that we aren't getting rid of it?

This. The hot tub alone is bad enough but friends using it too with the loud conversation that ultimately goes with that and carries is absolutely selfish. Have you always been such a dick?

Better than ‘your side of the fence’ calling people Chavs and looking down on other people’s lifestyle choices though, eh?

I'd tell your neighbours to play bagpipe music every time you switch the fucker on.

Or get a child to practise Frere Jaques on a recorder out of the window nearest to you.

Best thing I’ve read on mumsnet 😀

We have an inflatable. We only use it in the summer and as we are retired in the afternoon when neighbours are most likely to be out. I’d really like to use it in the evenings but I don’t out of consideration for the neighbours.

I am so so glad I don't live next to the OP.

Hot tubs are rank. Just a breeding ground for bacteria.

Smug post here but I really don't mean it that way. I have the perfect nn garden. I live in a row of cottages and all the gardens are joined so we have to pass through each others' gardens to get to ours or in and out of our houses. There are no gates, few fences and several trees. It's a lovely muddle of veg patches, some tidy areas and some proper mares nests. There are play houses, a tumble of pets, tables and chairs, toys and always someone to talk to or ask for help. If you sit quietly in your garden people smile, but leave you in peace. There are bonfire and birthday parties and halloween is a riot but mostly people rub along happily.

It's not the things in the garden that make a perfect nn garden, it's the people you're lucky enough to share with.

Yes, I bet you can catch something nasty from the house next door 🙄

That sounds like absolute hell 😂

No way on earth would I ever purchase a property with a shared garden. Recipe for disaster and a lack of privacy all round.

Of course you do ! 😂Full MN bingo card classic...

Legionella bacteria can up to 10km in air. The fence isn't going to stop them

Wow, some of the stereotyping and prejudice on here is very ugly.

We bought a hot tub just before lockdown, not as a lockdown purchase but so my daughter could have a couple of friends over for her birthday

We are not chavs and nor have we shagged in the hot tub. It’s not loud and we haven’t had loud rowdy conversations with each other or other friends

I find your snobbery and jumping on the bandwagon calling it a ‘sex pond’ pretty embarrassing for you. PP was right, please get a life and a personality

@SunsetsInVenice enjoy your hot tub ignore the wallies

I wouldn’t want anyone being able to traipse through my garden 😱

If you lived next to us and were using a hot tub as you discribe I would be really pissed off!

They can’t enjoy their own garden on a summer evening. I hate people who inflict their noise on others. Try to think of someone else and not yourself OP

Unreasonable noise levels need to be addressed. But everyone is allowed to enjoy their garden how they want to and some noise is a given.

We have constant problems with one next door neighbour in her 60s about our noise. Before us, a retired couple lived here for decades, she'd been used to absolute quiet. We've now lived here for several years with 3 dc and no, we're not silent.

I've had complaints about the children laughing too loudly, about the trampoline (which is as far away from the fence as it could be) about the noise from a Sunday BBQ (ie talking and laughing of 9 people, wrapped up at 5pm). About DH pressure washing the drive (2 hours Saturday afternoon) about a ball bouncing, about sounds of the dog 'running around' (zoomies, panting, NO barking), about the noise of the garage door opening and closing.

Basically everything. We're just a normal family making normal noise. Not 'chavs' or party animals or with feral kids that scream. Just talking, laughing, doing garden chores, socialising with fairly quiet friends very occasionally.

We ended up in a blazing row a couple of years ago after she gave me a mouthful of abuse as she'd 'cracked' apparently. I told her if she wanted permanent silence in her garden she shouldn't be living in a 4 bed house alone in a family area and needed to get herself to a bungalow in the retirement complex down the road.

After that we had the community police turn up 3 times in a fortnight due to her complaints until they told her she was wasting police resources and to stop calling them 😂

If you're going to live near people, you're going to hear people. Shocker.

This is fascinating. What noise is allowed in the garden? If they sit outside having a conversation from 9 to 10, is that ok? What if they BBQ almost every evening (common enough in some cultures)? Have a couple friends over for a drink between 9 and 10 and always sit outside? OP, 2 friends and a yoga podcast in the garden?

I don't think 9 to 10pm is antisocial for noise, and I wouldn't class a hot tub as the same level as loud music, for example.

Or is no noise okay, as any may be overheard by neighbours and disturb them?

Chavtastic CF behaviour

Actual chavs couldn't afford a hot tub. But it is very TOWIE or Geordie Shores. "Basic". Like Ugg Boots and dodgy hair extensions. That kinda vibe.

Time to dispose of your filthy, antisocial sex pond. And you know it.

ChatGPT write a typical mumsnet post on a hotub and the effect on a neighbour😀

Title: "Hot tub causing issues with my neighbor - what should I do?"

Hi all,
I recently bought a hot tub and have been enjoying it in my backyard. However, it seems like my neighbor is not too happy about it. She has complained about the noise and the fact that the hot tub is causing water to spill over onto her property. I feel like I am doing everything I can to be considerate, but I'm not sure what else to do.
I try to use the hot tub during reasonable hours and keep the noise to a minimum. I've also adjusted the water level to prevent any more water from spilling onto her property. However, she seems to be getting more and more upset with me.
I'm not sure what to do next. Should I try to talk to her again and see if we can come to a compromise? Or should I just stop using the hot tub altogether? I don't want to cause any more issues with my neighbor, but I also don't want to give up something that brings me a lot of joy.
Has anyone else experienced a similar situation? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I'd be massively annoyed if you were doing that every evening. 9-10 isn't that sociable.

You don't think it's late. Others do.

Oh goodness. You were actually being serious...

People are loud in hot tubs. Using it every single night from nine pm is a dick move.

The sort of rhetoric from those jealous and too poor to afford one typically.