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?

Utterly grim and anti social.

Doubt this is legit though as surely nobody is this thick/arrogant?

I think it’s pretty thoughtless to be loud in the garden until 10pm most nights. Doesn’t matter if it’s only for an hour.

To those who expressed surprise at the daily use, and the length of time: my DH, from about May to September, sits in the hot tub for at least an hour every evening. He has a very physical job atm (he is rebuilding/building on to our house) and it helps with the aches and pains. Luckily we are rural and we live on a property where no-one is close enough to hear anything, so that is not an issue, but just pointing out that the usage described is not unheard of.

@Jagoda you must live in a lovely area if you doubt that some people can be that anti-social. This is the UK in the 21st century.

You say 10pm, but bet you are sometimes in there after 10pm. You admit it’s loud. I’d be pissed off with noise that late and agree why not compromise and do it earlier?

@Caddyautopants I am sorry you have MS, I actually find it relieves my pain to be on my knees, with my arms over the side of the hot tub, or stretched out on my front in a press up position. I cannot do any of that in a bath, no room at all, water not deep enough, plus the hot tub can be set to a set temperature and retains it for hours on end. Of course I can bath alone, although I never do because I am a shower person

@Elphame you do know that you treat the water with chemicals? You test it for total alkalinity, ph levels and chlorine. It isn't difficult. Like a swimming pool, but I don't wee in my hot tub, I bet toddler pee in swimming pools.

@CanoeADo that makes a lot of sense actually! I always end up in a ball somehow and can't stretch myself out. I need to learn to stretch!!

I think I'm too bloody cynical sometimes 😳

People seem to have very different ideas and opinions of what a garden is for. In my experience it's the ones that have absolutely no interest in gardening, everything slabbed over, not a blade of grass or single plant in sight that are intent on ruining it for others. They just want to drink heavily and talk shit at the top of their voices, anytime night and day and just expect everyone else to put up with it. These are the sheep that rush out buying hot tubs and bars, and plaster it all over social media, they don't give a toss about anyone else or the environment, it's all about them and them having "fun".

Hopefully not, it's normal to have pools and hot tubs in just about every other country

If I was your neighbour I'd be plotting a midsummer murders type electrocution tragedy for you and your friends.

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.

How incredibly entitled and insensitive that sounds.

The evening; the time when children and adults who worked a long shift are trying to sleep. When most adults/domestic homes are winding down. NO WONDER your neighbours are fed up with your racket.

Have you considered relaxing in the hot tub quietly, sober, no music or shouting?

@sleepyscientist true. But unfortunately we live on a small island with tiny gardens. And the council are spending a lot of hours battling noise complaints due to hot tubs.

It's just the way the UK is set up, sadly.

And it may not happen. 😊

Even if the law was 'must be 5m from neighbouring properties' - it'll be better for all.

I think YABU to use it every night that late. Once in a while fine but surely you can see if neighbours were in their garden every evening for an hour listening to music or chatting loudly with friends or mowing the lawn then it’s anti social? Once in a while fine, every night until 10pm with the associated noise is a PITA.

YABU my neighbour does this, in the quiet of the evening they might as well be in my front room. The noise travels easily and is even worse in the hot weather. Most of my neighbours seem to stop noise by 9pm. I'm amazed you can't understand

I agree with @Frabbits, @SunsetsInVenice.

Can you not understand how annoying it must be for your neighbours to have your hot tub going that late in the evening, every evening? I think it is pretty selfish to do that to your neighbours, but I don’t think you will either accept that or change what you are doing.

@Windingdown Other people tramping through your garden? That’s a big nope

When you have neighbours its all about give and take! 9-10pm every single night would annoy me as well, hot tubs are noisy as are the people in them usually. Can you not do it earlier in the evening during the week? I have a ndn who likes to come home from the pub at midnight accompanied by friends and spend an hour or two screeching and shouting with them in the hot tub. I also have another neighbour who likes to let her dc out to play in their hot tub or above ground swimming pool from 7.30am until 9-10pm at night in the summer, these dc idea of playing is actually mostly screaming, shouting, arguing and crying very loudly! However I tolerate this as i have teenage dc who frequently like to listen to rap music at full volume ( only during the day, I wouldn't allow it late at night). You need to try and compromise with your ndn!

I'm not so sure about "low hum". A friend's neighbour has got one, and it's more of a deep drone, and quite loud. When they use it, they have to raise their voices above the noise the tub makes, so there's loud talking as well.

My BIL had one of the cheapo inflatable ones, and that made a god-awful racket. It was like an incredibly loud hoover, with added gurgling. There nearest neighbours were 100 yards away though, so may not have been disturbed by it, especially as they never used it after about 7 pm.

Good!

The planning consent could specify the hours during which it could be used, that might put a stop to anti-social people having the damn things running up till 10 at night.

I just love the way these sorts of posts inadvertantly justify the position of the long suffering neighbour! The OP is told they are being a nuisance, so they immediately set out all the criteria by which they meet said nuisance complaint and then deftly skip to the bit why they are right and should continue regardless, without any hint of embarrassment, apology, or sense of compromise.

Fun to read though.

Or the council could just say sorry it normal noise live with it. Honestly I don't get it, we have a hot tub and pizza oven, next door have a bar and down the street as an Audi R8 they all make noise which is normal as we aren't lucky enough to have bought a house in land. We also work shifts so it doesn't matter if it's 2am or 2pm it could disturb our sleep 🤷‍♀️ I always say if you complain you can always move

@Nanny0gg she could perhaps use it a bit earlier in the evening but I feel the neighbour is being unreasonable to try to dictate what someone can do in their own property. I feel her attitude is more to do with hot tubs than noise

A neighbour three doors down to us has a hot tub. We can hear it every time they use it. I feel really sorry for their next door neighbours.

I do always assume they're having sex in it but I don't know why!

@sleepyscientist christ, your street sounds awful!!