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Noisy neighbours

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Champers66 · 18/11/2023 16:18

I live in private rent, we have been here 8 years. Either side of us we have had multiple people move in and out.

2 weeks ago a lady and her children moved in next door. The second night she was there I had to knock at 9.30pm to ask her to stop drilling.. like a high pitched drilling. I have a 7 year old and at 8 week old.

she doesn’t speak very good English so was difficult to express what I was saying but eventually she got my drift.

since then the noise is unbearable, the stamping and slamming doors, at all hours.

I don’t want to be ‘that’ neighbour and cause any problems but she’s so inconsiderate!

what would you do?

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EsmeSusanOgg · 18/11/2023 16:19

Do you have a good relationship with your landlord? Might be worth asking them to talk to nextdoor/ their landlord.

Afteropening · 18/11/2023 16:28

when you asked her to stop the drilling

what was her response?

KaiserChefs · 18/11/2023 16:30

Giving her a chance to put her furniture together when she had first moved in and being tolerant of how difficult it is to get everything done around her kids would have been a better way to go. Now you're stuck with a pissed off neighbour who you welcomed to the area by complaining about her noise.
Instead of escalating it further, I'd give her a couple of months to see if she gets over it and everything calms down.

Afteropening · 18/11/2023 16:33

KaiserChefs · 18/11/2023 16:30

Giving her a chance to put her furniture together when she had first moved in and being tolerant of how difficult it is to get everything done around her kids would have been a better way to go. Now you're stuck with a pissed off neighbour who you welcomed to the area by complaining about her noise.
Instead of escalating it further, I'd give her a couple of months to see if she gets over it and everything calms down.

Edited

i am a single parent and had to assemble everything when i moved in

9.30pm loud drilling? Not. A. Chance

Afteropening · 18/11/2023 16:34

one thing you should consider OP is that you do have a newborn and… well, babies cry. generally - quite a bit!

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Champers66 · 18/11/2023 22:45

I can honestly say hand on my heart- my newborn doesn’t.. he’s not a cryer, he wakes me up with grunts and stirring but he would never cry and disturb neighbours. Even if he ever did- doesn’t compare to loud drilling at 9.30pm without even letting the neighbours know?

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Champers66 · 18/11/2023 22:46

I appreciate she is trying to get sorted, but she has been there a lot of time in the daytime, with a male to help, but drilling at 9.30 pm without even letting a neighbour know is rather rude? Had she of knocked and let me know then fair enough.. but nothing.

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Champers66 · 18/11/2023 22:48

She said, ‘ok I stop’ exact words. And she did, which I appreciate but the noise hasn’t stopped- no drilling but just horrific noise daily and nightly

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Champers66 · 18/11/2023 22:50

I do- that’s a good idea, I’ll ask him. Don’t get me wrong I’m sure my new neighbour is lovely.. and I like to think I could approach her myself but I just don’t want to come across like a ‘Karen’ when I have already asked her to stop drilling etc. but it’s not fair on me and my kids when it’s a terraced house and it sounds like she is bombing around in hob nail boots

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