We live in a tiny one bed flat. Our neighbours have 2 kids but live in a 3 bed with considerably more space than us. They are a nice family.
However, the boy bounces a ball off his bedroom wall (his bedroom is the entire span of our flat) when I am trying to work from home or when we are trying to relax of an evening (and also 7am on Sundays at times). He bounces it so hard that it shakes our walls, floors, glasses in our kitchen cupboards. I would say he’s around 10 years old so not too young to explain that it is an outside activity.
I have told his parents I can hear this. I have told my landlord. Each time, it stops for a week and then it’ll start up again.
I am just sick of it. The noise annoys me so much, but what annoys me more is the total lack of regard to me and their other neighbours. I also think, if he must play ball games in the apartment, he should be told not to throw a ball against his neighbours wall, and instead use one of the internal walls of their much larger apartment. There is no where for us to escape to when the noise starts for us (because we have two rooms) but they have more options.
I get that it must be hard having kids in an apartment, and I am fine with some noise. Their dog barks all day and I sometimes hear the little one crying. I don’t care about that as it’s apartment living. I draw the line at ball games against our wall though, AIBU?