To ask neighbour to turn TV down?

YouFreakingFreaks · 02/02/2025 19:44

You can ask, with any luck she may be reasonable.

We politely asked our neighbours if they could mind the volume a bit (we could watch our tv on mute and still hear every word of the programme if we had the same channel on!) . She slammed the door in DH face and I could hear him shouting through the walls ‘it’s a good job I didn’t answer the door or I’d have punched him in the face’. They then, at 11pm, stomped up the stairs and repeatedly slammed the bedroom door. I was 8 months pregnant at the time, it was horrible. They went out of their way to be louder after that. They were a retired couple and we were late 20’s. We’d sold up within a year.

We didn’t bother asking the next neighbours. I just bought ear plugs and became increasingly depressed and anxious whilst saving up for a wreck of a detached house we could ill afford.

I hope it goes better for you, neighbour noise is so stressful to deal with 😞

Fountofwisdom · 02/02/2025 20:00

Flowers665 · 02/02/2025 19:33

Neighbours TV is SO LOUD that I can hear it through the wall almost every night. She isn't old or hearing impaired. WIBU to ask her to turn it down? I hate these kinds of things, how would I go about it? It's really disturbing me.

Do you get on with the neighbour, or are you only on nodding terms? If you have previously had friendly chats, then you could ask nicely. But if you barely know her, it’s more difficult. I ended up getting a wall sound-proofed at great expense, and after all that, it made minimal difference.

As a builder said to me - the only way you can avoid neighbour noise is to live in a detached house out in the country. If you’re in a flat, terraced or semi-detached house, there’s going to be noise.

is there any way you could switch the use of your rooms? Eg. make your current living room the bedroom, so that you’re going to bed at hopefully the same time as her and the TV noise has stopped. And make your current bedroom into a living room, which is situated away from the offending TV?

Tricho · 02/02/2025 20:24

I strongly believe some people are only suited to detached living

Vettrianofan · 18/03/2025 17:46

Fountofwisdom · 02/02/2025 20:00

Do you get on with the neighbour, or are you only on nodding terms? If you have previously had friendly chats, then you could ask nicely. But if you barely know her, it’s more difficult. I ended up getting a wall sound-proofed at great expense, and after all that, it made minimal difference.

As a builder said to me - the only way you can avoid neighbour noise is to live in a detached house out in the country. If you’re in a flat, terraced or semi-detached house, there’s going to be noise.

is there any way you could switch the use of your rooms? Eg. make your current living room the bedroom, so that you’re going to bed at hopefully the same time as her and the TV noise has stopped. And make your current bedroom into a living room, which is situated away from the offending TV?

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Switching rooms is a brilliant solution.