Suns out, neighbours out!

[extremea]

Can anyone commiserate with me re neighbour noise?

I live in a detached house and really appreciate the months Of November to March. The rest of the year my neighbours seem to have every window and door open, radio on in the garden and shout-talk to each other. TBH I have become a little obsessed with it and am almost waiting for their noise every day, it’s a bit sad.

Luckily we don’t have neighbours like we did in our previous house although they’re not much better..old house was a semi, the lady and her daughter would a bang up and down the stairs, slam doors, smoke right by our back door and watch us out the back with the blinds angled down.

So yeah, if anyone wants a moan..this is your place!

Op also doesn’t even like fact he’s talking to his neighbour whilst she’s struggling with “millions of bags” and getting her children in the car….

odd.

Our neighbours are perfectly lovely but they grate on my nerves in the summer. They've positioned their BBQ right against the boundary fence, and it's sat on raised decking. Our patio is ground level so our 6'4" neighbour looms over us every time he BBQs. I really want one of those cantilevered umbrellas so that I can angle it and block him out. It really puts me on edge.

I love quiet and relish the weekends when they go away. I can just sit and listen to the birds and summer noise from further away.

I have ridiculously inconsiderate neighbours. As soon as the sun is out the music is on full blast in the garden, shout-talking and the absolute worst… singing along to the terrible music they insist on playing full blast. And why they have to make all their phone calls in the garden I really really don’t know?! 🙈🤷🏼‍♀️

I don’t mind lawn-mowers, children playing and general BBQ chatter but shouty talking and shitty music is infuriating.

My neighbours son used to wee out of the upstairs bathroom window during the summer to annoy his siblings. Then his dad bought a professional style bouncy castle complete with diesel generator.

thank god we moved

I feel really sorry for our neighbours sometimes, especially in this nice weather, I have 2 young DC who love being outside, they scream/shout through playing/ laugh at the top of their voices, in and out of the pool in this nice weather, yes they do occasionally fall out, yes I do give them tellings off outside, my husband is a loud person in general so will come to the back garden shouting “hooneeeeyy Im hooooome” I get really REALLY self-conscious of the noise we are making, I try my best to tell the kids to keep it down, I try to tell my husband, I try to remind myself, but it is damned near impossible. It doesnt help that myself and DH both grew-up with no immediate neighbours so we tend to forget that we now live in the middle of people 😂 I would really hate if our neighbours were annoyed or peed off with us because of noise, we are good people really.

I don’t mind kids playing or lawnmowers, strimmers, etc. I detest people who play music outside. I don’t want to listen to other people’s music. I suspect those who say they have the radio or music on just low enough for themselves have no idea how much sound travels outside! We have whiny kids next door which can be annoying (for some reason this family don’t put their kids to bed til midnight), but they don’t irritate me like the idiot over the back who subjects the whole neighbourhood to his music. Oh, and the other idiot who took to banging a drum outside for a couple of days until DH had a word. So many people nowadays give no consideration to how their actions are affecting others. Once our young adult DC who are still at home move out we’re buying a place in the middle of nowhere.

We have a dip shit who bombs up and down the road on his bike doing wheelies. He looks like a street urchin from Oliver Twist, he's been doing it for years, he's just a bigger prick than he was before. Another member of the dip shit crew has got a motorised mini bike thing, no helmets or high Viz on any of them. Never seen any parents about. They couldn't give a fig.

Dear god, my NDN makes me murderous in the summer. He's got a hot tub that hums all year round, making my garden vibrate, then his kids turn the turbo on and screeches from morning til night. Like they're being murdered. They live in their garden, with adults constantly coming and going and talking at the top of their voices about very exciting (mundane crap), or shit FM on full blast or YouTube tinkling away. Then the phonecalls to everyone he must know about his ex. Door is open 24/7 even when he's out, which just leaves the dog to bark and howl at us all day.

Then there are the serial jetwashers and the obsessive axel grinders. I don't mean a quick job, I mean 8am for a good 8 hours. It's clearly compulsory to use power tools as soon as the sun is out. Or repeatedly work on your noisy motorbike. Not to mention the seventy billion dogs barking.

I don't want silence, I like a gentle background summer happiness. But no. I can't even sit out anymore.

I have the same problem, everyone on our street is obsessed with gardening, neighbours shout out to each other the whole time, kids screeching (not just normal outdoor shouting, screeching), it’s a nightmare when wfh.

Same! I smile as I realise that next door love Fleetwood Mac. I’d never begrudge the sound of kids in their own garden. It’s just life! Especially if it’s just people ‘living’ within normal hours!

Yes. Completely get it. Our neighbours sunbathe completely naked. Find it creepy. So make me hate the sunny weather.

I dream of the day we can move to a house in the middle of nowhere.
Blink of sun and we can hear the gentle parenting in one of the gardens. The children are screaming/fighting/ banging stuff and all you hear is the parents saying “Darling, that’s not nice” the fighting continues, and the darling pleading goes on. The father of this family seems to think everyone wants to listen to his shit techno music every single nice day we have. These children seem to be incapable of playing nicely, it’s a constant fight.
Then we have Mr DIY, the gardens really aren’t big but every single day he’s out drilling/ banging/ shouting at his adult dc’s to do stuff. This has been every summer for 10 years, can’t fathom what is still getting built.
Then we have a dog that goes off it’s head whenever anyone speaks in another garden, it’s owner seems to be permanently outside clearing his smokers lungs with a series of rank snorts and coughs.
Another garden has a child crying constantly about their lack of football prowess to their dad whilst bashing a ball loudly off the shared fence. They have a hot tub 🤢 which is permanently on that is humming along with all the other noise.
Today I thought I was going to have peace to have my morning coffee only to hear the failed footballer run out to play, must have been off school not well but well enough to be out all day kicking the ball.
I was dismayed to say the least.
One day I’ll get my house in the middle of nowhere, currently trying to manifest it!

This thread is giving me heart palpitations! Before we moved our NDNs were appalling - constant shouting, music, clattering about, spying on us and commenting on our movements, using an illegal outdoor firepit with a big chimney so we were always choking and had to close the windows (needing to re-wash our drying laundry too) and having a ridiculous yapping dog all the time. Ugh!

Oh I forgot the 6-8 hours of power washing the patio every other week...in one of the rainiest areas of the UK!

Oh leave ‘em alone!

Patio power washing is the most satisfying outdoor job!

We are semi detached. DP works from home as do our neighbours. They seems to stop working mid afternoon, and the noise begins. They have extended their drive into the back garden to hole their camper van. We the have the sounds of the camper van door being slammed afternoon and evening. Just as I go to bed every evening they climb into their hot tub and loudly chat for an hour. Then there is the music on the daily and the house/garden parties at the weekend. And the smell of weed wafting into the house.

I worked in a shift role previously, but had to leave because I was being kept awake by them. I’ve tried politely asking if they could be quieter overnight but was told I needed noise proofing, I mean I’m deaf in one ear, but okay.

I enjoy the sounds of summer, kids, bbq, gardening but we look forward to the winter months when the weather forces the neighbours in.

In my other place, I was in an apartment with a communal garden outside all my windows, people would literally have parties right there, kids screaming every night, use a ball on the ball - made me so depressed and exasperated. It was awful. I moved luckily and it is so peaceful now and quiet. Never again will I live with an area known as communal. Think yourself lucky you have your own garden!

I don’t mind the sound of kids or music but why oh why does everyone have to leave it until Happy Hour (4pm) at the weekend to start their jet washing and angle grinding and fracking when all we want to do is have a nice glass of something and a chat after a day of chores.
and please, people, you can actually train dogs not to bark. It’s not difficult

They're probably moaning about you too.

I used to have a garden that backed on to a London park. Tennis courts athletics, football, you name it. It didn't bother me because I felt it was positive noise: people out in the sun, enjoying themselves.

We're detached too. 3 or 4 neighbours back on to us but they and we have big gardens so our patio areas are out of earshot from each other. I think if radios are within earshot they should not be used, personally. We don't use them in the garden at all, don't need music everywhere!

As my name....love a sunny day....to sit in the garden with cheeky gin....I don't mind anyone enjoying the outside at all....yes children can sometimes be noisy...but it's joyful....let them enjoy the outside...BUT..I hate the selfish people who have party nights...getting drunk and loud music late in the evening....not everyone wants to hear the disco and vile language that I unfortunately seem to get most Friday and Saturday night x x

Our house is detached, and for years i have enjoyed my garden and the birdsong etc. As older residents moved out of the village and families have moved in, it’s got noisier with children playing etc.
I don’t mind this, or power tools or mowers etc as it’s all part of living in a community.
But my new neighbours are a young couple who are home all day, he sits in the huge shed in the tiny backyard playing loud, very bass heavy, music. The bass vibrates all through my house, so even coming inside offers no escape.
Often his girlfriend will open the patio doors and have her music on in the house(at the same time!) and they shout conversations across the garden.
All accompanied by the overwhelming smell of cannabis. Occasionally we’re treated to them having screaming rows.

We can’t move so I am just having to learn to live with it!

The house on the other side of the fence doesn’t have anyone in Monday to Friday, and then on a Saturday morning without fail; endless strumming and a bonfire. I’m constantly baffled that they have anything left to burn, their house must be empty of anything wooden.

Love children playing, laughter, etc.
Hate the thump, thump, thump of my neighbour’s music (we can just hear the bass) or someone kicking a ball over and over against a wall/fence. I think it’s the repetitive element that I find hard.

The neighbours whose garden backs on to ours have a large paddling pool and a hottub 🤢 and like to play loud music when the sun comes out. It's not horrendously loud but it does impact us!
Our next door and neighbours on the 8 house close are all great, the kids are aged 6 and under and all.play together. But it.does look chaotic with little bikes and scooter everywhere!