Hell is a terraced house with a hot tub, bar and outdoor tv.

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Or more accurately, hell is what I'm going through living next door to this abominable set up.

Family from hell moved in not that long ago. Drunken pot smoking father who attended a house party in the mid 90's and apparently never left, a wife who to be fair seems like she's lost the will to live or smile, and an assortment of teenagers who like to invite all their mates round and shout about dildos and cumming in people's eyes.

The garden has slowly morphed into something resembling a butlins, which is fairly impressive as we all only have narrow postage stamp gardens. It started with a hot tub, progressed to an outdoor bar, and has culminated this weekend in some sort of wooden shack thing made of fences with a tin roof, housing an outdoor television.

The second the sun comes out it is thumping tunes ALL day, which to be fair sometimes gets turned down a little at 11 pm. Unfortunately tonight it has now been replaced by some shitty action movie being loudly played in the garden, as the family members converse in their usual dulcet yells. Must have affected their hearing with all that drum and bass.

Yes, we have tried talking to them. The father seemed to indicate through grunts that he had understood my attempt at communication with a primitive life form, however we were then treated to angle grinding in the street regularly for a few nights, as he loudly complained about the 'stuck up bitch next door' and proclaimed that I'd be 'having that'.

No, I currently can't move. I'm working on it but realistically not going to be any time soon. I'd imagine the house would be a hard sell at the moment too, most prospective owners would run a mile.

I guess I just wanted to rant, I'm so tired. I've actually found myself on the brink of tears a few times tonight, mainly from frustration. They went away last week and it was wonderful. The entire estate was practically silent, just the usual buzz of every day life going on made me really appreciate just what loud obnoxious bastards they are.

I moved to the countryside because I was fed up of hearing my civilised neighbours chatting in the garden on hot nights.
The OPs situation is about 50!times worse.

OP, I feel for you. They sound bloody awful.

I agree with others about logging their behaviour and making complaints.

If you can see what brand of garden TV they have I’d also be aiming to buy a universal remote… take great pleasure in randomly muting or turning it off.

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We've been house hunting and DH didn't understand why am I immediately discounting so many houses no matter what they look like inside when gardens are tiny and or and back to back so your chair squeeks and all estate knows it. And god forbid I see bar like set up. Can't click away fast enough. Your neighbours are exactl example. The amount of people nowadays having absolutely no regard for neigbour is ridiculous.

Hell is other people.

I feel for you

BBC TV morning programme covered this issue yesterday. Advice was to download The Advice app if your council is signed up. This automatically records and logs noise straight to noise dept.

Same situation for me here. We used to live on a busy estate surrounded by neighbours all around and had no problem. Then we moved to a lovely detached house in the country. All was well to begin with but then the neighbours moved out and in moved the family from hell. Previous years has been thumping music, screaming, happy dogs, screaming kids kicking balls against the fence until midnight, drunken screeching until 5am and then this year they have gone one step further and installed the outdoor TV. We have two toddlers and our lives are hell, all because of them. It can happen anywhere unfortunately. I’m dying to move but I’m so scared it’ll happen again.

I haven’t read the entire thread yet OP so this may already have been mentioned but there’s a device you can buy, think it’s called a mosquito, that emits a sound that only teens can hear and that they find repellent. Could be worth a try.

Never wrestle a pig, you both end up covered in shit and the pig enjoys it

Plant some fast growing conifers along the fence line. It will in time help to block the noise and the view.
We have had to do this as we also have a loud neighbour. Helped a bit.

We are actually thinking of moving in a couple of years. I am sick of the noise.
I feel for you x

Do they own the house, or are they privately renting or social housing. Basically, is there a landlord/council that you can complain to?

So pleased you have quiet neighbours now. Your home should be your safe haven. We have had lovely elderly neighbours and when they died we now have a noisy family and it's really hard getting used to it.

Would you actually do this or is this just one of those classic MN comments?

You need to stand up to these bullies, have cameras fitted front and back of your house, and report report report. Do not be intimidated as they will do this more and more. Also invest in a really loud music system, turn it to max on days when they have kept you up at night and then go out leaving it playing the same irritating song on repeat !

You sound like a snob. I’m glad I don’t live next to you

Yes the McDonalds near me with an ASB problem does that. A bit of Vivaldi and the teens are slinking off elsewhere!

If they are private renting contact the landlord and the council. If it’s social housing contact their housing association and ask to speak to the anti social behaviour team and the council. If they own speak to the council. I’d also speak to other neighbours and ask them how they’re affected by the noise and let them know you plan to report the noise complaints. With any luck others will be just as frustrated and you will give them the push to report the issue and the hope that it might actually make a difference.

Yes, I actually would do this and have done this. And guess what, it worked.

You sound like a scumbag antisocial neighbour

Fair enough.
I can’t imagine leaving my house all day with music blaring out; for the sake of all the other considerate neighbours.
I’d also be scared of retaliation from the inconsiderate neighbours.

I've read about that, too, and classical music generally seems to be a deterrent.
I'd play opera, personally, but I realise that's not everyone's cup of tea.

I really feel for you, OP. That is my idea of hell and I probably would have totally lost the plot by now and gone berserk with a carving knife or resorted to arson. I would never, ever, buy a house where neighbours had a hot tub, outdoor bar, outdoor tv or sound system. I think they should come under planning control and only people with no near neighbours should be allowed to have them.

Report every single incident to the council as noise nuisance. Keep a "noise diary" so you have a record of dates, times, duration and type of noise. Councils can, and do, prosecute this sort of anti-social activity, and they're more likely to do that if they've got a detailed record to present as evidence.

I wonder if they've got all this shite in place for watching the world cup. I think I'd have to go away for the duration if so.

Just want to say I have huge sympathy. We have similar but on a lesser scale. Nothing that you would ever escalate. Just a constant excessive noise in the summer. I don’t mind ‘children playing loudly noises’ (I have two DS, anlthough they would’ve been told to be quieter if they were like the two next door) and love my garden and playing some music (at a normal volume). They have a pool that takes up the entire garden that they drag out each year. Then ‘the kids’ proceed to screech and argue in it with the parents shouting at them from indoors to ‘fucking get out now’. The Dad smokes weed 12 hours a day. He’s obviously either high or low so either shouting and swearing or playing his favourite song REALLY LOUD and singing to it. Then he leaves it on really loud but (because he obviously can’t figure out how to use Spotify) then the adverts come on REALLY LOUD in between too. Their normal conversation volume you can hear every word. I swear they can’t hear a word we say. The mum screeches like a fish wife and the eight year old daughter is even worse. It’s lovely where we live, lots of friendly people and lovely neighbours. Every winter I decide, no, I’m happy here. I don’t want to move…. Then the sun comes out along with the feral neighbours 😞 oh. And not to forget the constant football against the fence most of the year.

I feel for you OP. Living next door to people like this is horrendous and has a huge impact on mental health. I had an awful experience about 17 / 18 years ago when I bought my first house. At first it was lovely, after about a year the neighbour transferred it over to her daughter who moved in with her scummy boyfriend. From almost straight away we had issues, thumping music, loud fights, a poor dog that was never walked so barked all day, rubbish thrown over the fence and much more. I complained to her mum one day that the dog barked constantly and would throw itself at the fence if we went outside so my daughter was now too scared to go in the garden which prompted the boyfriend to then sit and bark in the house, outside my windows and he would also bark at me if he saw me in the street. The rubbish over the fence then also included dog poo, and they would pile stuff up on our car. The music continued and they would shout all sorts to me in their lounge so I could hear it through the walls.
Was so happy when I moved out!

it sounds like absolute hell 😢. Do these people ever go out? If so, can you accidentally puncture the hot tub? Get a bag of manure and spread it over the garden, universal remote to turn off the tv?
I know you can’t actually do these things.

I agree with some of the other replies.
I assume it is a rented or council house. Report to council / housing association / environmental health / landlord ask the neighbours will do so too.
If enough of you report them a few times then they will hopefully get chucked out.
I live in a terraced house and next door is an emergency accommodation place where tenants stay for up to two years while they are being found somewhere permanent to live. It has been converted into a four bedroom house so mostly it's people with 4 or 5 children needing emergency housing that move in. I have been really lucky.. since the owner started renting it out to the council I've had four lots of really lovely families as neighbours. I will be really sad when the current people move out, they are great!

This comment says it all. I'm very glad I don't live next door to you!!!