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 Unfortunately tonight it has now been replaced by some shitty action movie being loudly played in the garden, as the family members converse in their usual dulcet yells.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 vote for you getting the biggest outdoor speakers you can get and blasting out Enya, Kenny G, Michael Bolton and The Venga Boys

I'll ask dh what he did as it's not a device in itself, but a small system. He gets back a bit later.

There should be a section in their tenancy agreement about not causing problems with the neighbours, so if you can find out who the landlord is, you can report their behaviour to him.

I had similar neighbours during lockdown. it drives you insane. I have some probably unethical suggestions

You could try to ruin their hot tub fun by creating anchovy ice cubes and lobbing them into the garden/hottub to make it all fishy?

I assume the poster above is talking about an infrasound generator which will make them feel horrible for no apparent reason - like the garden is haunted!

There’s also this for teens, https://mosquitoloiteringsolutions.com , but again it’s not necessarily ethical

Play Wagner's Ring Cycle if you need to choose classical music. It is truly awful (unless you're into that sort of thing) and very heavy and laborious. Goes on for hours too.

You think OP should live as though she was deaf, because society's dross has moved in next door?

And Black Lace. Or Spitting Image's Chicken Song on repeat...

??? No it’s not!

It is funny though.

That is a fair warning if so

Sounds bad op, not sure what I’d do such bad luck to face it

Can you go on zoopla or Rightmove and try and find out the land lord it’s rented through? I’d be blasting load music at 7am and making as much noise as I could.
report the council.
put carpet grip on the top of the fence so next time they climb over the spike there hands!

Exactly what I thought. Leave them to it. We’ve had shitty, noisy neighbours over the years. It can make life miserable. I used to dread coming home and weekends but things changed eventually. I dread my neighbours moving now.

Thank you!

I really feel for you. This was us 4/5/6 years ago. I'm so sorry for anybody going through this.

Some of the flippant posts on here are completely tactless. All the "I'd do this..." because no, actually if you were in this situation, you wouldn't.

For us, even a polite comment about the hot tub noise resulted in them killing our dog. It's honestly not worth trying to reason with people like this.

I hope you won't have to put up with them for long.

Yes it might be an idea to get a petition going among all the neighbours as then the council tend to do something about it.

Sounds absolutely awful. I'm sure you could successfully take legal action if necessary:

www.ellisandco.co.uk/guides/home-improvement/noisy-neighbours/#:~:text=Can%20you%20call%20the%20police,may%20be%20committing%20a%20crime

Although you'd obviously have to think carefully about this.

When I was trying to get ds1 out of bed as a teen (at some point I the afternoon) I listened to The Magic Flute. It was quite amazing the effect the Queen of the Night aria had 😂

These stories are the reason I bought a detached bungalow on a road with other bungalows.

I'm so sorry OP. It's beyond belief how selfish many people are. It fills you with an intense yet weary hatred which is so stressful.

I feel like a bastard for saying but my immediate neighbour is very old. I thought it had been quiet for a while, and some other neighbours confirmed he's in hospital. He's in pretty poor nick and I'd say was nearing the end of his life. While I can hear his radio, often at night as he's a poor sleeper, and his explosive sneezing, I've got off fairly lightly. And I dread the day he's no longer with us, given what I hear about what awful neighbours even normal seeming neighbours can be. We have shared access through the back gardens too 😱

Landlords are not responsible for the behaviour of their tenants.

It’s the Council’s Environmental or Noise Control the OP needs.

Sorry - that's no help but I'm just saying that it sounds so awful living people like this that I ruled out any houses where it was even a remote possibility.

Well I imagine everyone would do that if it was an option. Sadly many of us have to live in terraced houses for money reasons!

Edit: sorry, missed your follow up post

Grim. Can't think of anything better than save up and move.
Meanwhile tall growing plants and can you get a sound blocking fence?

The real problem with people like this is that they don’t care; they move from place to place acting like this, rinse and repeat.

if it gets really bad, you can get soundproof windows. Expensive solution for cheap people, sadly

I commented that some commenters were being snobby because they said the noisy neighbours sounded like council house tenants. We all agree that the neighbours are being anti-social.You're confusing two different things.

Or the ring cycle 🤣