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 Unfortunately tonight it has now been replaced by some shitty action movie being loudly played in the garden, as the family members converse in their usual dulcet yells.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.

Oh Op I'm so sorry. I went through this with my horrible ex neighbors. One side owned their house. It would be constant loud music for 10 hours a day every day and parties through a global pandemic and it nearly broke my health. You could hear the noise through closed windows.

The other side was a cokehead who would scream about nothing from 3am twice a week.

So at best I was getting 5 hours sleep a night and of course I was working through the pandemic and they were not.

I tried to be polite, I reported the cokehead because she had a child in the house and nothing was done. Our council were next to useless but they are not living between it.

What I did learn was despite them making so much noise and her waking me up they both didn't like the same treatment. The 10 hours a day hot tub neighbours would complain if someone cut their own grass at noon. So I complained loudly one day and it quietened down for a bit.

The other side thought my ringing her bell at 8am to complain was an unreasonable hour. Because then she was asleep.

Selfish, awful people. I just didn't understand it. Why should their want to noise trump yours for quiet?

I moved in the end.

This all sounds rather lower class.

You can report them to the council even if they own their house, and there's a Noise App you can get for your phone to record the noise as evidence and times etc.

You shouldn't have to put up with such ignorant behaviour.

So does that comment.

Any other classist digs you'd like to add into your post? Butlins, primitive life form, there must be more. Maybe something about universal credit?

Not if she wants to move - all has to be disclosed to buyer

Water your garden with a hose and very, very poor aim

Have some empathy - the poor OP is on her knees. Easy to be liberal when you don’t have to deal with it

Amazingly, even upper class people can be inconsiderate fuckers.

It's nothing to do with class though. If they were playing loud opera music, watching loud documentaries on the outdoor telly and holding posh parties out there with chaps with booming voices wearing yellow trousers and ladies in fascinators getting hysterical on champagne, it would still be upsetting and annoying.

Is that similar to fox deterrents? Younger ears can hear them and they're apparently extremely annoying. (Used to live near a house with a fox deterrent in my 20s and my partner could hear it and I (slightly older) couldn't).

Yep. Never wrestle with pigs.
Sorry, op. It must be awful.

@ScouserInExile im so sorry about your dog and you’re right escalating is not going to help the situation these people are peasants and won’t care. Under Rayners reforms it’s going g to be impossible to get tenants out for a landlord months and months of cost and stress with no guarantee of eviction

They may be worried about the state of their property though. These people sound like animals and are likely to be doing damage.

I take it they're not early risers? Do the return gift of unbearably loud music from 8am. Warn your decent neighbours beforehand. Never know, they might join in.

If they're relatively new neighbours and you put the address in Google, it may come up with the original letting agent ad?

They use similar at the town centre supermarkets here to stop teenagers congregating outside

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

No, but I'd contemplate the hitman suggestion if they killed my dog! (Just joking...or am I?) 🤔

I lived in terraced houses all my life including some subdivided into flats and we were never noisy. We went out to socialise and we were quiet coming home because we and our neighbours were respectful and understood no one wants to hear it. Particularly on Sundays.

My DF would have gone spare if the neighbours had to complain about me.

We still managed to live our lives.

I agree it’s much harder irl as they clearly don’t care and can escalate too

There does seem to be a link though in many of the posts I have read over the years.

so sorry OP

I watched a show on my phone linked up to a Bluetooth speaker in tge garden last night? Is this not OK? Oops

Yes I’d love a detached but the jump is to expensive at the moment in burbs of London

I became quite accustomed to very loud white noise on Alexa. Also rainforest sounds - playing continually.
I don't have this horror show but loud people living below me.

This is the worst thing to deal with. I just hope they move soon.

Why didn’t you wear headphones? Genuine question.