We live in a flat and next door has a wooden wind chime on their balcony. It’s constantly doing its windchime thing and annoying me when I work from home. It also annoys my DD at bedtime, her window is on that side of the building too.
The owner of the windchime is a complete witch. She once told DH to go fuck himself when he politely asked her to move her car as she’d blocked us in. He was with our then four year old DD at the time.
She sometimes plays loud music until 3am (about once every three months?), another neighbour asked her to turn it down and was laughed at. I tried another time and she did turn it down (not enough) but the next day her tv was on all day quite loud and her car was gone so we think she was punishing us. All in all she’s not a pleasant person and reasoning with her is out of the question.
And she’s out at work all day, and I work from home and find them damned chimes so annoying! I can reach them from my balcony. Is there anything I can do to dampen the noise? Or ways to deteriorate the wood over time? I can’t just cut the strings or smash the damn thing as don’t want an enemy of this woman, but some subtle sabotage must be possible. Any ideas?