If you have a wind chime do you consider your neighbours?

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It's windy today.
I can hear my neighbour's wind chime. It's not a mellow wooden one, or a light twinkly one, rather it sound tinny and tuneless.

I wonder whether people with wind chimes consider whether their neighbours want to hear the noise?

If the wind picks up maybe it will blow down and break.

I only put ours out when it's calm. I'd never have it out when it's windy or over the colder months.

Our neighbour used to have one. I think they assumed their neighbours would love it as much as they did, and couldn't possibly take exception to it and the fucking irritating noise it made

They were wrong, but it's gone now thank goodness

I pass a couple when I go for a walk.

A house has two of the metal ones, one each side of the door.
Today, they must be driving anyone within earshot barmy.☹️

Assuming the owner thinks they are beautiful.

Why do you have one?

My wind chimes are hung up just inside the house, not out in the garden.

I only have two of them and they will only sound when/if those particular doors happen to be open, which isn't that often (and never overnight) and is usually only in short bursts.

So usually nobody but me would really hear them.

I live next to a house with a bunch of wind chimes, all different types and sounds. I think they’re nice.

Who would actually be bothered by a jingley sound that you can only really hear when you’re stood outside in the wind? Someone with no real problems I guess.

My neighbour has multiple - metal and wood.They drive me insane. They have other entitled behaviours as well.But luckily, they are selling, so hopefully they'll be gone soon

I’m guessing because it’s quite a nice noise in a very gentle breeze. Not in anything more though.

Wouldn’t garden mobiles be better then?

but do you think everyone will agree with that?

Personally some of them are the devils own work and the opposite of zen and relaxing.

I'd like a law banning them for noise pollution. They are on a par with barking dogs for annoyance level.

I was given one. I binned it after about 2 hours, it was so irritating. Even on quiet/non windy days, they are annoying and I am not inflicting it on my neighbours. Anyone who does automatically goes in the antisocial neighbour bucket!

I used to walk past a semi detached house when DD was in primary that had one of the metal.ones outside the bedroom window on the inside of the two houses (I hope that makes sense!) If I was the neighbour with the bedroom window next to it I'd have reached out and cut the bloody thing off.
Who hangs a windchime outside their bedroom???? Bloody crazy

Is it a nice noise? Nicer than birdsong or trees rustling, or silence?

I hate these, if you want to listen to the noise stick them in your house.

So inconsiderate.

My neighbour’s chimes have put a stop to me using the garden as much as I used to. They are the very light ones, so the slightest movement of air gets them going and the tinkling is particularly high-pitched. I can’t stand the bloody things.

Admittedly, this is an extreme reaction and I fully acknowledge that I’m (too) sensitive to noise. But I do think it is selfish. I’d be ok with them putting them up when they’re actually out in the garden but of course nobody does this. You can hear them in the house when the wind is really bad!

I have one in the conservatory, not outside. The noise would drive me and the neighbours bonkers in this windy weather!

There are multiple wind chimes in a large magnolia tree in a neighbour’s front garden.
The noise doesn’t bother me walking up and down the road but luckily I don’t hear it from my bedroom at night. If I lived next door it would drive me insane and my son who has ASD probably wouldn’t cope with the incessant tinkling sound.

I was given an ugly bastard one for Christmas a couple of years ago. No idea what it sounded like as it was rehomed to the charity very quickly. Most don't even look nice.

Not an answer to your question, but I'll never forget my batshit neighbour coming and pounding on our door to demand we took down our windchimes after a windy night/day.

We politely explained we didn't have any windchimes or similar - which she refused to believe (we genuinely didn't!). When invited to come into the garden to see/maybe identify which other neighbour had them (as we definitely didn't) she stormed off in a huff rather than admit she was wrong.

I couldn't even hear the bloody windchimes she was talking about. She probably had tinnitus 😂

Donkey's years ago, the house directly behind us hung up the biggest, noisiest and most offensive brass brand wind chime thing on our dividing fence. They had an approx. 120ft long garden (we don't), so presumably all they heard from their patio was a twinkly tinkle, whereas we were treated to Tubular Bells on steroids 24/7, even with the doors and windows shut. We asked them if they would mind moving it further down their garden, but they refused.

I accidentally knocked it off the fence a couple of times after that, but it always found its way back up straight away. One warm summer's day, and we could stand the torture no more, so I took the wire cutters to it. The neighbours moved several months later, thankfully.

Those things should be for beach bars and huge neighbourless gardens only.

My neighbours have the tinkly bastard type. They're up all the time. I have to use noise canceling earbuds a lot in summer. I have tinnitus and chronic illness and it is torture. I did mention it once but he said they can't hear it! He left it up.

They have also built a shitty summerhouse over my boundary and damaged my fence posts so they're not known for consideration. She also sits and smokes in the fecking summerhouse which is underneath my bedroom window. He was burning plastic last week in his garden bonfire. Ffs.

If no cameras and a fence you can easily get over, snip them, neighbour might get the msg.