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 agree with this.

I do have one (if the wind hasn't blown it away) but it's in the garden and I can't hear it from the house and I'm closer to it than any neighbour so can't imagine it bothering anyone.

Our neighbour put one up and it drove me mad! They used to go on holiday for six weeks over the summer and I asked if they could take it down while they were away. Neighbour was quite put out, but her husband agreed with me and told her it was “fucking annoying”, so it went down and was never put up again, thank goodness.

I have one. It has large metal tubes that create a deep chime. I only put it out in the summer months when the weather is better and there are gentle breezes. If we have a day of bad weather when it's out then I either tie a strap around it or unhook it and put it in the shed. It's a 140ft garden and it's down the end, so from this end you only get a feint, gentle sound.

Weve all got something going on that annoys other neighbours. I have the twat at the end who has frequent bonfires, a house two doors down who plays a radio all day, every day, in the garden (awful station choice) from March to November, another neighbour who has a very barky dog that goes on for ages (she then goes out and screeches at the dog, wonders why it ignores her and screeches for her partner to come help), and a neighbour who has their power tools/lawn mower/jet washer/other noisy device going all the time.

My ndn used to have one outside her back door which is opposite my bedroom.
On a windy night the bingbonging drove me mad.
I just had a polite word and asked if she would consider moving it as it was keeping me awake
The minute her husband got home from work it was moved

Years ago, We had neighbours who put up the long loud tuber bells type wind chimes. They were extremely loud in the wind, very near our bedroom window. I couldnt sleep night after night, so I asked the neighbours to take them down. They did, so I took them a bottle of wine as a thank you, and peace offering. Then they put the wind chimes back up after 3 weeks ! I now live in a cottage with no neighbours, and it’s absolute bliss.

people can be incredibly selfish.

And so many solar lights, my neighbours recently have thoughtfully installed garden lights that of triggered by me walking into my own back gate presumably to alert them to when I'm coming and going. It's like walking into a prison yard. I think I'll need to to ask them to turn the sensor off. Even if they turn the sensor off the lights will still illuminate a lot of our garden. Light pollution drivers me insane. I would love to sit in the dark in the summer at night but instead both sides have lots of solar lights too.

I don’t do anything to annoy my neighbours.
Fortunately most of my neighbours are the same, thoughtful.
Your explanation is how it happens - you know your chimes might bother other people, but because you are bothered by others you don’t care.

I love wind chimes but I don’t have any because I don’t want to force my neighbours to hear “my” noise. But no one knows I am being considerate of course 🙂

Nope, because I do consider my neighbors.

No, I don’t care, and I also don’t care if you or anyone else berates me, so bring it on, it’s not going to stop me hanging my chimes this summer.

We have one but I take it down when very windy because it drives me batty, not the neighbours. They have howling dogs that either wake me up or are let to bark for hours on end. So if they get annoyed at my chimes, well, good!

Sort of.
bought a house which has a lovely garden with beautiful trees, flowers and shrubs etc. For the first three years I would moan to DH and the neighbours wind chimes going off all the time. One day I mentioned it to our neighbour as I had enough and she laughed and said they aren’t hers they are at the top on the tall tree for years as the children who used to live on the house climbed it once and put them up there. I was mortified. We called a gardener to come and get them down

I did consider my neighbours, so moved my windchimes closer together, so they didn't 'tinkle' much at all. However, last summer my neighbour, whose back garden borders my own, placed the squakiest chair swing right behind my seating area.....and it drove me mad.

So this summer I may separate my chimes again and give them free will to tinkle once more.

I have some but don't have any neighbours. I can't hear them when in the house and they're great for keeping foxes out. No issues with foxes in my fields but not near my chickens where the wind chimes reside.

Did you ask her to oil it?

I worked with someone who LOATHED his neighbours chimes. He attached long sticks to a pair of scissors, whenever it was windy he would go out in the middle of the night and snip the string. Took a few goes but eventually they never put them back up.

How do you know you don't do anything to annoy your neighbours?

To answer your question, yes, I did consider the neighbours and didn't get wind chimes. I did want them but considered the neighbours. Then the neighbours decided not to consider us and refused to do anything about it. It wasn't your standard every day noise that it would be reasonable for us to put up with either. So I decided they didn't deserve that kind of consideration and got wind chimes. They can only be heard by me and them. I love them. I don't know what the neighbours think of them and don't care. For all I know they like them. They are high quality. I do tie them up on windy nights though. If they complain about them, I will show them the same consideration they showed me. They won't complain though. They know they shut any door to that kind of discussion themselves.

Luckily mine can't do that and, if they could, they'd have to be trespassing big time. Then the police will be notified of trespass and vandalism.

I think the point was they were meant to think the wind had done it…I assume they did.

My parents neighbour has one and it doesn’t bother mum and dad, I don’t notice it when I’m in their garden. But my grandma despises it and when we have BBQs/eat outside in the summer (which is often) and grandma comes round, she always complains loudly about it. We just laugh at her hatred for it as it doesn’t bother us at all!

Wind won't cut strings though.

I'd just replace it and get a second one to top it off.

A posh garden centre near me has a section of what I can only describe as 'artisanal wind chimes'; large and very mellow, with the 'dingers' crafted out of some kind of slightly muffling material, and all expertly tuned. They cost a bomb but I, who have never found myself attracted to wind chimes, found myself hanging around the display and nudging the tubes for longer than I'd expected of myself. But I wouldn't get any precisely because my neighbours might hate them.

I have lived in the same house for nearly 30 years. I have raised 2 children here and have always talked to my neighbours either side to check whether they could hear them and were bothered (stairs, guitar playing that sort of thing).
They were never annoyed - at least they didn't say. I never allowed the kids to yell and scream in the garden. I don't have anything in my garden that could annoy (radio, trampoline, hot tub, WIND CHIMES). I am careful with doors when coming home late.
The few times I've had work done I have informed them - so I guess that might annoy them at the time, but I think that sort of thing is reasonable.
I suppose I might annoy them by my very existence, but there's no much I can do about that.
I would never do tit for tat.

My neighbours had some when I was growing up. They drove my parents nuts. Dad was particularly sensitive to noise (ironically he’s now deaf). Neighbours were arseholes in other ways too so it was just part of their entitled behaviour. The man once yelled at dad that he should pave part of our garden because it was so large, our lawn was stealing the nutrients from their soil and his vegetables weren’t growing well. That was honestly the only time I saw my dad speechless. He couldn’t work out how to respond to that level of crazy.

Not entirely sure I could fit the neighbours on a wind chime. In the interests of politeness, would I need to include all the neighbours? What about pets?