To think garden wind chimes should be banned?!!

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Clearly our neighbours don't seem to think so. We've our bedroom window on the latch because it's a little warm (perimeno) and they are so annoyingly noisy!!

I hate them! Our neighbour has one that clangs and bangs off their conservatory every time it is windy. We have asked them (nicely) to move them, and they refused. She is hard of hearing, so is obviously oblivious to the horrible noise!

I have never come across anyone mowing pre 9am. It’s the people doing it at 12-2 or 6-8pm that are the problem. Just when we’re sitting down to lunch or dinner in the garden! I understand Switzerland had rules around this?

Germany too I think. I have a couple of neighbours though in the UK who will happily rev it up at 8am on a Sunday 🙈

They’ve probably got them up so nosey buggers can’t hear what they’re up to

I wouldn’t mind them if it was the odd plinky plonk wooden chime sounds, but it’s like they’re going potty even on the smallest breeze. So for that I was YANBU.

I think indoors fine you get the odd noise when a door or window is open, but you don’t annoy anyone.

I have heard people sometimes buy them if they don’t like their neighbours.

Honestly, even if I viewed the house of my dreams that ticked every single box, if I could hear wind chimes, I’d run a mile.

Be nice to your neighbours: no man-made sources of noise of any kind. Except of course maintenance noise (lawnmowers, that sort of thing, motorcycle engine being checked over, “putputputput-GROWL-putputputput …”) at weekends.

My mil bought me some. I hung them up and they tinkle in the wind.
Slightly concerned you might be my neighbour - if so tell me and I'll take them down.

I absolutely hate the bloody things. My mum had an obsession with them whilst I was growing up and had several hanging in the back garden. Most nights I struggled to sleep because I could hear them clanging away, even in the gentlest of breezes. I remember asking her on several occasions if she could take them down & I was told I was over exaggerating, and that they obviously weren't that noisy as she never heard them at night. What she seemed to forget was they were hanging directly below my bedroom window, whereas her bedroom was on the opposite side and opposite end of the house (as far away from the wind chimes as you could get!) & she has mild hearing loss, so there's no way she would have heard them. Anyway, years later she stayed somewhere that had wind chimes near the bedroom and was moaning about the noise they made in the night. She finally conceded that the wind chimes were in fact ridiculously loud, annoying and sleep-interrupting. However, apparently hers were never that loud or annoying (only because she never bloody heard them!!!).

They are the MOST annoying things. Hugely invasive on others. I'd be asking them to take these absurd, irritating things down!

I doubt they hated you for it, if they responded by taking them down.

If you hadn't mentioned the conservatory, I'd have thought you were living next door to my mum!

When I was growing up, which is getting to be quite a long time ago, it was considered rude to mow your lawn with a petrol or electric mower on a Sunday. The comment was “oh, how thoughtless” on the other hand I really do love the sound of a push pull mower.

I like them. They remind of being on holiday at sea. A relaxing, friendly sound.

I have some but they only come out when needed. My neighbours on one side, reeking of cannabis/psycho dog. Wind chimes are better.
2nd neighbour, gentle parent, will not tell child not to go berserk (age 14 btw) so again, better sound.

Yes. Our old neighbour had some and I could hear them all the time, especially on a night. They kept me awake. I swear they helped their cat catch all the bird as they couldn't hear it with the noise.

I have wooden ones at the front and metal ones at the back (Feng Shui - south/north), but I would be more than happy to take them down if any of my neighbours found them annoying. I find them comforting.

They should be banned. Or cut down.

there is a reason, its they are nice to hear every garden should have 5 sets

The thing is. The type of people that hang them do not give a shit about others. They are morons. So I doubt a polite request to take them down would even register in their slurry brains.

but then you could say the same when people, have dogs that bark etc

Methinks thou dost protest too much to get so wound up about wind chimes or even a dog barking (edit to add the odd bark, not constantly of course as that's not ok). I'd pay a handsome fee to have wind chime neighbours. Instead I have neighbours who barbeque and play loud music until 2-4am at least 4 nights a week - midweek and weekend - accompanied by loud shouting, whooping, singing,laughing, and stomping from dancing. This is heard best unluckily from my bedroom. Also random drilling and hammering for 10mins or so every day for a week, then nothing for 2weeks, then repeat. To add insult to injury the smoke from the BBQ gets under our eaves, so the rooms on the ground floor at the back of our house stink of BBQ smoke.

Just had 3 straight days of this. I'm tired. A wind chime, frankly, sounds nice right now.

All intrusive noise is very wearing and debilitating, when it goes on and on. This doesn’t need to be a competition of suffering. If you’re experiencing one sort of persistent noise, then that should give some understanding and sympathy withothers who are suffering differently.

The sound of a persistently dripping tap can drive people to distraction.

I don't mind them, but I wouldn't have them in a residential area. If you have neighbours I think it's good manners to take them down during really windy weather. My neighbour's metal one sounded like a tin of nails being repeatedly shaken throughout the day and night during last weekend's storm, I did find myself hoping it would blow away a few times.

In my experience, dogs are infinitely less annoying. They don’t bark all day. I accept there are arsehole dog owners. But nothing is worse than wind chimes.