AIBU to complain again about neighbours talking loudly in the communal yard?

[EmptyTheFrickingBins]

My neighbours have taken to sitting in the communal yard and having loud conversations and video calls. It literally sounds like they're in the room with me and it's seriously starting to effect my mental health and quality of life.

I work shifts including overnight and got in at 6am. I managed to get maybe an hour's sleep before they started. I'm currently absolutely exhausted and I'm back at work this evening so really need sleep.

They also leave the security door wedged open which makes a really awful high pitched sound that cuts through earplugs and white noise.

They both have very strong accents that really carry and they genuinely might as well be in my bedroom with me right now. They have access to a nice garden outside of the flats but have decided they'd rather sit in the yard where the bins live.

It was the same last summer and it reached the point I was so exhausted I booked a hotel near work because I wasn't safe to drive home. I have asked them politely several times if they could use the garden rather than sitting directly under my bedroom windows but if anything it made things worse because they started also playing loud music.

I have tried white noise, various earplugs, audiobooks, and they don't block the voices. I honestly don't know what to try next!

I agree that it is absolutely soul destroying dealing with these types and seriously impacts well being.

Strong incense sticks in your window for a while could work. For your own health, get charcoal free ones. The smoke should gas them out. It wafts out the window. They won't like it especially if it's a less than pleasant fragrance.

You could put a white noise device directly on the windowsill, or something playing rain forest sounds loudly at the window. Both the above are calming and you're doing it for your well being if any challenges came. You will have to spend your time doing this when you should be resting so appreciate it's difficult.

You don't want to antagonise I can see that. I've been there and you end up falling over yourself trying to appeal to these thoughtless types. Being nice isn't working.

I would consider complaining because they are having an impact on you and loud gobs on phones like this is so unnecessary.

Just some solidarity as I have the same issue. My neighbour doesn't work, and is an alcoholic - relevant because she gets very, VERY loud. She shouts, screams, talks to herself ALL the time, and plays music so loud it sounds like when you walk past a nightclub. I was in tears on Friday evening as she was having a solo party, screaming to herself, and I can't describe how loud the music was. We have asked her many times to turn it down and she is just so abusive.

To anyone else not living next to her she has a good exterior and likes to act as if she's the perfect neighbour.

She has just had decking built, and sits outdoors all the time now. She is ALWAYS on the phone, and she finds absolutely everything hilarious. She also wedges open her garden door so her horrible yappy vicious dog is always in the garden, trying to bite through our shared fence to attack my dogs.

I have no advice I'm afraid, but I find it helps me just to know that others are also going through similar. We want to move soonish so don't want to report her or we'll never sell.

Have you tried sleep headphones OP? I play white noise on mine or rain/light thunderstorm sounds. They were about £18 from Amazon

https://amzn.eu/d/02amf5Uv

There is rats in the bins but they don't care.

We had about sixty exterminated just before the couple moved in, as well as a massive of rubbish from the yard. Maybe that colours my view of it but I very much see it as a functional space and not somewhere to relax! (They had a picnic out there recently and I can't think of a worse place to eat!) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-66512459

I think I'm probably overly sensitive too because two of the flats were rented by absolutely awful criminal people who caused a lot of trouble and it took a hell of a lot before Thirteen could get closure orders. https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/24552772.hartlepool-flats-females-visited-underwear-closed/