to think that people should be able to sit in their garden without having to listen to other peoples music?

[fufflebum]

I am wondering if I am being unreasonable but wanted to gauge some opinion.....

Here goes we live in a detatched house on an estate but our neighbours (at the back ) seem to like spending a lot of time in their garden. Nothing wrong in this but when they are out there they seem to have to have their radio on. This can go on for hours. Sometimes it is loud enough to hear the song playing, othertimes a low mumbling thump. I am not expecting to sit in the garden in complete silence, god knows my two kids prevent that! However, is it too much to ask that sometimes they could turn the radio off?
This weekend we had it all weekend and very late into Saturday night/sunday morning as they had family around and you could hear voices in the garden.
I am especially sensitive as another neighbour (side on from us) has the occasional bbq and party/disco that goes on until 1 am.
I would never dream of taking a radio in to the garden to listen to music and the children only play out in the garden for an hour or so at a time. Whilst I do expect some noise I cannot understand why I should have to put up with what feels like noise pollution! I am beginning to dread the weekend now. AIBU?

[jumpjockey]

I sort of sympathise with OP in that our neighbours are like Greensleeves - play guitar in the garden all day during summer (and I do mean all day, he works from home and writes jingles and the like so it's not especially good music either!). We wouldn't mind if it was just audible in the garden, the problem is we're in terraces and somehow the sound reflects back into our house so that if we hsve the windows open it's plinky plink all the time. We'd have to have music on pretty loud to drown it out.

But then when we go away they watch the house for us - and when we're in the garden they say hello and ask after dd. So it's swings and roundabouts really.

[StripeyKnickersSpottySocks]

When camping the other week the idiot in the next tent had a portable radion and was listening to the bloody football.

[AttilaTheMeerkat]

The original poster is not being unreasonable in my view.

Noise pollution from a radio in the garden is just that and shows absolutely no consideration towards others who could hear it. Pity the PRS have no jurisdiction in this area!.

The Noise Act 1996 states that the hours of ?night? are 11pm to 7am so technically loud music from a party should be turned off, or at the very least down at 11pm.

[willowstar]

YABpretty unreasonable. You said in your original post that often the music was so that you could only just hear it...as for having the occasional BBQs until 1am, well that is just life. As for only letting your children out for short bursts so as not to annoy the neighbours...I think that is pretty sad. But then I am one of those people who likes the sounds of summer, I love sunbathing listening to the chatter of people in the other gardens, kids playing, lawnmowers, doesn't bother me at all.

[TheDullWitch]

YANBU. Most decidedly not.

I loathe piped music in gyms or shops. And to have it my own garden all day long with speakers would make me miserable, even ill.

You should politely have a word. And if no joy consult your council noise pollution dept.

It is totally selfish to put in on so anyone else can hear it. We should all be more considerate in public spaces. If you want constant music put in earphones, don't inflict it on other people.

Human interaction is fine, I love hearing children play or people chatting and laughing. But music unless you chose it is just NOISE!

It is the equivalent of sitting next to someone eating a stinking burger or curry in a cinema.

[Rowlers]

Why do people have to listen to music?
Why do people who play music have this bizarre idea that music stops at the fence?
Noise is fine - children playing, people chatting, enjoying themsleves yes, but music NO.
NO NO NO
It is totally antisocial and selfish and betrays an utter lack of respect for others.

[Rowlers]

And this notion - if you want peace and quiet and no music go and live in the middle of nowhere?
If the music polluters want to listen to their music in the garden all day long, why don't THEY sod off to the middle of bf nowhere?

If this thread does nothing else, I hope those people who play music are at least aware that their neighbours quite possibly DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT.
Don't presume it's ok.
People are scared of complaining.
Their silence doesn't mean your neighbours like it.

[piscesmoon]

'Noise is fine - children playing, people chatting, enjoying themsleves yes, but music NO.
NO NO NO'

I agree-I am not unrealistic and am quite happy to hear the children next door running and shouting and generally being children-anything BUT music and radios.

[Bonneville]

YANBU. We have exactly the same situation with a family behind us who does the same. Their taste in music is carp carp carp!

[Thunderduck]

I've heard of whale music but never carp.

[smurfgirl]

I always sit and listen to music in my garden, my neighbours enjoy drum and bass at 2am so I think it balances ;) Someone else down the road likes to play chart music really really loudly but its fine just background noise really.

My music is on my laptop so headphones is impractical because I like to wander.

I think its pretty quiet though, I certainly can't hear it from the backdoor when I nip inside to the loo.

I find noisy kids much more annoying that music (drum and bass at 2am aside).

[fufflebum]

Well it seems as if others share my opinion.....

I am wondering if all those who posted supporting their right to music in the garden are the same people who listen to it and their neighbours sit in silence hoping for rain!!!!

As someone said they enjoy masturbating but would not do it in public!

I do not object to the music per se but just that I have to listen to it when they want to hear it. (Sometimes they are not even in the garden!).

As a society the idea that you can do what you want when you want is pretty selfish. If you like music please listen to it at your convenience, not mine!!! As someone said it does not stop at the fence.

If it continnues, I will say something....

Beware all those people who posted about supporting music being played....it could be you I am writing about!!!

[dweezle]

YANBU. I hate this - it makes summer miserable for me. I go and sit in the garden with a book and have to come in 5 mins later because neighbours have radio on. It's not overly loud, but I can hear it, the music is awful and it spoils my time in my garden.

I won't ask them to turn it off/down, because as I said, it is not loud enough to be a proper issue. So I don't get to sit in my garden and read.

I have said this on similar threads before, but I really think that music should not be loud enough to be heard outside your own property boundaries.

Lawnmowers etc are different because this sort of noise doesn't go on for hours at a time.

Also, we really don't need background music ALL THE TIME.

I was at school sports last week and there was a van with a huge sound system playing loud music all the time the kids were doing sports. It was awful, it ruined the afternoon, and it was unnecessary.

[ThePhantomPlopper]

I can't understand why you don't go over and say something, just be polite and friendly.

[katiestar]

I dom't understand why they can't use an ipod

[ThePhantomPlopper]

I don't understand why listening to a radio is chavvy?

[pocketmonster]

YANBU! It is absolutely bloody anti social. And to the poster who thinks 1am wind down for a weekend party is early . How is that ok? I think if you're outside having a party you clear it with the neighbours beforehand and you wind down the noise by 11pm - and even then it should be the exception not the rule!

[pocketmonster]

I think the poster said that listening to the radio outside in your garden is chavvy - and at the risk of getting flamed I agree. I think people who inflict that kind of continuous noise on their neighbours are lacking in consideration and therefore manners. And IME usually chavs. Pocketmonster runs for cover.

[carocaro]

It is a pain in the ass, that low boom boom of music all day would send me doo lally.

We have lovely retired neighbours but on the dot every sunday at 9.15 he strims the frigging front garden, me and DH take turns to lie in at the weekend, yes I am selfish but we are tired our 2 year old is up in the night we want some peace!

However.

They are probably typing on the SAGA site right now about the two lovely children next door who shreik and whoop all afternoon in the garden and they can't enjoy their tea and gardeners question time on radio 4!

[tigerdriver]

lol at the idea of living in the middle of nowhere meaning silence. What with the pheasants, foxes, random buzz saws, geese, bird scarers and the s*dding dawn chorus etc etc it's not exactly like your local library. Quite like to hear other people in their gardens having a nice time. YABU, glad you don't live next door to me.

[StripeyKnickersSpottySocks]

Agree with Pocketmonster.

[WhipsAndFurs]

YANBU. Neighbourly noises (in whatever form) are to be expected but not something like a continuously blaring radio.