to want to open the window and shout?

[fatoftheland]

My neighbours are driving me bonkers. I live in a small block of flats and we share a garden. Two of the families have started to sit in the front garden because the weather is nice. fair dos but, do they need to make so much flipping noise?

They have made friends with the families in the next block so all in all there are 7 children under 3 and a 6 year old. All they do is play music really loudly and scream at the children. They cannot even talk to each other without shouting. Last night I was sat in my front room enjoying the peace and all I could smell was skunk wafting up.

Only one child attends school so they don't worry about going to bed. This means they sit under my window playing music and shouting til god knows what time. This morning they were out at 7 filling up the swimming pool and making as much noise as humanly possible. I really wanted to open the window and shout "Shut up, this is my precious weekend off because I am at work all week unlike you lot."

I appreciate it is their garden also but am I being unreasonable to want to scream at them?

I dont think YABU, I'd find that very annoying too! Have you spoken to them?

If all else fails invest in a Supersoaker

No I haven't spoken to them. Some of them seem like they would be approachable but one of the men is definitely not. He is vile, he is a bully always shouting at his girlfriend and children. He is the worst offender.

The supersoaker sounds good, maybe I should aim it at the stereo!

I was just thinking tonight that the families from hell who sat very loudly outside on communal garden bit last summer don't seem to have made an appearance yet this year They sounded a bit like yours - multiple young children who they had no interest in trying to encourage had fun, just shouted at them a lot, music, drinking etc.

Although people in the next block (yes, the next block, there is a path and some grass in between, it's not that close!) are playing music so loudly in their flat that I can clearly hear it in my flat. Joy. Life gets noisier in the summer! Oh well, being as I'm in Scotland there will probably only be one more weekend of it between now and September!

YANBU and I really do feel for you it is not nice when you cant enjoy your weekend off in peace.

Appreciate that it is difficult to approach them particulary if they seem a bit agressive ect. Can anyone else come with you to speak to them and take quite a friendly approach initially. Or you could find number for noise control at your local council and I think you can call them after 11pm if there is excessive noise you could also mention the smell of skunk too. Our council are very good with helping out with nuisence neighbours.

Is there anyone else they can go or is this the only place.

Well it's the same at the back, big communal garden. Think I might speak to the council and see if they can send a general letter about keeping the noise down. I will pin it up by the main front door!

Feel really sad for the little kids as well. Yesterday the bullying bloke (big 20 stone guy) had his 2 yr old in a paddling pool and she splashed at another child. He shouted and swore at her and was shouting to his girlfriend "You better smack her for that, I'm going to fucking smack her if she does it again."

They then threatened to shut her in her room alone for it.

I could have cried for her.

Yanbu, so glad I don't live in a flat any more. We lived in a flat with 4 blocks of 6 flats arranged in a U shap and a big communal green in the middle.

At the slightest sign of sun out would come the stereos and the lager. Luckily the council were pretty on the ball and after a couple of incidents of late parties and threatening behaviour in one instance, they sent out warning letters which did calm things down.

Odd really as we lived there for 3 years and NYE etc not a squeak to be heard .

We used to live in a place with a communal garden and there were some nightmare neighbours who monopolised the garden. I think you should contact the landlord/freeholder and ask him to contact them directly, especially about the drugs!

Nice neighbours can be annoyingly noisy too, we have a family one garden over, last year the baby used to do that high pitched parrot squacking a lot, I think they put him out in the garden to get away from the noise. This year he likes to scream, especially when his "fun" dad spends what seems like hours chasing him pretending to be a "scary" monster. I had to send my lot (three bigger boys) out with their cap guns for a noisy battle to remind the neighbours that noise travels.

I am used to noise but go out into the garden when I need peace from my three!

Oh happy day! Have just heard one of the families shouting in the garden that they are being evicted!!

Although I do feel sorry for their poor children and the neighbours that end up with them next, I can't help but do a little cheer if it's true.