oh God WIND CHIMES

[maktaitai]

my neighbour has put up two sets today on her shed

dh is hypersensitive to noise

OH GOD

dh will have to make allowances

but why

i wouldn't play a guitar outside the house 24 hours a day

i don't particularly mind windchime noise myself but dh DOES, and it will send him off the deep end, in fact it already has

I HATE THEM.

Ther are deeply deeply offensive. Why on earth would you assume that all your neighbours would want to hear stupid tinkly winkly noise every time they go in their own gardens. And when the wind is up they just bang away incessantly. SO antisocial.

When I get in to power, wind chimes will be outlawed.

And if I was your DH I would be looking out the long handled shears...

why is this in legal matters ?

Are you wondering if you can sue for unreasonable garden decor ? Noise pollution ?

If DH is hypersensitive to noise, then perhaps your DH could
a) explain that politely to your neighbour and ask them to take them down
b) move to an area where you have no neighbours/no noise to bother hypersensitive DH

Or maybe DH needs to man up a bit. Just a thought

[votes for katisha]

i really don't want to offend the neighbours we are only just back on speaking terms after something we did wrong two years ago

had a nice chat with the neighbour a fortnight ago and felt such a weight lifted

OH GOD

You won't hear them after a while. My neighbours have had them for 7 years and I don't notice them at all now. The first 6 months are the worst.

Two sets.

I relly am genuinely surprised when people think it's acceptable to put them up. Thus making the choice of compulsory irriating tinkling for everyone in earshot.

I was sensitised to the things by a past neighbour who had several sets, and would leave them banging away in howling gales. Both the wooden bongy ones and the much worse metal tinkly ones.

nomdeplume i was going to ask whether anyone has experience of mediation for this sort of thing

i guess you don't mediate until you've actually tried to, like, ask for what you want

bloody hell

lol Miss T

Get something really irritating for your garden, something that'll really bug them.

OK given past history this is tricky. How much can you hear them? And can you hear them in the house?

nom, anything that would bug our neighbours who are elderly and deaf would bug dh right up to the psychiatric ward a lot faster

@ mediation for windchimes

sorry, struck me as funny. Obv not.

I do think it might be wise to just to go and speak to them. They'll prob tell you where to get off, but nothing ventured, nothing gained.

ok i need to be calm about this

can't hear them at the mo in the house (not a windy day)

our bedroom is at other end of house and we sleep with the windows closed anyway

the big one is that dh works in the shed, which is practically nose to nose with the chimes, and he also gets great solace from sitting at the end of the garden, also nose to nose with the chimes

He's hypersensitive to noise?

Then he needs to move out into the country and thank his lucky stars he's not living the way a lot of us do, next to terminally inconsiderate tossers.

Get him some ear plugs and tell him to be thankful those will actually work in his situation (and he's not being jarred awake by the vibrations of thudding bass at all hours).

LOL @ mediation. For wind chimes.

snap with NdP.

honestly, he needs to move to the countryside.

of course, be warned, the dawn chorus in such places is usually incredibly noisy.

Windchime rage

I am so with your DH I really am.

elderly & deaf. Bless them.

The thing doesn't have to be noisy, could just be vulgar... There's a house I drive past on my way to work, it is a taste abomination, the FRONT garden is FULL of these. There must be a good 200 in there. No real plants. Their neighbours must be raging

I'd swap those neighbours for these ones any day. They could move those windchimes right outside my bedroom window and add another set and I'd be thrilled to bits they're not blasting bass, arguing, slamming doors, running machinery/DIY, screeching engines, sirens, etc.

I'd have to supress a strong urge to go into that garden one night, NdP, and kick the shit out of all of those .

Oh, it's been like that for YEARS, expat, honestly. Their neighbours must fight that urge nightly. I hate to think what their back garden looks like.

Oh.god. I'd soo want to kick some of those.

But at least they don't make any noise.

I hate wind chimes, they remind me of the calm before the storm in movies, before someone is about to be hacked to death or something...

yy dh is a poof imo
get some backbone

I don't mind wind chimes.

But after inconsiderate tosser after inconsiderate tosser and they're damn music, wind chimes are child's play.