oh God WIND CHIMES

[maktaitai]

my neighbour has put up two sets today on her shed

dh is hypersensitive to noise

OH GOD

i never noticed them, tbh, south.

i've mostly also had real fuckwits for neighbours, though.

I have sympathy for your dh. In my eyes windchimes are no different to playing music outside 24hrs a day.

My neighbours put some up, we asked nicely if they would consider putting them inside their window so only they could hear them but they refused.

The neighbours on the other side and us took turns to leave a stereo on at the boundary every time they sat in the garden. We also tied a plastic sack on a tree on windy nights so that we (and them) could hear the sack rustling rather than their windchimes. When they asked if we would consider reducing the music and removing the 'rubbish' from our tree we asked them how them listening to our music differed from us listening to their windchimes. They couldnt answer and took them down !

Here are your options

Put up and shut up
Go round and explain (seriously why have you not already done that?!)
Move house if your DH is that bad (after having done one of the above already)

Nothing illegal about having them in your garden, they aren't breaking any law - children play at higher decibels than most windchimes.

And yes i hate the fuckers too

LOL 'it's not annoying neighbours top trumps'

FWIW it would annoy the crap out of me too (and I live next to neighbours with a demented cockrel) I hate that twinkly hippy shite but not quite as much as I hate panfuckinpipes.

I wonder if all these neighbours trumpers are those people who when you ring saying you have flu say they remember how bad they felt when they had pneumonia... my mum is one of those.

'I wonder if all these neighbours trumpers are those people who when you ring saying you have flu say they remember how bad they felt when they had pneumonia... my mum is one of those.'

No.

It's just that, on a scale of noise complaints the council has to deal with, two wind chimes aren't going to be high up there.

And really, if someone is that sensitive they need to get some help and/or consider moving out to the country (I'm assuming the person doesn't have ASD).

Ask your neighbours politely if they could take their chimes indoors in teh evening as you/dh is a very light sleeper.

Or take my neighbour's approach. Get roaring drunk, stand in your garden in the dark and bellow 'take those fuckin wind chimes down because they're driving me fuckin mental'

And lol at asking neighbours to move their windchimes indoors. Clue is in the name

Moving them indoors in the evebning.

I did move to a detached house in the country after years of noisy neighbour hell, which included multiple windchimes as the icing on the audio nuisance cake.

Birds - fine - even the bloody chaffinch that does a fine imitation of an alarm clock at 5am. Church bells - fine. These are all things you expect to hear. But a windchime would NOT be fine. Because it's the casual assumption that because one person finds it restful and relaxing, then all the neighbours must as well. I know other people have thumping bass lines to contend with, but that doesn't make the persistent high frequency tinkling any easier to ignore. I admit to having been over-sensitised to noise by aforementioned neighbour but there we are.

If I was your DH I would be considering the long handled shears under cover of darkness.

But yes, it would be better to ask them to take them down first.

My dadbought a set. The big bongy ones. He has them hung in the sitting room against a wall. He has no idea what they are for!!! And as I like his neighbours I haven't told him!!!

I live in the countryside, it's loud here. What with the birds and the sheep and the neighbour's stupid standard poodle. It would drown out windchimes I tell you!

However windchimes are very effective for harbouring bugs, bees, wasps, ladybirds and other insects love the long tubes and they are quite good a muting the vibrations.

But you really do need to get over yourselves, they are windchimes not nuclear weapons.

YY WhoMoved, I live in country, it is surprisingly noisy - birds, my gawd the birds... along with ducks, cockrel and someone nearby has the sort of dog that eats badgers if its bark is anything to go by. Think it was quieter when I lived in the middle of the city.
No blooody windchimes here though.

Wish I had a dog that ate badgers frankly

there's a blacksmith's down the road here.

and man, they are up early.

I bet they are making windchimes. Out of cast iron...

Cast Iron windchimes you say?