How antisocial is a trampoline?

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We’ve just completed on a house. It’s our first garden ever, and we’re very excited the kids will have space to play outside. My DH is looking at trampolines, but I wonder if it’s too soon to get one? Would the neighbours be annoyed? The trampoline nets are usually quite tall so I’m guessing neighbours would be able to see them from their gardens. The garden is pretty big (around 10m wide and 30m long) so it wont be too near their houses.

we want to have a good relationship with the neighbours!

I’m pretty intolerant, and my garden is a lot smaller than yours, but I’m still not bothered about my neighbours trampoline.

As long as the kids aren’t shrieking on it all day long. But if kids are the loud and annoying type, then they will be loud and annoying with or without a trampoline!

id much rather have a trampoline next door than have neighbours with a hot tub or outdoor bar.

no antisocial as long as you put it where is will bother you not your neighbours ie not at the very end of your long garden while the house at the back has a short garden iyswim

My Mum's NDN put one right next to the fence, so Mum was plagued with kids peering over her fence shouting Hello Mrs every time they bounced on it. And they were out there from 1st light to dark. Absolutely drove her batshit.

It's not the trampoline that's the issue, it's the consideration of the people using it!

Only intolerant angry people stress about them so you wouldn’t want to be friends with them anyway.
mn told me how selfish I am having one for my 3dc but my neighbours have all insisted they love hearing my dc playing and to stop apologising.

Ppl saying trampolines aren't anti social have them themselves. I think we need your neighbour's to reply to this thread

Mines horribly antisocial! It squeaks like fuck. I've been round every spring with 2 cans of WD40. Still squeaks like fuck.
Kids don't go on it much but enough that I can't get rid of it yet. Takes up most of my garden.
I'd imagine my neighbours hate it, but one side has a barky dog and the other side shoots air pistols in his garden, so I guess we are all as anti social as each other.

I would hate this if my neighbours did this. I think it would be antisocial. But there are worse things. Like relentless dog barking.

My sister moved house because of her NDN's one. Constant springs and shrieking.

Just don't get a hot tub too else they'll really hate you

Of course it isn't anti social.
As a pp said, unless you are letting them play on it at 6am

If anyone were to complain about dc playing in their own garden (particularly a long garden like that), then it is the person complaining who has a problem.

Ours is a 12ft one and the children and their friends have had a lot of fun with it. The neighbours are too far away to see or hear it but it never occurred to me that it might be an issue - just get them to use it at sociable times and not for very long periods of time.

Kids playing is not antisocial. People who have a problem with kids playing are very much antisocial

Ohhh that’s definitely a mix of responses. Neighbours are all older (50s to 70s) so I’m inclined to think they wouldn’t be too impressed.

im leaning towards spending a bit more on a quieter trampoline (thanks for the recommendation of Plum, PP) and will make sure kids aren’t shrieking on it and for very long periods of time. Having a garden for the kids to play on including a trampoline was one of the main reasons we’ve moved but want to ensure we have a peaceful relationship with the neighbours too b

That depends on what the "playing" involves. Plenty of examples on this thread of trampoline use that is very much anti-social.

There is no need to allow them to shriek. Just impose that as a rule when you get the trampoline. My kids had a trampoline and I'd bring them in if they started shrieking.

I’m in my fifties. My youngest is 18 so it wasn’t that long ago that her and her friends would have been playing in the garden themselves.
My next door neighbour has a trampoline and two children. They play and laugh and chat but don’t scream. I never get even remotely irritated by them playing.
The football constantly hitting the fence at the back is another matter! It isn’t just a thud, that ball is slammed against it. The fence isn’t going to hold up for that much longer.

I don't think the trampolines themselves are very antisocial, it's the screaming and staring over the fence if they're not asked to stop.
It depends on your neighbours though, our garden is about a third of the size of yours and our neighbours one side have a noisy hot tub and the other side have small kids of their own. Like a pp said maybe we're all just antisocial
As it happens we have a trampet thing because a proper sized trampoline would take up most of the garden.

I think the consensus is that it’s not the trampoline itself but how some people use it that would be the problem.

Your childs fun, imagination, fitness and mental health are 10x more important than a neighbour who cant cope with a trampoline.

I am the mid 40's neighbour with a 4 bed house and decent garden. My kids are mid to older teens. I have a few houses around me, some part ownership with young families. These houses have little gardens and the parents have squeezed football goals and trampolines wherever they can. Its life, growing up and families.

I sat for 4 hours doing some work on my laptop last night. 90% of that was with a background of kids playing football etc. I even had the pleasure of most of them going to bed, hearing them say night night and one of the older ones sat on his trampoline and bounced a ball and chatted to himself for an hour or so.

If you get past the noise, its really quite lovely to hear families getting on with life.

Also, i dont expect them to take offence when i have alexa playing my 80's music or when i crack the barbeque out and cause a bit of a smell.

We had a huge one (14ft) when mine were younger. But our gardens are large and it was away from neighbours boundaries. I'm not bothered by the sound of children playing though, I find I'm less tolerant of adult noise.

I love google maps, but I thought that they were swimming pools and once remarked that it was surprising that a street had so many outdoor pools and they were all round 🤦🏻‍♀️

Totally most kids play isn't but some very much is - and usually its parents who think that their kids aren't anti-social and they really are

in regards to the trampoline - depends very much on the house/garden - it sounds like the OPs will be away from the neighbours. They can be very anti-social in the wrong setting

What's with everyone thinking people in their 50s are old, over the last couple of days ?
People in their 50s and 60s are still very likely to be out at work during the day anyway, and are generally not expected to have lost their memories to such an extent that they don't remember their own time as parents of young dc.
I am in that age bracket as (obviously) are so many of my peers. I can't think of anyone who would find anything offensive in dc playing on a trampoline in their own back garden.

Remember what YOU have just said :
Having a garden for the kids to play on including a trampoline was one of the main reasons we’ve moved

Why would you then even consider not having a trampoline.

I totally agree with this, that tessa said
Your childs fun, imagination, fitness and mental health are 10x more important than a neighbour who cant cope with a trampoline.

oh god yes I almost forgot about them staring over the fence. Very rude.

We have one, it's placed near the centre of the garden. My two are not screechy, just giggly, but if they were high-pitched shriekers, they'd be told to stop, or get off.

Our neighbours placed theirs right up against the adjoining fence for a few months and I hated that - the ball they were playing with on it was constantly flying over and hitting either us, or our garden furniture. And they bounced to look over the fence and stare. I couldn't make a brew without feeling observed. Huge relief when they moved it.

I'd say positioning is everything.

I absolutely hated my neighbour's trampoline because they DC used to jump looking into my kitchen. They were literally face my house so I hated not being able to walk around naked as I want or going to my kitchen in my underwear. I mean, I could but I just didn't want to.

The sound is also super annoying and all the shrieking accompanying it.