How antisocial is a trampoline?

[KylieWasHere]

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!

It is less about the trampoline and more about your parenting.

We didn't buy the perfect house for us due to the trampoline in the neighbours garden. As we toured the house several urchins boinged relentlessly, squealing at top volume.
Fuck that.

I wouldn't even give it a second thought.
Bounce away

@KylieWasHere

Neighbours are all older (50s to 70s) so I’m inclined to think they wouldn’t be too impressed

oi whipper snapper!

50 will hit you before you know it!! 30 to 50 in the blink of an eye How old will your DC be on your 50th birthday???

I'm positively ancient at 53, but still don't mind the children playing on the trampoline, laughing, having fun, I don't mind the 'no do this', 'I can jump higher than you' 'don't DO that' I slightly mind the screaching seeing who is the loudest if it goes on too long.

not an issue at this house, but at the old house I minded, very much, the constant 'watching' and lack of manners, that's just bad parenting though. Plus selfishly putting it right next to our patio, the furthest point from their house!

kids playing, laughing, genuinely just having fun. NO problem.

do, go ahead, get YOUR kids a trampoline for YOUR garden. (You sound aware enough to place it away from the neighbours & to stop any shrieking & gawping!!).

Get it soon, let them enjoy as much of the nicer weather as possible.

It's fine as long as it's not used before 9am, after 9pm and not continuously throughout the day (bong bong bong is annoying) keep away from the fence and discourage shouting in the garden more generally

Oo gosh not squeaking and laughter!! Shock horror

@WinterMusings i meant older than us 🤣 as in, no young kids to drown out the sound of ours…… that’s what I meant 😁

I don’t think trampolines are particularly antisocial.

My neighbours have a trampoline, we don’t

The only time it bothered me, was when they put it against our joint fence, right up close to the houses. I had a very polite word and they moved it away.

My other neighbour annoys me more with their incessant moaning about perfectly reasonable, normal neighbourhood noise.

We all make noise 🤷‍♀️

Same as others have said - they're fine as long as the kids aren't going completely bonkers for hours at a time.
Our neighbours have one and 99% of the time it is fine, but when the kids have friends over it sounds like Battle Royale is happening on springs 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'm currently sitting in my garden and can see four trampolines (including our own!). It's not any noisier than anything else, I've got three kids and they can make a racket perfectly well without it, so it doesn't make a lot of difference.

They are not beautiful, but if it's in someone else's garden then I don't see why it would bother anyone? Go for it.

We have quite small gardens. Neighbours have a trampoline- it’s fine. They don’t use it screaming at 6am. Occasionally they do have friends over - the noise is loud (screaming and squeaking) but again it’s not that bad as it’s not all day everyday!

Except one child that uses is….passes comments on our garden and us loudly with every jump!!

@KylieWasHere

Neighbours are all older (50s to 70s) so I’m inclined to think they wouldn’t be too impressed

Nah you didn't, you just meant older, intolerant & grumpy! Own it kiddo!!!

🤣🤣

Anyway, have you ordered it yet???

As long as you teach them not to shriek and scream for hours on end. And not to snoop/be annoying peering over at the neighbours over the fence........... it will be fine.

Because people are often inconsiderste putting them right up against the fence. I don't want my neighbours' kids constantly peering into my garden as they jump up and down.

In a previous house we owned the trampoline next door did feel antisocial because the family were on it all the time screeching and shouting (even the Dad🙄)
No way could we enjoy quiet time in our garden with that racket going on. So if you get one, try to be a bit sensitive re the noise level and how often it is used.

My neighbour has a trampoline that could fit a rugby team on it. We have narrow terraced gardens. If her kids are on it (which they are, usually from about 6am) they can see right into our garden, no matter where we are and enjoy stating at us through the trampoline net. I was so annoyed that it didn't blow away in the storm.

My neighbours are in their 80s and tell me often they love hearing my children playing in the garden (we have a above ground pool and trampoline). We can't annoy them too much as they water the plants and take in parcels when we are away.

We don't allow shrieking though.

A couple of houses ago we lived next door to teenager doingGCSE exams and offered to not use the trampoline during them and were told not to be stupid and it was unnatural to keep active children indoors...

It’s really dangerous. My cousin works in A&E and she reckons that 50% of the childhood injuries she treats are caused by trampolines. If you must get one, the type which are sunk in the ground are safer.

Yes, this is why I didn't get one - they are objectively dangerous and many injuries are caused.

I also read they fuck up girls' pelvic floors quite badly in some cases, but it is a long time since I read about them so the research may have moved on.

I think if our next door neighbours got one it would be annoying. We have small gardens that are backed with houses. So the noise would carry and the fences aren’t that high either. The repetitive bouncing noise is annoying no matter what anyone says.

However you can do what you want in your own garden, just tell the kids no loud screaming constantly and keep it to the daytime no early morning or late evening.

I'm over seventy. We have tiny gardens (terraced houses) and I'm happy to see and hear next door's children having fun on the trampoline. When I was a child we played outside in the street all the time as there was hardly any traffic. They can't do that now.
The only children around here who were a bit irritating were the ones from one family who squealed and screamed a lot, and they didn't have a trampoline.

I would hate to have neighbours who played music outside and yelled drunkenly. That's what I find antisocial.