How to ask neighbour to stop whistling?

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DN is late 70's - he whistles all day long and very loudly too. He is very active and walks up and down the side of the house multiple times a day whistling tunes.

We are due baby 2 soon and I just know come the summer months when they're sleeping regularly in the day time still, the whistling will drive me crazy when I'm trying to get her off to sleep. Her room is next to the walkway..
Not only that but it's frigging annoying for us anyway, I feel like we would be considerate enough not to make noise that neighbours can hear constantly, even if it is a more 'pleasant' noise (unfortunately it's not pleasant to me anymore).

How can I drop it into convo without sounding harsh? Also he clearly has a habit of doing it and it'll be hard for him to stop, but I feel it needs to stop because it's so annoying!

Really??

Leave the poor sod alone

Assume your baby will cry??

Really! Sadly it's very loud and constant. It's not a small occurrence.

Not only this but he's very loud in general, loud voice, slams the bins lid, lots of phone calls in the walk way etc etc

You can’t, I mean I can see why it would be a bit annoying but he is t really doing any harm.

I couldn’t ask someone to stop. Your baby will probably get used to it.

You can't! Unless he's whistling at unsociable hours or whistling beyond the legal noise limits - and it sounds like he isn't.

This really is peak Mumsnet 😁

Pressed post too soon. Your baby will probably cry and disturb him - unfortunately/fortunately it's just one of those things when you live in close proximity to others.

This is one that you are going to have to accept. Your baby will be crying at all hours fairly soon which will probably be far more annoying to them than a bit of whistling.

A baby soon gets used to the noises it is born into, that’s why parents who make their babies fall asleep with everyone only allowed to whisper wake at the slightest noise, where as babies who fall asleep with normal household noises tend to be better sleepers.

I thought it was in aibu at first....kind of thing the daily Mail LOVES

Loud in general? Yes, in his 70's he may have a bit of a hearing problem!!

The sound of anyone whistling sends me into a blind rage (have had to walk out of shops in the past) so I can empathise. Unfortunately I don't think you can reasonably ask him to stop though - I think soundproofing is your only option.

I'm in the process of moving - now stressing that I'll end up next to a whistler 😱 Is it that bloody awful show-off warbling that some men seem to love?

I assume your child and future child are going to be completely silent ! Unless the noise is loud enough to report him to the council as a noise nuisance then leave the man alone .

100% peak Mumsnet.

You can absolutely tell him to stop whistling, OP.

However to do that you will also need to tell your baby to stop crying when it's born - forever.

Good luck on both counts.

The traditional way to be a PITA neighbour is by anonymous note, OP. Do come back to us an let us know how it goes.

Not only this but he's very loud in general, loud voice, slams the bins lid, lots of phone calls in the walk way etc etc

The monster. I hope you've logged it all with 101.

Report him to the Whistling Police, they will at least log it

😂The neighbour's whistling bothers her 😂

Perhaps when your baby arrives you could say the whistling 'wakes the baby up' and you'd be really grateful if he could avoid it - that might be more tactful than saying it's annoying. He might take no notice but you could try.

My neighbour cuts wood up for his log burner several times a day using a chop saw positioned as close to the boundary/my lounge as you could get.
It annoys the crap out of me, but it never once woke up dd as a baby.

I have to say, he's very good at it, he can almost do this bird type thing, and because of this he likes to do it very loudly, and you're right it feels rather alpha male showing off behaviour.

It doesn't help that I don't really like him.. he talks to my husband and addresses him but doesn't talk to me much. He'll say "bye (DH name)" when we're both leaving out the front.

My plan was to mention it to his wife, and say we're getting a white noise machine because DDs room will be next to our kitchen, BUT ALSO so the whistling doesn't wake her up.. in a jokey, and I'm laughing so I'm not being a complaining neighbour' kind of way - maybe it'll get back to him that way!?

Bird noises are the worst. I think I would have killed him by now.

White noise machine AND baby crying? Lucky bloody neighbour, I say!!!

Why not ask the birds to stop tweeting too....Jeez!

Chicken and egg.

Probably the best time is when he mentions to you that your baby crying is disturbing him.

Yes, sorry about that. Baby keeps being startled by your really. loud. whistling.

😁

It's baby number 2.... if he was going to complain then the complaint about current kid would have happened by now