So....
We're selling our house, it's time for us to move on.
We've lived here for 24 years and our attached neighbours have been here for 8 years.
Approx 5 years ago, I noticed neighbours washing machine was noisy, i put up with it for 6 months, thinking normal neighbour noise. And then was awoken at 3am thinking it was a helicopter landing in my room, I was annoyed!
Later that morning at a reasonable time i went round and politely queried her washing machine, she admitted it was noisy, she apologised and resolved the issue by buying a new washing machine.
It was a friendly interaction and resolved!
2nd conversation was about 3 years ago about a door that banged very loudly multiple times a day, on this one particular morning it was 7 times in 10 minutes, so husband went round and politely queried the banging to which the neighbour admitted it was his fire door.
The issue was resolved immediately by the door being pinned open with a door wedge, and removed when they had building works done, so the issue was fully resolved.
The 3rd conversation was approx 14 months ago and was regarding someone purposely banging up and down the stairs (the stairs are against the party wall), we had just bought a movie to watch and it was our family time and the movie couldn't be enjoyed due to the noise, this noise had never happened before, we'd always heard mild light footsteps very occasionally but nothing like this.
So, I wrote a light hearted note, just asking that whoever was banging on the stairs could they please step lightly as it was interfering with our enjoyment of watching a family movie, i even signed off with a kiss.
I was shocked when 5 minutes later my neighbour was at my door visibly upset.
She explained that her dog had been put to sleep the day before and her children were having big emotions and her teenage stepson was playing with them by pretending to be a monster and chasing them up the stairs.
I apologised and gave my condolences for her dog as I'd said goodbye to my dog 2 months previous, so knew how she felt. I felt so bad because I never knew she'd had her dog put to sleep and she looked very teary. I explained we were trying to watch a movie and I never in a million years wanted to upset her, to me it was just a light hearted note, I thought she'd just tell the kids to pipe down and that I'd raise awareness to the noise they were making, i never expected her on my doorstep close to tears. So i gave her a hug and asked her if we were good. She said yes.
Since then they've had building work done, she helped my husband back out of the drive when builders were blocking his view, we've spoken on the street as neighbours do, we say morning when we see each other, or wave if we're in the car. So to me everything is normal as neighbours should be.
My question is (if you've read this far) do these conversations regarding noise need to be mentioned on the TA6 form?
Many thanks in advance.