General Chat

Immediate neighbours (I live in an end of terrace house) have a toddler, who was a bit of a screamy baby - but at least my house is 1920's with decent walls. They're about 6 ft below me, so have 6 ft fence between us.
Daughter lives in a new house, with plasterboard walls - and my grandson is a bit screamy :-(
Immediate neighbour is also in a band - guitar & drums occasionally heard - but he plays in the attic - and I know the previous neighbour sound proofed it.
Other side - 2 teenage boys (parents) and a dog. But, the third time the dog got in my garden and made straight for the pond, (he just stood in it and stunk when he came out!) the boys put up a 6 ft fence.
Having just put that - my garden is isolated - 6 ft wooden panel fences each side - am I the 'problem' neighbour?
Worst thing is them (either side) or their friends making 'personal' phone calls in the garden.
No-one knows I'm in the garden and can hear.........


Having said that, If I had a problem, I could go to either side - that's the important thing.

Neighbours now long gone but once lived a few doors up and across the road. They had parties most Saturday nights and the boom boom of the base of the music would go full bore and into our bedroom and nearly every household in the street.

We had asked them to not have it so loud and got told where to go and someone else got the noise control people to come around but nothing worked.... . so one early Sunday morning himself got up early put speakers out on our front verandah and played "Amazing Grace" at top notch. That got the prat out of bed and very grumpy.. he never spoke to us again but kept the street a lot quieter on a Saturday night. (His wife and I got along fine and I was always welcome to their place.. quite funny really)

Several years later one of their sons decided to learn the bagpipes.

Persie

Speaking 'loudly' is one of the many aspects of Autism. And the speaker is often unaware of the situation.

Just a thought.

Generally we have good neighbours but living in the countryside we do have the sounds of the country. The only neighbour that we have a problem with erected pens to keep 4 cockerels (the unwanted result of buying a hen with chicks) beside the rear boundary only 10 ft from our house. The noise from the competitive crowing was appalling, particularly in the morning and we couldn't have guests to stay.

From previous experience with them we thought the situation might become worse if we complained, with their breeding dogs being housed in these sheds. The cockerels were killed by their own dogs after a year on one of the rare occasions that they were let out!

They fallen out with other neighbours over noise/sewage discharge etc. We are all just hoping they will move :-D

Neighbour disputes are very difficult and in my previous job I have had to calm down people who have been made very distressed and obsessed to the point of illness by issues with neighbours that others might see as trivial.

One of my neighbours is a bit reclusive and always has several dogs. They get outside barking sometimes and the other neighbours complain to each other but I have found that, if I just shout "Shut up!" very loudly she will come out and shut them up with no trouble at all.

I wondered where our loud neighbour aka 'Big Mouth' had gone Wend.

Morning Island - how are we this sunny morn? Very peaceful and calm down my end. :-D

Sharron, I bet she shuts them up when she hears you. I would too, ha ha!

Wend, if there is one thing I really don't want to know first thing in the morning it is how things are down your end.

Please keep news of your end to yourself in future!

Thank you.

Huh - what about other members then? They could well be very interested in how things are down my end.

You are so vain about that end of yours!

We have a rental next door to us and we used to have two young boys 21 yrs old that rented there .

They partied every weekend and it went on to all hours of the morning for Months ,called the police on them a couple of times ...real estate agent finaly told them to leave after I contacted the owners .

We now have a nice family with a 7, 4 and 1 year old ...I love the sound of children playing....beats the heck out of load music and every swearword you can think of :-D

Suex

General chattering of neighbours, children playing, the odd lawn being mowed, an evening BBQ, etc., is part of life and I don't mind these noises but 3 years ago I had one neighbour, (21yo single girl), who played her type of music, (I use the word music in its loosest sense), 18 hours a day at full volume and everyone could literally feel the bass through our feet ! It was impossible to watch our own TV or listen to our own music. Even in bed at midnight we could hear thump, thump, thump of the bass.

We asked her nicely, we wrote letters. All were ignored. We then did it officially through the local authority. Took just over 3 months, we kept diaries, made recordings and kept local authority up to date. They gave her written warnings but she ignored them all, every time she saw us we got the two-fingered gesture.

Finally she had her music system confiscated. She bought a new one. The row continued and then at long last the housing association got a court order and evicted her.

As she left the whole street waved her off, with two fingers naturally.
It took a long time, but wasn't the victory sweet?

We live in a culdesac, people keep themselves mainly to themselves, mostly all over 50, just one young couple, no children 4 cats (and I think I saw a puppy last week too) But our immediate neighbours are nice, one elderly couple a bit old fashioned and outspoken but basically pleasant and very quiet, other side lovely couple older girl now moved away but was 4 when we moved in, and boy now 19, both children very quiet. We all get along very well.
Our only problem, if you can call it that is with the ones directly opposite who take in cats from Cat protection and at the moment have 6 (they are next door to the house with 4). Mostly the cats are fine and know they get chased off if they try to use out garden a s a toilet. They don't like berberis branches which are scattered around and soon learn not to go on there.

We live in a quite street, where the neighbours are really considerate of their surroundings we all value the peace and quite of the neighbourhood. All of us have BBQs and family parties in the garden (when we can) some families have had weddings with marques in the garden, the noise has always been acceptable. Recently a new family moved in around the corner, the bottom of their garden joins the side of ours. On Saturday I could hear they were preparing for a BBQ, as the evening progressed I can honestly say the noise was horrendous. I literally jumped out of my skin when they put the “music” on. We had our little grandsons staying over night, and the sound coming into their bedroom was deafening. I had to close all of the windows, and you could still hear and “feel” the noise. Last night they had a children’s party in the pool it was manic all I can say is the children all had very strong healthy lungs, why do little girls feel the need to SCREEEEEEEEEEM? I am not against children having fun, we have eight grandchild of varying ages, but this was just just totally unacceptable. We can not see into their garden but another neighbour told me this morning that there were adults sitting in the garden eating drinking and chatting, I can only presume they had earplugs in their ears.

I lived in Hartlepool back in the seventies, in a semi, and my neighbours were a young Salvation Army couple. Sometimes, they had rows very late at night, and presumably so I couldn't here the gist of it, they would play loud marching band music to drown it out!

Nosy? How about this then? A neighbour asked me if I had ever noticed that Y never pulled blinds completely down, always a gap in curtains and that stategic holes in hedging?

I hadn't - until one night it was dark and about 7 p.m I backed car out, swung around, stopped to put belt on and burst out laughing - there they all were, kitchen blind was up about 6" and I counted three heads in a row peeping out.

After 30 years I could write a book. TG they are not next door.

I flashed them (with lights) and sounded horn.

In a block of flats, one man's floor is another man's ceiling. Tread lightly!

Apologies to one and all - just realised thread is NOISY not Nosey

it is the age thing - can't blame spec relatively new!

Don't get me started on nosey neighbours Chris - we have a couple of those too :-(

Enjoyed your little story though

:-D

Wend, a Strategicly placed Water Sprinkler works quite well in removing noisy people and the best music to put on full chat is The 1812 symphony,it works wonders. :-D :-D