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Detached bungalow next door. Every night about 7 or 8pm the bloke in there has music on for up to an hour which I can hear in my lounge. Throughout the summer I assumed it was loud because he had the doors open when playing so I let it go.
Last night trying to watch the telly and boom boom shake the room we're off again. My windows are double glazed and all closed, so are his. I've had enough so march round to find the house in darkness and the music blaring out. Unable to see a bell I knock a couple of times. Music level drops and he appears hiding behind the door with just a head peering round. anyway I politely inform him of the fact I can hear it and ask if he'd mind turning it down. He says "ok" I say "thanks a lot", door closes and off I go.
So the question, is that it then from now on, my evenings will be silent. Or will he be like every other person Ive ever known and it'll be even louder form now on?
Place bets now!
 
I think you'll be okay :thumbs:
 
start a diary of the disturbances
inform the council (they have a dept for this sort of thing)
council investigates
council removes neighbours stereo if found to be noisy
????
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Over the years i've been unfortunate enough to live next door to lot's of 'neighbours from hell' ranging from piano playing at all hours of the night, to a woman who howled during lovemaking ffs, my solution was always to confront the person/s causing me the problem, and it always worked for me so i think you did the right thing.

the one thing i've always found though is when i have confronted them they didn't realise they were causing me any disturbance, even the woman lol

Good luck.
 
neil_g said:
start a diary of the disturbances
inform the council (they have a dept for this sort of thing)
council investigates
council removes neighbours stereo if found to be noisy
????
profit
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Yes, keep a precise log. If you don't have one then when you complain to the council the first thing they will do is ask you to start one. Council will give advice on log keeping as to the length of time and the detail required.
 
Luckily, as to now anyway, he is quiet after 9pm so I ought to be grateful my sleep at the moment is unaffected. Just that last night Id had enough at 7.30. Fingers crossed he's not a moron and reins it in a bit now.
 
I live in a terraced property with quite a high turnover of neighbours so I make a point of introducing myself when they move in and say if they need to borrow screwdrivers or such just ask and then say "Oh by the way your house has been empty for a while so if MY TV is too loud please let me know" they have, up to now taken the hint.
 
DorsetDude said:
Luckily, as to now anyway, he is quiet after 9pm so I ought to be grateful my sleep at the moment is unaffected. Just that last night Id had enough at 7.30. Fingers crossed he's not a moron and reins it in a bit now.
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Only a couple of weeks ago you were on here complaining of not hearing enough, now you're worried about hearing too much...there's no pleasing some people! :):)
 
The first house I ever bought was a terraced cottage in South London. We'd lived there, 'very happily' for about three months when the divorcee next door acquired a new boyfriend! The first night they spent together was a hell of a shock and a revelation for us!! :jawdrop::jawdrop: :LOL:
 
Yves Geza said:
The first house I ever bought was a terraced cottage in South London. We'd lived there, 'very happily' for about three months when the divorcee next door acquired a new boyfriend! The first night they spent together was a hell of a shock and a revelation for us!! :jawdrop::jawdrop: :LOL:
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tell us more .sounds interesting :banana:
 
DorsetDude said:
Detached bungalow next door. Every night about 7 or 8pm the bloke in there has music on for up to an hour which I can hear in my lounge. Throughout the summer I assumed it was loud because he had the doors open when playing so I let it go.
Last night trying to watch the telly and boom boom shake the room we're off again. My windows are double glazed and all closed, so are his. I've had enough so march round to find the house in darkness and the music blaring out. Unable to see a bell I knock a couple of times. Music level drops and he appears hiding behind the door with just a head peering round. anyway I politely inform him of the fact I can hear it and ask if he'd mind turning it down. He says "ok" I say "thanks a lot", door closes and off I go.
So the question, is that it then from now on, my evenings will be silent. Or will he be like every other person Ive ever known and it'll be even louder form now on?
Place bets now!
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If i was in your shoes, i would try and chat to him as much as i could, try and build a relationship and be 'neighbourly', perhaps even thanking him for turning down the music when you asked. People by and large aren't the unsociable ASBO types caricatured by the gutter press. By regularly having a chat he will be much more disinclined to case problems with his neighbours.

I have found this approach works well - try and treat people like a friend rather than an enemy and the outcomes are generally more positive.
 
Cartus said:
Only a couple of weeks ago you were on here complaining of not hearing enough, now you're worried about hearing too much...there's no pleasing some people! :):)
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I seem to have a high intolerance of irritating noises. People clearing their throat out of habit all day at work or sniffing or coughing, neighbours music etc drives me potty
 
Every night about 7 or 8pm the bloke in there has music on for up to an hour which I can hear in my lounge.
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7 or 8pm for up to an hour which you can hear in your lounge doesn't really sound like the sort of thing that the council are going to be interested in ... TBH far more horrendous noise nuisances are being perpetrated every day up and down the country.
Whilst I too would find it annoying I think it will be far better to try to deal with this amicably and keep it low key to prevent it getting far worse! :)
 
Rapscallion said:
If i was in your shoes, i would try and chat to him as much as i could, try and build a relationship and be 'neighbourly', perhaps even thanking him for turning down the music when you asked. People by and large aren't the unsociable ASBO types caricatured by the gutter press. By regularly having a chat he will be much more disinclined to case problems with his neighbours.

I have found this approach works well - try and treat people like a friend rather than an enemy and the outcomes are generally more positive.
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Yes indeed. Unfortunately I seem to have acquired the traits of a grumpy old b******d throughout life and find these things difficult.
 
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"The first house I ever bought was a terraced cottage in South London. We'd lived there, 'very happily' for about three months when the divorcee next door acquired a new boyfriend! The first night they spent together was a hell of a shock and a revelation for us!"

was she known as 'Lassie' afterwards?
 
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Yves Geza said:
The first house I ever bought was a terraced cottage in South London. We'd lived there, 'very happily' for about three months when the divorcee next door acquired a new boyfriend! The first night they spent together was a hell of a shock and a revelation for us!! :jawdrop::jawdrop: :LOL:
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Yeh sorry about that but she was just up for it...

I tried the gag on her but that just made her worse

Anyway I hope her next man wasn't as 'gifted' I just found her too needy so I moved on......

Meant to knock and introduce myself but there never seemed to be time

Randolpho
 
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DorsetDude said:
I seem to have a high intolerance of irritating noises. People clearing their throat out of habit all day at work or sniffing or coughing, neighbours music etc drives me potty
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You are crazy as a coconut! That'll be £50

 
DorsetDude said:
I seem to have a high intolerance of irritating noises. People clearing their throat out of habit all day at work or sniffing or coughing, neighbours music etc drives me potty
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Haha I'm the same. There's a guy who sits across the office and he is constantly clearing his throat, about every 3 minutes (yes, we timed it one day, it was that annoying).

As has been said though, your neighbour may not have realised how loud he was, might be good to just say when you see him, "ah cheers for turning that down the other day"

I think some people don't actually realise how thin walls are. I remember a newly engaged couple just moved in when we lived in a terrace and the walls weren't that thin. Anyway, at a bbq we were at where the neighbours from all the row of houses were attending, they said they had just recently got engaged. I think the comment made was along the lines of "yes, we can tell". It was humourous enough and polite enough to not upset them, they took it in good spirit :lol:
 
Only ever had the problem once*, with some new neighbours who played reggae loud enough to make things vibrate a little. As a guitarist, I felt it my duty to illustrate what loud really meant, and after a couple of minutes I stopped practicing and found all was quiet. We got along fine thereafter.

*I was in my early 20s at the time, and would now recommend the personal approach as not everyone would be as good natured as those guys. :)
 
Person who moved next door to us about a year or so ago, started playing music very loud and singing at the top of his voice. I was thinking of going round on the bounce, but I thought I would wait and think on it first. I bumped into him outside, and struck up a really pleasant conversation with him. Can say anything to each other with ease now, should it be a barking dog or a noisy music system, from either of us.

Get him onside first have a good old chat together, so much easier when problems arise.
 
Going through a similar issue with neighbour across the street. Incredibly loud bass that hits our front room windows dead on.

I agree with trying to reason with the guy and maybe even invite him round to hear what you hear. Unfortunately, our neighbour appears to be regularly off his head on booze or drugs whilst playing his Reggae so we are currently going down the council route.

Very helpful ASB officer got in touch and collated reports from other neighbours (he is a council tenant so they have more powers available to them).

Most councils also have a noise team you can call out to witness it and ask them to turn it down - we were told noise is considered a nuisance "if you have to raise your voice to talk to someone in the room or turn up your TV volume to block it out"...

Hope you get it sorted!
 
my neighbour came and banged on my door at 3am the other night , 3am !!!! inconsiderate git

fortunately i was still up playing my drum kit :lol:
 
My last house move was in part due to a similar issue....although it was 24/7 Elvis.

I'd agree being genial with the chap is a good start.
 
Going the genial route is best all round if it works, not sure if it is still the case but when I sold by house, if you had
a previous dispute with a neighbour it had to be declared at the time of sale and could put people off :(
 
Oh. You mean Neighbour's music. I thought you meant the music for the Australian TV show Neighbours!


Steve.
 
has he got an external meter cupboard? Neighbours were similar - and they experienced a few very localised power cuts when being nuggets!
 
Gremlin said:
Going the genial route is best all round if it works, not sure if it is still the case but when I sold by house, if you had
a previous dispute with a neighbour it had to be declared at the time of sale and could put people off :(
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Only has to be declared if an actual dispute has been raised.
 
viv1969 said:
Only has to be declared if an actual dispute has been raised.
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Yep that's what I meant, if it's done officially with the council, hence the best to keep it friendly if you can (y)
 
viv1969 said:
My last house move was in part due to a similar issue....although it was 24/7 Elvis.
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When you moved out did they announce "and Ruth has left the building, un huh... thankyou and good night "
 
viv1969 said:
My last house move was in part due to a similar issue....although it was 24/7 Elvis.
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I bet they were glad to see the back of you then :p
 
big soft moose said:
When you moved out did they announce "and Ruth has left the building, un huh... thankyou and good night "
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Painfully funny.

Oh no...no wait....just painful.
 
Guess what I can hear. Knew it wouldn't last. Never does. FFS.
 
a long while back when i was a student we had a 'right moaning old git' living next door - for some reason he objected to us coming in p***ed at midnight and putting the stereo on full blast for three hours... he also had an issue with my band practicing its set in the living room at any time of day or night, and with us playing corridor rugby, or doing the dance of the flaming arseholes in the back garden. (for some reason he felt we should be doing this thing called 'studying'... not sure what that was)

(in retrospect he probably had a point - but if you will live on wathall street, crewe which is 90% student houses... well theres a reason why its cheap)

anyway after he pulled me away from my electric guitar practice one too many times we hit on a cunning plan ... everytime he complained , we turned the music up ... we also framed our noise abatement orders and put them on the living room wall (at one point we had four... we pretty quickly realised that all they did if you broke one was to issue another) ... our landlord didnt give much of a toss so long as we paid the rent on time and didnt complain about the damp, mould, or the rats in the back garden he was happy.

al of which is a long way round to saying that you are best off keeping it civil and freindly... if you go down the enforcement route , they may retaliate by holding a four day rave in their back garden
 
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Let me get this straight - and I'm very sensitive to nuisance noise.

7 or 8 pm, for ONE hour.

I'm struggling to see the issue here. Sorry.
 
simon ess said:
Let me get this straight - and I'm very sensitive to nuisance noise.

7 or 8 pm, for ONE hour.

I'm struggling to see the issue here. Sorry.
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Have to agree

Our LA will do little till after 9pm and at that point they are, apparently, quite "engaged".

Things are a bit different in Bath and likely to develoo.

It's becoming a mainstream University/College city and the conversion of ex-MoD buildings and new builds for student accomodation is making the place, let's say lively. A friend has a couple of student houses so things are much the same in terms of noise and disturbance.
 
neil_g said:
start a diary of the disturbances
inform the council (they have a dept for this sort of thing)
council investigates
council removes neighbours stereo if found to be noisy
????
profit
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My mate had them come out to his house because the council didn't believe a local pub was staying open past the licensing and the dreadful noise pollution. They set up all sorts of fancy equipment in his house to measure the noise pollution and got some undercover environmental health staff to chill out inside the pub. When the noise got too loud with the equipment they phoned the guys in the pub and within about five minutes the police came and shut the whole lot down lol. Was like watching a movie.
 
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