Think I annoyed my neighbour

I can't believe it was just 2 knocks that caused her to come out. Telling porkies? If so it would have been over before it started.

I fitted skirting board to the bedroom adjoining my neighbors bedroom at 11pm once on a school-night, using 6 inch nails and a big hammer. Now that went down well :D
 
Skiddley said:
I fitted skirting board to the bedroom adjoining my neighbors bedroom at 11pm once on a school-night, using 6 inch nails and a big hammer. Now that went down well :D
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My dad was fitting a new handle and lock mechanism to one of the doors upstairs in my house at about 9:30, this must have been a good 8-10 years ago, when all of a sudden the fat **** from next door came round ballooning, telliong us to keep it down as his kids were trying to sleep. He tried to barge into our house and come upstairs, to which my mum just promptly told him to **** off and slammed the door in his face.

If he had come round and acted a bit more civilised he wouldn't have got the response he did.

Its how people react to these situations that aggrevate them more.
 
CDj-Rossi said:
My dad was fitting a new handle and lock mechanism to one of the doors upstairs in my house at about 9:30, this must have been a good 8-10 years ago, when all of a sudden the fat **** from next door came round ballooning, telliong us to keep it down as his kids were trying to sleep. He tried to barge into our house and come upstairs, to which my mum just promptly told him to **** off and slammed the door in his face.

If he had come round and acted a bit more civilised he wouldn't have got the response he did.

Its how people react to these situations that aggrevate them more.
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Funnily enough, people tend to get a bit irate when their neighbours blatantly take the **** like doing loud DIY late at night...

As for the idea which someone else put forward, that it is okay to be noisy outside at 10pm because it is still light, or too early to be in bed..?! Some people are in bed at that time, who have to get up early for work... and even if they aren't in bed, they have a right to peace and quiet in their own homes.
 
10pm is pushing it abit for doing diy on your car,maybe after hearing the two loud knocks she was asking you to keep the noise down as she thought it would go on.

The woman had every right to complain.
 
Its all about respect for each other.

My guess is that your neighbour assumed you didn't respect her situation and therefore refused to show any respect to yours.

I'm in bed by 10pm as I have to get up early. If I have any work to do on my car I make sure I get it done before the time when I presume other people might be going to bed. In the case of children; earlier than 10pm.

Bear in mind that as well as banging, the noise of tools and parts clanking about can also be rather annoying if you're trying to get to sleep. I've had issues with noisy neighbours and it can be soul destroying.
 
JimpsEd said:
Its not about her, its about her kids - and the OP is damn inconsiderate.
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lol oh come ON. I bet she shouted out her window 10x louder than the bangs she heard through her closed windows, if the kids would've been woken up by anyone it would be their mother being a loud mouth moaner. I'm more likely to be woken up by whispering outside my bedroom door than 2 small thuds outside my actual house. :rolleyes:

Like what somebody said earlier, just because somebody has kids doesn't mean everyone else's lives around needs to stop. SpeedFreak didn't pick 10pm to annoy his neighbours, he picked 10pm because that was the only time he could've done the work on his car so he can work the next day and earn a living. If that means the neighbours hear 2 small thuds, tough ****.

Sometimes noises will be heard, that's life, deal with it. There are far worse things in life than that.
 
Sorry Heofz, have to disagree.

Firstly, as I have previously posted, I think that the neighbours reaction was wrong and a polite request instead of shouting would have defused the situation immediately.

However, it is not about stopping everyone else's lives it is about being considerate for the needs of others. For example, if my son wakes me up at 6am on a Sunday I don't start the lawnmower and wake everyone else up, even if it is a very convenient time for me to mow.
 
Heofz said:
lol oh come ON. I bet she shouted out her window 10x louder than the bangs she heard through her closed windows, if the kids would've been woken up by anyone it would be their mother being a loud mouth moaner. I'm more likely to be woken up by whispering outside my bedroom door than 2 small thuds outside my actual house. :rolleyes:

Like what somebody said earlier, just because somebody has kids doesn't mean everyone else's lives around needs to stop. SpeedFreak didn't pick 10pm to annoy his neighbours, he picked 10pm because that was the only time he could've done the work on his car so he can work the next day and earn a living. If that means the neighbours hear 2 small thuds, tough ****.

Sometimes noises will be heard, that's life, deal with it. There are far worse things in life than that.
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why was 10pm the only time? did he not get in at 7pm?
 
snowdog said:
Rubbish, at 10 pm it's still light outside ( at this time of year) and thus a perfect time to work on anything, how people can go to sleep when it's still light outside is beyond me...
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Because they have worked a long day and are tired?! Or just simply tired?! :confused: I have gone to bed at 7:30pm before now simply because of that. (oh the joy of multiple european VAT returns).
 
I had a similar problem when I was putting an engine in the car over the winter and it was dark at like 5pm.

An angry little (newly moved in)neighbour came running out telling me not to shine the light near his house and because his kid is a sleep at 5pm and they don't have curtains yet (his house opposite mine).

I calmly suggested that he put something over the window and that it was Saturday at 5pm and I am not willing to stop working yet and he didn't like it.

After that night i haven't even seen him, don't think he bonded with the other neighbours too well. My next door neighbours were absolutely fine with it (don't talk to them all that much) and people from around the village were showing interest, ie stopping in the street and asking what was going in my car etc, was great.
 
snail1 said:
Firstly, as I have previously posted, I think that the neighbours reaction was wrong and a polite request instead of shouting would have defused the situation immediately.
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I also agreed with this. I don't think SpeedFreak would have reacted the way he did if the neighbour handled it politely.

snail1 said:
However, it is not about stopping everyone else's lives it is about being considerate for the needs of others. For example, if my son wakes me up at 6am on a Sunday I don't start the lawnmower and wake everyone else up, even if it is a very convenient time for me to mow.
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I also agree with this. But where do you draw the line? What if your neighbour started mowing the lawn at 6am, would you rudely shout at them out your window or would you ask them nicely to give it a few hours?

OK he made a small bit of noise but like I said if all it really was was 2 thuds, his neighbour overreacted bigtime, which means his response to her was somewhat justified.
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Because they have worked a long day and are tired?! Or just simply tired?! :confused: I have gone to bed at 7:30pm before now simply because of that. (oh the joy of multiple european VAT returns).
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well if they're tired then 2 small thuds isn't gonna do any harm is it? :p
 
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Heofz said:
I also agree with this. But where do you draw the line? What if your neighbour started mowing the lawn at 6am, would you rudely shout at them out your window or would you ask them nicely to give it a few hours?
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At 6am I'm going to be tried an unwilling to get dressed go outside in the cold and talk to someone so they would get gruff mumbled yellings from the warm window.

Or some kind of projectile.
 
why is everyone so anal about this - bigger things to worry about in life than someone making a little noise at 10 o'clock at night...
 
mynsa said:
why is everyone so anal about this - bigger things to worry about in life than someone making a little noise at 10 o'clock at night...
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I think it depends on the situation. I think I globally agree if I was at home on my own watching the footie at 10pm then I would not care. However, if I have just had a 2 hour battle to get my boy to sleep and his was then woken by such a noise then it is a real real issue.
 
People sleep at different times - I'd suggest 11pm to 6am should be fairly quiet but outside of that shut your window if you want to sleep, I do when someone's mowing at 9am on a Sunday and I want a lie in.
 
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