Neighbour complaining. What do you guys think is reasonable.

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Neighbour complained about out post-England match party and beers on Saturday at my place. Well, the noise level it produced drunkenly going into the evening ..

So, just so I have some viewpoints about what people consider is reasonable - Imagine new neighbours move in next to you .. here are some questions about reasonableness with regards to noise ..

1) What time do you expect to barely hear the neighbours. For them really to start calming it down and at max 'talking quietly'..
a) During week?
b) During weekend?

2) What time do you basically expect silence - the fun should have stopped now its unreasonable for you to hear a squeak really ..
a) During week?
b) During weekend?

3) How often would you allow you neighbours a 'big blowout'. Really special occassion, they warn you in advance, 50 people hammered round their house, and you 'let them' party loudly and have a proper knees up until 4am or later? Ever? How often?

Just trying to gauge if I should feel hard done by, by their moaning. This is a theoretical question so don't answer 'My neighbour is 81 I never hear her' or 'I'm the one who would be partying lol' or 'I live in a detached place so can't hear my neighbours' as you are missing the point!

Britters.
 
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britboy4321 said:
Neighbour complained about out post-England match party and beers on Saturday at my place. Well, the noise level it produced drunkenly going into the evening ..

So, just so I have some viewpoints about what people consider is reasonable - Imagine new neighbours move in next to you .. here are some questions about reasonableness with regards to noise ..

1) What time do you expect to barely hear the neighbours. For them really to start calming it down and at max 'talking quietly'..
a) During week?
b) During weekend?

2) What time do you basically expect silence - the fun should have stopped now its unreasonable for you to hear a squeak really ..
a) During week?
b) During weekend?

3) How often would you allow you neighbours a 'big blowout'. Really special occassion, they warn you in advance, 50 people hammered round their house, and you 'let them' party loudly and have a proper knees up until 4am or later? Ever? How often?
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1a)7pm, b)8pm.
2a)8pm, b)8pm
3) Given enough notice, a special occasion won't happen very often, so can't really put a time frame on that.

All of it is a moot point really, if I were hearing my neighbours at any time of the day with any hint of regularity, I would be complaining.
 
Cuchulain said:
The answer to every question is 11pm, apart from 3, which is "never"
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In general this ....

... but to the OP, are your neighbours attached (semi or terrace) or are you detached from them? If you are detached then I would expect 1 & 2 to maybe slip a bit later given that it should affect them less ...
 
I would expect lenience for the world cup - one month of loud noises every 4 years... what's the big deal (unless doing exams). And they'll appreciate silence for the other 43 months more, it's a win-win.
 
i think a one off for something like the England match is perfectly acceptable aslong as you wherent completely ridiculous

things like shouting ''my neighbors are ***** '' and throwing emptys at them when they are snooping comes under completely ridiculous

i dont think my neighbours would ever complain tbh. the most would be a joke about it. however i would always tell them beforehand and they would always do the same if they where expecting to be noisy themselves

as for times well on a weekend 12 is acceptable imo. my neighbours would be up at this time anyway and on most occasions might just pop round themselves
 
britboy4321 said:
1) What time do you expect to barely hear the neighbours. For them really to start calming it down and at max 'talking quietly'..
a) During week?
22:30 - 23:00
b) During weekend?
00:00

2) What time do you basically expect silence - the fun should have stopped now its unreasonable for you to hear a squeak really ..
a) During week?
00:00
b) During weekend?
01:30

3) How often would you allow you neighbours a 'big blowout'. Really special occassion, they warn you in advance, 50 people hammered round their house, and you 'let them' party loudly and have a proper knees up until 4am or later? Ever? How often?

Once or twice a year at maybe 3am- 4am as long as it's a weekend.
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All of the above in on the proviso that it isn't every night.
 
As someone asked, I am mid-terrace :(

Platypus - expecting silence after 8pm seems a little harsh to me. Would you really be shouting over the fence 'keep it down mate' if the neighbour does three cheers for his wife's birthday, at 8:45pm on a Saturday night?
 
I really wouldn't want to hear any noise after 11pm during the week and at the most 1am on a weekend. I've had to listen to my neighbours attempt singstar with friends till 3am one weekend. By that point they'd given up trying to sing and ended up just shouting instead.

A quick blast of classical music at full volume stopped them.

If it was a large party and I've been told about it beforehand and it was a once a year thing, then I'd probably be fine with it. As long as it's not all night and their guests respect my property.
 
britboy4321 said:
As someone asked, I am mid-terrace :(

Platypus - expecting silence after 8pm seems a little harsh to me. Would you really be shouting over the fence 'keep it down mate' if the neighbour does three cheers for his wife's birthday, at 8:45pm on a Saturday night?
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And if they have children who go to bed around 2000 hrs?

No-one expects you to be whisper quiet, just have some consideration for the people who live on either side of you. If the noise you make creates an inconvenience for them, then it's too loud.
 
the answer to 3 would be once in a while I'd be anoyed if they aranged a once a month 24hour party... but for the odd occasion its ok...

would also depend on how loud... if you have 20ft rave speakers blasting to 5am thats a different ball park to being able to hear a few people laughing and some just audible music till 2am...

the major 5am blow out once a year, the latter maybe one a month..

maybe go say sorry, explain its a one off and drop them a few bottles of wine or some beers... if you really annoy them they may start complaining about smaller and smaller things... then you gotta go down the whole killing them and getting rid of the corpses route...
 
I have no issue with people partying until midnight but after that then it needs to stop.

The neighbour who's garden backs on to mine had a load party a couple of years back that was really loud and I had a 4 month old baby at the time and wasn't exactly getting loads of sleep. I wasn't impressed when it went on until 1:00am. By 2am I was irate and had strong words with the husband. The music went down for 10 mins, then came back louder than ever. I then threatened to call the cops, got a mouthful from the very drunk woman who's 50th it was so I went into my house, got my 2m candle watt torch. shone it into the garden and shouted "Shut the **** up now or I call the cops!" Instant silence. Ironically, I was round at another neighbour's Christmas do and the noisy neighbour was there. She had a go at me for "ruining her 50th". I just laughed. I pointed out that what really ruined her birthday was her well-known extra-marital bonk with a stranger at the party - which hubby found out about. She got upset and left. Strange folks about.
 
britboy4321 said:
As someone asked, I am mid-terrace :(

Platypus - expecting silence after 8pm seems a little harsh to me. Would you really be shouting over the fence 'keep it down mate' if the neighbour does three cheers for his wife's birthday, at 8:45pm on a Saturday night?
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No of course not, but your post hardly insinuated a three cheers now did it?
 
Wossi said:
A quick blast of classical music at full volume stopped them.
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thats exactly what not to do and how these situations between reasonable people esculate....

if its a 1 off ignore it, if it keeps happening go and speak to them in the morning and be polite.. - at least until the situation is not going down the polite route..
 
The Mad Rapper said:
And if they have children who go to bed around 2000 hrs?

No-one expects you to be whisper quiet, just have some consideration for the people who live on either side of you. If the noise you make creates an inconvenience for them, then it's too loud.
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Funnily enough my neighbours have 3 kids and don't seem to mind making a noise till really late. So since they don't care why should I?

I love living in a semi-detached house :(
 
britboy4321 said:
Neighbour complained about out post-England match party and beers on Saturday at my place. Well, the noise level it produced drunkenly going into the evening ..

So, just so I have some viewpoints about what people consider is reasonable - Imagine new neighbours move in next to you .. here are some questions about reasonableness with regards to noise ..

1) What time do you expect to barely hear the neighbours. For them really to start calming it down and at max 'talking quietly'..
a) During week? 11pm
b) During weekend? 1am

2) What time do you basically expect silence - the fun should have stopped now its unreasonable for you to hear a squeak really ..
a) During week? 1am
b) During weekend? 4am

3) How often would you allow you neighbours a 'big blowout'. Really special occassion, they warn you in advance, 50 people hammered round their house, and you 'let them' party loudly and have a proper knees up until 4am or later? Ever? How often? When ever they give me 1 or 2 weeks notice in advance...

Just trying to gauge if I should feel hard done by, by their moaning. This is a theoretical question so don't answer 'My neighbour is 81 I never hear her' or 'I'm the one who would be partying lol' or 'I live in a detached place so can't hear my neighbours' as you are missing the point!

Britters.
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A party is a party. No point having one if you can't let loose and enjoy yourself... As long as they don't damage your property I see no problem...
 
i'd go with 11.30pm for weekdays and weekends..... which strangely enough is the cutoff point for sounding a car horn legally (unless its an emergancy).
 
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