Neighbour complaining. What do you guys think is reasonable.

11pm any night of the week, and that's because it's the law - if you just wanted to be a good neighbour, decent human being, and not a complete **** I'd say 9-10pm.

If noise travels through the walls so much that you can't do anything without hearing it think about insulation or moving, it really is your problem - not your neighbours.
 
Its a hard one this, I would say any noise passed 11pm is too much, If it wakes me and makes me get out of bed and wonder when then hell is that music comming from then its not on. I was woke up at 1pm by loud music, it was not the neighbours at all the music was from the over side of the village. They had an our side disco and band for someons 50th Woke me up, the wife and my two kids. Called the cops and let them sort it out.
 
Wossi said:
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 :(
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Kids make noise in noise making shocker! ;)

You're a grown up - so either have kids of your own and get them back (LMAO), or move? I suppose it depends how much the noise irritates you? :)

We live in an end of terrace town house, people parking outside our door is my bug bear - I'm a parking Nazi. As soon as we can find a decent detached house with off street parking then we'll be gone.
 
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? 10-11pm
b) During weekend? 11pm

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? 11pm
b) During weekend? midnight ish

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? 4am is a bit harsh even occasionally, so perhaps once every few months or on special occasions.



Although I have put 10-11pm ish most nights, I have little ones that go to bed much earlier so if there was regular noise after 8pm that was noticeable I would be round to have a chat. It's all about communication at the end of the day which I know is hard if you have bad neighbours. Luckily where we are currently both sides of our mid terrace are nice.
 
Some dick was blowing a vuvuzela at 4am on Sunday morning, one of the other houses down our street told him to 'shut the **** up for **** sake' which meant I didn't have to get out of bed :p
 
For a once off especially for the world cup I really don't see it as a big deal - I don't think its unreasonable to have a bit of a party around the world cup matches tho it would be nice to wind down a bit after 11pm.

If its every other weekend with music blaring out til 4am then that would be completely and utterly inconsiderate.




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? after 10pm I would expect them to turn music down, try not too make too much noise.
b) During weekend? after 11pm - don't mind it going on a bit if its every once in awhile.

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? not too bothered about complete silence, aslong as TV/Music isn't making a constant audiable noise I'm fine with the odd conversation, door shutting, etc.
b) During weekend? as above

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?

Not too bothered if they give notice and its not too often, but I'd get very annoyed it if it was even every other weekend and they didn't bother to give neighbours a heads up
 
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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? 22:00 - 23:00
b) During weekend? 23:00
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? 23:00
b) During weekend? 00:00

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 a year, only on Saturday and 01:30 is the absolute limit.
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It really depends on how thick your walls are and whether you're out in the garden or not. It also depends on whether your neighbours have young children.
 
The Mad Rapper said:
Kids make noise in noise making shocker! ;)

You're a grown up - so either have kids of your own and get them back (LMAO), or move? I suppose it depends how much the noise irritates you? :)

We live in an end of terrace town house, people parking outside our door is my bug bear - I'm a parking Nazi. As soon as we can find a decent detached house with off street parking then we'll be gone.
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Apologies, I should have stated, it's not the kids making the noise, it was their parents, so if the parents couldn't care less about making noise when the kids are asleep why should I.
 
1a) 10-11pm
1b) 12pm

2a) 12pm
2b) 1am

Big blowout maybe once or twice a year as long as I had at least a week or two notice so I can make plans to be somewhere else or get wasted and sleep through it :D
 
But this wasn't just any old party was it? It was a football party, post-match after England played rubbish for a draw. :P
Footy yobs....eeuughgh!

Seriously though, if you're kicking it up till 4am and it disturbs your neighbours enough that they can't sleep, it can ruin the following day for them.
It's ok saying "yeah sure, have fun as its a one-off", but after about 6 hours of it....it would get really tiresome, and with lack of sleep, they'll understandibly get shirty about it too.
Happened to me 3 weeks ago, but the neighbours didn't have the courtesy to warn anyone....i was knacked the following day due to very little sleep.
 
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? 12am
b) During weekend? 2am

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? 2am
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? As long as it lasts and ideally no more than a couple a month.

I wouldn't be all that bothered if any of those time "limits" were broken. I don't get wound up about these things so would simply find a way to fall asleep.
 
^^ almost exactly the same.

The only exception would be if it's a 50 person party, I'd expect to be invited dammit!
 
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 ..
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Honestly, I'd think that if your neighbours have complained the decent thing to do would be to take the party someone else next time.
 
Mr Jack said:
Honestly, I'd think that if your neighbours have complained the decent thing to do would be to take the party someone else next time.
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Yea I kind of agree. TBH I dodge conflict. I'd rather move house altogether than have a 'neighbour war', as it sounds like a living hell to me ... :(

For two weekends in a row we went to about 1am, pretty loud, with no warning to them in advance. On the second one, at about 11.30, he told me to STFU. They have a 7 month old kid.

In my defence, I did (immediately) STFU and we were pretty hished until 1am, immediately as he made his very first complaint. Trouble is now I feel kind of frustrated and annoyed even though I'm the bad guy. I need a detached place. Which means (round here) I need to find an extra £400K from somewhere :(
 
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