Neighbour complaining. What do you guys think is reasonable.

I cba filling that out.

My neighbours are well normal people, all single middle aged up to decrepit, no animals.

If anything, I'm the nuisance. But they don't mind...
 
I think if you spoke to your neighbours first it might have been a different story. Get to know your neighbours don’t think that they will automatically have the same views as yourself.

I mean for all you know the people that used to live in your house could have been very quiet and the suddenly noise of a party out of nowhere could have caused issues. Random noise out of nowhere is sometimes the worst.

I have seen quite areas suddenly turn into noisy areas over night from just one neighbour. Not everyone takes to noise the same way you would so you should think of your neighbours first.

Simply your views aren’t going to be the same as everyone else's. Really just go and apologies to the neighbour in question and speak to them about it. They should be forth coming and state what they think is fair. I mean unless the neighbour is some tool that just likes to rule "his" area then fair enough talking to him is out of the question as I think a lot of people will understand that type of neighbour but most won’t be like this.

As much as I love the world cup some people hate this and having a party with reference to the world cup will just drive them up the wall before they hear music, see massive flags or singing of terrible England songs while drunk :p.

Just go and speak to your neighbours and see if you can work something out for the future.
 
snowdog said:
Can regularly hear parties in the area in weekends going on to 3-4 am too.
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That's the problem - if you can regularly hear people at this time in the morning then you are up / awake yourself. Personally I would like some peace and quiet at this time in the morning :)
 
Depends on how much noise we're talking about - I don't care if someone has a party that goes on 24/7 if I can't hear them. If it's a party loud enough to disturb the sleep of your neighbours then 10 or 11pm is really the limit.

If you know your neighbours have a small child, then it's only common sense to keep things down - keeping a 7 month old awake until 1am is not on, regardless of the circumstances. If our neighbours were having loud parties until 1am two weekends on the bounce I'd be complaining too.
 
it's a problem for me my wall vibrates/woken up light sleeper/repetitive songs/regular can hear past building :mad: had to put up with this by 2 flats for 4 years moving soon :D:D
 
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?

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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1)a) 10pm-7am is quite time.
b) 10pm-7am is quite time. No difference on a weekend.

2) a) 10pm
b) 10pm


3) there are maximum tolerable noise levels. If you are having a giant noisy party then you should not do it in an apartment. so Never.
However, a party and friends over with moderate noise to 10pm and some noise after 10pm, once a month or so after getting permission.
 
Some people work nights, should everyone be quiet during the day as well? Should I shout out of the window at the kids going to school to be completely silent at 8am because I've been up doing a change until 5am?
 
My take on this is simple, My neighbours can do what ever they like when ever they like in their own homes. I only take issue when what they do in their home dictates what I can do in my home, for example I should be free to choose when I go to sleep and when I wake up etc.

I don't expect my neighbours ever to be silent, we live in a terrace we are going to hear each other I do however expect them to keep their music in their house, their arguments in their house and their party's in their house 99% of the time.

Every once in a while I can cope with a night of disturbed sleep as long as it is a weekend and it gets quiet enough for me to sleep after about 1am, if this happens regularly then it is not acceptable.

If you choose to live in a terraced house then you choose to live with consideration for your neighbours, I expect any complaints I make to be taken seriously and I would treat andy complaint to me in the same way.

Terraced houses in built up areas are not the correct venue for beered up footy fans to party to 4am, period.
 
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Wicksta said:
Some people work nights, should everyone be quiet during the day as well? Should I shout out of the window at the kids going to school to be completely silent at 8am because I've been up doing a change until 5am?
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There's somewhat of a difference between the ambient noise you'd expect to hear during the day and a bunch of blokes shouting with music thumping at 4am, especially if you leave in a terraced house.
 
BigDannyO said:
There's somewhat of a difference between the ambient noise you'd expect to hear during the day and a bunch of blokes shouting with music thumping at 4am, especially if you leave in a terraced house.
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What about music in the daytime? Or is that OK and it's just a case of people should work around your day and not vice versa. :)

I use earplugs to sleep if I've been working in the night and I've lived in some of the noisest places ever with trams, loud cars and rowdy people going past all day. If you wind yourself up about noise it keeps you awake, it's not so much the noise itself. I sometimes get the impression people hate the noise of other people enjoying themselves more than 'ambient noise' because they feel left out somehow?
 
If the new neighbours have young kids I would keep quieter.

but if the neighbours were of a "peaceful religion" I would double the volume :)
 
My neighbors are great. the guy is really middle class and has a nice Merc but also smokes fat spliffs. doesn't mind the odd crazy party. Infact when we had a moving in party the other neighbor brought some wine around. :D
 
I live next to a road that has cars going past at pretty much any time of the day and night so a neighbour having an occasional party isn't really going to make much odds to me. It's largely academic though as most of the people around my area are getting on for or over retirement age and don't seem the hard rocking type.

Generally though I'd be grateful if my neighbours informed me before any party that was likely to go on beyond midnight but provided it was infrequent even if they didn't it wouldn't bother me greatly. In the normal run of things I'd expect noise to be quietened down by around 11pm during the week and midnight at the weekends.
 
Well I just get to know my neighbours when I move. Let them know the wife and I often work nights and that we have children. We don't make that much noise and people seem to respect that and I have only ever had one problem neighbour and two hours of angry toddler bouncing and screaming meant they soon learned it was in their interest also to ensure he gets a good night sleep if they have a hangover.
 
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