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Recently I came across a thread where by somebody posted about problems relating to noisy neighbours in a flat (think it was an old thread that was resurrected).

Now, this got me thinking as I have issues with my neighbours.

I thought it would be a good idea to gather all the people who have had/got noise issues with their neighbours so that people could put across their opinions and more importantly, experiences.

Currently, we are in a dispute with the tenants over their excessive noise and nightly activities that start around 11pm. We are lucky if they stop at 2am.

I must point out though the noise is not continuous like for hours on end say. But, it does come in waves and can go on for an hour, then stop for 20 mins then carry on again for another hour.

As for the noise itself, bangs that are so severe that my room literally vibrates (as well as my nerves as I feel like I could snap at any second).

My mum recently went to a second mediation with the Mother of the little scrotes who are making all the racket and it seemed that an agreement was made (on both sides of course) to be both respectful and understanding.

The noise reduced by a very noticeable amount and we really believed that we were turning a corner. That was nearly a month ago. Fast forward to the present and even now as I compile this, they are banging around like crazy.

It sounds like a war zone. Unfortunately for us, the mediators told the Mother that the sound equipment we had installed had failed and not picked up any noise, therefore, no evidence what so ever of noise nuisance despite our efforts to prove so.

It appears now that after some time of peace and quiet, the family have decided to further the noise and it has now intensified.

Yeah thanks mediators for telling them about the sound equipment.

The next step for me now is to contact a private solicitor and see if they can help. Our Housing Association can not and will not do anything anymore.

I would appreciate if anyone else who is in a same/similar situation to give some input.

Thanks for reading.
 
I often thought a good way to alert a neighbour to their excessive noise making, would be to setup a directional microphone and relay the sound they are making on a 10 second time delay, played back to them at double the volume. A delayed echo if you will.

Not only will they be able to hear the noise they are making, but hopefully it should be as irritating to them as it is to you. And as soon as they reduce their noise, so do you.
 
had a neighbour who had a neighbour like that. he had to log every thing like noise, incidents that happened in a diary. it could go on months before you have a strong case. he also got some recordings and reported it to the council which took they took further and issued a notice or somethin.

do all that and report it to housing association.


bit vague but something like that
 
Yeh been through this, i drool over detached house, things could be quiet till 3 or 4am then bang the door would slam home and the noise would start boom boom thud thud sometimes the trained ape who lived there would put the window through.
Its not nice its very stressful and takes over your life i would have laughed if the whole family were wiped out, no i would have paid to have then wiped out, no doubt about it.
Constantly tired and stressed, report them and you cant sell your house.
 
as you dont get thereading you need? then put some speakers near the monitor kit and fake their nosie like the other posts say runts like that stop for a few then start again so uck emm up.
 
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Get some massive speakers, place them next to adjoining wall, wait until 7am each morning and switch theM on full volume for 10 minutes, wait until they complain. The tell them to swivel. Warn your other neighbour first though.

That, or move.
 
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your only option is to move. Your local council, housing association and the police are powerless to do anything to resolve the problem in the short term. The offenders need to commit a serious crime before they are reprimanded. Sound recordings, log books of noises, arbitration meetings with the neighbour, its all pointless. The authorities ask you to do these things because there is little else they can do with current legislation. People dont change, if you live nextdoor to chav morons or parents with out of control kids they aren't going to change.

Sometimes its best to cut your loses and get out and have a better life. Move basically.
 
We live in a detatched house in a quiet area and all has been good for about 10 years ...until .....

Next door Neighbours moved in with 5 kids, neither of the parents work and the house was bought by their mother and is no doubt payed for by Social security and 7am on weekend mornings their dog and kids will be out in the garden shouting as loud as they can.

The Parents shout at the top of the voices at the kids, the kids shout at each other and all we want to do after a hard week at work is have a lay in for a few hours.

I lay there in bed imagining I have a guided missile that tracks noise that I can fire off and errr stop them :)

The other weekend when one of the kids was out side early in the morning making a lot of noise the mother shouted at the top of her voice saying it was to early to make such a noise ...she was louder than the kid :(
 
We've had problems with a neighbour in one of the flats next door, we live in a house which is adjoined to two flats, the bottom flat we've had no problems with so far but the top one, where do i start ?.......

He is a young guy, mid 20's, works full time, i know he has been in trouble with the police as i heard him shout to his then girlfriend he couldn't chase her down the road because "i've got my tag on" :rolleyes:
When we first moved in he wasn't here much as he lived with his girlfriend (his mum owns the flat he pays her minimal rent), after about 18 months he split up with her and moved back in full time, cue the mayhem.

He had no carpets and very little furniture, every sound he made was magnified, like being in an empty house, he could not go in or out of his house without slamming his front door.

A typical day would be, loud music at 8:30am followed by run down uncarpeted stairs in shoes and door slam at 9am, quiet all day until 6pm door slam, bang crash maybe music goes out (door slam, stairs etc), back in anywhere between 1am and 4am maybe on his own, maybe with mates, door slam, stairs etc, windows slam (always leaves windows open all day, whatever the weather), banging about in kitchen, crashing into stuff in bathroom which the wall is next to my then 13 yr old daughters bedroom so she would wake up (if the door slam hadn't already woken her), may have loud talking with mates and music too.

His days off were worse as you get the same noise but spread throughout the day.
Sometimes at weekends you'd get a couple of his mates banging on his door at anywhere between 5am and 8am with cans in their hands usually and staggering about, he used to ignore them so they would just hammer on his door for up to half an hour.

We put note after note through his door asking him to tone down the noise etc, it never really made a difference, he would tone it down for a week or so then it would go back to normal.
One night he bought a load of mates back at 3am played loud music, made loads of noise, shouting etc, so i banged on the wall...... he shouted out that who do i think i am banging on his wall, do i want a fight ? bang again and i will kick your door in, come in and kill you and your family, then he picked up something and threw it at the wall... lol like that's gonna hurt me !! He then ran down the stairs (i could hear the girls saying to him no don't go etc) went outside and started banging about, i though he was doing my car tbh but he wasn't, they were obviously all drunk and/or on something.

The next day (we ended up all staying up all night) i kept an eye out to see if he was gonna come out as i felt like pouncing on him and smashing him with a baseball bat tbh, anyway i heard his door go and just managed to catch him jumping into a mates car, he had a bag with him too, he disappeared for five days, obviously woke up and realised what he'd done.

Anyway, fast forward 2 years or so to today, there were a lot more instances in between but now things are 20 times better than what they were, he still slams his door but nowhere near as hard as before and he still shuts his windows late at night but he tries to do it quietly, sometimes we still hear his music but he has disconnected his sub so we can't hear the bass vibrating through our whole house and he still bangs about a bit when he comes in from his nights out on the beer, but the most important thing is that he acknowledges us and tries to consider us.
It took a lot talking between him and my missus and also me confronting him (in a non violent way).

We used to hate him with a passion, you start thinking that they are making the noise on purpose just to spite you, you need to realise that is not the case, some people are noisy and they live in crappy homes with little to no sound proofing, he now has carpet throughout his flat and proper furniture which absorbs the noise somewhat, we thought about getting sound-proofing but some people said they had it and did not make much difference.
My missus used to sometimes sit indoors (she has fibromalgia and lupus so gets tired easily) with his music blaring, she would bang on the walls which of course he couldn't hear and she would just sit there crying.

I often used to imagine waiting for him when he got home and doing him, or paying someone else to do it lol, in my job i know quite a few people who would be up for that.
Obviously i never would but those are the things that go through your mind sometimes.

Now, if it starts up again, i will be straight there banging on his door.

He has even knocked on our door and asked if we could hear his music !!

The OP's situation is obviously slightly different to mine but it shows you that you can get through these things, which i hope you do.
 
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Buy a bass guitar. And a nice bass amp. I have a nice 600W 103db stack amp. You can hear it 500m from my house.

I don't have much problem with my neighbours being noisy. Quiet as mice.
 
My neighbours (We only moved in last December) seem to have bursts of energy about 8pm to about 11, kids running up and down like there on something god knows what he does for a job I hear him drilling at 10pm but tbh its not that bad im usually up until early hours anyway.

Lived at past addresses with terrible neighbours but have respected us once we have pointed it out as we clearly respect them only thing we have problems with at current address is bloody kids not respecting our garden! one actually asked why we didn't want anyone in it to which he seemed stunned at my reply to we live here and you don't.

I honestly don't get kids and teens nowadays I mean im no OAP im 22 but when I was younger I wouldn't dare set foot in someone else's garden without asking nor would I confront someone about why they had a problem with me going onto there property then again there going to get the shock of there lives when the new fence gets put up next week and they can no longer use my garden as a pay area.
 
norm said:
I often thought a good way to alert a neighbour to their excessive noise making, would be to setup a directional microphone and relay the sound they are making on a 10 second time delay, played back to them at double the volume. A delayed echo if you will.
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That is brilliant and I have the equipment to do it plus a 3000 watt PA system.
 
I deal with this kind of thing on a daily basis. My general advice would be:

1) Talk to your neighbour first, explain the issue. If they're an idiot or it has gone beyond this, fair enough. But if you have the opportunity, make the effort.

2) Contact your local council. They will have an Environmental Health team, and may have an Anti Social Behaviour team. Be polite, do as they ask. It's usually a long process. Be patient and keep communicating with them.

3) If you or your problem neighbour are a council or housing association tenant, contact them. Explain the issue and do as they ask. They may well have a team that deals with problem tenants.

4) If your problem neighbour is a private tenant, contact the landlord or letting agent if you know the details. Again, explain the problem, keep calm and keep at it.

5) If it gets to the point where threats/abuse/damage etc are being caused, contact the police. Look up your local Neighbourhood officers (Both PCs and PCSOs). Ask them to help, report any offences and do as they ask.

If you're not getting much joy with any of the above options, ask to speak with senior staff, managers etc until you feel you're getting somewhere.

Remember, it's usually a long process, and the key to success is evidence. This means diary sheets, audio and video recordings and logs of who you spoke to (i.e. which person/agency), what was agreed and when.

Since the Pilkington case there is a lot of attention being paid to problem neighbours and general local ASB/nuisance.

PM me if you want detailed advice on your particular circs.
 
I live in a uni town and the students love to party all year very very loudly in our street. So I save all my partying for the finals weeks. They are quick to whine when the need sleep, the last couple of years me and my mates have managed 4-5 day benders and late night BBQs during exam time and this year will be holding a fireworks displays to show my support for their valiant higher education efforts.
 
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