Dealing with noisy neighbours

its one of the worst things ever, I had moved out of a really bad area to a nice cul de sac, then to have some low life's move in next door. Just sometimes you want to relax after work, not hear loads of people screaming in the garden in foreign language. Also they kicked about 25 footballs in my garden in 6 months. All went in the bin.

Worst part the tax payer was paying for this, but I was ready to take it furthest I could. Could not move, just spent every penny i had in this house.
 
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you need to speak to the council noise abatement. They'll tell you to keep a diary of events etc and will pay a visit sometime to measure sound levels with a decibel meter. Assuming you've tried speaking to your neighbours first.

Yeah it's hell I've been there myself. You need to to keep it impersonal once you start retaliating and it becomes personal thats a whole another level of hell. (smashed wing mirrors, knifed tyres... the list goes on). Decided to move in the end. Some areas are worse than others. Its all professional types around here so no trouble apart from one young pair once on benefits put there by the social... had about 6 months of hell before they were kicked out. Luckily they were several floors above me so didn't have to deal with the day to day just every now and then.
 
We have noisy neighbours, well they have 2 dogs who at the time kept barking from 19:00 - 03:30 when the owner came home. Sometimes they left the dogs alone in the house for 24 hours +.

We have a 2 year old, who didn't get any sleep while the dogs were barking, so you can imagine how we felt about the situation.

We contacted the RSPCA who did nothing and weren't interested.

So we then contacted the Council and spoke to the Anti-Social team, who came round and observed the noise. Luckily it was the weekend and they popped round at 23:30 when the dogs were going mental.

The Anti-Social team sent our neighbours a letter of warning of intent to prosecute. It has done the trick for now, as we can finally enjoy our home without the noise of the dogs barking at all hours.
 
I had a similar situation to the OP and it has only become more difficult.

The lady upstairs is single, into her mid 30's and generally a very nice person. She chats to us and confides when there are neighbourhood issues. Unfortunately she is a bit of a party girl, she loves going out and in some ways comes across as being a bit immature.

She plays the booming house type music through a stereo her brother built that has those huge base woofers. She only works part time so this music can come on at 8am and finish when only when she goes out which is around 22:30.

Before Christmas this got intensively worse, so much that the moment she walked through the door it was on. We use to dread her coming home. We had a polite word and so did another neighbour which she took real offence too and it got louder.

Another flat upstairs started to retaliate so the whole block became a problem. The neighbour and I who approached then approached the landlord who agreed they would write a group letter to avoid singling anyone out.

Unfortunately somebody who works for the landlord told her exactly who had made the complaints. Twice she has been banging on the door complaining to us and it has opened a hornets nest of complaints about just about everything.

On one hand I wish we hadn't done anything but on the other it was intolerable.
 
Yeah I'm going to the letting agent now. The neighbours had two massive parties Sun/ Mon night just gone and they are now dumping their excessive waste ( black bags and empty booze containers ) in our grey/blue bins respectively. We have since removed and put them back to them but have called the letting agent to complain so it's going the 'official' route
 
Noisy neighbours are a nightmare. I used to live in a terrace house and had next door ask me to turn down my music a few times but I always obliged and tried not to let it creep up too loud. Its not always obvious when you are doing it as I think that sometimes the bass is whats causing the issue and thats hard to keep an eye on sometimes.

In the last flat I was in we had the middle floor out of 3 and upstairs they had kids charging about most of the day on wooden floors and thin ceilings and in the evenings two or 3 times a week they would be playing loud music till 2-3am. Most of the time it was on weird days like a tuesday and sunday evening.

Downstairs were a pair of super chavvy women with 4 dogs and a couple of kids in a 3 bedroom flat. The dogs were mental because they only went out for a walk a couple of times a week and the rest of the time they just charged around in a small area of gravel outside. To add to that, they used to have blazing rows 5-6 times a week which although entertaining, were annoying after a while.

Funnily enough, the other side of the stairs all 3 flats were full of nice quiet people. We just ended up on the wrong side.

I work from home so having 4 dogs fighting in a gravel pit outside my window for 4-5 hours a day and occasionally having the delightful aroma of cigarettes waft through my window made me hate the place. We have just bought a flat in another area and all the neighbours are nice and quiet and friendly.

The kids used to like using our garden fence as a football goal and sometimes just enjoyed kicking it. They treated our garden as just another area to play in as well. Trampled over our flower beds and climbed on the fences. This was all while their parents were with them as well. One of the highlights was when we had a knock at the door and a woman came and said "we've cut your lawn for you". Thats very kind I thought. Then she says "can we put our swimming pool in your garden for a few days". All the other gardens were so full of **** that ours was the only one with any space for it.

Its hard to imagine how much of a difference the people around your home make until you end up with some **** ones.
 
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