Noisy neighbors

thepharcyde

thepharcyde

thepharcyde

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How would you react to your neighbors playing music after 11pm? I had a case last night with the neighbors playing music past 12am, not too loud, but being a semi detached house I own, noise travels. I have knocked on their door before new years day 5am!! after the music was not stopping and they turned it down, but last night just stayed up until it stopped because I could not get any sleep with it going on.

I was going to Beastie Boy them this morning, when i got up at 6.30am, but g/f talked me out of it.

Anyone else have neighbors like mine? because surely they can appreciate, its a work day, yeah they might not have to goto work in the morning, but both my g/f and me do!
 
First house I had was a semi and the neighbours were a nightmare. No amount of talking resolved it. Music and diy until all hours of the morning. Shouting yelling at a young child - who I never heard once. Standing in the middle of the street shouting abuse at other neighbours at 3 in the morning. Ended up they were bound over for 12 months by the court.
Had to move to remedy it. Best decision I ever made.
 
I have some very noisy neighbours who play music very loudly till past 3am most Fridays, Saturdays and some Sundays. OK its the weekend but if you cant sleep, you cant sleep and it drives me up the wall, the bass travels very well. If it continues, talk to them over coffee or something and then go to the local Dept of Environmental Health and let them know.
Unfortunately if theyre the kind of person that doesnt care how loud their music is, theyre probably the kind of person that doesnt care if someone complains...
 
Mat said:
Unfortunately if theyre the kind of person that doesnt care how loud their music is, theyre probably the kind of person that doesnt care if someone complains...
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Sadly that's often true. If you have really noisy neighbours often the only truly effective solution is to move. The laws to prevent noisy neighbours aren't adequate.

(not very practical for the OP who owns his house, I realise!)
 
I say note down all the times and go through official channels, it may not be the fastest solution but at least you remain blameless in the end
 
A local council official advised me to make a record of when noise was happening and also to record it if possible. They're pretty much helpless without this kind of detail.

Fortunately for me it was pretty easy as it was a local business that decided to clean his taxis at 3 AM every morning using a loud hose. I didn't know that businesses (or at least mechanics) needed a license to work after 6 PM in a residential area.
 
afraser2k said:
A local council official advised me to make a record of when noise was happening and also to record it if possible. They're pretty much helpless without this kind of detail.

Fortunately for me it was pretty easy as it was a local business that decided to clean his taxis at 3 AM every morning using a loud hose. I didn't know that businesses (or at least mechanics) needed a license to work after 6 PM in a residential area.
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That's interesting, a friend of mine has hassle with a taxi boss cleaning his cars (inside and out) in the dead of night. Cheers. :)
 
I had the same situation with my neighbours (thankfully now they have moved!) but they played loud music beyond 3 am and we couldnt stand it so we contacted an environments agency who gave us support, and we called the police out a few times, then the music stopped. Even my neighbours on the other side of me went and banged on their door to tell them to shut up. They listened in the end though!

BeatMaster :D
 
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Just a thought, but you say you knocked on their door before at new years eve, so sounds like its not all the time as that was nearly 4 months ago, and they turned it down, so you could have knocked again. :)
 
You could also complain to your local council. I had neighbors who both worked days and on several occasions over a period of a few weeks when they were out at work their house alarm would go off and stay like that until one of them came home from work which could be several hours later.

With a house alarm I think it is only allowed to sound for a maximum of 20 minutes before resetting itself. Theirs didn't. Being the unapproachable snotty neighbours that they are we went straight to the council who advised us that they would send a letter advising them of a complaint they had received concerning their house alarm and that they need to sort it out.

A few weeks later their alarm went off again and stayed on for an hour or so before we rang the council. They immediately sent a man who sat in his car for 30 minutes outside their house. The council must have contacted them again because since that time around about 3 years ago their house alarm has gone off on occasion but has reset itself within 20 minutes...

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I was another unfortunate to have bad neighbours move in next us...

i tried all the legal way and it just does not work in your favour + once the neighbours know your complaining theyll get worse.

i had to move from a family home i loved and although i miss it terribly i and my family now enjoy a peaceful stress free life next door to some elderly people.

People like the neighbours u have only know one language and thats a beating. but thats a road i didnt wanna travel.

Good Luck with it m8.
 
i was thinking of Goldie timeless with the bass in the understairs cuboard for max effect. But alas my bird would not go for that either. Fotunately, I am not manic at work, unlike next month when i leave work at 7.30 then get home at 8pm+ for a few weeks.
 
i used to live next door to a couple of smackheads and their asbo family- loud music, arguaments, kids in and out of every back garden in the street nicking stuff, parents regularly being brought home by the police for shoplifting, ambulances at least once a month due to accidental overdoses, social services practically living there, two year old little girl screaming filthy obscenities in the street at 2am.

Then there were the 2 lots of alcoholics and the care in the community lunatic who lived in the houses accross the street- music all night, furniture and people being chucked through windows, fights in the street, teenagers shagging in the front gardens and passing out in pools of vomit in the road.

hoardes of roaming, shouting, fighting, stealing kids in the street whenever school was out (and not much better when school was on).

yep- the street was nice when we moved in, but the housing assosciation dumped all the problem families down there- it was like living in a warzone...the car was broken into and scratched up because it was "nicer" than anyone elses (a 1999 astra diesel estate- lol).

glad to be out of that hell hole...it was like a chav commune...
 
WS_TailGunner said:
i used to live next door to a couple of smackheads and their asbo family- loud music, arguaments, kids in and out of every back garden in the street nicking stuff, parents regularly being brought home by the police for shoplifting, ambulances at least once a month due to accidental overdoses, social services practically living there, two year old little girl screaming filthy obscenities in the street at 2am.

Then there were the 2 lots of alcoholics and the care in the community lunatic who lived in the houses accross the street- music all night, furniture and people being chucked through windows, fights in the street, teenagers shagging in the front gardens and passing out in pools of vomit in the road.

hoardes of roaming, shouting, fighting, stealing kids in the street whenever school was out (and not much better when school was on).

yep- the street was nice when we moved in, but the housing assosciation dumped all the problem families down there- it was like living in a warzone...the car was broken into and scratched up because it was "nicer" than anyone elses (a 1999 astra diesel estate- lol).

glad to be out of that hell hole...it was like a chav commune...
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holy hell! name and shame - street/town/city/county!
 
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