Noisy neighbours - what to do about their music?

This happened to me with a young lad living under me. He also just dossed about the house during the day. He had a liking for happy harcore :-0

I set up my speakers facing the floor, set that crazy frog song that was all the rage amongst 5-year-old kids a few years back onto repeat and went to work. Next day was blissfully quiet.
 
I will try and speak to her again tomorrow, don't fancy getting beat up tonight with her mates round

Thanks
 
gatzi said:
I will try and speak to her again tomorrow, don't fancy getting beat up tonight with her mates round

Thanks
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Give Asim a call, he'll fit you up with a nice mac10 in under 3 minutes so you'll feel a lot safer.

If they give you any trouble, brap brap.
 
M8 had exactly the same problem. Two lads were living in the flat below him and partied every other night till 7 in the morning, basically he wasn't getting any sleep and was constantly wrecked. Safe to say the guys in the other flat didn't have jobs to go to so could sleep it off during the day.

Friendly chats were had, but made absolutely no difference so every time my m8 went to work the crappiest happy hardcore cd you could ever hope to hear was put on repeat and turned wayyy up. This went on for 2 or 3 days until both parties agreed that all night benders would stop :D
 
I would have a friendly chat again explaining that you feel its unfair that the music seems to go down one day and its back to the same level the next. See if she suddenly changes her mind.

I had issues with noisey neighbours in my old flat. And from what you are saying I had the exact same problem. I would talk to them about the noise and for one day it would be fine. The next day back to loud music.


We had to keep a log of the sounds to which the council sent them a letter asking them to keep it down explaining that some complaints had been made.

In my case the problem didnt really go away just that the music level dropped and stopped at a reasonable time. This was still crap but lucky they sold their flat and moved on. After that peace was had.

I find people like that will try and push there lucky were possible. Just be friendly but firm and explaining that your not to happy with having to put up with it and will take further action if required.

If all fails ask her out and chain her in the kitchen when she moves in with you lol
 
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LOL, brilliant :D
 
gatzi said:
I live in a large old house converted into 2 flats. My neighbour has been playing loud music everyday for about 2 weeks now.

Starts about 11am every morning and stops anywhere between 11pm and 4am. Normally worse at the weekends. I'm at work so she can do all she wants in the day but it's the evenings which suck.

I have spoken to her and she apologises but then the very next day it happens again. All I hear all day/night is the thudding of her base.

What on earth is she doing?

Anyway, what can I do? Do I have any rights or can I complain to anyone?

I'm getting pushed so far I fear i might do somthing stupid...i wan't to cut off her electricity! Plan B is to wait till her music stops tonight between 4am-11am and turn my own music on full blast. Backstreet boys on repeat? :P
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Ah I feel for you. We've been in a very similar situation recently.

Is she renting?
Just complain to them like hell - don't let them get away with it.

Young guy moved in next door to us earlier this year.
He seemed to think it was ok to play drum & bass tracks from midday through to 3-4 o'clock in the morning whilst getting wasted in the garden.

We kept on knocking his door and complaining until he got fed up and moved on.

What sort of area do you live in? Do you have supportive neighbours?
 
Bash the ceiling / floor (depending on which of you has the ground floor flat) until they get the picture.

Thats what always happened in student halls !
 
At the start of this year we were shown a video about how we could have any music playing equipment taken away if we were playing it too loud and it caused a disturbance. Obviously that's a last resort but the Council are definitely willing to help. :)
 
Being a loud music player myself, (not in the early morning or late evenings usually for 25 mins in the afternoon) I've been asked a million ways to shut up, even though for 25 mins in the afternoon isnt unreasonable, the most popular is, please be quiet, works for one day only... then it is, talk to the homeowner, was my parents, that wasnt a good day o.O, then its if you dont stop we'll report you to the police, which is in your rights, and then some people start playing loud music aswell, at worse times, and that probably will work... but yeah, as far as I know, your totally within your rights to report to the police, which is the most effective anyways...
 
Knight_Of_Zero said:
Being a loud music player myself, (not in the early morning or late evenings usually for 25 mins in the afternoon) I've been asked a million ways to shut up, even though for 25 mins in the afternoon isnt unreasonable, the most popular is, please be quiet, works for one day only... then it is, talk to the homeowner, was my parents, that wasnt a good day o.O, then its if you dont stop we'll report you to the police, which is in your rights, and then some people start playing loud music aswell, at worse times, and that probably will work... but yeah, as far as I know, your totally within your rights to report to the police, which is the most effective anyways...
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Well put Sir!
 
When I moved to NZ I rented for a bit and had noisy neighbours who played music and had parties until 7am. People kept saying to me that I should call noise control but I never bothered as I assumed they would be just as useless as I had come to expect from living in the UK all my life. Weeks of taking noise logs, etc.

Turns out that when you call noise control here, someone goes round the same time that you call and they check it out. If they agree it is out of order the person is served with a noise notice then and there. If, within 48 hours, anyone calls noise control on them again the noise control people go round again and if they agree that the noise is of an unacceptable level the police go in with them and the speakers, hifi, etc are removed and the people have to pay to get them back the next day!

No idea why there is so much red tape back in the UK, but I don't miss it. When I lived in Southampton I just gave up on relying on the council :) I eventually called noise control one night at 2am. Within an hour the party had stopped after I heard noise control people going round! Winner.
 
If it's out of the weekend, and past 11pm then that's beyond the boundaries of playing loud music at acceptable times. It might be time to start making a log.

Then put it through her letter box lol no I kid...
 
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