What do you think are acceptable times on the weekends?
Noisy neighbours - what to do about their music?
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What do you think are acceptable times on the weekends?
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No, none. We did in Glasgow, though. Our flat was next to a Polish social club and those guys and girls used to enjoy drinking and playing pretty loud music until about 4 or 5am every weekend. We called them and asked them to review their policy on loud music late at night/early morning. We didn't threaten; they agreed without us having to take it further.
I apologise if my earlier post was glib. It was supposed to be light-hearted but I do know that noise pollution can be an utter pain the rear end.
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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 councilI eventually called noise control one night at 2am. Within an hour the party had stopped after I heard noise control people going round! Winner.
I managed to miss this post. It's incredibly efficient here but we do have a much, much smaller population to deal with.
Yeah - we can all do that - but it doesn't solve anything.
In fact it probably just increases tensions.
Just knock your neighbours door and let them know you are p****d off with them.
At least (1) it lets them know you can hear their music and
(2) you aren't going to put up with it.
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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
Hell, there's even a "Cops" style TV show about those guys!
The AUS noise control folks have it down pat.
Had the same issue at uni with the flat above us.
Generally wasn't an issue but me and the flatmate were both seeing someone so having them round for an evening became a nightmare.
We tried to sort things out in a reasonable, grown up method but they were having none of it so we resorted to various childish, yet amusing, methods whihc ultimately resulted in victory as they gave in.
First off was playing music back stupidly loud when they were trying to sleep. We then moved onto, and this one still makes me laugh to this day, whenever one of them brought a lass home we would jump around banging on the ceiling screaming and shouting something along the lines of "go on nail her" etc etc the silence after a few seconds was deafening. Sure we ruined their sex lives
Next was the tried and tested stack stupid amounts of random stuff against their front door and whenever they left it crashed in and caused mayhem.
The winner came when they invited us into their house party as a peace offering well we took the two football teams we played for with us and our mates rugby team, drank all the booze in the house in about 15mins, ate all their food (even frozen stuff) and trashed the place then left horrible but revenge was oh so sweet.
Eventually such (admittedly childish) antics won through and they gave in when they realised we would be just as unreasonable as them if pushed.
Not that I am recomending such a course of action!
Generally wasn't an issue but me and the flatmate were both seeing someone so having them round for an evening became a nightmare.
We tried to sort things out in a reasonable, grown up method but they were having none of it so we resorted to various childish, yet amusing, methods whihc ultimately resulted in victory as they gave in.
First off was playing music back stupidly loud when they were trying to sleep. We then moved onto, and this one still makes me laugh to this day, whenever one of them brought a lass home we would jump around banging on the ceiling screaming and shouting something along the lines of "go on nail her" etc etc the silence after a few seconds was deafening. Sure we ruined their sex lives
Next was the tried and tested stack stupid amounts of random stuff against their front door and whenever they left it crashed in and caused mayhem. The winner came when they invited us into their house party as a peace offering well we took the two football teams we played for with us and our mates rugby team, drank all the booze in the house in about 15mins, ate all their food (even frozen stuff) and trashed the place then left
horrible but revenge was oh so sweet.Eventually such (admittedly childish
) antics won through and they gave in when they realised we would be just as unreasonable as them if pushed. Not that I am recomending such a course of action!
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The winner came when they invited us into their house party as a peace offering well we took the two football teams we played for with us and our mates rugby team, drank all the booze in the house in about 15mins, ate all their food (even frozen stuff) and trashed the place then left
In Uni situations, that's the winner.