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GOT THEIR TELLY BLARING NOW. I'VE HAD SOUND RECORDING IN FOR NEARLY THREE WEEKS, BUT THE FRIGGIN MACHINE ISN'T WORKING PROPERLY. IT'S DUE TO BE COLLECTED TOMORROW, BUT I TOLD THEM WHEN THEY FITTED IT THAT I THOUGHT THEY WERE IN THE KNOW AS THE LAST TIME IT WAS DUE TO BE FITTED, THEY SHUT UP. IT COULDN'T BE DONE AS I WAS IN HOSPITAL.

WHAT ELSE CAN I DO COS THE POLICE WON'T GET INVOLVED.

Start drilling or hammering until they get the message!!

Alternatively, play very loud music at 2 in the morning.

Presumebly, though, you have tried the rational route as you sound very p**sed off.

They wanted a meet on their terms, but I said no. The council got involved when they shouldn't have as they had bought their house, but he thinks he's bought the whole street. He jumped down my throat one night when I was at my gate, and when I called the police to report it, I had to wait days for them to come, but when my daughter told him to back off, he reported that and they came right away. I can't win whatever I do.
They don't get much noise from me as I'm here on my own.

Do little noises -now and again -just enough to be annoying for a while and then stop. Then do it again - sometimes a little noise can be just as annoying as a loud one. (like a tap dripping).

Rub down a piece of skirting board so it sounds like mice or rats and then go and ask them if they have heard the rat -lol bet they will turn the sound down trying to listen to where it is!

Good luck.

Don't speak to them. He was in the army apparently and I'm sure he still thinks he is.

I must admit it is tempting to make louder noises (I know I would be) but you dont really want to aggrevate the situation as these things can get really out of hand and it may endanger your property and yourself & family.

Dont dismiss the council for support they have an obligation to cut out noise nuisance and could be a good middleman between you and your neighbour to resolve the issue.

Take a step back, count to ten (or 20 if needed) and go about things calmly and logically. The more you rise to the problem the worse your neighbours may become.

Best of Luck

I'm now watching the opposite side to them, and just gonna keep it going til 10pm when the council said the noise is allowed to go on til.

Just as a thought Vods, instead of trying to compete have you considered, earplugs or headphones for your TV, PC, music?

If you can cut out the racket from the neighbours you may not feel as wound up by the whole affair and eventually your neighbours may reduce their noise.

I know you may feel that they are winning but its for peace of mind.

My daughter wears her earphones all the time for her Ipod- she says it cuts out the nagging!! Teenagers!!

I use subtitles, but I don't have my telly loud anyway, as it would drive me mad.

They don't help with the depression and I wish I could sell up and move.
Thanks for listening

Yesterday morning we were woken by banging from next door. I came downstairs to find a note through the door to say they are knocking down an inside wall.
They started again at 8am this morning.

I don't think we'd ever do that to anyone on a Sunday morning but then their kids have woken us by playing outside before 8am on summer mornings.

Their son is teaching himself the guitar everyday.......oh joy!

I think I may need to get our younger daughter to come back home and do some saxophone practice.

You have my sympathies.

Sue

hi Vods use subtittles then put ear plugs in and TURN UP YOUR VOLUME. nite glad you are on the boards. xxxx

Council and police say your neighbour is supposed to advise you if they are having any work done that will be noisy and affect you.

Moved here to get away from a nutter who lived below me in a private rent house, and that council said they couldn't do anything as it was a private house, but they didn't tell me I could involved the asbo team.

Vods, I am sorry to hear this is making you depressed. I wish I could do something to help. Good neighbours are hard to come by.

I have lived next to my present neighbours for 18 years (we are semi detached) and I have to say, I think we are the noisy ones. I have had 4 children in that time now grown to 3 teens and one 9 year old. I have shouted at them and me & OH have shouted at each other, there has been music blaring out from every floor, TV's on with music, cartoons etc. Kids running around all over the show. Friends joining in and various DIY projects going on including a loft conversion some 3 years ago. During all that time my neighbours have never once said we are too noisy, but I can hear them if they hammer a nail in the wall, so God only knows what we sound like!!

We try to be as considerate as we can. I have always asked the kids to turn their music down after 9 oclock as the man next door gets up at 5:30 for work and we also turn our TV down. DIY projects are always mentioned to the neighbours as are teenage parties when I am away on hols!!!!!

It doesnt take much to be considerate and in return our neighbours have always been very understanding of our large, noisy family!

So please everyone out there consider your neighbours at all times, your usual living might be sombody elses nuisance noise!!

Thanks everyone

Hope you all get a good sleep. I have my grsons coming early so need to try to sleep, but I'm that wound up

When I bought this house it had been privately rented, and one of the previous tenants told me about the noise they had from them.

So Steve, it isn't me being paranoid.

Would love to do something like that, but am waiting the results of the recording equipment.

Yead Shelly they do have a young kid who they would use a baby intercom for.
Didn't think about that. Are they that powerful though?

I'll remember that in future Shelly and use the phone in the hall, kitchen or bedroom.

Well, they won't need to turn it off on my account, unless I still snore as bad as I did when I smoked lol

nite nite

Vicky - I feel for you. I'm generally alone, and don't usually make much noise - so the neighbours (2 teenage children) didn't realise how much of their noise traveled. When daughter stayed here, she used to go into her room and play music very loudly - which must have given them some idea!!
I was doing a lot of hammering today, (between 11am and 5pm and the cheeky wotsits were hammering back. Fair play you may say - but their son plays the drums and the electric guitar, and I have been off work ill and had to put up with it. I also have it noted that, when they first moved in, they were laying stair carpet at 4 am!!! I know because their stairs are next to my bedroom!! they also seem unable to close their front door without slamming it!

Hi Vicky, hope you got some sleep, love, ready to have fun with the boys today. Hope your pain is less today too.

I hate noisy neighbours - the people next door here are so stupid, the girlfriend tries to teach the dog to howl as if he is singing, and the bloke's father comes round when the bloke is at work, to see to the dogs,and he can't walk in from the front door without slamming every door through to the back behind him. Then the chap who lives there revs his Discovery truck every morning at 5.30am and as he parks it under the bedroom window, we get all the fumes up and often he starts it up and leaves the engine running for up to 10 mins while he is getting ready for work.

At my own house, I used to have a couple of doctors, gps, there who would play loud classical music all the time till I went round and told them how much it echoed, they had wooden floors in the room where they had the stereo and it seemed to make it echo so much. They moved away and there is just a single middleaged physiotherapist there now, but she has an ocd problem with checking the door is locked so before she goes out I used to hear her trying the back door handle fifteen or twenty times, I used to shout out, It's locked now Ruth to her lol
The people who bought the house on the other side where our staircases are next to each other, took up the carpet on the modern open plan staircase so you hear everytime anyone runs upstairs, so noisy. As I am not living there at the mo, I am not bothered and house is up for sale again anyway but when I get back there will hope I get some quieter people in there. It's a hall entrance terrace but with the back gates in an alleyway so no passages between the houses, keeps them warm but not much privacy.

Lizx