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Kitty/Sharron

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What is your relationship like with them?

What are the other problems ?

what do you think they would say if you asked them to be a bit quiter?

Cant you move bedrooms to not be able to hear them

PS I,m a lady whos had problems for 14 years!!!!

It can be a sensitive issue, it happened to an ex neighbour who finally ended up
moving house. If you get on with your neighbours a quiet word in friendly way will hopefully work for you.

I know the feeling, but to be fair, I live in a terrace, I can hear next door going out early, the kids playing in the park behind all summer, everyone's cars, dogs and the building of a new school not far away ( 2 years of diggers, grinders, lorries etc ) ...the only answer, is to keep the windows closed or move. I find myself creeping around to be quiet, when I get up in the night, so I do know how difficult it is to be 'quiet'.

Our neighbours a few years ago really were a pain.............cello playing at 3am, fist fights between the three women were almost a daily occurrence. They regularly screamed at each other and smashed 6 windows in the first 4 weeks of living there.

I did actually stop the 3am cello playing by marching round the back in my nightie, opening their back door and saying loudly but politely......."Some of us have to get up for work in the mornings to keep the likes of you so please shut up!!"

The police were called on numerous occasions and took them away the day the youngest one was chasing the other two around the block with a knife............they never returned :-D :-D :-D

If the morning ritual is the only problem, then as others have said, a polite mention of it will probably do the trick.

The really important part, that you have all missed, is that it is a menopausal woman.

The man's life is in imminent danger if he doesn't start leaving quietly.

We have fruit pickers making a lot of noise very early in the back field and I think how lucky I am not to have to be joining them!

Jonesey the sensible one has spoken - gosh 7:20am is quite a normal time for people to be getting up and out. He is probably completely oblivious to the noise you perceive he is making. It can't last for more than a few minutes surely.

Wouldn't like to ask what time you get up but suggest you have a quiet word with him if you are really disturbed.

Don't really think you can do much about it :-)

Hi Shelley

On a similar note to Jonesey....

Have a word with them or one of them (whoever you feel would be more receptive)

Something on the lines of 'I hate to say...and I feel a right old nag, but...'

Put this way, you are putting the blame on yourself and therefor not apportioning 'blame' upon him

You might have been lucky to have had very quiet neighbours in the past. Gavin, may not be noisy, just noisier than your previous neighbours

Alternative....wear ear plugs!

I had to address a noise problem in my last house.....it was of a nocturnal type! My approach worked though

He quite possibly doesn't realise how much noise he makes, and maybe unaware that he is a noisy person who is waking up the neighbourhood.
Perhaps a mention in a light-hearted manner would do the trick.
Trouble is, when it's something that is really winding you up, it can be difficult to make light of a thing. But Try it.

Not sure about a Plan B, yet. :-S

OR can you sleep in the back room?.....If you have one, might save a squabble which you wouldn't want

The solution is simple. Talk to the man, politely and unemotionally and explain your circumstances. Having done so ask him if he would consider leaving home a little more quietly in the morning so as not to disturb your slumbers.

Be thankful that your noise problem is as small as it is, many people have to put up with much worse. You can hardly call 7:20am the middle of the night and it is not your neighbour who dictates that you must have your windows permanently open or that you are lucky enough not to have to rise until after he has left for work.

Perhaps chatting you could say something like "Oh your poor husband does start early we hear him every morning at 7.20" if they don't take the hint put a Big Notice on his garage door saying QUIET PLEASE :-D

Are they ok other than that? i.e. do you get on with them ok when you speak?

A chat over the garden fence as it were with the lady of the house? You could explain that you prefer not to wake up at 07:20 and could he be a bit quieter please??

We have a neighbour who goes out at 07:15. They don't go out of their way to be noisy but the car door being closed and the engine started does disturb us all the same.

Here's the thing,
15 months ago we had new neighbours in our close (cul de sac) they moved in with 2 kids and another on the way, the problem is the noise. The husband Gavin leaves for work each day at 7:20, how do we know, he slams the front door often shouting goodbye, then the garage door slams after he's taken his bicycle out! (we've no need to get up so early, so don't really appreciate this wake up call). The previous neighbours Mike and Ann were quiet, another neighbour commented that "she didn't think any of us were going to get much peace" Also Mike, before he left for work at 7:00 use to get their car out of the garage, and pop the car keys back in the house and we never heard a thing! We thought things would improve once they'd settled in,but not so, the only time I've manage to get a good night's sleep is when Gavin, wife and family go on holiday.
I'm getting desperate now, do I suggest he invests in an electric garage door/keep his cycle parked elsewhere/or superglue his garage locks?
Any advice how I can 'politely sort this problem?.
I should perhaps say I'm menopausal (you don't want to mess with a menopausal woman lol) so the windows are permanently open.

ShelleyRose. x