Does the noise from your neighbours annoy you?

[Frances Lengel]

Nah, you can hear people come and go in this block but nobody takes the piss. There's the occasional bit of shouting etc but nothing that'd bother anyone.

I felt bad for the neighbours below me in the old place though(an African couple with a young kid) - It was a block of four, like a semi detached house but four flats. Anyway, I was getting a fair bit of hassle at the time - Windows going in every night, door getting booted etc & I got battered on the doorstep one night. They'd have been able to hear all this going on which can't have been at all pleasant for them. There wasn't much I could do about it & I didn't enjoy it much myself, but I did feel sorry for them coz it was nothing to do with them but it was still affecting their quality of life. Mind you, they ended up getting a move so all's well that ends well I suppose.

 

[Part 2]

Our adjoining neighbours are ace. We're probably noisier than them.

The other fella has a petrol hedge cutter (Ive posted before about it in the pissed off thread). I really don't get what he does with it. Me, I cut the hedges twice a year, they're long and quite high. I strip them back to the twigs, so it's as long as possible to the next cut.

On his side I can only imagine he has something like Mount Rushmore, (with the faces of his golden children who he's previously compared to mine). Anyway he'll be out first thing doing it then back out for sometimes, 5, 10, 20 minutes throughout the day and even in the rain. I can only imagine he must sit inside looking at it thinking "oh I missed a bit". I've a feeling his proper mental tbh, just waiting for him to do something off the scale.

 

[MrSki]

Our adjoining neighbours are ace. We're probably noisier than them.

The other fella has a petrol hedge cutter (Ive posted before about it in the pissed off thread). I really don't get what he does with it. Me, I cut the hedges twice a year, they're long and quite high. I strip them back to the twigs, so it's as long as possible to the next cut.

On his side I can only imagine he has something like Mount Rushmore, (with the faces of his golden children who he's previously compared to mine). Anyway he'll be out first thing doing it then back out for sometimes, 5, 10, 20 minutes throughout the day and even in the rain. I can only imagine he must sit inside looking at it thinking "oh I missed a bit". I've a feeling his proper mental tbh, just waiting for him to do something off the scale.

Petrol hedge cutter!!!

I work daily with one of these & expect he just gets a buzz out of starting it up. They are quite heavy so you might need a rest whilst deciding which bit of his hedge to butcher. Power tools & men do not mix too well.

 

[Part 2]

I think he has a noise in his head that he's using it to drown out.

He's a big fella, ex marine and current fireman but you might have a point about the weight as I think his health hasn't been so good over the past few years.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Using petrol driven lawnmowers/hedgecutters etc in a normal sized suburban type garden is truly the mark of a wanker.

 

[Part 2]

He also has a lawnmower that wouldn't sound out of place at a Harley Davidson rally.

 

[kittyP]

When I was about 13, me and my sister were sledging down the stairs in the middle of the day on a Saturday while my parents were out.

The guy who lived next door came round screaming through the letterbox. Hammering on the door.
We ran and hid and so he ran round the back of the house trying to jump over the back wall.
We were properly terrified and screaming.

We were never normally loud or anything.
When my mum got home she saw what a state we were in and it's the second only time I have ever seen her properly cross.
She went round and was still kind of polite but saying "I have told my daughters that if that happens again they are to call the police".
He broke down crying and said he was working nights but his wife had died (which we knew about) and he hadn't slept properly in months.
I felt bad but it didn't excuse terrifying young girls.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

my alchoholic glasweigian nieghbour combines bursts of extremely noisy music with drunken singing along - usually the same 3 of 4 tracks - (tom jones, status quo, simple minds and some other dire shite which i think might be andy williams) sometimes the same track repeated three times on the trot.
He will then turn the music down to shout abuse at us through the window and bang on the wall - english cunt, southern wanker, fucking wanker, fenian cunt (my partner is Irish - he's a rangers fan) etc.

He keeps this up for three hours at a time until he passes out - usaully at least once a week (including Christmas day).

"annoying" doesn't really do it justice. Hes like a cross between rab c nesbit and adolf hitler. He also constantly films our comings and goings and complains to the council about anything and everything. Me and the mrs are musicians - but we never play music in the house any more cos he will start blasting his music out.

The twat even kicked off about making a noise when we were standing outside the front door to watch the fire works on new years eve (the sad cunt was in on his own).

Hes been nicked 4 times in the past 6 months for kicking off with us and other neighbours. Last time - (a week ago) he was threatening the cops with a kicking as they tried to put him in the van. I am usually utterly opposed to the cops having pepper spray and tazers - but on this occasion i was fucking praying for them to give him the works.

Hes up in court in November for an eviction hearing so hopefully we will be rid of the nasty shit bag for xmas.

Jesus, that sounds horrific. I hope you get rid of him in a couple of months time.

 

[marty21]

We are lucky, downstairs neighbour works away a lot , but is quiet mostly, can hear music or tv sometimes but it doesn't bother me. Next door used to be an old couple, used to hear her yelling at him sometimes but generally they were quiet.Now a family have moved in, kids are very young apart from their son/step son who is in his 20s but doesn't cause problems. Other side has lived there for years, usually on her own, but does have mates and family staying, she wants to sell do noise will depend on whether or not it is converted into flats I guess

 

[maomao]

They're mostly harmless except they have rather loud family gatherings that go on past my bedtime. Wouldn't be so bad if they didn't stand outside the house talking loudly for ages while they're all getting in their cars. But their garden light really pisses me off. It floods our garden too so if I go out there in the evening it's lit up like a football stadium and they're never actually out there.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Jesus, that sounds horrific. I hope you get rid of him in a couple of months time.

Yeah - its not fun. ~However if the scots vote for independence, it maybe opens up the possibility of the cunt being deported.

 

[DotCommunist]

have you thought about just banging him out

 

[marty21]

part of my job is dealing with noisy neighbours so I am quite good at speaking to folk who are noisy

 

[Crispy]

A teenager from the house over the road has recently bought a 75cc moped and has taken to running it ragged round and round and round and round the block all evening. Ehhhhhhhhhnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggg.

Other than that, can't really complain.

 

[Roadkill]

I've only been in the house a few days and barely heard the neighbours on either side so far.

At my last house my neighbour on one side had quite a loud, insistent voice and she always seemed to be on the phone, usually whingeing about something and/or relating what someone had said to someone else whilst pissed the night before. There was nothing I could reasonably be irritated by, but I did end up thinking, 'FFS, change the subject or shut up!' on a few occasions.

Could be worse, though. A few years ago in London I went round to see my former downstairs neighbours a few weeks after I'd moved out. 'I always hated your taste in music,' one of them said. 'I can't stand Bob Dylan. But at least you didn't speak in tongues on a Sunday morning!'

 

[Chz]

There's a shrill harpy of a woman next door whose voice appears to only do off and LOUD. She usually uses said voice to scream and swear at her young children. It's not so much the noise that irritates me, just what she's doing to those poor kids.

 

[mr steev]

I've no problem with my direct neighbours, but next door but one and the house next to that are a different matter. I think I've probably mentioned it on here before. A few years ago the bloke who owns the houses and used to live there used to beat up his wife. It was common knowledge, police called on several occasions and my next door neighbours helped her get help and she left him. He left and now holds a grudge against the street and particularly my next door neighbours so rents the houses out to the most difficult people he can find. At the moment he rents the houses to one family - 11 kids, 10 different dads (one set of twins) a pregnant 15 year old and several pit bulls/staffies (they've had a few dogs took off them and apparently are involved in dog fighting)

The kids are proper feral and abusive. If the dogs aren't out barking and crying the kids are out doing the same. I've no problem with kids making noise but they are on a different level. Most of the time you can't tell if one or more of them is getting really hurt. If there mum's bloke is out there 'playing' with them he has half a dozen on a trampoline practicing fighting, shouting and swearing. My neighbours won't let their kids out on the garden when they're out as they just get abuse... I've had to have a go at them more than once after they've been threatening my daughter (she's only 5 FFS). Police and social services have been involved but nothing seems to happen. The mum has links with hells angels (two of the kids dads were bikers and have been murdered) and thinks she's untouchable.

So yeah, the noise from my neighbours annoys me quite often

 

[rubbershoes]

no

 

[mr steev]

There's a shrill harpy of a woman next door whose voice appears to only do off and LOUD. She usually uses said voice to scream and swear at her young children. It's not so much the noise that irritates me, just what she's doing to those poor kids.

I hear 'GET IN THE FUCKING HOUSE NOW!' many times a day (I even hear it when I'm sat inside!) Not sure whether it's always directed at the kids or the dogs. It's hard to tell

 

[cyberfairy]

In an anecdote that would not be liked by the Daily Mail, I have a nice Traveller family opposite me but an utterly barking middle-class woman who is utterly obsessive about dog shit as well to the point she screams the word 'shit' in front of my three year old all the time when accusing people and puts big placards up saying 'Do Not leave Your Shit Here- Think Of The Kids'. I was tempted to say 'I would prefer my child to step in some poo than get chucked out of nursery for his vile language thanks to you', but did not. I do not like dog shit either, no-one does but she is obsessive about it and I stood up for next door when she accused them because they had a dog. She does not accost the scary guy with the pit bull- even though I told her it was them. Just for fun.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Yeah - its not fun. ~However if the scots vote for independence, it maybe opens up the possibility of the cunt being deported.

You might have a point. If Scotland is no longer a member of the EU, then there is no automatic right for it's citizens to reside in England, so fingers crossed!

 

[Kaka Tim]

have you thought about just banging him out

oh ... pretty much every other waking hour. And he has offered me out on many occasions (usually prior to falling over pissed).

But giving him a kicking would still leave him in the house and might undermine the whole eviction process. Besides, hes not in the best of health and if i smacked him one the cunt would probably have a fatal heart attack just to have the last laugh.

 

[Kaka Tim]

BTW - i have a pretty comprehensive collection of video footage of him kicking off - I'll do a you tube compilation of his greatest hits when its all over. Set to the theme tune to 'neighbours'.

 

[el-ahrairah]

my colleague was phoning a tenant earlier today, to tell him that there had been complaints about the noise from his flat. it didnt go very well as the tenant couldn't hear what he was saying over the sound of the music.

 

[Roadkill]

Come to think of it, I've been an annoying neighbour. I have a habit of singing a bit whilst doing the washing up and ambling round the house. Not long after I moved into my last house, I came out just as my next-door neighbour was getting into her car. 'You do have a lovely voice,' she said, looking me up and down, 'and I really love some of those songs I hear you singing.'

I kept the volume down after that.

 

[8115]

After reading these accounts, I'm starting to be very worried by the plausible idea that as my neighbours are and have always been quiet and lovely, I'm the mental neighbour

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I thought my upstairs neighbours were annoying but having read some of the stories on here, I honestly have nothing to worry about.... They are just a bit young and exuberant at weekends and have mainly stopped now we've had a word a couple of times.

 

[Espresso]

My neighbour on one side plays the piano and her husband plays the trumpet. Apparently they do this in the house. I only know this because she's asked a few times if they'd disturbed me the previous evening, practising for a concert. Can't say I've ever heard a peep from them.
I suppose I sit in my front room which is separated from their house by my hall and their hall and for all I know they play this music in the back bedroom or the loft.

The family on the other side seem to live in the kitchen and their windows and back door always seem to be open. Any time I am in my kitchen, I usually hear them. It's sometimes the kids playing in the garden or the radio in the kitchen, or the sound of the telly. But often it's the Mum and Dad screaming abuse at each other and the kids crying their eyes out. It sounds awful. When I was making my tea last night I heard the oft repeated refrain that she's known for years that he's a bastard bumboy and he doesn't know why he married her because the whole town knows she's a fucking whore.
Neither of them seems perturbed enough about either of these two things to leave the other one, as far as I can see; they just screech about it from time to time.
That must be nice for the kids to hear.

 

[scifisam]

I voted "potato" because almost every day and night the noise here is fine. I mean there is noise - we live near to a main road, but the bedrooms are away from it; it's noise you can tune and and not be affected by. My estate is very small and most of the residents are very old. There is practically no noise from the people who live here.

But every so often there will be a house party nearby and it will just go on and on and ON. And on. And it will always be the privately-owned homes that cause the noise. They think this is a cool area where they can have parties, and ignore the homes in front of them.

 

[scifisam]

My neighbour on one side plays the piano and her husband plays the trumpet. Apparently they do this in the house. I only know this because she's asked a few times if they'd disturbed me the previous evening, practising for a concert. Can't say I've ever heard a peep from them.
I suppose I sit in my front room which is separated from their house by my hall and their hall and for all I know they play this music in the back bedroom or the loft.

The family on the other side seem to live in the kitchen and their windows and back door always seem to be open. Any time I am in my kitchen, I usually hear them. It's sometimes the kids playing in the garden or the radio in the kitchen, or the sound of the telly. But often it's the Mum and Dad screaming abuse at each other and the kids crying their eyes out. It sounds awful. When I was making my tea last night I heard the oft repeated refrain that she's known for years that he's a bastard bumboy and he doesn't know why he married her because the whole town knows she's a fucking whore.
Neither of them seems perturbed enough about either of these two things to leave the other one, as far as I can see; they just screech about it from time to time.
That must be nice for the kids to hear.

Are the kids definitely there when they have those arguments? Sounds like it. Poor kids.