Noisy neighbours or am I being unreasonable?

Sirbendy

Fair point. Our walls do a fair job of usually seperating the sound into zones...if they're audible in the living room, the bedroom is silent. It's only loud laughter/raised voices we can hear. Oh, and sex. That is utterly hysterical...she's a noisy girl - woke us both up at midnight a few weeks back, and all we could do was laugh and put our heads under the pillow! :rotfl:

I daresay we give as good as we get, we certainly aim to.

laurz121

Sirbendy wrote: »

Fair point. Our walls do a fair job of usually seperating the sound into zones...if they're audible in the living room, the bedroom is silent. It's only loud laughter/raised voices we can hear. Oh, and sex. That is utterly hysterical...she's a noisy girl - woke us both up at midnight a few weeks back, and all we could do was laugh and put our heads under the pillow! :rotfl:

I daresay we give as good as we get, we certainly aim to.

Sorry i'll try to keep the noise down in future :rotfl:

Fire_Fox

kiwigirl wrote: »

Other neighbour of theirs shouts at them to be quiet regularly.

They can't hear anything from the 2 neighbours only if they're quiet someone using stairs.

The other neighbour is a lone female so the middle family won't hear her talking very often! You refer to 'I' a lot so I am wondering if you live alone too? If so ditto the above. You also won't open and close as many doors, or move as much furniture ...

kiwigirl wrote: »

No fire doors - commented when I bought the place that they didn't have the chains as the property I was renting at time did.

Others have been here when they've been noisy actually commented on the sound level. Across road have 5 terraced houses and no one complains about the noise levels. One has 6 people living there, 4 kids. Other has family of 4 and large dog.

This proves there is a noise problem - which nobody has disputed anyway - but it doesn't prove that this family are creating excessive noise. You cannot compare another terrace to yours, you don't know that they are constructed or have been converted the same as yours. Improperly blocked off chimney breasts, for example, can cause noise to carry particularly badly. Are you actually suggesting they are slamming doors on purpose? :eek: Cos without automatic closures that's what they would have to do!

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Hi,

kiwigirl wrote: »

I live on the end of 3, 3 floored town house, I moved in last June and next door was empty til approx September.

seems as though you were just not used to the noise.

naijapower

You really need to seek advise from environmental health. They are quite helpful and would tell you what they can do and cannot do

Pssst

poppet wrote: »

I tend to agree with this - from what you have said, your neighbours are not making unneccessary noise, you havnt mentioned loud music, late night parties, screaming kids, barking dogs - the nosie they are creating appears to be from normal everyday living, opening and closing doors, talking, getting up and down from the table...except for the 8am drilling which does seem a bit early to me.

So one can only presume that the walls in your houses are extreamly thin and not sound-proofed very well.

As Scotti on the Starship Enterprise says.."yae cannae beat the laws of physics capn.." and so it is that whilst one structure is physically connected to another,there will always be noise transmission. The only way to truly kill it is to live in a physically isolated i.e detached property. even then there could be transmission via air. In flat pack Britian ,there isnt much chance of the majority of us living in detached properties.

Instead,the house builders fob us off with new,system built properties that are cheap to build but conversely,are expensive to buy.

How much would it really cost to new build an extra gable end wall to make two new semis into two new detached? Even if there was only 2ft between them,the noise transmission would be dramatically attenuated but no,they fob us off with cheap,communal cardboard boxes and WE buy them and slave our lives to pay for them.

bethsdad

3 step solution to noisy neighbours:

1. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tweenies-Christmas/dp/B00005RFHD

2. Insert into CD player, put speakers against wall, press "repeat".

3. Go on holiday for two weeks.

jaygrunt

ic wrote: »

Have you spoken to them? As for parking in front of your property on a public road, as long as they're not blocking your access to a drive, then there is nothing wrong with this..

I read somewherew on this site that it is NOT illegal to park in front of someones driveway.
This is just a myth that is not legally enforceable.
You can park in front of peoples driveways,its just not very nice to do so,especially if they are your neighbours

bethsdad

We had someone parked in front of our garage for a week. We phoned the police, and when we got home that night the car was parked on the other side of the street!

matimage

We, unfortunatly are going through something similar right now.
One neighbour keeps accusing our dog of waking him up. Now he does bark, but we get him straight in, and its never early morning or late night. There are only 8 houses down our road and 4 have dogs, all fairly gobby.
However, he is a very agressive, intimidating man and he has threatened me twice. He thinks nothing of reversing his van up the road onto the drive very near our window at 2 in the morning waking us up. I am not saying that excuses my dog but he cannot seem to realise that noise is an element of living in this country.
Its got to a point now that the police are coming round in an hour to have a chat because we don't feel safe in our house now.
Its a sad situation.
I also have to add my neighbour on the other side has no problem at all and rarely hears my dog. We also had an attempted burglary 3 weeks ago which was stopped by my dogs barking. I am now rather reluctant to ever stop him barking as he really did save the day...