Neighbour problems - loud noise, parties, shouting - all day every day

Deal_Chaser

Contct your local council ie Enviromental health & many also have specific Anti-Social Behaviour Teams which have vast experience in dealing with these types of incidents...ie mediation you could be surprised that this might work as often a 3rd party could highlight issues without getting too emotive tends to lead to tension.... They might not even realise the impact they are having .... there could be issues that they have with your living circs which you were unaware of... Both would normally request that you keep a detailed log of ALL incidents so they can assess the situ & ways forward. Last option before ie CT stage might be noise monitoring equip if deem it that serious & detrimental to health, however be better if ALL parties could reach an amicable solution without distress of ie legal sanctions..

80schild

Feel for you. We had neighbours like this when I was pregnant and had a young child also. I made complaints to the council and police (reporting their violent rows as suspected DV) this resulted in me getting threatened by the drunked couple when I was 6 months pregnant. I called the police and council again about this. The noise reduced a lot then low and behold about 6 months later they started being really friendly with us as if nothing happened.
I think part of this though was we had them scared as the man was not meant to be living there as she was claiming rent as a single person yet had this man and a wage earning daughter living with her!!!
I would still go to the council and keep a record of what goes on. If they make any threats get the police involved.
Really do feel for you. Even tho we have lovely neighbours now-everyone else on our street is vile. I get disgusting abuse shouted at me off drugged up losers in the street and we had our tyres cut for parking outside someone's house!
We are hopefully moving soon but losing 30k plus on the value but just need to get out!!

Ihatecameron

Does anyone have anything positive to say about the soundproofing, or is it really a load of rubbish?

Sound proofing will work but it costs a fortune to have it done properly as you need to create a gap between flooring etc. You could DIY by building a partition wall next to the existing wall in the bedroom and line it with egg trays, so at least you can get some sleep.

LittleMissInDebt

Just wanted to add some sympathy, I rented a house for a year (finishing July last year) and within two weeks realised what a mistake I made. The neighbours were so loud all of the time, I couldn't even let my little boy in the back garden because of the constant swearing... the weird thing is they were really nice to my face, and if I asked them to turn the noise down they'd agree... but NOT actually do it. I was pregnant too, and so very very unhappy, ended up moving out two months early and using my savings to rent somewhere else and was so lucky with my neighbours this time!

Anyway I'd try anything and everything if I was you, environmental health; keep a noise diary, try the sound proofing... anything that makes you feel like you're doing something and not just putting up.

I hope you get everything worked out - will keep my fingers crossed they decide to move quickly.

Tiddlywinks

I really feel for you...

How noisy were the previous neighbours really? Could you hear feet on stairs, TV etc? Have the renovations made their place more liable to produce echo etc - have they put down hard wood floors for instance?

They may not realise how noisy they are - no excuse, but they may not be trying to be annoying / uncaring - they may just be ignorant of the facts.

Could you rent out your place and then you rent somewhere else? If you rented to someone who had a lifestyle similar to the couple (;)) then they might not find the noise as much of an issue. Not too great for the neighbour on the other side though.

Could you borrow the shortfall on your place from family to allow you to sell and then you could go into rented for a while? Going now would be best as there is no official dispute ongoing. Yes, it is costly but you can't really put a price on peace and quiet can you?

Good luck and best wishes.

poppysarah

Just think when your baby will born it'll cry really loudly and drive them mad.
Although that might encourage them to be noisier.

Do they annoy anyone else or are you just the unlucky ones?

carefullycautious

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/5464859B-A35C-4892-BE1D-2C719C442029/0/HS_EH_Section82bookletforStatNuisance.pdf

Anyone can do this

Chopsie&Chelvis

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

I really feel for you...

How noisy were the previous neighbours really? Could you hear feet on stairs, TV etc? Have the renovations made their place more liable to produce echo etc - have they put down hard wood floors for instance?

They may not realise how noisy they are - no excuse, but they may not be trying to be annoying / uncaring - they may just be ignorant of the facts.

Could you rent out your place and then you rent somewhere else? If you rented to someone who had a lifestyle similar to the couple (;)) then they might not find the noise as much of an issue. Not too great for the neighbour on the other side though.

Could you borrow the shortfall on your place from family to allow you to sell and then you could go into rented for a while? Going now would be best as there is no official dispute ongoing. Yes, it is costly but you can't really put a price on peace and quiet can you?

Good luck and best wishes.

We used to be able to occasionally hear the previous people next door, but not regularly - they had a flaming row once or twice that we could hear a bit, and we could hear the man cheering when his team scored at football ... but it was all easily drowned out by the TV and never at an unreasonable time. I think these people shout rather than talk though, so we can hear every word. Both sets of neighbours had laminate floors, so we could hear them walking up the stairs, but the previous people didn't slam doors/yell etc and make an echoey din.

From looking on rightmove, renting it out would leave us a massive monthly shortfall that we couldn't cover, plus my husband just won't countenance leaving.

We're at a bit of a stalemate really - my insinct is 'get out whilst we still can and before anything gets official/it escalates', whereas he wants to fight it through soundproofing/enviro health etc, which I fear may not help and then we're screwed when we really need to get out.

Chopsie&Chelvis

poppysarah wrote: »

Do they annoy anyone else or are you just the unlucky ones?

We're going to try to speak to the other side of them, but they haven't been in so far today. They have annoyed other neighbours by shouting in the street late at night when leaving the property and dumping their building waste in a nearby alley/against other people's back gardens.

Ihatecameron

Chopsie&Chelvis wrote: »

We're going to try to speak to the other side of them, but they haven't been in so far today. They have annoyed other neighbours by shouting in the street late at night when leaving the property and dumping their building waste in a nearby alley/against other people's back gardens.

That is probably the best way to go, if you can drum up some support. Get the entire neighbourhood to rise up against them if you can.