What time would you knock on....

Threebabes

What a nightmare. I have 3 kids, my DS (15) room is next door to his sisters and also our neighbours baby is in the room next to him. From 8pm he has headphones for his tv. You have to have some consideration for your neighbours.

schumie

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they probably don't realise how it's carrying to your house. Give them a knock and say 'Sorry to trouble you and I'm sure you haven't realised, but your music is shaking the pictures on my walls. You probably think I'm exaggerating, but would you pop round and listen so you realise what it's like.'

Thats what i did. In my first house (a cluster house) the neighbour was so loud i honestly used to dread going home at night due to his music. I used to ask him to turn it down etc and asked him to come in and listen to it in my house and he always refused.

I was at the end of my tether and wanted to move it was that bad. I had taken a parcel in for him one day and he came round to collect it and said thats funny you're listening to the same cd as me. I had great pleasure in telling him that i wasn't and that was his music coming through the wall. I could tell that he had no idea of just how loud it was in my house (despite me asking him to come in and listen) and after that i never heard another peep of music out of him.

Giraffe5021

If they seem like reasonable people (as you said they seemed when hubby spoke to them) wiat til they turn the music on then just knock on door and really politely ask one of them for some help. Invite them in - if its not entirely obvious point out loud music sound is keeping kids awake and can you come to some agmt about it.
No threats, just a civilised conversation.

That said a friend of mine lived in terraced street, had young kids, then neighbours let house to students who did the whole loud music thing til early hours. Im not suggesting its big or clever but he knocked on door with a baseballl bat in his hand......strangely enough no problems after that. Wouldnt have been my approach and i guess what he did was illegal but maybe if you been kept up night after night with young kids crying cos they cant sleep you do tend to lose the power of logical thought and do what is necessary!!!

Deep_In_Debt

My neighbours used to blast music out, loud and late during the week...which bothered me as I get up early for work in the morning, so I'd ask them to turn it down at 11pm. However, Friday and Saturday nights don't bother me too much as I don't have to get up so early or could have a nap in at some point in the day.

They are not so bad now during the week. They are teenagers and their dad works away from Monday to Thursday so it was always on a week day night that they blasted the music and at the weekends when dad is home it's silent!

jojo_2012_2

I think it's unreasonable to have music that's LOUDER than the TV at any time of the day or night unless you've pre-warned your neighbours of some special party!

I think it's reasonable to POLITELY ask neighbours to turn the music down as soon as your children want to go to bed on a weeknight, but at the weekend I would think around 10pm is my limit.

I think you will find most people quite willing to agree with their neighbours, the longer you leave it the angrier you'll get.

jojo_2012_2

also, a young couple might not realise what time your kids go to bed, they would probably appreciate it if you tell them for future reference they probably don't want to upset you.

IHD

I had similar problems last year with loud music. Do you want the good news or the bad first ? If you are a housing assoc tenant you can complain to them. Ours had the view that any music that was causing a nuisance at any time of the day or night was too loud. However if you own your own house 11pm is the cut off time. you can then ask the police to call and ask them to turn it down ,or approach them yourselves. But im pretty sure 11pm is the cut off time for home-owners sorry!

Bexm

Hi!

Just wanted to add something here, maybe just as a warning as I don't want you to go through what we did in our last house!

We were the new people on the street.. we'd just bought our first house! The neighbours seemed nice enough, came to our house warming gave us a few bits that we needed and always said hello!.

Anyway, after about a month of living there it was about 10pm and their music went on ridiculously loud, we didn't have any kids but it was a week night and we needed to sleep.. we left it til 10:30 and went and knocked.. we really had to knock loud for them to hear as it was that loud! Next thing we know they are hanging out the bedroom window! I asked them (nicely) to turn it down abit, which they did and I thought all was fine!

5 mins later there was a hammering on our front door.. and it was the bloke from next door.. apparently the music "had been helping them sleep" :rotfl: so we know what they were doing..
Anyway... he went mental.. yelling at us that we had no right asking them to turn their music down, it was a free country and we were new and had no friends and started calling us names! It was horrendous!
Once they had gone I was in tears.. and vowed to phone the estate agent to put the house back on the market the following morning! (but hubby talked me out of it)

For about 2 years our life was hell! Music was on at all hours and we were too scared to ask them to turn it down and dreaded coming back to the house! Every time they saw us (our front doors were next to each other) they glared at us!

Then one night my husband met the bloke next door in the pub and he was rat arsed and came running up to my hubby and hugged him and said sorry!! ?????

At this time our house was already on the market tho.. and we were off!

This may have just been because of the timing, but I'd highly recommend, if the music is on, let them keep it on! And go see them the following morning....

Also bear in mind, if you do decided you have to report it to the authorities, you will have to declare it when you sel the house! (which is why we never did!)

Bex

chatnoir

I knocked on my neighbours door last tuesday at 1pm! it started at 9am and I had enough. I could hear every beat and word of the music....becoming a regular occurance know and I was off sick and trying to sleep. Sad thing is its a 30+ year old women who lives there with 2 small children and a teenager! Usually it is the mum, but last week it was the teenager...not sure why she was not at school but thats a whole other issue!!!
I would knock as soon as you have has enough of the noise there really is no need to play music that loud ALL the time. If it were a one off for a party then yes wait till midnight.