In tears!

kj*daisy

Hoovering at 8pm is not unreasonable at all, don't apologise, but do try and chill out as they don't sound worth getting stressed over. I'd have just said "I'm hoovering up the mess, then I'll stop, I'll be 10 minutes" (or whatever).

January20

azzabazza wrote: »

Rush, Joe Bonamassa and Bruce Springstein at 9.00 pm. I just grin and bear it so long as it finishes before I go to bed. One of the downsides of being a mid-terrace. I think that is why I was so hurt when she came through tonight.

I had a run in with a new neighbour a few weeks ago. Since moving in they had been complaining about all kind of things in the block. Talking to them was so depressing. Then there was a catalyst incident, and I lost my temper and told them a few home truths and how they were particularly noisy too. I don't think they realised! Been very quiet since.

What I'm trying to say is that sometimes people don't realise that their actions are bothering others. Perhaps you should talk to your neighbours about the music and make them realise they are not perfect. Just don't do what I did and wait until you can't bear it anymore and blow a gasket :rotfl:

azzabazza

January20 wrote: »

I had a run in with a new neighbour a few weeks ago. Since moving in they had been complaining about all kind of things in the block. Talking to them was so depressing. Then there was a catalyst incident, and I lost my temper and told them a few home truths and how they were particularly noisy too. I don't think they realised! Been very quiet since.

What I'm trying to say is that sometimes people don't realise that their actions are bothering others. Perhaps you should talk to your neighbours about the music and make them realise they are not perfect. Just don't do what I did and wait until you can't bear it anymore and blow a gasket :rotfl:

Thanks January

I am actually quite tolerant up until the 10,00 pm deadline. I know my son played loud music when he was in his teens (15 years ago). I just think that some fairly quiet background noise (such as a hoover) before the 8.00 watershed can be tolerated. Yes. I maybe should have used my dustpan and brush. And yes, there is some lad/girl playing their drums in the vicinity quite a lot but finish playing early evening - I don't have a problem.

I have mentioned to my neighbour in the past that I liked the new album he was playing! His reaction - was it that loud!

Tired and grumpy going to bed!

azzabazza

January20 wrote: »

I didn't mean you were inconsiderate. I meant some of my neighbours have been. Oooops! sorry.

I think the answer to your question is that you are tired, you have an untidy home due to the work and it's bugging you (would bug me) and I think the neighbours are probably feeling equally tired. A recipe for disaster, isn't it?

Yes January, you are right!!!

January20

Have a good night's sleep azzabazza!

Of, and fyi, I LOVE it when people say I'm right

Wickedkitten

azzabazza wrote: »

Rush, Joe Bonamassa and Bruce Springstein at 9.00 pm. I just grin and bear it so long as it finishes before I go to bed. One of the downsides of being a mid-terrace. I think that is why I was so hurt when she came through tonight.

At least your man has pretty decent music taste. When we last rented, we had a lass upstairs who was forever breaking up and getting back together with her boyfriend and she would always play the same bloody Basshunter song at levels high enough to hear over headphones in our flat. It didn't help either that she had laminate flooring so the sound travelled.

One day I had finally had enough of her, the boyfriend, and Basshunter so I put Barbie Girl on a loop and turned the volume just high enough that she could hear it upstairs and went out for the day.

Never heard the bloody song again :rotfl:

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

azzabazza wrote: »

They are both out at work all day and I had already mentioned that work was being done (but not at weekend).

Hoovering I don't think is classed as great noise. And I don't usually hoover in the evening.

Having lived in a flat where my neighbour's living room was right next to my bedroom and she had laminate floors, I have to tell you that, following day after day of home renovations, the rumbling sounds, bangs, clatters and absolute racket of her vaccuum cleaner on top of everything else, really was adding insult to injury.

I never said anything to her, trying to be understanding, etc, but In reality I was wishing for an electrical fault to strike her and her vaccuum cleaner down.

Seriously, it's a horrible sound. Especially after hours of tools, scraping, drillIng, painting, shouting, hammering and everything else involved.

coolcait

Like the others, I think that tiredness on both sides is partly the reason for you both being upset.

however, I have to say that the sound of a hoover on bare floorboards is completely different to the sound of a hoover on carpet.

The noise seems to be amplified a thousandfold! And it reverberates too...

My OH helped one of our former neighbours with some renovation work years ago. When he came back home, he got the whole "What the hell were you doing?!" interrogation

It turned out that hoovering the floorboards was far far noisier than sanding them. And, of course, happened much later. It actually sounded as if they were rolling a thousand barrels down a narrow, echoing, cobbled street, and all the barrels wre banging off every wall on the way down...

So, I think you may be underestimating the amount of disturbance that it might have caused to your neighbours. :eek:

It's unlikely to have been just "a slight drone in the background" - like you get with hoovering a carpet.

grannybroon

Oh dear. Your are rather tired. However, informing neighbours of work being done, they are out all day and hoovering before 8.00 pm - a slight over-reaction.

I get the impression you have been a very good neighbour and found this reaction slightly over the top. Sleep on it and you will feel better tomorrow. You sound a nice person who wouldn't look for conflict. Your suggestion of wine an nibbles a good idea. xx

azzabazza

I only hoovered between 7.30-8.00 pm and then stopped. Yes, I was tired, yes I was grumpy and yes I didn't want to face too much mess tomorrow morning. Sorry.

I am actually a good neighbour and never complained about their noise. We are mid-terraced so expect a bit. I hear their hoover at weekends. Their music is loud sometimes until about 10.00 pm. Fine. It doesn't stop me watching tv. It doesn't stop me gong to bed. I just felt tonight was a tad unreasonable.