Neighbour Plays Drums!

Ivana_Tinkle

I think if you live in one of the world's major cities, and the only noise you have to complain about lasts for 15 minutes a day, not at anti-social times, then you've done pretty well!

Every time I've ever moved house I've found something in the first week at the new place that I've decided to get terribly worried about. (And it's much worse when you're pregnant.) It's always worked out fine and this will too.

skitler

SailorSam wrote: »

Nothing worse than falling out with your neighbours.
We had someone new move in next door and it must have been about 3am one night that there was a banging on my front door. I was shocked 'cos who the hell goes knocking on someones door at that hour, but i never got annoyed at him. If i'd been asleep maybe i would have give him a piece of my mind but i was already up ............. practising on my drums.

:eek:



:rotfl::rotfl:i hope.

skitler

During the inquiries raised by the solicitors a question had been put to the sellers as part of the long list of qustions asking if there is any issue with noisy neighbours and the answer was no.


if the seller had no issue then he/she wasn't telling untruths.
i agree with other posters, theres no issue as yet and premature of you to post a thread on such what seams so far to be a good neighbour. my advice would be to think long and hard about approaching him and you should decide not to, as yet at least.

have a friendly chat with neighbours down the street, don't mention the drums at this point to them, see if they mention it to you, and then act as you don't really notice it and try to change the subject, see if they bring it up again. then youll know if its going to be a problem.

let us know how you get on.

regards:beer:

pdarc

skitler wrote: »

have a friendly chat with neighbours down the street, don't mention the drums at this point to them, see if they mention it to you, and then act as you don't really notice it and try to change the subject, see if they bring it up again. then youll know if its going to be a problem.

let us know how you get on.

regards:beer:

V good advice. Thanks.
let's see what the weekend brings up and the convo with the people on the street.

TeamLowe

At least he plays well

The house next door but one to my parents bought their son a drum kit for Christmas. We didn't mind so much as it was only ten minute bursts here and there but it was mildly irritating until a few months later when someone was kind enough to buy him drumming lessons. Actual rhythms are much easier to tune out then someone just having a go lol

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

pdarc wrote: »

I am keen to see what happens over the weekend but I am concerned as I have a 1 year old and a new baby on the way soon and they need their naps during the day and the one year old goes to bed early. I'm also concerned about the summer, if windows are opened, it will be so much louder and really disturbing.

I know exactly what you mean.

We had a new neighbour move in with two small children, and dear god, the crying, screeching, squealing and shrieking was just absolutely awful.

All bl00dy day on the weekends, completely ruined the peace and quiet in our garden in summer time, and as for the evenings, well....

You'd think toddlers and babies could at least be trained to not cry or shriek after 7pm, but apparently not.:(

No matter how often we talked to them about it, they just refused to do anything at all!!!!

We even tried speaking to the other neighbours, but of course as some of them had children they're partially immune to the 'nails on chalkboard' sensation that screaming kids cause in those not afflicted by breeding.

I had to take up playing drums just to settle myself down and get a respite from the atrocious noise pollution!

If he doesn't play ball, or he plays all day on weekends (which I am about to find out) do I have any rights?

Sadly not....

It turns out that annoyingly noisy things (dogs, drums, small children, lawnmowers, etc) have every right to be noisy during the day or early evenings.

Actually up until late evenings, in practice it's unlikely most councils would get involved, unless it was for many hours every day and so loud you literally couldn't hear someone speaking in the same room.

Background noise in early evenings, nope..... Or I'd have been able to have those noisy little cherubs moved out years ago.;)

Dan-Dan

Perhaps you should have tried giving them one of your god awful house economy speeches Hamish, you would probably have ended up having the whole street to yourself

skitler

so how are the developments going with the skin tapper, op.

have you been throwing words at him in capital letters. :eek:

or are you dancing to the same beat.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

regards:beer:

DragonQ

I'm so glad that I can't hear anything at all from anyone else in my block of flats even with the windows open. It also means I can play music loudly even at night and no-one is bothered.

skitler

does your dog drown out the awful yapping of other dogs too:rotfl:

regards:beer: