Die noisy neighbour DIE

aileth

starsandmoon wrote: »

I work in this field. You need to ring 101 every time he makes a noise. The police dont have any powers but this will ensure there is an evidence trail and it all helps with eviction. Is the flat housing association/private rent? If he owns it he would end up with an ASBO and if breached would be imprisoned.

Dont retaliate with noise of your own tempting though it is as the case will then be classed as a tit for tat neighbour dispute and wont be taken as seriously.

I have had noisy neighbours who after a few months were evicted but they were HA and they were very proactive and helpful. Local councillor was involved and the council ASB team.

Totally agree with 101. This is how we eventually got ours stamped down on. We stopped the Come Dine With Me war and got serious faces on. 101 each time it was on, got a logbook from the HA, and after about 4 times they sent a Noise Officer with a copper. Couldn't have been more efficient.

SnooksNJ

Pixie5740 wrote: »

I am living underneath a noisy neighbour. For the most part I can live with it but not when I'm trying to sleep. Currently he is watching a film with a lot of loud explosions in the room right above my bedroom.

He also has a tendency to blast his music during the day for hours. I spoke to him about that before Christmas and give him his due he did turn it down....a bit.

He's also the kind of moron that drives a noisy car (a modified Mitsubishi Evo).

Next door have pounded on the wall shouting "turn that !!!!ing television down".

Yes we live in flats so some noise is expected but at what level does it become unacceptable?

I've had enough and called the council's antisocial behaviour number. They took my details and have passed them on to "the team". I'm not sure what the wait time for this team to come out is.

Worst case scenario, I have to live with it for another 12 months.

My neighbor plays gangsta rap out the window, and not good gangsta rap from the 90's. So I play Morrissey out the window. The neighbor in between us probably totally hates us.

Pixie5740

Thank you to you all for your replys.

I've done some digging and it looks like he owns his property. I won't start blasting my music or television, as tempting as it is, as I don't want to cause further aggrovation for my other neighbours. I phoned the council's anti-social behaviour last night and will continue to log the noise. I've already spoken to him about the levels of noise so I think it's fair game now to go down a more official route.

I don't expect total silence, the chap next door plays the guitar (badly but practice makes perfect) but never so loud that it causes a glass of water to start vibrating like in Jurassic Park, or at night whilst I'm trying to sleep so I can live with it.

Two things to be thankful for:

1. I rent so I'm not stuck living under this !!!!!!! indefinitely.
2. I was looking to buy a property and his noise spurred me on to take the plunge and buy a new build detached house which I should be living in this time next year even with some delays. It has been a great incentive to save, save, save. :beer:

In the meantime I shall invest in some better quality earplugs and maybe try playing one of those 8 hour nature videos on my iPad.

Norma_Desmond

inspace wrote: »

My neighbours have always hated me - how can one live in a silent world or even anything near to it.
Music is the greatest invention known to man from 50s jazz to modern rock how possibly can it be enjoyed at low level - I listen to music 90% of my life either asleep or awake (if im asleep and wake up atleast I know im still alive lol).
Movies are surely enhanced if all the effort that the sound men and producers put into it are used to full effect.
At this point all of us that like to enjoy noise for all that it has to offer should apologise and keel over to make way for the timid amongst us(not).
Im lucky Im going deaf for my misabuse and live on an apartment with no neighbours but if ever something happens like a power cut Im left rendered speechless on how generations before me lived - I dont have an answer but consider how we the noisy ones feel.
Peace (:D)

Then 'enjoy' your ear-splitting noise through headphones you selfish person!

Twisted_Cherry

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My nightmare noisy neighbours moved away in August after 3 warnings... they were about to be collared by Environmental Health for noise nuisance when they finally moved... I had three years of it living underneath them but when they finally moved out it was heaven! Now I have the perfect quiet neighbour and I hardly hear a thing, despite someone being in all the time!

You have to persevere with complaints, keep diaries and records and badger EH to put in recording equipment. I had it installed for 3 weeks and it picked up the noise which would have got them kicked out for breech of tenancy, but they moved first!

moneyistooshorttomention

Hmmm...must admit I've been thinking on on this topic and decided that whether "innocent quiet neighbours" got to be on the receiving end of a "blast at antisocial noisy neighbours" would depend on part on whether they also suffered with the noise from noisy neighbours.

If they didn't get Noisy Neighbours Noise in their particular home, then they should be considered re "fighting fire with fire". If they DO also experience That Noise but are being too wimpish to take their share of dealing with Noisy Neighbour on board and are quite prepared to let Quiet Neighbour do all their own "share" of the work to shut up Noisy Neighbour and Wimpish Neighbours "share" as well...then I wouldn't personally consider Wimpish Neighbour.

Either everyone plays their part in shutting-up the anti-socials or those that don't aren't to be "protected" from everyone else taking on their "share of the work" to deal with the antisocials imo (unless they have a DARN good reason for being a wimp, eg in their 80s and severe illness problems to deal with).....though I am still feeling a bit "sore" about having to carry other peoples share of burdens for them for no good reason whatsoever, except they were being lazy and wimping out from my last home...hence no sympathy with wimps.

Norma_Desmond

Agree with the above; if there are say, 25 people in a street/block of flats and only one is being a twit, then why isn't everyone, en-masse, banging on the idiot's door?

Oh and the local rugby team is always handy to 'make up numbers'.

tizerbelle

Tancred wrote: »

The trouble is that here in the UK we don't complain enough - we just sit and suffer.

I'd slightly disagree with this - but only slightly! IMO the cause of the problem is that we have nurtured a population of individuals who have no regard to society or societal responsibility. This means there is no compassion or consideration for others. It is all about the individual's right to do what they want (be that blasting music at 3am in the morning, driving while drunk, etc etc) without any personal responsibility for the impact of their actions on their society. The erosion of "society" and the increased importance of "the individual" has produced people who don't care about others yet expect to be given respect to live their life their own way and why should they care about the impact or consequences of it on others.

Sorry! Rant over. Bad day!

techspec

My noisy neighbour didn't work and went to bed about 6 am - when i left for work. So i set my hifi and TV on timers to turn on FULL BLAST While i was out.

I couldnt sleep at night - he couldn't sleep in the day.

Funnily enough it stopped.

aileth

I have to say as well, my parents have been on the other side, as in they were the apparent noisy, anti-social neighbours. They live in a Grade 2 listed terrace in the middle of the city centre. Next door to them is a family of four. The mother must have incredibly acute hearing, she could hear a spider trip up three miles away.

Keep in mind through this post that my parents cannot hear ANYTHING through their wall, and even when they had really incredibly shouty arguments you could only hear them in the garden if they had a window open (which was often, but my parents never made complaints).

The boiler located in the spare room would come on at 6.30, to which there would be a barrage of banging on the wall, shouting to 'shut up.'

My father got harassed because he put the glass in the recycling bin 'in too loud.'

They received a complaint letter from the Council without a single word being spoken to them that their tumble drier was a 'noise nuisance' and to cease and desist using it. Said tumble drier was at the other end of the garden in an outbuilding. Apparently they also 'walked up stairs too loud', said stairs are carpeted and not adjacent to their house.

My father was collared because we visited for six hours one day with our dog and he was told by them that 'he had nothing in his tenancy agreement to allow dogs', which was bizarre as my father had written permission from his landlady.

It all kicked off as she leaned over their back fence and started a torrid of abuse, which ended with, "We have more rights than you because we own our house", which came from their 9 to 10 year old daughter...

They also threatened to kill my parent's cat as it kept 'eyeing' up their rabbit apparently, which is kept in very inappropriate accommodation.

So yes, noisy, anti-social neighbours are the worst, but unfortunately some people are just plain mental and some people get branded as 'bad neighbours' for absolutely nothing.

I would have loved to have stuck my parent's next door neighbours next to ours, then they would really have realised what anti-social neighbours were, rather than just normal living noise in a mid-terrace!