Die noisy neighbour DIE

McBozo

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.

if you are trying to sleep and you can't, its noise pollution.

You need four things to deal with this and it is resolvable.

1: Perseverance
2: Patience
3: politeness
4: Stamina.

First, get a diary and record _everything_ if he farts, write it down, write down the complaints with the neighbours, write down, every bit of noise your hear, write it down. If you see him though, be polite coureous, hello, nice day blah blah.

If you believe that you are going to have a bad night, call the council at the _EARLIEST_ time you can. Don't bother talking to him anymore, just call the council.

To deal with this you need to prove that the noise is statuatory nuisance.

If you have a smartphone look for a noise DB app, there is one for the iPhone. Again in the diary record the peak noise with the time. Put the phone in the place you are, as opposed right next to the wall.

Call the council during the day to explain the night before's noise, again you need to persevere with this. The council need to know that if there is noise you will call them, the neighbour needs to know that if there is noise the council will get involved pronto.

When the council comes round they need to hear it and you need to ask them if this is a nuisance, again _RECORD_ their view, get the officers name. Never tell the neighbour to turn it down, because if he does the council WILL NOT ACT.

Once you have enough evidence and in reality that should be after three events, the council can serve a noise abatement notice to the people who are listed as living there. A repeat offence and they can forceably remove equipment etc, but again the council need to know you are serious, be polite but be firm. Get your neighbours to do the same if possible. Some councils will deploy noise measurement equipment of their own in your house. Offer to come in to see them at the council office etc.

If your council do nothing, then you can do this yourself with a lawyer, might be pricey, check your home insurance for legal cover.

I had a bunch of polish guys move in next door, not bad guys but young and living the life, We had 12 months of putting up with it until i woke up in a ditch in my car near the M4. No More putting up with it.

Luckily for me the council were reasonably good once they KNEW i was serious. I even bought the measuring kit they used (they had limited kit and was a wait).

I'd also call the police every time you hear the exhaust - they _are_ required to act on it. Eventually they will do something about it, go see your community police team - they usually run open meetings every month or so, again get your neighbours to do the same.

in my case Noise abatement notices were served and instantly the noise went away. 2 months after they moved out. I also spoke to landlord and then had my lawyer write to him (cost a 100 quid or so) to remind him of the covenants in his title etc. Not sure if this helped but I was prepared to take that further.

If you are rented contact your own landlord and agent. Suspect there will be a term in your lease that might get you out of the lease, but again be nice - dale winton nice.

As for the boiler noise above, I also believe the council would be required to act both on the grounds of noise pollution and potentially building regs/safety - might be worth calling your building regs folks.
If something is a causing statutory noise pollution then you are in the right to ask for it to be stopped, even if it means they have to fix a boiler.

My experience totally changed my view on noise and ignorance of it, I'm now noise OCD which drives the wife nuts!

Cheers and good luck.

McBozo

aileth wrote: »

But what do you expect him to do about a noisy boiler? Do you really expect him to shell out over a grand or two to replace his boiler because you can hear it? It's a totally different beast to someone who is actually being downright ignorant and inconsiderate and playing loud music. He's not making his boiler noisy on purpose.

And saying that he should get a plumber out to investigate is just daft. It's a living noise expected when you're in high density residential.

sorry but thats codswallop. Go check out building and other regs about installation of boilers and sound proofing etc.

McBozo

One other thing. I would strongly ignore comments above about responding with your own noise, it will not help you.

Sadly the increasing number of Romulans round my way has made me decide to move away from a place I love living...

worriedindebt

Anyone suffering from noisy neighbours has my utmost sympathy.. It is utter hell!
I had to move due to noisy/nuisance neighbours and at one point feared going home at night it got so bad. There is no way of escaping and it invades your home and life to such an extent that life becomes unbearable.
I hope anyone going through this can know there is light at the end of the tunnel and things eventually do improve, but fully understand and sympathise with their living nightmares.

kieran3184

McBozo wrote: »

One other thing. I would strongly ignore comments above about responding with your own noise, it will not help you.

Sadly the increasing number of Romulans round my way has made me decide to move away from a place I love living...

Oh my Lord, will we have Klingons too with all their singing while drinking blood wine?

Old_Git

I used to have a 3 story mid terrace house .
One side (the side next my living room ) lived 5 students ,the other side next my hall lived a family that happened to be Romanian .
I never heard a sound from the students .The other side it was noise all day ,and the further up the house you went the worse it became.

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buckrogers wrote: »

we just had to move after living 15 years in our home , because of neighbors from hell, they only moved in 15 months ago but made our lives hell, as we where connected to their house no one else so we had all the swearing and abusive shouting as early as 6 in the morning from kids not wanting to go to school, same abusive swearing at night,we spoke to them explaining we could hear them and if they mind keeping it down, his wife and him threaten to burn us alive in our home and burn our car if we complained to council, which we did after them threats, but for some reason he convince them 'they would never say that' even the police didn't want to know,
then after them following my 2 daughters in their car they pull up beside them and called them 'sluts, !!!!!!s and hand jesters ,c--ts, i contacted the police to complain and when they came round after visiting them, told us not to waste police time and that we probably made it up and i got my daughters to lie' so much for police been impartial, i was fuming and my wife was upset, they didn't even take a statement from daughters just went out of our house, that was the last draw and we moved 6 weeks after that 'house exchange', just wanted to get away, so no faith in council or police .

This is pretty much a textbook example of how not to deal with this problem. You need to explain the situation clearly and calmly to the council and police in writing. If this is the best you can manage it's probably worth getting someone else to draft a letter for you.

debrag

we don't have noise problems we have rubbish problems. flats above shops so use dumpster type bins. if something doesn't fit in a bin it gets thrown behind it, if they can't be bothered then even things that can fit in get left on the floor. Been here 3 years and it's gone down hill slowly over the years with the changing of tenants.
We only hear next door when the owner is doing DIY or someone is in the bathroom when we are in the bedroom (it was over 6 months before I realised they had a kid), we only hear downstairs when we are at the main entrance even with the music load.

tejero23f

About 25 years ago I lived in a flat with wooden floors, the chap below me used to bring various girlfriends home and as his bedroom was below mine I had to listen to his love making. One particular girl made so much noise ( almost screaming ) that it kept me awake at night. being the days before mobile phones he only had a landline. I got hold of his number and when his noise was at it's peak I quietly called his number ( I could here it ringing)...would you believe he stopped what he was doing, I could here his footsteps to the hall way. I then put the phone down and did it again when he carried on haha.. after a few times his girlfriend didn't come back again!! success!

poppysarah

tejero23f wrote: »

the chap below me used to bring various girlfriends home

Through solid concrete floors I had to listen to some bloke doing his gf - the noises were hysterical. We got whistles and cheered when they finished one night.

I rang in work tired one day they'd been that noisy.