Fixing neighbour noise in our bedroom.

FreddieFrugal

Last night was yet another night of being subjected to the loud teenager next door til 4am.

Will have to temporarily move the bed into a room on the other side of the house and not use our main bedroom/ensuite as our bedroom because of the noise. It's the inane laugh that's most grating.

We're in an end of terrace. Only bought it in April, love the house, hate the noise.

The problem is whenever teenage beige outer with bedroom on other side of party wall to ours has friends round or decides to start playing guitar at 2am. They might as well be in the same room it's so loud.

Thing is, it is noisy throughout house not just in our room, any room with a window on that side of the house. So majority of noise would seem to be coming from the neighbours crappy windows and into our crappy windows.

Noise barely audible in second bedroom on same wall but at front of house.

I'm looking for possible ways of dampening the noise.
What I've thought of so far is:

Check windows inside and out for any gaps in frame and seal (none inside)

Remove trickle vents, seal internally, then reattach - the ones in the bedroom are not flush with the window frame, big gap at the bottom, so would seem to have no noise reducing effect at all, just holes in the window with flimsy plastic placed in front. These are probably main source of the noise.

Attach curtain track to wall to fit a second layer of curtains behind the first. We have blackout curtains but they're thinish and held far enough away from window to create a big gap. So thought attaching another smaller thicker pair of curtains that covered window more closely might help.

We were also going to put in larger wardrobes and a bridging unit which would pack with clothes/material, fill any gaps along wall with insulation and cover, to try and reduce noise through the wall.


Has anyone got any other ideas that wouldn't cost the earth.

Thanks

mart.vader

"teenage beige outer" ?

What's that ?

the_insider

IanRi wrote: »

Has anyone got any other ideas that wouldn't cost the earth.

Thanks

Knock on the door and tell him to pack it in!
Might also be worth recording the noise from your bedroom and other rooms in the house incase you need to make a noise complaint if he doesn't stop.

FreddieFrugal

mart.vader wrote: »

"teenage beige outer" ?

What's that ?

Absolutely no idea! Can't remember what it was meant to be, phone obviously had other ideas.

FreddieFrugal

PasturesNew wrote: »

Have you told his mum?

Very rarely there, lets them smoke weed in garden which they just leave lying around, so doubt would be hugely fussed.

mart.vader

IanRi wrote: »

Absolutely no idea! Can't remember what it was meant to be, phone obviously had other ideas.

Aaahh, bl**dy predictive text, Eh.

I don't think you are going to get much of a noise reduction with curtains. Asking him to turn it down, might work, After that, sealing all gaps, insulation is the way to go, IMO

lstar337

IanRi wrote: »

Absolutely no idea! Can't remember what it was meant to be, phone obviously had other ideas.

Teenage blighter?

My best guess based on the letters.

ic

I too live in an end terrace - after putting up with noise from next doors kids (thankfully only early morning as they were young at the time) I switched my bedrooms over, and moved from the larger front room to the back. The back is separated by a hallway running to the bathroom (and likewise the same in their property. I found this much quieter, and also had the bonus of moving me away from the road - I also never raised anything with my neighbour. Two weeks after doing this my neighbours mrs moved out and took the kids with her. They were basically letting the kids run riot whilst they argued elsewhere...! Seven years later I'm still in the back room because its so much better.

Part of the problem with terrace housing is there will always be noise - you just can't escape it. Partly I think you need to try not to dwell on the noise and allow it to distract you. Agreed there will always be times, and playing music through the small hours isn't on and probably worth a mention - but don't ever expect silence.

Gordon_Hose

As an end terrace dweller myself, normal day-to-day noise is to be expected there's nothing you can do about that. Guitar practise at 4am definitely isn't! I'd be keeping a diary and recordings and submitting a noise complaint, but only after I'd spoken to the parents first.

Gordon_Hose

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Norman_Castle

Every time he keeps you awake, knock his door at 7am and insist on having a long conversation about it.