Neighbour complaints!

jaylee3

What noise is tolerable is subjective. Our old neighbour when we were in a semi house, played very loud films (like action and sci-fi) 2-3 times a week. Sometimes Friday night, then Saturday afternoon, and then Wednesday afternoon (usually.) It was 2-3 hours, 3 times a week, and it was bloomin' loud for half the film. But it was 8-9 hours out of the 168 hours in the week, we rarely heard anything from him after 9pm, and he worked full time (he had wednesday afternoon off but worked saturday morning,) so we heard very little in the day.

Also, every second or third Friday, he would roll up at 2am with a woman he had picked up from a club, or a couple of friends, and it would be noisy for about half hour, then they'd calm down and go quiet.

So he was a bit of a noisy neighbour, but the amount of times he was 'noisy' was not enough to complain about.

My friend's cousin, has recently reported her neighbour to the council for excessive noise, when he has one party a month going on til midnight, and plays a loud film once a fortnight. Now to me, that would not be excessive, but to her, it is.

Like I said, it's subjective.

kinger101

jaylee3 wrote: »

What noise is tolerable is subjective. Our old neighbour when we were in a semi house, played very loud films (like action and sci-fi) 2-3 times a week.

Part of the problem here is the soundtrack on modern films. It's hard to find a level where dialogue is audible, but sound effects and music don't disturb the whole street. I don't know why they can't have an additional soundtrack that is more suited to home viewing.

jaylee3

kinger101 wrote: »

Part of the problem here is the soundtrack on modern films. It's hard to find a level where dialogue is audible, but sound effects and music don't disturb the whole street. I don't know why they can't have an additional soundtrack that is more suited to home viewing.

OMG that is so true!

Me and my OH really struggle to watch a film sometimes, as the dialogue is quiet and the sound effects LOUD on action films and similar! We are constantly adjusting the volume when we watch a film like this.

As I said, our neighbour only used to watch 3 films a week at the most, so we put up with it, especially as we knew he wasn't doing it to be a PITA: I don't think he realised how utterly loud the soundtrack and special effects were!

annapanda

Well slightly strange update! My tenants called me this morning to say that there was banging on the bedroom wall at 3am this morning. Fortunately it stopped as they were about to go round but I said I would go round and see them this evening as I was going to be in the area.

As we were talking, we heard shouting next door. Now having lived there before I guessed it was her son. All the years I lived there I saw him about half a dozen times. Very pleasant chap towards me, but clearly not a happy relationship with his mother. After the shouting stopped we had a knock at the door and the guy asked if he could come in and talk to us all.

To cut long story short, he had a call the other night from his mother, amongst other things moaning about the neighbours (my tenants) and how they played loud music all day and all night long (which they don't as they're at work in the day). But more importantly she told him that his dad had visited the day before - his dad died 10 years ago.

He said when he got there his mum kept asking if he could hear the music, which clearly he couldn't as there wasn't any - I was in the house and we were just talking. No TV, no music, no nothing!

We went round to the neighbour the other side who gets on quite well with her (one of the few neighbours who does) and she said she has seemed a bit strange of late and been saying strange things.

The son has given us all his number and told us to call him if anything happens and seemed quite distressed - he lives in London and we are in the Midlands so he isn't local but he is going to try and sort things out.

Not a great situation but at least my tenants aren't at fault here - of course now I'm worried that at the end of their fixed term they're just going to head off. I can't blame them at all if they did.

Is there anything I can suggest or advise? This woman is clearly not well but at the same time she can't just go banging on the walls in the night and making spurious complaints about people.

annapanda

Well the lady passed away last night.

Problem solved!

Rikki

annapanda wrote: »

Well the lady passed away last night.

Problem solved!

Written a little unsympathetically.

It sounded like she was becoming a little disorientated and confused in her last weeks. Shame.

Davesnave

Rikki wrote: »

Written a little unsympathetically.

It's hard to be sympathetic when old people constantly annoy by not looking where they're going, generally getting in the way, and dithering for ages at checkouts, or whilst blocking the only free bay of trolleys at Lidl.

I noticed this the other day when I was on a time-sensitive mission in town.

"Bl**** annoying, these pensioners!" I cursed.

Then I remembered, I'm 66! :rotfl:

jm2926

Rikki wrote: »

Written a little unsympathetically.

It sounded like she was becoming a little disorientated and confused in her last weeks. Shame.

Shame indeed. Wonder if seeing a doctor would have helped. Sometimes confusion is caused by an infection or medication issues.

Davesnave

jm2926 wrote: »

Shame indeed. Wonder if seeing a doctor would have helped. Sometimes confusion is caused by an infection or medication issues.

Or vascular dementia, where variable blood supply to the brain may give the unfortunate person hallucinations, and at other times, varying degrees of lucidity.

emsywoo123

annapanda wrote: »

Well the lady passed away last night.

Problem solved!

The lady to whom you are casually referring to as a "problem" was a woman who had a life, and friends and was a real person.
You may have had your issues with her, but what an appalling way to refer to someone's death.
I find your post utterly disrespectful.