New, young, neighbours!

sidefx

I live in a very quiet street. Terraced house.

My next door neighbours (of at least 16 years) sold yesterday and the new neighbours have just moved in.

A young couple and whilst I appreciate that they will be moving furniture, unpacking etc, the banging, noise and (rather disturbing) shouting is becoming intolerable!

It's gone 11pm (sad I know, but surely it's not unreasonable to let others sleep) and it sounds like it isn't going to stop any time soon.
I can cope with music being loud over the weekend, but it sounds more like someone is being beaten up than a care free party?

They only moved in today!

I can't help but have a sense of doom:o

Homeownertobe

Have you considered knocking on the door, introducing yourself and offering to help them?

car0line123

I sincerely hope for you it is only temporary. If they are so young, it is perfectly possible they do not realise how noisy they are. If they can't hear you, they might think you can't hear them.

Good luck!

sidefx

Homeownertobe wrote: »

Have you considered knocking on the door, introducing yourself and offering to help them?

I have already done that.

I'm quite tired and could do without this tonight, but I do appreciate that it is probably their first home and something for them to celebrate.

Hopefully it won't last. I really do just want to wish them well rather than cause a rift.

Live and let live :-)

Chanes

I was noisy but the neighbours I had moved and I only found out when the third owner moved in! I suspect the previous owners said nothing about me being noisy so they could say they'd had no problems when they sold it on. On realising we were so noisy we sold up and properties thereafter didn't give any problems to a neighbour.

If you don't tell them, they will think you don't mind, that is exactly what I thought about my neighbours until,the third one knocked on and talked to me. I made extra effort to stay quiet until we moved on.

sidefx

Chanes wrote: »

I was noisy but the neighbours I had moved and I only found out when the third owner moved in! I suspect the previous owners said nothing about me being noisy so they could say they'd had no problems when they sold it on. On realising we were so noisy we sold up and properties thereafter didn't give any problems to a neighbour.

If you don't tell them, they will think you don't mind, that is exactly what I thought about my neighbours until,the third one knocked on and talked to me. I made extra effort to stay quiet until we moved on.

If it carries on, I will say something, but I'm hoping it's just 'new home' excitement. I understand that, I would be the same!
Time will tell!

Thank you for your post Chanes

moneyistooshorttomention

Maybe the house isn't "absorbing" the noise in the way it will as time goes on?

Its surprising just how echo-y the rooms in a house can be when they are pretty empty. You don't really realise whilst all the furniture, carpets, curtains are in a room just how much they absorb sound.

Right now - that house is probably pretty empty. But, for all you know, they are about to put in thick carpets/thick curtains/etc and that will all help absorb sound.

It was their first day in the place + add they are probably either excited or thinking "What on earth have we done?" + add an "emptier" house etc and maybe things will change anyway.

Best to just give things a chance for a while and see how they work out. Being on the receiving end of an "established" neighbour that tries to say how things are/make the new neighbour "fit in" comes over as extremely offputting and ruins relationships right at the outset (voice of experience time). So - just give it a bit of time and be careful not to come over as "This is how we do things here - and you will conform with that" as that just puts backs up.

jamei305

Of course they won't realise they can be heard. When they first hear your TV/kids/sneezing etc they will be like "OMG they must totally be able to hear everything we are doing :eek:"

C_Mababejive

Thats battery hen Britain for you. We live in the smallest most expensive homes in the developed world. I expect its a combination of new neighbour nerves and initial settling in. Give it a few weeks for them to bed down..

jetplane

Oh this reminds me of some neighbours of mine about 25 years ago. We moved in to a semi, so excited and there was a lot of comings and goings over the first few days, furniture being moved, boxes unpacked, excited chatter.

Then we went back to work and a couple of days later were invited round for a cuppa and introduction. The house had been empty for quite some time and our neighbours told us how noisy we were, that they had heard all of our friendly callers had even heard our alarm go off for work one morning? They gave us a run down of what they had found noisy for the week we had lived there. Advised us how low to have the TV and what time they went to bed and how to be considerate towards them.

They had been spoilt living next to an empty house and we had lived in a stone cottage with thick walls. They didn't give us the chance to settle in and sucked the air out of our inflated happy lungs. For about 3 days we crept around our own home.

When I fell pregnant we couldn't wait to knock on their door and tell them. They did actually move and we had many happy years living next door to people in joined up boxes where we both made noises.

Kynthia

It was their first night, hardly an indicator of what future nights will be. I think it's a bit premature to be worried as they probably have a lot of stuff to move around and put away.