New, young, neighbours!

I_have_spoken

I'd always presumed nobody next door worked and that therefore it really didn't matter.

Benefit claimants don't count, is it?

whitesatin

silverwhistle wrote: »

Thank you! Can we ignore you now?

They've just moved in and the new ocupants, as has been pointed out by others, are in a state of high excitement. So are you, it would appear, as you are so ready to condemn.

I live in a terrace house, and one is always concerned about the neighbours. Some years ago I had double glazing put in, and I forget to mention it to next door. The workers started at 8 o'clock, and next door sent their lad round to complain. This was a bit rich considering the noise they made, but I apologised and told the lad my contractors would be continueing. I'd always presumed nobody next door worked and that therefore it really didn't matter. Funnily enough.I met my neighbour working at the local scrappy, and he sold me a wiring loom for my old banger. I didn't think he'd press any complaint too far...

Eight o'clock in the morning just seems the norm these days for workmen to start, around here anyway. Earlier in the summer. Most people are awake by eight o'clock unless they are off work or not working at all.


I am retired and would, ideally, like to sleep until that time but I get woken up every morning by something that sounds like a huge fan that goes on from around 5am till 8. I had, kind of, assumed it was from in the distance, e.g. work being done on the railway, some way away. Now I am wondering if it comes from the rented house next door. We are detached, they are end terrace. Even when I close my window, I can still hear it. One morning I am going to get up, go outside and track it down.

Sammydog

OP, I'd leave it a few days and see how it pans out then if its still an issue, maybe drop into a friendly 'how's it going' chat about how it's a lovely place to live if only walls weren't so thin!


We're attached but we couldn't say if the young couple nest door are in or out most of the time but I appreciate we may just be really lucky.

Prothet_of_Doom

Previous neighbours moved in and started their married life by gutting the house. Every evening, he was cutting channels in the plaster for the rewiring, for weeks. Til 11 pm.
The best thing was when they had a row. Made me and my wife quite smug. Our rows were so much louder and uncompromising than their little tiffs.
Then they had kids, who amazingly woke up and cried at night. Made me laugh. My wife insisted on waking me up to tell me that next door's kids were crying. Why do that? All the hours of sleep I'd missed out on with our 2.
Then my daughter said she might have to go and apologise, because she was trying to get to sleep, and she booted the party wall, waking up the 2 year old, who obviously fell out of bed and cried for hours.
And then the toddler tantrums in the back garden, and the fun, and the screaming in the paddling pool. how dare they have fun, and be normal.
I miss them.
Now with have a single dope smoking guitar playing oasis wannabe next door. He plays wonderwall badly at midnight. Again I can't hear it, but my wife likes to wake me up to tell me I'd deaf.

Old_Git

tell them the walls are particularly thin in the bedrooms

moneyistooshorttomention

Old_Git wrote: »

tell them the walls are particularly thin in the bedrooms

:rotfl::rotfl:

They darn well were too back in my last house. Lets say I was all too conscious that it was a couple living to the relevant side of me.:cool:

It made me feel like a bit of an unwilling voyeur at times - not to mention feeling somewhat inhibited from my own pov. There would have been no point mentioning it to them - as they hadn't come from the "quiet/polite type of background" I have and would probably even have found it amusing.

One way and another I ended up swopping to the other bedroom in the place once it was free to do so (ie no more lodgers).

I still find it incredible that houses would be built with walls that thin (and mine was a Victorian one - I thought it was only supposed to be modern-day houses with such thin walls!).

sidefx

Just to update. The couple clearly haven't moved in properly yet and are having work done first.

Unfortunately, the 'work', involving lots of banging and noise, is going on the evening rather than through the day.

*sighs*..I sense this may go on for some time!

Prothet_of_Doom

sidefx wrote: »

Just to update. The couple clearly haven't moved in properly yet and are having work done first.

Unfortunately, the 'work', involving lots of banging and noise, is going on the evening rather than through the day.

*sighs*..I sense this may go on for some time!

And then it will stop.

sidefx

Prothet_of_Doom wrote: »

And then it will stop.

I might have moved by then!

Herbalus

You think you've got it bad. My neighbours were shouting at 4am last night, and then started banging on the walls. They even came yelling round to my front door, hammering away.

Luckily I was already awake playing my drums.