Neighbour Issue

TELLIT01

ashpan said:

TELLIT01 said:

ashpan said:

I’ve just taken delivery of a rather large Bluetooth speaker which, if things don’t improve I shall be placing near the fence at their bed times! I am a fan of classical and repetitive house music, which can only truly be appreciated at full volume 

So in order to get back at one neighbour who is annoying you, you are prepared to annoy all your other neighbours?!

As a last resort, one is away most of the time and one is very deaf, if I have to do this I’ll speak to them and let them know. I really hope it doesn’t come to this! 

In a previous comment you said there were 4 neighbours you needed to speak to.

ka7e

It's also just a "circle of life" thing. When we moved to our last house, many elderly neighbours were selling up to downsize and were replaced by families with young children. As years went by and the children left home, the pattern started to repeat. We had new neighbours with 4 children under 8, and children just seem to be louder than I remember!  The parents were not good examples and weekends devolved into drunken parties ending in rows and occasionally fisticuffs. Police cars and ambulances were in attendance on more than one occasion.Rather than face at least another decade of disruption, we sold to a young couple and moved to quieter new pastures.

GDB2222

If you don’t return the balls, I am not surprised that the kids climb over the fence to get them.  Besides, it’s the noise bothering you, not the balls, so you are actually exacerbating this issue.

I am obviously very fortunate, because I like the sound of kids playing! Maybe, you can train yourself to be positive about it?

TheWorzelizer

I know what the sound of a ball being kicked against a normal garden fence sounds like. Its a very loud bang which can be heard throughout the house. Almost like a type of terrorism if it is happening every day around the time you have your dinner. It stops you wanting to go in the garden and relax with a cup of tea and read a book. Its bad that the fence is being damaged, but the noise is by far worse.

Today, an idea dawned on me when looking at the bottom of our fence so I searched Google for 'concrete fence blocks'. I now wonder if replacing our broken fence panels with 5 or 6 of these concrete base panels might stop the noise, and be less prone to damage. There may even be patterned ones that will look better on your side. Its just an idea so far but something I will almost certainly try before next summer. I would be very interested to know if someone tried this how they get on. Good luck.

I am searching for things like this:

concrete fence blocks

Concrete Base Panel

Concrete Base Panel - Rock Face

Smooth faced heavy duty gravelboard

Concrete Interlocking Blocks

twopenny

I had another way of dealing with footballs and rugby balls.

I lived next to a school and the kids were always just trying to see how high they could kick the ball and it ended up repeatedly damaging my plants.

Polite requests of the school resulted in zilch.

So each time it happened I took the ball round to reception. They had to contact all the teachers to find out which childs ball it was.

Weirdly, this caused them the problem, not me.

The balls stopped coming over by the 3rd return  

Sometimes you have to think laterally. This may work with neighbours. Probably quicker.

Big smile "Hello, the childrens ball came over and I'm sure they need it back. Just not safe for them to climb over the fence" - they then have to open the door and say thank you. That puts them in the dealing position.

TheWorzelizer

twopenny said:

I had another way of dealing with footballs and rugby balls.

I lived next to a school and the kids were always just trying to see how high they could kick the ball and it ended up repeatedly damaging my plants.

Polite requests of the school resulted in zilch.

So each time it happened I took the ball round to reception. They had to contact all the teachers to find out which childs ball it was.

Weirdly, this caused them the problem, not me.

The balls stopped coming over by the 3rd return  

Sometimes you have to think laterally. This may work with neighbours. Probably quicker.

Big smile "Hello, the childrens ball came over and I'm sure they need it back. Just not safe for them to climb over the fence" - they then have to open the door and say thank you. That puts them in the dealing position.

My cousin had a similar idea but took it further. She said she would bang on the door at 3am to return the balls. Unfortunately, I work full time and the woman next door does not work, so if she took offence and decided to do the same it could end up a mess. Interesting idea, but I could imagine them saying just kick them over next time and eventually there would be a huge argument. It all depends on who you are dealing with.

twopenny

" just kick them over next time" - but you can't you have a bad back (that covers arms and legs ;-) and you might hit somebody and hurt them.....................

But I get your point. You, unfortunately, know these neighbours