Noise problem with neighbours

JF77

daisykinn1 wrote: »

If their not willing to discuss it then don't worry about it, it sounds like you're being very considerate! Live your life and be grateful you escape in July. The new tenants will no doubt be reported too!

Our old neighbours reported us too, complete mystery why! We weren't loud or untidy, but they still called the police when we had a bbq - which we invited them to and gave them notice. Sometimes you just can't win.

LOL thats so funny! Our old neighbours were real pains waking us up at 2am when they returned from the pub but, I would never dream of reporting someone for having a bbq.

maninthestreet

Wickes sells 8 foot by 4 foot by 1 inch thick polystyrene sheets. Use some of these to line the wall of the living room.

nelly_2

be quieter!

PasturesNew

JF77 wrote: »

I would never dream of reporting someone for having a bbq.

I had a wooden extension (think shed) with the gas boiler in it and gas pipe running the length of it. It was quite dry/old/grotty.

My next door neighbour started having barbecues just 3' max from it, behind their wall. I used to cr4p myself in case it set fire to the extension.

In addition to that, the smoke would all blow my way every time, filling the house with barbecue smoke.

So every time they had a barbecue (obviously good/hot evenings), I'd be sat inside with all the windows/doors closed, hearing them having fun with their friends while I worried that the whole house was going to explode... they'd then keep me up until 4am with appalling karaoke renderings of bad songs from the early 1980s and I'd wake up the next morning to find all the empties had been lobbed over the wall.

Never reported them.

Didn't complain either. Tried to mention the 4am part only once only to have my head verbally ripped off... and I scuttled inside.

Then they sold the house at last. Hurrah!!!!

To their !!!!!!!' friends!!! And they'd be back ... for the parties.

Still never reported them.

lonestar1

PasturesNew wrote: »

........ and I'd wake up the next morning to find all the empties had been lobbed over the wall.

I hope you at least chucked the empties back into their garden. Thats just not neighbourly IMO

tbs624

Following on from Bungarm's suggestions above - full bookshelves are also a good sound absorber, so maybe you could get a couple of big ikea-type bookcases, line the back of them with the cardboard/polystyrene/carpet stuff and stack your whole household's stock of books there against the party wall? If your house has the ubiquitous laminate flooring it will make a difference if you have rugs down too, as it's one less hard surface for the sound to bounce off.