My next door neighbour is a gardener and works long hours.
But he is always fettleing his petrol lawnmower in his back garden in the evenings for some reason.

Now tonight he was at it gone ten a clock at night and I had enough and asked him to stop which he did.

His outright inconsideration really pisses me off, a couple of weeks ago he was using a bench grinder in his shed with the door wide open at gone 1 o’clock in the morning.

Apart from his late night garden antics he is a nice bloke. Now I feel like a moany git. Ggrrr
Ggrrr.

Kick his face off.

Is his name Colin? I have a mate who is impervious to his neighbours feelings. Not out of spite just he’s a little out of step with the world.

His blinking van leaks oil like a sieve too, the road outside my house twenty yards either way is a right state. I bit my tongue because I feel I am turning into victor meldrew.

Cut off point for noise is eleven, so I would have waited until then before complaining.
Bench grinder at one AM is just a dick move, though, as is outright inconsideration in all forms.

Edit, my mrs just pointed out that if it was our neighbour, I would be out there helping him fix it… True, that.

I had enough and asked him to stop which he did.

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Cut off at eleven I could live with if it was only now and again,.

bench grinder in his shed with the door wide open at gone 1 o’clock in the morning.

Inconsiderate. End of storey.

I had enough and asked him to stop which he did.
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Some people just don’t get it, my girlfriend sometimes tries to start hoovering at 7am, until I pull the plug out.

Yeah, some neighbours can be really inconsiderate. Just last week my next door neighbour knocked at my front door, at 2 o clock in the morning. Luckily I was still up, playing on my drum set.
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Baddum, tish. Perhaps?

bench grinder in his shed with the door wide open at gone 1 o’clock in the morning.

If there’s a next time, grab your machete, don a boiler suit and go and stand in the doorway. Don’t say a word, just stand there for a minute and then walk away.

But seriously, just talk. If this doesn’t get results express your displeasure in a firmer fashion. Most folk can be reasoned with even if you have to use slightly more aggressive terminology.

Those that can’t – machete…!

I think you do need to talk to them but IME the kind of person who will use a grinder at 1 am is the kind of person who is unlikely to be the type who think of their neighbours

I suspect one of my neighbours is also using Grinder at 1 am some nights.

OP should go for the boring response.

my new neighbours have a friend who visits occaisionally. When they leave they drive 5mtr from their house, down my drive ( right of acees over it to their house ) Then they play a tune on their car horn , just a beep beep, but Jesus Christ . Its 10.30 at night , you are 10m from my bedroom window, you have said goodbye literally 10 seconds ago , driven for 2 seconds then you feel the need to let them know you are off safely by beeping your fricken car horn
seriously
at what point is it ever acceptable to drive within 1mtr of another house at night and beep your bloomin car horn?

Had a giggle this morning. Last night I saw all the lights were off in his house so did not want to get his wife up so rather than knock tried to call him over the fence.

He could not hear me over the noise so rather than give up I went and got a powerful torch and stood on a chair and lit him up.

His face was a picture.

tenfoot – Member
Yeah, some neighbours can be really inconsiderate. Just last week my next door neighbour knocked at my front door, at 2 o clock in the morning. Luckily I was still up, playing on my drum set.

Also guilty of above

I had enough and asked him to stop which he did.

His outright inconsideration really pisses me off

He is outside the front of my house now repairing an old car in the road.

Mental illness?
Friend of mine is a bit like that gets burst of doing things at strange times mowing the lawn by torchlight is one of his things

I’d try the half tongue in cheek friendly neighbour approach.

Next time you see him, after bit of conversation, drop in ‘Do you have to make such a noise at ridiculous hours?’

If that doesn’t provoke the required response, a swift left hook to the temple.

I had enough and asked him to stop which he did.
His outright inconsideration really pisses me off

It’s ok, I’ll explain: He. Shouldn’t. Have. To. Be. Asked.
Obvious statement is bleedin obvious.

singletrackmind – Member
my new neighbours have a friend who visits occaisionally. When they leave they drive 5mtr from their house, down my drive ( right of acees over it to their house ) Then they play a tune on their car horn , just a beep beep, but Jesus Christ . Its 10.30 at night , you are 10m from my bedroom window, you have said goodbye literally 10 seconds ago , driven for 2 seconds then you feel the need to let them know you are off safely by beeping your fricken car horn
seriously
at what point is it ever acceptable to drive within 1mtr of another house at night and beep your bloomin car horn?

Funny how such minor annoyances become such a bone of contention over time.

My neighbour’s parents used to visit occasionally and stay the night. They’d always arrive at about 11:30 PM, and bring things in from the car one by one and lock the bloody car every time, as if somebody is going to break in and steal your duvet cover from the boot of your shitty old Escort estate. It had one of those loud aftermarket alarms that make a “bluk bluk” noise which you only now hear in TV shows.

One night after about 20 locks and unlocks, I yelled “BLUK **** BLUK” out of the window. The neighbour never talked to us again! 😳

I yelled “BLUK **** BLUK” out of the window

Did you have 2 pencils up your nose and pants on your head?

Is it coz’ I is BLUK?

and works long hours.

Some people seem who work out of shift with everyone else’s work patterns seem to want to keep their day the same shape as everyone else’s. ‘Normal’ people who get home from work at 6 have 4-5 hours to do stuff before they go to bed. Some people who work odd or long shifts seem to want the same 4-5 hours.

I lived in a flat in glasgow and our downstairs neighbour liked to relax after work by giving Jeff Wayne’s ‘War of the Worlds’ a good old blast when he got in from work, occasionally accompanied by a bit of DIY. Except he worked in the restaurant trade so he got home at around 1pm.

His fuse box was in the communal stair. I let him have the fuses back in the morning 🙂

My next door neighbour is the same, only he doesn’t work particularly odd hours, he just doesn’t appear to sleep. In the summer when the weather is nice they sit out in the garden talking loudly and drunkenly until the early hours any day of the week, then at the weekend he puts his (numerous) empty beer bottles in the blue wheely bin at 6.45am.

We’ve had words before, when his family and visitors used my grass as a parking space but it makes no difference, they’re a nice couple, but some people have absolutely no regard for other people so should be culled.

His fuse box was in the communal stair. I let him have the fuses back in the morning

Reminds me of when we had a postman living in the house on the back of us. Alarm would go off at 3am whether he was there or not. Houses had outside electric meters. Woken by the alarm, I took my key round one night, openened the box and turned his power off 😆

His fuse box was in the communal stair. I let him have the fuses back in the morning

😆 Quality!!!

perchypanther – Member
Is it coz’ I is BLUK?

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Hammer frozen sausages into his lawn?