[Closed] How best to silence neighbours?

no no.. grudgingly drug free for a very very long time now junkyard..

I just don't see how it can be conclusively decided who is at fault here..

The vibrant family going happily about the business of family life.. or the rather sour sounding neighbour who believes that peace and quiet on his terms are a god given right..
If you think about the problem with an open mind it's a conundrum that King Solomon would he hard pressed to solve..

I love all the "just talk to them brigade" have any of you ever lived next to neighbours that just don't give a stuff?

I suffered 8 years of pounding/thumping noise from both sides of our house, these are the sort of people who you see swearing as loud as they can at their kids while swigging on cheap booze in the morning. When I asked if they could keep the volume down a bit after 2am I was told go F yourself!
Oh BTW I kept a noise/disturbance diary and even had the support of the local police, but guess what once they found out what I was doing they trashed my car, pushed burning paper through my door & threatened my girlfriend.

I feel for you coffeking as I know how much it starts to gnaw away at your quality of life.

The vibrant family going happily about the business of family life..

Wasn't so sure, but yep, trolling. Good effort though.

If you think about the problem with an open mind it's a conundrum that King Solomon would he hard pressed to solve..

I'm open to noise, even regular noise such as a party once or twice a month. I'm fine with the stomping when it's occasional and just someone running out of the room, or having a mad moment. But I am not fine with pretty much constant noise several nights a week, clear lack of consideration for the neighbours etc.

At the end of the day it's nothing to do with a happy healthy family etc, I was brought up in a happy healthy family of 3 lads, we were noisy during the day, had the odd noisy evening and after 9 we made damn sure we didn't disturb the neighbours who may wish to have a quiet night in. They did the same for us. If I wanted continual noise I'd have bought in the student district, not out in a quiet village.

There's no need for using a home theatre system to play your computer games at a volume that can be heard at the opposite end of my house, or half way down the road (literally), several nights a week. Again, when I was a sprog when I was playing computer games loud I was handed a set of headphones so I didn't disturb everyone else - it's common sense and basic respect for others.

Good point about possibly not making complaints if you own the house. Surely everyone asks the question "any problems with the neighbours?" and nobody will buy a house at any price when the response is "yes they are scum and I've reported them to the authorities numerous times but it's not worked so I'm selling up to some poor sap and moving on........... But look the rooms are all a neutral colour and the lift insulation is top notch"

Despite your problems with their noise, its still your moral duty to grass them up to the authorities for being work shy.

yeah... sorry coffeeking.. I was definitely being [i]part[/i] troll..

How about playing a very low frequency noise all the time. Somewhere around 30Hz. Maybe they will get the message , or just deny its you and blame the water board, electricity wires , BT etc .
Shove a nice 14" speaker in the fire place , that should do the trick.

Give this chap a ring:

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singletrackmind, I was about to suggest the same thing.

big PA, ultra low bass on repeat play, go away for the weekend leaving it going. Also ultra high pitched whistle would be good for driving pets round the twist

I had a very noisy neighbour when I was living in a flat a few years back. He would come home from work and without fail, Eminem would be up full wack until he passed out from smoking too much dope... This meant the noise would be for about an hour or two unless of course the pleb hit the repeat button.....

He then started to get noisy late in the evening so occasionally I would go downstairs and ask him to shut the f£$@ up, however what normally then happened was that I was invited in to drink a few beers, the tunes would be turned down but my girlfriend would then be p$@£$ off as they were quiet but I wasn't. all she could hear was me...... We ended up moving not because of the noise, we just wanted a bigger place. The niose didn't really bother me that much, but when is did, by blood would boil...

leave your stereo on FULL TILT with some of that shite donk music on repeat when you go to work,,, see how they like it.

worked for me 😈

Sorry to hear, but there is only one real answer - move into a detatched house.

We did about 10 years ago. Nobody disturbs us, and we don't disturb anyone else.

Does though help to live in a decent neighbourhood.

People don't have to be silent in their own home. As long as it is at reasonable times then they have a right to get on with life and not scurry round like church mice. Families make noise.

No, they don't have to be silent, but you don't have to be silent to not disturb the neighbours, you just have to have some basic thought for others. We don't scurry round like church mice, but we are careful not to slam doors, not to stamp about on the laminate floor and do our damndest not to be heard. I spent my entire childhood in a family of 5 and never once had a complaint from the next door neighbours, who told us they never heard us once, and that's because we were taught a little respect for others and kept it as quiet as possible in the house so our neighbours didn't have to put up with noise.

I do appreciate everyone has a different level of "noise" and I do appreciate people are noisy at times, hell so am I, but I keep it to the middle of the day on weekends (unless people are out enjoying a party in their garden) and I make damn sure that after 8ish I don't make sounds that would get transmitted through the house. Ultimately it's only the low freq sounds that cause the problems.

An example today - continuous thumping sounds louder than the TV. After 5 mins I was getting a bit cheesed off and went out for a walk and spotted them, through the front window. Idiot sat on the sofa bouncing his heels off the floor like kids do when they're bored, and decent parents tell them to stop. In this case he's late 30s/40s and his parents don't even seem to notice it on the seat next to him.

I plan on finding a detached eventually, but in the mean time I can't so I'm stuck unable to enjoy my nice house because of the brain dead morons next door.

How about playing a very low frequency noise all the time. Somewhere around 30Hz. Maybe they will get the message , or just deny its you and blame the water board, electricity wires , BT etc .
Shove a nice 14" speaker in the fire place , that should do the trick.

If thats the level of noise that disturbs you it sounds more like you have a problem with noise, rather than your neighbours are overly noisey. You have already identified the solution - go detached.