my neighbours have taken to having a bit of a rave in the afternoon. It gets quite annoying as MrsS and I both do some work at home over the weekend and so the bass coming through the walls is quite distracting and can wear us down at times. It probably only goes on for about 2-3 hours max and is only during the day at the weekends.

Is there anything we can do to get them to turn it down? Or should we just go round and ask them to turn it down? Our worry with that is that they will just get annoyed at us and crank it up a little bit more. They are quite chav-y and their mates come round with quad bikes revving the hell out of them and riding on the pavements etc so i doubt they have much of a respect for their neighbours and ask asking them to turn it down will just provoke them and cause them to make it worse.

As i say, it’s not like they play it at 4 in the morning or anything like that, its just that when we want to do some work, we get distractions coming through the walls. I want it to stop or at least kept to a minimum but i also dont want it to be provoked any more than i have to. SHould we just put up and shut up in the hope that they will get out of the habit?

Any advice will be gratefully received.

Cheers
Swoosh

I think loud music in the daytimes is not that unreasonable – go and have a chat with them is the best you can do IMO

just go round and ask them to turn it down

Invite them round to see how loud it is in your house, they might not realise.

Or burn the house down whilst they sleep.

Tackle the bikes, the rest may follow naturally….
If they are doing illegal stuff, report them.
I did this as this kid was riding a scooter round the street, on the pavement, no numberplate, no helmet, lots of pedestrians about.
The fuzz came round and happened to catch him in the act, took the bike to be crushed and booked him for it…..

Had the same problem but this was normally around 3-4am, this went on a few weeks running before I got really pissed off and went round and told them either shut it off or I would shut them up 👿
It worked but I did not feel too good about using threatening behaviour, after that they did however let me know in advance if they where going to be having a party or such 🙂
During the day is not as bad as during the night but can still be a pain, I would approach them with a good humour comment something along the lines that you can’t concentrate whilst having fun with your wife whilst they are playing loud music 😉

buy eggs!

I received a noise complaint notice from the council when I was a student in Leeds – I played on my decks quite a bit, quite loud (though not late at night), and ppl got pissed off – fair enough.

Thing that really annoyed me though, was that rather than just coming round and having a word like normal human beings, they felt the need to lodge an official complaint against me.

As i say, it’s not like they play it at 4 in the morning

You’re lucky. That’s exactly when my neighbours, p*ssed up, let rip with endless replays of Mr Brightside by The Killers.

Polite words didn’t help, nor did belting on the wall. the only thing that seemed to do it was me waking him up at 7.30 on a Monday morning (after he’d kept me awake all sunday night) and b*ll*cking him as he stood there in his boxers. Chav tw*t.

My neighbours are a nightmare. Really posh students, that wake the entire street up every night on the way home from whatever club they have been in. Singing and shouting at 4 in the morning… every bloody night.

Occasionally I lose the head and go out telling them to shut up, and they usually do I don’t know if its because they realise that they have woken the whole street up or the sight of an irate semi naked scottish guy shouting at them. I don’t think they actually realise that they make that much noise.

I wouldn’t mind if I lived in a student area, Marchmont or Brunsfield etc where you expect it but I pay more in rent to live in the New Town on what was advertised as a quiet residential street.

TBH if you wanted to total peace and solitude you should have bought a cottage in the fields (would be nice woudlnt it! I’m currently working on trying to find one!) but I feel you pain. I like my quiet when I want my quiet, but likewise I like to be able to be noisy when I want so I can see their point too, and it is daytime and a weekend. My old boss would have said “you need to improve your time management skills if you’re working at weekends” 🙂

My neighbours are a nightmare. Really posh students, that wake the entire street up every night on the way home from whatever club they have been in. Singing and shouting at 4 in the morning… every bloody night.

Wonder if they went to a public school? 😉

kill them.

Napalm

We’re in a similar position. Neighbors recently split up, he moved out. That’s when the loud music started. We don’t mind loud music, and actually welcome it at times, as everyone likes to play loud music at some time. It’s when its everyday, and soo loud you can’t hear your own background music.

We thought it had calmed down after a neighbor 4 doors away complained and the police turned up at 3am asking them to turn it off.. We were wrong..

But this gave me a chance to test my amp, as I hadn’t used it in about year.. So I hooked up the trusty Peavey CS800x power amp to my RCF monitors and played music she didn’t like! (This was mainly love songs, I knew she didn’t like these as she’d been skipping these songs on her cd player; yup I’m evil at times!) This went quite well, I played 4 love songs, then a really nasty d&b tune, then turned it right down. This worked, I quickly got bored of playing love songs, and knew she’d probably welcome me turning the decks on! Her music was now a lot quieter. I did this a few times for a week, and it worked a little bit.

In the end, I went round and said we don’t mind loud music, but not everyday, or 3 times a day, and asked them to consider this. I did contemplate threatening her with a Celine Dion CD (no i don’t own one, but know someone who does!)

If I were you, I would record the times that the music is on.. If you do make a complaint to Environmental Health (i think), they will ask you to record the times for at least a month. So when you do get fed up, and complain, you have the proof there already.

or if its only in the daytime when you are supposed to be working, buy some ear defenders.

or if its only in the daytime when you are supposed to be working, buy some ear defenders.

That’s funny – that’s what the VC of Glasgow Caledonian University told our class when we complained that we couldn’t hear our lecturer. The VC’s underling had gone on holiday without giving the building contractors putting up a building next to ours the go-ahead, so work was going on well into the first term, including drilling/hammering down through several metres of bedrock.

The VC’s answer was that the lecturers and tutors could use a karaoke machine as an amp, and we could all wear ear defenders.

We weren’t too impressed, as we were postgrad students, and most of us had taken out big old loans to go on the course – which was organised by Strathclyde Uni.

We had the last laugh, though: the course was run by the Scottish Centre for Journalism, and was for training news journalists. We made some excellent contacts at The Scotsman, The Glasgow Herald, various London broadsheets and Private Eye as a result of that story…

I dont think theres much you can do. Ive been involved with a noisy neighbour- cured. however a friend of mine has suffered greatly for well over a year. Oh and last night nextdoors baby kept me away all night!

Someone wrote into Performance Bikes saying they had cured a similar problem by getting some mates to help carry his Fireblade up the stairs to his flat and then getting up at 3 in the morning to start the old girl up and dish out some revenge! 😀

Probably easier though to start by having a chat with them.

Oh yeah, I remember our previous neighbours keeping us awake till about 3am partying one Saturday night, but they didn’t know we were of to Brands Hatch WSB the next day, and at 7.30am I duly started up my race-canned Speed Triple in the back garden, virtually right under their bedroom window, then went inside to put my lid and jacket on whilst it warmed up a bit. When I came back out I could see her mouthing at me from the closed window, looking a right state, but I had a dark visor on and she couldn’t see me laughing at her….!

Evil? Me? Nooooo…..

Glad to see i’m not the only one. However, I do believe I must be near the top of the list for poor quality noise.

See, the chap next door believes himself to be the next Liam Gallagher and on return from the pub will fire up Guitar **** and scream into the microphone managing to be be simultaneously out of key, out of sync and out of breath until the early hours. I’ve been round once when he wouldn’t come to the door but made his wife talk to me. I’m reluctant to bang on his door when he has his mates round at two in the morning after they’ve been drinking for obvious reasons and he keeps himself scarce the rest of the time. I’ll catch him sooner or later and have a quiet chat.

Screw their front (and back) door shut. Pour petrol through letterbox, follow up with lit match. That’ll learn them.

Screw their front (and back) door shut. Pour petrol through letterbox, follow up with lit match. That’ll learn them.

Then wee in thier shoes.

grumm – Member

My neighbours are a nightmare. Really posh students, that wake the entire street up every night on the way home from whatever club they have been in. Singing and shouting at 4 in the morning… every bloody night.

Wonder if they went to a public school? [;)]

😆

I’ll catch him sooner or later and have a quiet chat.

Need to borrow some bombers?

I went to court over noisy neighbours, next door was divided into flats so a living room was next to my bedroom, and won. The owners(the council) had to soundproof the whole side of the house.

>It probably only goes on for about 2-3 hours max and is only during the day at the weekends.

I don’t think that’s too bad to be honest. I’d just put up with it.

I don’t think that’s too bad to be honest. I’d just put up with it.

It’s downright antisocial. Are you his neighbour by chance? 😀

Living in a flat I can honestly say there’s nothing worse than having to listen to other people going about their daily business while you’re trying to go about yours – drives me insane. To the point where I’d swap the flat for a caravan in a field if it were practical.

Flats vary coffeeking. In my last place, which appeared to have been built from paper, you could hear absolutely everything and it did get on my nerves. Made sure when I bought somewhere that it had very solid walls and don’t have any issues at all now. Can you move?

Oh, with regard to the OP, It is well worth having a chat with them. If you can, try mentioning it in conversation rather than banging on their door first. If they are reasonable they might understand your point of view. If not feel free to try the angry approach. As mentioned if nothing works then start recording dates and times then contact the council.

I’d be happy if my neighbour said it was too loud. (I asked once and she said never heard it)

Once in Paris with a old Girlfriend were at it and the bloke next was banging on the walls as we making too much noise -in the daytime too. 😈

The nerve of People eh?

Ask them to play your favorite stuff?

If it’s bad-contact environmental health or someone at the council.

Record it on AV as proof.

My neighbours are abject scum, and whilst I’m quite a fan of old skool rave, having it drill through my walls at all hours seemed to dull the usual aural pleasure I would get from it. But after having a respectful chat to him, in the intimidating presence of his boozed up jobless ‘would be worth more dead’ mates, it has had the desired effect and relative calm has descended. With the addition of the odd follow up ‘turn it down please, youth’ things are good.

The neighbour the other side of him has adopted a far more aggressive stance, and has had a few ‘incidents’.

Problem is you never know how any approach will go till you try it 😕

I have a megaphone if you’d like to borrow it?

My advice would be to have a few goes at asking nicely, perhaps once at the time on the night, and then follow it up later on the next morning. A lot of folk are pished in the early hours and quite aggresively defensive about it if you go in heavy at the time, so just asking to turn it down nicely at the time would be best , then walk off. Waiting till the next day and bringing it up again means your more likely to get the person once they’ve sobered up and more open to reasoned argument.

Failing that , then the council / noise nuisance teams can come along, measure the volumes and slap fixed penalty fines on them then and there if they are on a second warning ( well, they can and do round my way anyhow, i have to go and escort them as they hand over the fines )

Personally, if i get called to it, its a case of warning them to turn it down otherwise if i’m back later on, i’ll be walking out with the equipment in hand ( to me that includes people ! ) … works most of the time.

Swoosh, just to add. Your predictiment sounds the same as mine. Every night recently the neighbours nipper has been crying all night. GF wants me to go round and stop the noise. Impossible. Same as your situation. Friend in Edinburgh lives in a teniment flat in the centre and shes self employed/works from home. Neighbour downstairs plays Reggae music and the bass winds her up. I’d recommend sound proofing your walls.
…and be grateful its not during the night. Don’t ask me about ‘Ring of Fire’. It turns me into a raving, loony psycho everytime I hear that song now.

and it burn burns burns … the ring of fire

that one ?

Shudders

wigan council have a nice page on their website for dealing with this. They say all the above really. go round at a quiet time and ask nicely. invite them to start the music up and then come round to your house/flat so they can hear just how loud it is (I would imagine most people don’t actually realise how intrusive it can be). If this doesn’t work they have a downloable form where you can enter the dates and times of the noise and present it to their noise monitoring people who will come round for a listen with their electronic ears.

If all this fails, say wigan council, own ’em with a pair of bombers.

In the flat I used to live in I tried the nice chat, tried the not so nice chat. In the end one night at around 1.30am all the fuses out of their fuse box vanished that stopped the music. Didnt have a problem after they paid a sparks lots of money on the sunday to replace them.

Heh! I’m the noisy neighbour!

One miserable old sow came complaining about me music one afternoon; it was a bit of the old Ludwig Van! The Glorious Ninth! Told her she should be grateful for such a cultural treat (did have to refrain from a bit of the old ultraviolence, my devoted reader). She went of to the local housing office to complain. Bod popped round later, as they are obliged to. Explained that she was always moaning about this that or the other, just a lonely old woman, really. A bit sad.

COME DOWN SELECTOR!

Another time she complained, was after the 2005 Champions’ League Final.

I admit, though, ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’, at full blast, at 10.30 pm, was a little bit naughty of me…

I did apologise to most of my neighbours, the next day. None of them minded, as they’d all been watching the game!