Noisy Neighbours

[SawTooTH]

Well it had to happen sometime, but I now live next door to a young couple who like nothing better than having their mates around for a good old shout.
Usually this goes on until 2 to 4am, obviously keeping me awake.

Did I say they also play guitars loudly at this time? No I didnt, but they do that sort of thing too, and badly.

I forgot to mention the vomit. Yes one of their friends puked over the short wall separating our houses, in front of our door.

Now being reasonable and wearing rubber gloves, I collected the stuff and duly put it in front of their own door. The idea was to give them the same life experience I had received and hopefully teach them something. One of them later stepped in it.

Previous contact with these people has been very unsatisfactory. Typical denial of obvious wrongdoing (stuff my kids would try ) so I have some sense that talking would'nt go beyond the "yes you did, no I didnt", type of affair.

Now my philosophy tends to escalate things, you know wait until they are asleep, 8am, and decide to have a heavy metal session (Motorheads a good choice).

This doesnt really make things better but has a short term sense of gratification. After all why should they sleep if I havent? But you can tell that Im not really happy doing this as I should know better and it is kinda old testament really. So

Id be interested to know what others would do?

 

[pcg79]

have you tried calling the noise people (i forget the name)

 

[SawTooTH]

Not yet but my behaviour doesnt make me any better at the moment. Also its the sporadic nature of it, you know holiday seasons and post footy celebrations. Im not against parties but I need sleep. Maybe if I dont react then do as you say.

 

[gmloki]

Beat the living shit out of them. Usually focuses the mind

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Don't use Motorhead, they're actually good.

If you want to hurt someone's ears with loud metal, try the awful sounds of Dimmu Borgir or some other black metal band from the murky depths of Norway. Be warned though, such shouting and hideous 'playing' will hurt your ears a lot. But, if unexpected, might possibly kill your neighbours from the shock.

 

[Cyfr]

Cut their power supply. No seriously, do .

 

[Trem]

I've often thought what it would be like to have shit neighbours(ours are an elderly couple), and I dread to think what I would do in your situation. It would quite possibly end in violence of that I am sure, I would lie in bed hearing the noise, I would lie there for an hour or so then I believe that I would explode and storm round there and drag them out. Now if they are a bit too scary for that sort of thing I would go round there with the thing I have in my loft(Throddy knows) and my mate and that would sort it out.

We have a twat across the road who parks his big white van 3 foot away from the curb then decides to rev the tits off it every night and put it in his drive, they are moving though

 

[Wij]

Explain the loft thing.

 

[Trem]

No way

 

[Wij]

No way

In that case I give up.

 

[Gray]

I would go round there with the thing I have in my loft(Throddy knows) and my mate and that would sort it out.

Badger?

 

[Tom]

Have you tried having a serious discussion about it? It sounds like you have, so they're clearly bell-ends who need removing.

Don't get involved with tit-for-tat exchanges, you'll always lose more than they will.

Are they council tenants? You can have them evicted if they are. If not, I suggest you go to your local council office and explain the situation. Keep a log of everything they do. Make some recordings (video camera is best).

There isn't much beyond the above that you can do.

 

[Jonaldo]

Just call the police next time they are making a lot of noise. It's part of their job to investigate and resolve public disturbances.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Just call the police next time they are making a lot of noise. It's part of their job to investigate and resolve public disturbances.

Go the council method: don't waste police time. Seriously, how would you feel if your mate got stabbed but police didn't respond quick enough because they were sorting out noise levels at a house?

 

[JBP|]

if i remember correctly if you complain to the police and they will pay them a visit to tell them to turn it down abit

if the situation continues i believe the police are able to enter the house and remove such items that are causing you distress i.e hi-fi equipment and musical instruments.

however depending on the nature of your neighbours when they are not partying such action could possably end up with you getting a punch in the eye

i would suggest talking to the neighbours on the other side of them and get them to do it if possible

 

[The-Don]

if i remember correctly if you complain to the police and they will pay them a visit to tell them to turn it down abit

I thought it had to go to the council and be dealt with by 'noise control' first?

 

[Gumbo]

Environmental Health Officers.

 

[Jonaldo]

We have more than one police officer working at a time here in Basildon

 

[xane]

The Police will not investigate noise complaints, I've tried that route, you have to go to the Environmental Health department.

Unfortunately, their office is closed during the hours when you need them, i.e. 4am guitar sessions. What they actually do is assemble a list of complaints and then take action, rather than come round and tell people to STFU.

The best course of action is the collaberate with neighbours you do get on with, and compile a regular list of complaints to the council authorities and eventually they will have to do something. This takes a while but is well worth it if you don't want to get directly involved.

I'm sorry that's the only way. Immediate action is not forthcoming unless you do it yourself, and then you'll be just as lawless as they are.

My advice for counteracting electronically generated noise (stereo, guitars, etc), is get an old CB set, plus 100W burner, put the aerial horizontally next to the wall and fire it up a few times, with luck it'll blow their speakers out first time, if not the hum will soon shut them up.

 

[xane]

One thing I forgot. If people are up till 4am then most likely they'll still be asleep at 10am, this is the time you conduct _your_ music sessions as its quite possibly perfectly legal and acceptable at that hour in the day, otherwise you leave yourself open to prosecution for the same thing.

 

[JBP|]

I thought it had to go to the council and be dealt with by 'noise control' first?

tbh i thought they had changed it all in the last 12 months or so because it is becomming a rather common problem

i could be wrong though

 

[xane]

http://www.nfh.org.uk/

 

[Xtro]

I used to have this problem.

I knocked on the fuckers door and chinned the ****.

 

[throdgrain]

Listen. Dont, DO NOT , mess with the thing Tremor has in the loft.

OK ?

 

[Trem]

Don't mess with the thing Throddy has in his pants either, DO NOT!!

 

[~Yuckfou~]

We had similar problems with 2 of our neighbours, next door and the house next to them.
The far house had a dog that barked ALL day long when they were out, ruining an otherwise quite cul-de-sac. Next door had a dog too, theirs was louder (alsatian) but less frequent. One Sunday afternoon while enjoying the peace and quite they let the ally out and then went out themselves. It barked for 2 hours. When they came home I decided to take the tactful approach, we were on reasonable "neighbour" terms, surely he would listen. I went around to his driveway, he was tidying up. The back garden gate was open, "Hi Andy, can we have a chat?" He instantly went on the defensive, the dog came legging out, looked at me and went for my balls. Now since I was a baby our family have always had large dogs, mastiffs rotties and so on. A single big dog does not worry me much. Anyway I nailed his dog to the wall with my leg, using my body weight to hold it there, leaving both hands free. I asked him if he was going to get it under control or should I? He was sooo pissed off, the look on his face was priceless.
He got hold of the dog and locked it up. Then I asked if he knew it was barking, and for him to stop it as it was wrecking our peace. It stopped. After that though they started playing music very loud. So, one Sunday as we were going out I put my stereo speakers to the ajoining wall, put on a dance CD (heavy repetitive bass), turned up the volume, selected repeat and went out for the rest of the day. The music stopped.

The house next door to them was funny. Given the confrontational meeting I had Mrs Yuck went around. Only the guy was in, he listened to what was said, his response " It's a good job my wife isn't in!". What? would we have had a bitch fight? Comical. Any way the barking stopped.

Before these incidents I had spoken with the local council, they can do NOTHING until you have kept a diary of all the incidents for several weeks. Then they send an officer around, again pointless unless in your case they come in the early hours of the morning.

What would I do in your case?
Have a discreet conversation with the guy in the house. Ask nicely that you all live in harmony rather than live in anger. If that doesn't work hurt him.

 

[Mofo8]

I experienced a wee bit of this kind of thing in my last flat. Sometimes my neighbour would have a few friends round, and play really loud rap music (usually when I was trying to get to sleep 'cause I was up at 6am for work). It wasn't every night, or even every weekend, and I was on talking terms, so if it got really bad I'd just knock his door and ask him nicely to keep it down a bit.

There was a young ned who moved in upstairs though (not above me thank god). He was an unemployed waster and after he moved in he liked to play loud music every fucking night. One night he actually had his huge speakers balanced on the ledge outside his window so the whole bloody street had to listen to a mixture between Eminem and sectarian Orange songs. This hugely pleased my neighbour (below the fucker) who was a rabid Celtic fan. He spent at least an hour with a broomhandle, leaning out his window trying to nudge the speakers so they'd crash to the ground 3 floors below.

I couldn't be arsed with that. Phoned the Police. They came round and warned him. They then left and came back 5 minutes later, knowing full well he'd start again. The took his stereo and arrested him and some of his mates for Breach of the Peace... a most excellent charge in Scottish Law that covers just about anything you want it to.

 

[Bullitt]

We have a slightly similar problem with our neighbours at the mo, every morning at about 6am the bloke decides to go into his kids bedroom and shout at it in Urdu (sp?) over and over. Occasionally he uses english to mock it (the kid is about 3 years old by my guess). Not only does it wake me up it's also a fucking disgrace. We're tempted to phone child protection type people.

However on the other hand we're students and every week we go out with a few mates that stay over. We don't listen to loud music however and just play games (quite loudly) so i suppose it's a bit of give and take with us.

 

[SawTooTH]

Im thinking of the council route and keeping notes etc on times etc. The neighbours on the other side have two small children so I imagine they feel the same (though they keep themselves to themselves a lot)

Before I do that Im willing to try and convince them to turn it down a bit but to be honest listening to the state they were in last night I dont believe it would be a rational conversation then. Maybe nows a good time to talk rather than let them keep repeating the same thing.

 

[jaba]

I used to have this problem.

I knocked on the fuckers door and chinned the ****.

I like Xtros approach, although not sure its the most legal way! hehe.

Xane how exactly did that CB thing work? and whats a 100W burner? I wanna learn fun things!