Odd things your neighbours do?
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CivicDuties said:
You want noise, try living next to someone whose kid is a basketball enthusiast. Christ. Once the ball itself has inevitably flown over the fence and landed on my patio table, even keeping it my side as long as possible doesn't help because he just deploys his infinite collection of footballs as substitutes. Bounce bounce bounce bangy bang bang rattle rattle rattle whoooop. Repeat ad infinitum. I'm beginning to pray for the rains to never end. How the parents put up with it I don't know.
That would very much do my nut. 
I think a lot of people are just selfish and simply can’t think of anyone else than themselves
Years ago we purchased a do er upper and I was very considerate of the neighbours and noise, I thought they appreciated it
We had a baby and out of the blue the dozy sod next door started drilling at 2130 on a Sunday evening.
I let it slide for an hour in case it was some urgent work, when I knocked on the door he just looked puzzled at why I was asking him to stop
The house was an old ex authority house with concrete gutters and also needed a new roof (concrete gutters are fine until they are not, then you are in all sorts of lining / leaking / seeping)
I got a quote for a new roof and sanding off of the gutters to be replaced with conventional guttering
For arguments sake let’s say they wanted 25 grand to do my half and 32 to do mine and the other half of semi all done at the same time. (So basically a tiny material cost difference)
At the time i couldn’t really stretch to get mine done but could if I could get next door involved we’d both get it done a lot cheaper and a MUCH neater job. I approached him and he wasn’t really interested which is fine
A year or so later his mum dies and he gets some inheritance
I was asleep in bed and hear a scaffolding start to go up, the daft sod is only getting his done, this annoyed me as the overlap always becomes a gray area.
He had it all done and I asked how much he paid, it was roughly the same as I was quoted, he would have saved himself about 10k if we’d had it done together. I can only think he either didn’t think of others or he didn’t like me
Thankfully we had decided to move and moved on before our roof and gutters became a problem, so in hindsight his selfishness was a blessing but I still can’t figure out the thought process
Years ago we purchased a do er upper and I was very considerate of the neighbours and noise, I thought they appreciated it
We had a baby and out of the blue the dozy sod next door started drilling at 2130 on a Sunday evening.
I let it slide for an hour in case it was some urgent work, when I knocked on the door he just looked puzzled at why I was asking him to stop
The house was an old ex authority house with concrete gutters and also needed a new roof (concrete gutters are fine until they are not, then you are in all sorts of lining / leaking / seeping)
I got a quote for a new roof and sanding off of the gutters to be replaced with conventional guttering
For arguments sake let’s say they wanted 25 grand to do my half and 32 to do mine and the other half of semi all done at the same time. (So basically a tiny material cost difference)
At the time i couldn’t really stretch to get mine done but could if I could get next door involved we’d both get it done a lot cheaper and a MUCH neater job. I approached him and he wasn’t really interested which is fine
A year or so later his mum dies and he gets some inheritance
I was asleep in bed and hear a scaffolding start to go up, the daft sod is only getting his done, this annoyed me as the overlap always becomes a gray area.
He had it all done and I asked how much he paid, it was roughly the same as I was quoted, he would have saved himself about 10k if we’d had it done together. I can only think he either didn’t think of others or he didn’t like me
Thankfully we had decided to move and moved on before our roof and gutters became a problem, so in hindsight his selfishness was a blessing but I still can’t figure out the thought process
Reading these last few pages makes me glad to live in a house with 3ft thick stone walls in a forest in the arse end of nowhere - probably wise given we have a couple of dogs that like to enthusiastically announce the arrival of anyone within half a mile.
There is occasionally a noisy b
d of an owl who likes to sit on the roof hooting half the night though!
There is occasionally a noisy b
d of an owl who likes to sit on the roof hooting half the night though! Cotty said:
borcy said:
Kid noise and road noise are similar in that people just zone them out after a while. Building noise is harder to zone out.
Can be similar with dogs. There is no one as deaf as the owner of a barking dog.Snow and Rocks said:
Reading these last few pages makes me glad to live in a house with 3ft thick stone walls in a forest in the arse end of nowhere - probably wise given we have a couple of dogs that like to enthusiastically announce the arrival of anyone within half a mile.
There is occasionally a noisy bd of an owl who likes to sit on the roof hooting half the night though!
Foxes can be noisy bThere is occasionally a noisy b
d of an owl who likes to sit on the roof hooting half the night though! ds too.
Sporky said:
CivicDuties said:
You want noise, try living next to someone whose kid is a basketball enthusiast. Christ. Once the ball itself has inevitably flown over the fence and landed on my patio table, even keeping it my side as long as possible doesn't help because he just deploys his infinite collection of footballs as substitutes. Bounce bounce bounce bangy bang bang rattle rattle rattle whoooop. Repeat ad infinitum. I'm beginning to pray for the rains to never end. How the parents put up with it I don't know.
That would very much do my nut. 
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