Chavvy neighbors - final straw

[gh0st]

After being kept up until around 5am, and asking twice for the chavvy kids next door to at least close their bedroom window if they are going to shout, scream, play loud crap music and stuff - I have just submitted a nuisence noise application form to the council offices.

Any idea what happens now? Do they contact me first or the neighbors first?

I have asked more than three times politely for them to keep it down and all they do is say "yeah sorry mate", close the window for 20 mins then open in and carry on. Language was enough to make me blush from what I heard and Im not exactly a saint!

Grrrr

A tired and peed off gh0st

[tallbloke]

Keep a diary of times and events.
Record some examples if you can. Easy to make your own directional microphone with a paper cone.

[rich1231]

Yep,

your neighbours will get a copy of the report and want to talk to you :-)

[chris_freebie]

I saw this on telly once, the woman secretly filmed it, left it running when they were out etc and got more than enough to have the courts summond them.

[gh0st]

rich1231 said:

Yep, your neighbours will get a copy of the report and want to talk to you :-)

Not scared of em luckily. Just pissed off about being kept up all night

[Uriel]

I'm interested in this too since I've just had a new guy move in to the flat below me and he and his mates play the most god awful music at obscene volumes way into the little hours. I've asked him to keep it down and he does for the remainder of that night, but then next night it's back to the same levels. I'm talking cups rattling on my coffee table at 3 in the morning. His music heard in my flat is louder than I would feel comfortable playing from my own hi-fi during the middle of the day!

He seems like a bit of a scumbag so am a bit concerned about getting councils and police involved since I could easily see trouble starting, cars being keyed and so on.

[tallbloke]

Borrow a really noise hoover and crash it around above his bedroom at 8am.

[gh0st]

I might start rev-testing my motorbike in the back garden every morning before i go to work

[puggit]

Are you renting or owning your property gh0st? If you own it you'll need to tell prospective buyers about your problems with neighbours...

[scared but happy]

To be honest mate you are on your own! We had druggies playing music for 3am onwards, Needles around the bins. Doors smashed in. Fighting. It was HELL!! The bastards were so bad we had a police escort off the estate. Police cannot do sod all as all their powers have been took off them, council could not give a toss. I had a nervious breakdown over it and the wife now has a ulserated mouth brought on by stress. so I know what you are going through. The council will sort the problem out but it will take upto a year, yes by all means keep making a diary but their hands are tied, the only way they can evict is via court order (mainly incase you are just ganging up on them etc). The best thing to do like us is just keep pestering them (council) until they are sick of you. Also contact your doctor as medical reasons are a good plus point. But in the end you will be the one that moves, as we were told by the council "it is easier to move you than them". As per usual the lowlife scum always wins, I expect they have thier own social worker, on benifits and are "disabled", sorry you lose
(I am assuming you are council)

[gh0st]

Good news -

I rent this house so i really couldnt give a flying one about disputes.

Landlady came round today to do a routine inspection and decides that she wants to sell the house as there is too much work that needs to be done to get it up to scratch (new carpets, radiator etc...).

I am paying too much rent here anyway but now she has advised me she is selling it kind of takes away the awkwardness of it all.

Yay! Im free soon

I can put up with it for a couple more months. lived with it for this long and usually they are scared shitless of me

[c c]

Don’t forget to leave them something to remember you by

[gh0st]

c c said:

Don’t forget to leave them something to remember you by

Well top marks go to my mate Gary who said this

"Butter some bread and start throwing it through the open window. You can be damn sure that the bread will always land butter side down thus really annoying them when it lands"

[DrDeAtH]

the old 'dog poo on the door handle' trick works quite well..... and is a treat to watch.....

[groucho]

Give em a cuff round the lugs.

[tinman0]

Uriel said:

I'm interested in this too since I've just had a new guy move in to the flat below me and he and his mates play the most god awful music at obscene volumes way into the little hours. I've asked him to keep it down and he does for the remainder of that night, but then next night it's back to the same levels. I'm talking cups rattling on my coffee table at 3 in the morning. His music heard in my flat is louder than I would feel comfortable playing from my own hi-fi during the middle of the day! He seems like a bit of a scumbag so am a bit concerned about getting councils and police involved since I could easily see trouble starting, cars being keyed and so on.

i wondered about creating a device that taps on the floor (their ceiling). these people have to sleep at sometime - eg while you are at work. so you just leave this device tapping once every 4 seconds.

tap



tap



tap



tap



tap

[gh0st]

Since this is an old terrace house, im wondering, if i go into the attic will there be a crawlspace into their attic by fault of design? Could be a use for a "tapper" up there set on a timer

[tuttle]

Ghost,the Noise Abatement Society will take interest in your case.Keep a log of disturbances,they will send round a man with a bunch if microphones to monitor time & level of noise(only decent use of a db meter!)
Instructions on how to complain etc,to them here:
www.noiseabatementsociety.com/

[tuttle]

Similar to the TAP device my son has a Drip...drip...drip device,starts working when its dark(photo-sensitive switch I suppose).Its really loud & irritating.He got it for a couple of quid from a joke shop.

[parrot of doom]

Cut their aerial and telephone cables as they run down the wall.

The cables are stretched tight, so there will be no slack to reconnect them.

Utterly annoying.