Noisy neighbour, no chance, the whole street is at it!
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I've just got home and I'm sitting in my garden counting my blessings of were I live, though surrounded by houses we all go about our business whithout effecting other people. In contrast I've been working away for just over a week, staying at a friends, who was on holiday, so I was doing a bit of house sitting and a few things like watering the garden and cutting the grass of an evening, he lives in to me, what would seem a very nice area, but everyone has to make so much noise, lots and lots!
Neighbour 1 spent most evenings (about 4 hours) pressure washing every evening with a machine that could wake the dead.
Neighbour 2 moved his car at least 3 times an evening for no apprent reason and literally had to blip the throttle 100 times before letting the clutch up each time they moved.
Neighbour 3 insisted on parking 75% on the pavement blocking it, even though they had an empty drive and the road was a good 15 ft wide, and would sit in it for 10 minutes engine running, windows open with radio 4 at full volume each evening when they came home.
Neighbour 4 had all windows open and teenage kids playing computer games, doing so shouting to the extent I could hear them over the TV with the doors and windows shut, every evening, all evening
I'm I just lucky or is my friend a noisy b
d and doesn't notice, or is it just how selfish people are these days?
Neighbour 1 spent most evenings (about 4 hours) pressure washing every evening with a machine that could wake the dead.
Neighbour 2 moved his car at least 3 times an evening for no apprent reason and literally had to blip the throttle 100 times before letting the clutch up each time they moved.
Neighbour 3 insisted on parking 75% on the pavement blocking it, even though they had an empty drive and the road was a good 15 ft wide, and would sit in it for 10 minutes engine running, windows open with radio 4 at full volume each evening when they came home.
Neighbour 4 had all windows open and teenage kids playing computer games, doing so shouting to the extent I could hear them over the TV with the doors and windows shut, every evening, all evening
I'm I just lucky or is my friend a noisy b
d and doesn't notice, or is it just how selfish people are these days?MajorProblem said:
What sort of estate is it?
It look to me that everyone had:A job
Their own teeth
(Not checked but) a standard size TV and carpets on the floors
Wheelie bins stored at the back of the house
House numbers not spray painted next to the front door
It's all private late 60's housing without speed humps in the road, with nice front gardens and some nice looking motors on the drives, looks a good place to live, if your hard of hearing
A large proportion of the general public are complete s, who couldn't give a flying fk about how their actions effect others. Two of the houses next to me were owned by quiet, considerate people that we got on with when we moved in. The houses have since been sold. Our immediate neighbours are now a pair of miserable wkers who won't speak to us, despite our attempts to be friendly and polite when we see then outside. Whenever they have visitors they let them park so that the car blocks access to our drive.
The house the other side of that there is a family consisting of a fat mess of a mother (who gets referred to as barney the dinosaur on account of her purple hair), a taxi driver who thinks it's OK to park on other peoples' drives when they're out, and three feral offspring.
The wife parks on their front lawn, and he parks the taxi fully outside their drive/car port in the (relatively tight) close, while their car port is used as toy storage. The behaviour of the brats was a part of the reason our immediate neighbours moved out. Last summer they were throwing stones around the close and smashed their car window, amongst other despicable behaviour.
The rest of our close is fine. My oldest friend lives opposite, attached to us are a couple that we get on fine with, but don't really have much to do with each other, and opposite them is a teacher and midwife. I play golf with the teacher. It's just these other two houses that stop it being a perfectly relaxing corner of the estate.
Tl;dr..... People ares. Count yourself lucky.
s, who couldn't give a flying fk about how their actions effect others. Two of the houses next to me were owned by quiet, considerate people that we got on with when we moved in. The houses have since been sold. Our immediate neighbours are now a pair of miserable wkers who won't speak to us, despite our attempts to be friendly and polite when we see then outside. Whenever they have visitors they let them park so that the car blocks access to our drive. The house the other side of that there is a family consisting of a fat mess of a mother (who gets referred to as barney the dinosaur on account of her purple hair), a taxi driver who thinks it's OK to park on other peoples' drives when they're out, and three feral offspring.
The wife parks on their front lawn, and he parks the taxi fully outside their drive/car port in the (relatively tight) close, while their car port is used as toy storage. The behaviour of the brats was a part of the reason our immediate neighbours moved out. Last summer they were throwing stones around the close and smashed their car window, amongst other despicable behaviour.
The rest of our close is fine. My oldest friend lives opposite, attached to us are a couple that we get on fine with, but don't really have much to do with each other, and opposite them is a teacher and midwife. I play golf with the teacher. It's just these other two houses that stop it being a perfectly relaxing corner of the estate.
Tl;dr..... People are
s. Count yourself lucky. It is funny how big a difference good neighbours make.
We have excellent neighbours who we get on so well with. If any one of us is about to do anything noisey like use a pressure washer we let each other know and vice versa. In saying that all of us are also accepting that noise is going to happen that can be percieved as annoying to some but when houses are built that close - what do you expect.
The main thing is though that they are considerate as much as possible and that is all I ask for, I don't pretend to be a perfect neighbour but would like to consider myself a really good one.
One of the main reasons I have not sold our house and moved on to something else is due to the neighbours I like very much.
We have excellent neighbours who we get on so well with. If any one of us is about to do anything noisey like use a pressure washer we let each other know and vice versa. In saying that all of us are also accepting that noise is going to happen that can be percieved as annoying to some but when houses are built that close - what do you expect.
The main thing is though that they are considerate as much as possible and that is all I ask for, I don't pretend to be a perfect neighbour but would like to consider myself a really good one.
One of the main reasons I have not sold our house and moved on to something else is due to the neighbours I like very much.
I don't live on an estate and all the neighbours are spread out by hundreds of yards, but you can still get noise.
One day last year it was a beautiful sunny day, first one after a prolonged period of rain. I was in the front garden and all I could hear - ALL - was strimmers, mowers and chainsaws. Everyone it seemed had rushed out to catch up on the gardening. The noise was simply insane.
I suppose at least it proves that they care enough to do their gardening.
One day last year it was a beautiful sunny day, first one after a prolonged period of rain. I was in the front garden and all I could hear - ALL - was strimmers, mowers and chainsaws. Everyone it seemed had rushed out to catch up on the gardening. The noise was simply insane.
I suppose at least it proves that they care enough to do their gardening.
Move to Germany. If you make any noise outside of the approved hours the police are called.
If your neighbour catches you hanging the laundry out at the wrong time/day. The police are called
If your neighbour catches you mowing your lawn at the wrong time/day. The police are called.
You kinda get used to it after a while. But not many phers would move here do to you not being able to wash your car at home without special drain filters..
If your neighbour catches you hanging the laundry out at the wrong time/day. The police are called
If your neighbour catches you mowing your lawn at the wrong time/day. The police are called.
You kinda get used to it after a while. But not many phers would move here do to you not being able to wash your car at home without special drain filters..
Lord said:
said: Move to Germany. If you make any noise outside of the approved hours the police are called.
If your neighbour catches you hanging the laundry out at the wrong time/day. The police are called
If your neighbour catches you mowing your lawn at the wrong time/day. The police are called.
You kinda get used to it after a while. But not many phers would move here do to you not being able to wash your car at home without special drain filters..
To be fair, they used to call the Gestapo to denounce their friends and neighbours so I suppose there has been a slight improvement.If your neighbour catches you hanging the laundry out at the wrong time/day. The police are called
If your neighbour catches you mowing your lawn at the wrong time/day. The police are called.
You kinda get used to it after a while. But not many phers would move here do to you not being able to wash your car at home without special drain filters..
OP sounds like he was visiting my terrace.
One neighbour has a voice you could hear from the moon and does everything loudly.
One neighbour has two dogs that bark constantly when he's not there.
One pair of neighbours insist on engaging me in trivial conversation every time they see me in the garden, to the extent I run up to the garage ducked under the fence line if they are about.He us the kind of bloke who feels the need to tell you how to do anything you are trying to do at that point.
One family are self described as musical, and have little jam sessions in their allegedly sound proof garage.
Oh, and everyone peeps their horn if they see someone they know, or if arriving/leaving.
I'm moving to a cottage at the end of a dead end lane.
fk the lot of them.
One neighbour has a voice you could hear from the moon and does everything loudly.
One neighbour has two dogs that bark constantly when he's not there.
One pair of neighbours insist on engaging me in trivial conversation every time they see me in the garden, to the extent I run up to the garage ducked under the fence line if they are about.He us the kind of bloke who feels the need to tell you how to do anything you are trying to do at that point.
One family are self described as musical, and have little jam sessions in their allegedly sound proof garage.
Oh, and everyone peeps their horn if they see someone they know, or if arriving/leaving.
I'm moving to a cottage at the end of a dead end lane.
f
k the lot of them.
Johnnytheboy said:
OP sounds like he was visiting my terrace.
One neighbour has a voice you could hear from the moon and does everything loudly.
One neighbour has two dogs that bark constantly when he's not there.
One pair of neighbours insist on engaging me in trivial conversation every time they see me in the garden, to the extent I run up to the garage ducked under the fence line if they are about.He us the kind of bloke who feels the need to tell you how to do anything you are trying to do at that point.
One family are self described as musical, and have little jam sessions in their allegedly sound proof garage.
Oh, and everyone peeps their horn if they see someone they know, or if arriving/leaving.
I'm moving to a cottage at the end of a dead end lane.
fk the lot of them.
To be fair apart from shouty man and barking dogs (I *hate* barking dogs) they all sound quite pleasant. There are a lot worse ways for neighbours to be annoying.One neighbour has a voice you could hear from the moon and does everything loudly.
One neighbour has two dogs that bark constantly when he's not there.
One pair of neighbours insist on engaging me in trivial conversation every time they see me in the garden, to the extent I run up to the garage ducked under the fence line if they are about.He us the kind of bloke who feels the need to tell you how to do anything you are trying to do at that point.
One family are self described as musical, and have little jam sessions in their allegedly sound proof garage.
Oh, and everyone peeps their horn if they see someone they know, or if arriving/leaving.
I'm moving to a cottage at the end of a dead end lane.
f
k the lot of them.Dog Star said:
Johnnytheboy said:
OP sounds like he was visiting my terrace.
One neighbour has a voice you could hear from the moon and does everything loudly.
One neighbour has two dogs that bark constantly when he's not there.
One pair of neighbours insist on engaging me in trivial conversation every time they see me in the garden, to the extent I run up to the garage ducked under the fence line if they are about.He us the kind of bloke who feels the need to tell you how to do anything you are trying to do at that point.
One family are self described as musical, and have little jam sessions in their allegedly sound proof garage.
Oh, and everyone peeps their horn if they see someone they know, or if arriving/leaving.
I'm moving to a cottage at the end of a dead end lane.
fk the lot of them.
To be fair apart from shouty man and barking dogs (I *hate* barking dogs) they all sound quite pleasant. There are a lot worse ways for neighbours to be annoying.One neighbour has a voice you could hear from the moon and does everything loudly.
One neighbour has two dogs that bark constantly when he's not there.
One pair of neighbours insist on engaging me in trivial conversation every time they see me in the garden, to the extent I run up to the garage ducked under the fence line if they are about.He us the kind of bloke who feels the need to tell you how to do anything you are trying to do at that point.
One family are self described as musical, and have little jam sessions in their allegedly sound proof garage.
Oh, and everyone peeps their horn if they see someone they know, or if arriving/leaving.
I'm moving to a cottage at the end of a dead end lane.
f
k the lot of them.Musical family's music is terrible.
The horn peeping drives me crazy.
It's the sheer remorseless hum of pointless interruption that gets to me, it makes me really think twice about spending time outside in my leisure time.
Worst neighbour we ever knew had a stock car,mustn't have been very good at it, go racing on Sundays,then spend the next 5 evenings hammering, welding, grinding and swearing at his car.
Wife went and had a friendly word with his partner, she'd also had enough of the racket herself and it stopped for a while, few weeks later it started again when his partner went visiting her sister, the wife snapped and told him if he carried on she would attach the welder to his dangly bits.
I missed all of this because of working late shifts.
Wife went and had a friendly word with his partner, she'd also had enough of the racket herself and it stopped for a while, few weeks later it started again when his partner went visiting her sister, the wife snapped and told him if he carried on she would attach the welder to his dangly bits.
I missed all of this because of working late shifts.
netherfield said:
Worst neighbour we ever knew had a stock car,mustn't have been very good at it, go racing on Sundays,then spend the next 5 evenings hammering, welding, grinding and swearing at his car.
Wife went and had a friendly word with his partner, she'd also had enough of the racket herself and it stopped for a while, few weeks later it started again when his partner went visiting her sister, the wife snapped and told him if he carried on she would attach the welder to his dangly bits.
I missed all of this because of working late shifts.
Actually everything I have seen in regards to stock car racing suggests he was actually quite good if it was A) Repairable and B) Only took 5 evenings to repair!Wife went and had a friendly word with his partner, she'd also had enough of the racket herself and it stopped for a while, few weeks later it started again when his partner went visiting her sister, the wife snapped and told him if he carried on she would attach the welder to his dangly bits.
I missed all of this because of working late shifts.
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