Thuds from next door

[thebraketester]

Kick a ball against the wall of their bedrooms at 2am.

[kev b]

There are lots of threads about neighbour problems, but seldom does anyone report a successful resolution.

[DonkeyApple]

kev b said:

There are lots of threads about neighbour problems, but seldom does anyone report a successful resolution.

Short of one of the parties involved moving I don't think there is a solution. If you end up living next door to one of those 'types' there is just a fundamental mismatch of education and civility that can't really be resolved without one of the parties moving or the the kind of solution which is against the law.

[p1esk]

kev b said:

I feel your pain OP, I live in a detached house in a good area, all my neighbours are great.

Apart from next door who let their dogs outside to bark at all hours of night and day making it impossible to enjoy a lie in, an afternoon nap, an early night or to sit in the garden in peace.

The animals are left inside unattended in the daytime, barking constantly and worse still they eventually set off every dog in the village.

The owners sit in their garden with their dogs barking and just ignore them, seemingly unable to hear the noise.

You cannot reason with people like this and they are free to cause annoyance to their neighbours without recourse.

I'm not sure that it is without recourse. There may come a point where it's deemed disturbing enough for the local authority to take action. You may care to explore that possibility.

Edited by p1esk on Monday 4th December 13:56

[anonymous-user]

p1esk said:

kev b said:

I feel your pain OP, I live in a detached house in a good area, all my neighbours are great.

Apart from next door who let their dogs outside to bark at all hours of night and day making it impossible to enjoy a lie in, an afternoon nap, an early night or to sit in the garden in peace.

The animals are left inside unattended in the daytime, barking constantly and worse still they eventually set off every dog in the village.

The owners sit in their garden with their dogs barking and just ignore them, seemingly unable to hear the noise.

You cannot reason with people like this and they are free to cause annoyance to their neighbours without recourse.

I'm not sure that it is without recourse. There may come a point where it's deemed disturbing enough for the local authority to take action. You may care to explore that possibility.

Edited by p1esk on Monday 4th December 13:56

Agreed. You need to recorded all the times that the disturbance occurs. Record the noise itself where feasible. Then make a diary of all this and present to the council who have a duty to investigate.

[kev b]

Thanks for the advice guys, I have not escalated any action as their house is up for sale but it’s not sold in over a year so unlikely to any time soon.

I will try the sensible options before taking action with my mega loud bass guitar rig, I always practice at home with headphones but that could change.

[shady lee]

kev b said:

Thanks for the advice guys, I have not escalated any action as their house is up for sale but it’s not sold in over a year so unlikely to any time soon.

I will try the sensible options before taking action with my mega loud bass guitar rig, I always practice at home with headphones but that could change.

Yes.... That should definitely change

[sinbaddio]

Instead of complaining about the thud of the ball, call the parent's at 3am every morning to tell them how much you're missing it.....

[anonymous-user]

p1esk said:

kev b said:

I feel your pain OP, I live in a detached house in a good area, all my neighbours are great.

Apart from next door who let their dogs outside to bark at all hours of night and day making it impossible to enjoy a lie in, an afternoon nap, an early night or to sit in the garden in peace.

The animals are left inside unattended in the daytime, barking constantly and worse still they eventually set off every dog in the village.

The owners sit in their garden with their dogs barking and just ignore them, seemingly unable to hear the noise.

You cannot reason with people like this and they are free to cause annoyance to their neighbours without recourse.

I'm not sure that it is without recourse. There may come a point where it's deemed disturbing enough for the local authority to take action. You may care to explore that possibility.

Edited by p1esk on Monday 4th December 13:56

Agreed. You need to recorded all the times that the disturbance occurs. Record the noise itself where feasible. Then make a diary of all this and present to the council who have a duty to investigate.

[Rich_W]

garyhun said:

Agreed. You need to recorded all the times that the disturbance occurs. Record the noise itself where feasible. Then make a diary of all this and present to the council who have a duty to investigate.

I did that. Kept a noise diary for 3 months. Typed it all up. My London Borough council were going to install noise recording devices. I was very pleased with that.

Then they decided that the noise wasn't a nuisance and that was that!


I'm currently constantly badgering my management company because I saw a story

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-fami...

Where a Management Company took legal action against some tenants for being noisy. Using a "Section 8 eviction notice" Something I'd never heard of before

If you read between the lines, it's clearly that the family in question are claiming it's the children to try and garner sympathy. I suspect they are just aholes plain and simple. Often the case with renters who don't modify their behaviour after the initial contact.

Very much the same as what my noise facefks said when I initially asked them to try and keep the noise down

"its the my boy falling over"

What? Every 10 mins for 12 hours a day? Are you abusing him! And how odd that your son also falls over quite regularly during the night and around 4am every day when you finally go to bed after playing computer games for 4 hours!

What gripes in my case is once I moved in and realised that noise travelled easily. I spunked ~£1500 to have my living room sound insulated for the benefit of those below me. I am sensible with TV volumes, general noise, don't just chuck things on the floor etc. Try and avoid putting on the toilet/bathroom extractor fan in the early hours. Tried to get the landlord above to consider noise insulation, even offered to contribute significantly f he got rid of that family. He said he wasn't going to do that!


I'm trying to avoid anything legal as then I don't have to declare it when I inevitably lose the will to live and sell. Seems my sellers had the same problems and they didn't mention it! (Can I take legal action against them retrospectively 2 years on?)

I might need be slightly vague and say "Tenants child above can be noisy at times" just so I don't get any comeback. Though I guess the "we buy any home" lot will make me a quick offer and "hopefully" with the market rising I wont lose out too much


Alternative as above is literally to pay some neardowells to break all his limbs and those of his wife I know people who know people who know people I guess he's safe as long as I don't win Millions of pounds

[Jag_NE]

kev b said:

Thanks for the advice guys, I have not escalated any action as their house is up for sale but it’s not sold in over a year so unlikely to any time soon.

I will try the sensible options before taking action with my mega loud bass guitar rig, I always practice at home with headphones but that could change.

if i were you i would let them know that they have an opportunity to play ball here as an official dispute on record will make their house much harder to sell than it already is. someone who thinks its ok to let dogs bark all day is beyond reasoning with.

[kev b]

Good point Jag, I think this may be the way to go.

[hyphen]

Jag_NE said:

kev b said:

Thanks for the advice guys, I have not escalated any action as their house is up for sale but it’s not sold in over a year so unlikely to any time soon.

I will try the sensible options before taking action with my mega loud bass guitar rig, I always practice at home with headphones but that could change.

if i were you i would let them know that they have an opportunity to play ball here as an official dispute on record will make their house much harder to sell than it already is. someone who thinks its ok to let dogs bark all day is beyond reasoning with.

Let them know they will make much less money from the sale.

Also let them know you will be playing loud music whenever you see a buyer coming to view.

[sandman77]

anonymous said:

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You're not married are you?

[Narcisus]

Simpo Two said:

Lucky it's not the other kind of Thud!

Yup that was my first thought .... Saddo's lol !

[Hoofy]

Do you like tennis? Or squash?

https://youtu.be/YK8moAs9gRg

Don't bother if it's touchtennis (foam balls).

[fido]

Loud sex noises every time. I did this with a neighbour who kept stalking/following me in the garden.

[Hoofy]

fido said:

Loud sex noises every time. I did this with a neighbour who kept stalking/following me in the garden.

You bummed your neighbour?