How to deal with noisy neighbours kids

How to deal with noisy neighbours kids

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Blown2CV

28,697 posts

202 months

Saturday 2nd May 2015
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E65Ross said:
My friend has some rather noisy that's next door..... How would you deal with them? Kids are about 10 years old and noisy, screaming brats.
As much as i'd hate that too, there is no way that you can deal with it that will leave you net better off.

80quattro

1,724 posts

194 months

Saturday 2nd May 2015
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Even kids need to sleep sometime.

My car can make quite a lot of noise in the wee hours when they have school the next day.


KFC

3,687 posts

129 months

Saturday 2nd May 2015
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Blown2CV said:
As much as i'd hate that too, there is no way that you can deal with it that will leave you net better off.
This.... there is no possible way you come out winning here once you start complaining about noise some little kids are making. Ignore it, deal with it internally (headphones or change your schedule around) or move house. There aren't any other viable options.

RAClNG SNAKE

3,606 posts

231 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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After putting up with 6 years of grief from my neighbours, I sold the house to a couple with a noisy 2 year old and a new baby. I was delighted to hear that the construction of the new extension has also been very disruptive.

Hoofy

76,253 posts

281 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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RAClNG SNAKE said:
After putting up with 6 years of grief from my neighbours, I sold the house to a couple with a noisy 2 year old and a new baby. I was delighted to hear that the construction of the new extension has also been very disruptive.
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Blown2CV

28,697 posts

202 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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RAClNG SNAKE said:
After putting up with 6 years of grief from my neighbours, I sold the house to a couple with a noisy 2 year old and a new baby. I was delighted to hear that the construction of the new extension has also been very disruptive.
Perfectly done.

maurauth

749 posts

169 months

Sunday 3rd May 2015
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A blowtorch and a few bin bags normally do it. Oh and a pack of johnnies.

PaulG40

2,381 posts

224 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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I'd much prefer to be annoyed by noisy kids next door than what we've got now!

We moved because we could 't stand to listen to the noisy kids and the mum screaming at them all the time coupled with the other next door neighbour playing loud music when she cleaned the house when i was off shift sleeping.

We mistakenly ended up living opposite proper council scum (but they got kicked out after 2yrs and the houses were so trashed that the council sold them off). The neighbours now are loud but decent enough once we got used to them and accepted the noise. Now we've a loud screechy voiced 60yr old woman next door (not a nice looker, imagine the Womble Uncle Bulgaria!) Who is trying to be 20yrs old and picks up new men like a brothel, thin walls mean all we hear all the time is shagging, 'f &*k', sh*t, i'm cu&&ing, 'arrrhhhhhh'.
Funny yeah??? Now imagine that when you've people round, parents, friends, workmen etc.. highly embarrassing!

Suddenly we miss our old house and neighbours!

Edited by PaulG40 on Monday 4th May 08:20

jdw100

4,067 posts

163 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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ReaderScars said:
ffs - Try reading either of my posts properly. Where did I say point a camera at anyone? I said USE IT IN YOUR HOME, while you're recording the problem sound - IN YOUR HOME - to prove there's no one IN YOUR HOME at the time you record IN YOUR HOME who is making the noise IN YOUR HOME.

Council ASB employees like you to use their equipment as it, according to them, has a capability to determine if there's someone else causing nuisance noise on your behalf, in your house at the time the recording is made.

If you don't want to jump through the hoops and restrictions placed by the ASB team, use your own equipment and circumvent their restrictions by proving there's no one IN YOUR HOME at the time you record the noise IN YOUR HOME.

What is it with knee jerk reactions when people read the words 'video' and 'children' in the same paragraph? Maybe you should pay off the petrol.
So, just to clarify; you are advocating filming kids in their own gardens?!?

Cotty

39,389 posts

283 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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jdw100 said:
So, just to clarify; you are advocating filming kids in their own gardens?!?
no

GavinPearson

5,715 posts

250 months

Monday 4th May 2015
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Treat the kids to the culture of Radio 3 or Classic FM at volume level 11.

jdw100

4,067 posts

163 months

Tuesday 5th May 2015
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Cotty said:
no
Thanks, it really wasn't clear....

Pickled Piper

6,334 posts

234 months

Tuesday 5th May 2015
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Don't underestimate the sound absorption qualities of a stout wooden fence.

We were similarly disturbed by screaming kids (and parents) from a couple of houses away. I found the thickest six foot panels that were available and had a fence erected. It immediately, absorbed the sharpest and most piercing frequencies, so it no longer felt like someone was screeching in your ear. A couple of years later, it is now covered in foliage that further absorbs sound.

pp

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

254 months

Tuesday 5th May 2015
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davhill

5,263 posts

183 months

Friday 8th May 2015
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Just nip round one night and dig them a nice paddling pool - eight feet deep.

pinchmeimdreamin

9,837 posts

217 months

Friday 8th May 2015
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Pop round and dig a 6 foot hole with under the trampoline, Cover with branches,then use a dremel to cut half way through the springs.

RAClNG SNAKE

3,606 posts

231 months

Friday 31st July 2015
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RAClNG SNAKE said:
After putting up with 6 years of grief from my neighbours, I sold the house to a couple with a noisy 2 year old and a new baby. I was delighted to hear that the construction of the new extension has also been very disruptive.
Just had a Facebook status sent to me via a mutual friend, our former neighbours are complaining about living next door to the neighbours from hell. Constant screaming and shouting, the only time it is quiet is when they go out apparently, I just hope they cannot afford to move for at least 6 years.

Karma.

Kateg28

1,352 posts

162 months

Friday 31st July 2015
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My son plays the electric guitar so when we moved in I went round to our neighbour, an old guy on his own, and prearranged a curfew of 9pm when he would stop playing, subject to renegotiation if it was an issue.

After a couple of years I asked if it was intrusive and was told the neighbour never hears my son so he would be welcome to play whenever he wanted.

I never told my son and he still sticks to the 9pm curfew, 5 years later biggrin

Charlie1986

2,016 posts

134 months

Friday 31st July 2015
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RAClNG SNAKE said:
Just had a Facebook status sent to me via a mutual friend, our former neighbours are complaining about living next door to the neighbours from hell. Constant screaming and shouting, the only time it is quiet is when they go out apparently, I just hope they cannot afford to move for at least 6 years.

Karma.
funny this thread pops up sometimes. We have 2 weeks before we move away from neighbours from hell. He is a taxi driver who works nights from home and his wife stays at home. The kids will be screaming 6am to 11pm every night then you have him in and out every hour doing his taxi things. He also likes to hoover his car before he starts at 11pm or do some DIY last night it was drilling the wall. I spoke to him once about it and he replied that in Pakistan its not a problem and other neighbours come and go like him and he can clean his car when ever her wants. Roll on 18th August is all I can say

We are lucky its our parents BTL so I feel sorry for the next tenants

MajorProblem

4,700 posts

163 months

Friday 31st July 2015
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Cc I moved in the end but the parents are the make and break of this - the kids aren't old enough to understand / care.

Go around and speak to the parents rationally, the response will give you probably four options,

1. Move

2. Wow I never knew my neighbours were so nice, glad that's all sorted

3. fk me I'm stuck here with this st for the rest of my life

4. I need to out mental them - warning though neighbour disputes can be the stuff of nightmares

My story,

We moved into a new build estate in 2007, I thought I was being billy big bks at 24 yrs old I had an M3 and a good position at work, I bought (mortgaged at 5 x salary - how stupid was I?) a new 4 bed detached house.

I didn't know about social housing or really the BTL boom that was going on so to find the houses surrounding you are basically being given to the unemployed and feckless is a bit gutting.

Anyway we had the following,

Kids and parents shouting, parents would hang out the windows of the upstairs shouting for the kids, who could be a few hundred yards up the street - playing out at 11 pm when you're 6yrs old not a problem.

Football, sat in the living room and there's a thud on the wall, thud, thud, thud so I go out to investigate kids are booting the football from one side of the road off my house wall and back, I went and told the parents and was told kids will be kids, when this happened again I went out and found the parents playing football with their kids. Come on they're not doing any harm are they?

Football again, neighbour spray painted a goal on the fence dividing our gardens and the kids proceeded to smash a ball into the fence until there was a hole through, neighbours did not give a fk so I replaced the panel - repeat for eight years, there dad was usually the goal keeper.

With the first one after the football against the house complaint they went and got big tubs of ice cream and smeared it all over my house walls - wtf I will never understand.

One bloke gave his kids a Swiss ball to boot up and down the street bouncing off all cars etc again parents are involved they don't give a st.

Oh the balls gone in your garden sorry we had to kick your gate in but it was locked...

Don't get me started on those little stunt scooters...

Eta - It was around six months in we realised we'd made a massive fk up and it took till Feb this year to buy our way out even selling the house at a £50k loss to escape.

Edited by MajorProblem on Friday 31st July 09:10