Neighbour starts petrol strimmer when in the back garden

[Brummmie]

Hi Guys,

All summer long i have a neighbour who when the adjoining neighbours try and use their back garden, kids go out to play or a BBQ whatever, he starts hid petrol strimmer and leaves it idling in his garden, I am next but one but its a noisy thing.
I even hear the idle go up when it runs out of fuel, he even re fuels it and repeats. My neighbour just ignores him, hes a horrible old git (late sixties i guess) and loves doing letters about parking etc to the road, the road is only 12 houses in total.

What can be done?

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I have a fair collection of noise i could fire back.
Honda petrol generator, Husky Chain Saw, Gsxr 1000 and an RGV 250 with Race pipes!

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The Mad Monk said:

Had you tried having a quiet, polite, friendly word?

He's a weirdo, no eye contact, walks straight past you without speaking, he phoned the police because of leaves blown under the fence by a leaf blower, tried to get the police involved when the other neighbour had a skip on their own drive, a few times in fact, the police tried to encourage a counter complaint for harassment, but they declined.

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TooMany2cvs said:

garyhun said:

TooMany2cvs said:

Petrol strimmers are usually fairly quiet when they're idling. It's when they're revved to working speed that the volume goes up dramatically.

Can't imagine it's much fun having it idle for an extended time whilst in the garden though.

TBH, I can't imagine you'd even notice - unless you were actively listening for it, so that you could take umbrage.

You can hear it all right, the moment you uncover the BBQ it's on, whoever you have around, even adult friends not screaming kids it's on put, put, putting away, and your guests are soon asking when's he going to turn that thing off!

Edited by Brummmie on Sunday 17th September 14:12

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He did it yesterday it was a 1 year old grandkids birthday party, so it was on, and a couple of weeks ago we were at a BBQ around there it was on, I heard the revs rise as it leaned off and run out of fuel, we all cheered, but like I say he filled it back up and ba,ba,ba,ba,ba,ba.......
His property is surrounded by spikey metal railings and he even has massive rocks directly outside so no one can park outside.
He's universally hated down the road because of his cantankerous letters, about anything he can dream up.

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citizensm1th said:

buy a drone and set it to hover over his garden

it wont help but it will add to the noise level

I quite like that idea! I'll get one for "the kids" plus it would be video evidence!

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We even reckon he's had these totem poles done to p!ss us off !

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SantaBarbara said:

Brummmie said:

We even reckon he's had these totem poles done to p!ss us off !

Does he need Planning Permission for thos erections

Made from trees that were already there, but I did wonder myself.

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Aloysius said:

Brummmie said:

Hi Guys,
kids go out to play or a BBQ whatever, he starts hid petrol strimmer and leaves it idling in his garden

Perhaps he`s sick of the noise from the kids playing / BBQs and would rather listen to his strimmer idling away.

Maybe, but the former is a fact of life, the latter is a choice.

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garyhun said:

The neighbour could be a total pita.

But it's possible that the neighbours could be anti social when it comes to noise. Kids playing is a fact of life but allowing them to behave like feral animals is something different.

As with the 'divorcing empty nesters' thread, there's always three sides to a story - yours, theirs and then the truth.

Kids don't have to be in garden, just adults talking enjoying a hot dog, so that rules out my wayward feral children.

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swerni said:

FFS man, fire up the TVR and let it warm for a while, that should block out most things

I got a cr@p load of bees out of my unit a few weeks ago using the blast em out with noise and fumes method!

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creampuff said:

I quite like the totem poles.

We get the bobble hat and long sock brigade come down and they always stop, laugh and take pics, I think it looks like an entrance to a theme park.

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stuttgartmetal said:

Where's he keep it when it's off ?

It's in his garage, the drone recording it idling in the corner as he goes back in his house, is actually the best idea I think.

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Zetec-S said:

Brummmie said:

His property is surrounded by spikey metal railings and he even has massive rocks directly outside so no one can park outside.

Can't quite tell from the photo, but are they on private or public land? (They look like they're on the road)

They are on the road, in fact when he was bothering the Police/environmental about a skip parked on the neighbours own drive, it was pointed out by EH that HE was the only one creating any hazard , Leaving immovable objects (3 great rocks) in an unlit road is probably not the best idea, the road is owned and maintained by Network Rail. Like i say the authorities were trying to encourage a counter claim for harassment, because they were getting sick of him, but the neighbour didnt want to pursue.

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CoolHands said:

The worst thing about this thread is we're never going to get a resolution, are we. The OP's not going to go round and confront the bloke, and it will all continue.

I'm quite able to confront him, but he will probably call the police, he calls the police for leaves being garden blowered under the fence, he's a nasty old soak, and a strange type who likes to communicate through letters shoved under the door , he's very odd, and it's an odd thing to do.
The Nextdoor neighbours are 60ish, even when they have their own golf chums around it's out.

Edited by Brummmie on Thursday 21st September 20:49

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Swampy1982 said:

Please put a traffic cone on each of the totums..

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Welshbeef said:

Another option is every single evening Mon to Friday light the BBQ during the summer. Then actually have a BBQ running ALL day long Sat and Sunday it will cost a number of bags of coal but it will drain his fuel and will truely fk him off.

If it's a close you could write to the council to request a street party with the road closed and invite loads round. Get a big compressor bouncy castle which properly blocks the road.

Buy the kids those huge water guns and have an all afternoon massive man hunt water fight nowhere is out of bounds. Plus get hubdreds of sneaky water bomb grenades to lob where ever you like. Finishing it off with the finale Mr Soak a lot hosepipe to soak anyone's garden who didn't turn up to he BBQ but are in - ie miserable old sod.



The last BBQ we had it was 40 odd people - letters /knocked on neighbours doors letting them know + open invite. BBQ on from midday cooking pretty much all afternoon - that old git would have had to go to the petrol station for a refil


Another option is to simply turn up the music or have outside speakers and whenever he is out in the garden turn them on I'm guessing maybe AcDC rage against the machine jay Z etc something that wouldn't you'd expect fit his music genre /hate it.

The other week he actually had Status Quo 70's stuff playing, and I was in my back garden and I could hear it clearly, I did say to the wife it's even worse than the strimmer!