Noisy Neighbours

[Dink]

Anyone have practical experience of dealing with this ??

My neighbour is an early riser and I am constantly being woken by his Hi Fi thumping away, I was woken at 0615 this morning, 0605 yesterday and this is the norm at weekends, indeed most weekdays. I have spoken to him about this on two previous occasions but he just ignores me and carries on.

I have checked out the procedure with the Council and have contacted the Police for advice. They were helpful right up to the point that I mentioned the lad was in a car accident a few years ago and has mental and physical disabilities. Then I was advised to "be careful" because of this. The copper was quite sympathetic but the only advice he gave was to keep a record of the noise waking me up. The impression I got was complaining about this guy would not go well because of his circumstances.

I knocked on the lads door this morning to have a quiet word but he ignored me. We have got on well in the past, I even gave him our old TV and DVD system when I replaced it as he doesnt have much and he takes our bin in for us etc etc. I dont want to fall out with him but does anyone have practical advice that might help ??

 

[vim_fuego]

I'm assuming you're still in Scotland...if so go to this link and download the advice and follow it exactly to give yourself the best chance of ridding yourself of this knob:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2001/03/8527/File-1


Essentially if the noise is between 2300 and 0700 then it's classed as a nuisance...Unless like me you lived in London during Diwali then it's OK for Hindu's to set off landmines outside your sleeping childrens windows so the glass shakes in the frames at 0200...Apparently when I called the police on that occassion I was after causing trouble!!

 

[gemarriott]

I had this problem, well a similar one when the fcuking tw@t doorslammer who lived next to me at Coningsby used to play his piano at 6 in the morning. I went round and politelyasked him to stop a couple of times. He didn't so I went round and asked "how he planned to play his fcuking piano after I had made him eat all the keys , or how he was going to press the pedals when they were embedded in his arse!"

I never heard it againDT_Xtremez_14:

 

[zola403uk]

Anyone have practical experience of dealing with this ??

My neighbour is an early riser and I am constantly being woken by his Hi Fi thumping away, I was woken at 0615 this morning, 0605 yesterday and this is the norm at weekends, indeed most weekdays. I have spoken to him about this on two previous occasions but he just ignores me and carries on.

I have checked out the procedure with the Council and have contacted the Police for advice. They were helpful right up to the point that I mentioned the lad was in a car accident a few years ago and has mental and physical disabilities. Then I was advised to "be careful" because of this. The copper was quite sympathetic but the only advice he gave was to keep a record of the noise waking me up. The impression I got was complaining about this guy would not go well because of his circumstances.

I knocked on the lads door this morning to have a quiet word but he ignored me. We have got on well in the past, I even gave him our old TV and DVD system when I replaced it as he doesnt have much and he takes our bin in for us etc etc. I dont want to fall out with him but does anyone have practical advice that might help ??

Fcuk that just because he is disabled it does not give him the right to be ignorant. Tell him to stfu

 

[loopallu]

We had quite a few years of constant noise trouble from our nextdoor neighbour after a few dozen calls to the police and the local council the message eventually got through.
You need to keep a record of every instance of disturbance , what time, type of noise ie music door slamming etc . Also make sure you get names of the people who you speak to at the council as they are very good at buck passing and you need to have a record of who and when you speak to them.
It is not a quick process by any means but the more times you make a pain of yourself with the authorities the quicker it will be dealt with. We eventually got a noise abatement order and that has done the trick but I do understand what you are going through as it is a real pain in the backside.

 

[Talk Wrench]

Buy him a set of cordless Headphones. Tell him how much you know he enjoys his music and that he can listen to it at the same volume around the house with these fantastic top of the range devices.

If the problem persists, take a baseball bat to his stereo!!

TW

 

[Realist78]

We had quite a few years of constant noise trouble from our nextdoor neighbour after a few dozen calls to the police and the local council the message eventually got through.
You need to keep a record of every instance of disturbance , what time, type of noise ie music door slamming etc . Also make sure you get names of the people who you speak to at the council as they are very good at buck passing and you need to have a record of who and when you speak to them.
It is not a quick process by any means but the more times you make a pain of yourself with the authorities the quicker it will be dealt with. We eventually got a noise abatement order and that has done the trick but I do understand what you are going through as it is a real pain in the backside.

Slightly Off Topicbut good advice when you speak to anyone in officialdom, it's amazing listening to them squirm when you ask for their surname.

 

[Dink]

Decided to go and speak to the lad again, total waste of time. I have spoken to him before and he came out with the same party line, however after telling him I was going to be keeping a record, had made a complaint to the Police and was taking it up with the Housing Association he totally flipped out. It was quite amusing to watch actually.

Going to keep a record, have informed the Police and will contact the Housing Association tomorrow and make an appointment to speak to the Housing Officer.

I really want to follow Gemarriot's style though.

 

[gemarriott]

Decided to go and speak to the lad again, total waste of time. I have spoken to him before and he came out with the same party line, however after telling him I was going to be keeping a record, had made a complaint to the Police and was taking it up with the Housing Association he totally flipped out. It was quite amusing to watch actually.

Going to keep a record, have informed the Police and will contact the Housing Association tomorrow and make an appointment to speak to the Housing Officer.

I really want to follow Gemarriot's style though.

sadly mate you prolly wouldn't get away with it these days. He'd run to the cops or your boss and snivel and you'd get locked up. There is better advice on here than mine on how to handle these sort of affairs now that government has managed to take all responsibility for problem solving out of our hands.

 

[propersplitbrainme]

Noisy neighbours, a result of our modern selfish society and the gratuitous rudeness of those who have never experienced communal living and the short sharp lessons dealt out to those with bad manners who fail to show their roomates enough respect DT_Xtremez_14:
I experienced this problem in the first house I bought, being a bit niaive I failed to ask the right questions when I bought it. Some tw@t and his late teenaged son lived next door. Dad was nearly deaf, didn't work but watched TV all day at max volume and sonny boy worked at a bar or nightclub and would come home at oh-four fcuks-sake and start up his techno-sh1te music..."Encore une fois, thump, thump, thump, thumpity thump" at early o'clock drove me up the fcuking wall. Complaints would work for short enough time for them to think it didn't matter any more and normal noise levels would be resumed.
The things I didn't consider doing to stop them DT_Xtremez_35: - ****ting his satellite dish with a brick (tame), interfering with their lecky supply (bit more serious) and even getting some noise cancelling or electronics destroying kit (possible but expensive) - all seriously crossed my mind.
I contacted a solicitor to informally ask whether I had any comeback on the seller and the upshot was that if you didn't ask the relevant questions then they had no reason to reveal the problem, they could even claim they never saw it as a problem.
The council told me the same as to others above, make notes of the times, duration and level of noise and if they thought it necessary they'd come around and place some noise recording kit in our house to use as evidence in any case we may choose to bring.
The big sting in the tail for homeowners though is that once you go down the route of making a complaint official you MUST declare it to any potentia buyer of your property because it constitutes a dispute. It was this that put me off making it official and I ended up taking the cowards way out; I sold the house in the same way way it had been sold to me - without saying a thing DT_Xtremez_37: I've never felt so guilty about anything in my life, and still haven't since, and Mrs PSBM can't even talk about it to this day.
So beware.

 

[Realist78]

How about (if nothing else seems to work) playing him at his own game for a short period until he complains, then see if he will see reason.DT_Xtremez_17:

 

[loopallu]

How about (if nothing else seems to work) playing him at his own game for a short period until he complains, then see if he will see reason.DT_Xtremez_17:

Tried that and unfortunatly it did not work but you can have abit of fun doing it

 

[PingDit]

Tried that and unfortunatly it did not work but you can have abit of fun doing it

Ah! but did you actually secure the 4 x 12" speakers securely to the adjoining wall before turning the amp up to No.11? I've got a 2K rig that'd take the wall down!

 

[loopallu]

Ah! but did you actually secure the 4 x 12" speakers securely to the adjoining wall before turning the amp up to No.11? I've got a 2K rig that'd take the wall down!

I have 2 teenage sons who like dance ''music'' and have BIG stereo systems but it still did not work.Unfortunatly the only thing that works , apart from gbh, is to go through the proper channels.

 

[Realist78]

I have 2 teenage sons who like dance ''music'' and have BIG stereo systems but it still did not work.Unfortunatly the only thing that works , apart from gbh, is to go through the proper channels.

But aren't you saying that nothing works?

 

[Dink]

Fecking quarter to 6 this morning I had Girls Aloud blaring me awake, much louder than yesterday and I reckon because I complained. I snapped.

I have a DVD containing this clip of engine tests for the Saturn V moon rocket .. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=f3sVuFjJlp4&feature=related

I put it on the Surround System, turned all the speakers to the wall and threw up the bass. It must have sounded like a localised thunderstorm coming straight for him.

 

[vim_fuego]

Trouble is two wrongs don't make a right...just stick it in your events log and don't retaliate...

If it's bothering other neighbours other than you then team up with them and get them all to log stuff and all complain at once...Is it possible for you to tape the noise nuisance? Use a camcorder mit mike to record the noise then without cutting have your telly switched on with the bbc news and film the clock they always have sowing...it's just another piece of evidence to nail the fooker with...

 

[firestorm]

Antagonising him won't work.
I had a loony neighbor like this and giving him back some made it much, much worse.
It only stopped when he was sectioned.

 

[Ex-Bay]

Could it be that the bloke is just slightly deaf ?

 

[vim_fuego]

Could it be that the bloke is just slightly deaf ?

Doesn't matter...you don't make a racket at 0545 whether you are deaf or not.