Summer noise

Oh just B&Q or somewhere - maybe Wicks -it was a case of 'if she's happy, I'm happy' on his part, I think....or perhaps he was just utterly fed up with me ranting. Having said that,
he does like a challenge...

We lived here for 12 years and our neighbours had 2 children who grew into teenagers and went off to university . They had a dog . Apart from the occasional football thud we heard nothing , no voices calling , screaming shouting , no music , no dogs barking . Using our garden was a pleasure . They moved . The new neighbours moved in about 3 years ago . He turns the music on loudly opens the windows wide and then goes out into the garden to mow his very large lawn . ???
The children scream and screech all the time , argue and fight and balls are thumping all the time against the fence .I had children and taught in a school . Playground duty with 400 junior school children did not bother me as much as these children . I dread to think of what it will be like when they are teenagers . We can very rarely sit in our garden as there is always some form of loud noise from them .
They only have occasional parties but they go on literally all night and there is shouting and noise all night , in the garden as well when weather permits .
They NEVER let us know in advance or apologise after .
Music is no fun at all when it is too loud and interferes with what you want to do and when it is not to your taste it is awful .
I feel like being really petty and going out early in the morning after one of their parties and making one hell of a noise . My husband stops me from being like that .
I remember once years ago when my sister suffered endless noise from a houseful is students and we used to joke that we should play very loud Cliff Richard music loudly from 6 in the morning .
It is sad that these days even adults think they can do what they want when they want with no regard to others . We have wireless earphone and all sorts of othe things available now . The sound of children playing is not a problem but My children would have been asked to stop that scratching screaming and whinging or they would have been brought
indoors . I can still remember saying things like "other people don't want to listen to your racket "

Very young kids roaring round shouting & screaming late evening. No consideration these days!!

BiblioQueen
Thank you.
My husband likes a challenge too, after all he married me.

Thank you BiblioQueen,

I know it affects a lot of people, I live in a fairly quiet neighbourhood now thankfully, but like everyone else you still get the "Sunshine Noise" where over the way neighbours come out and play their music loud, but I like the sunshine too and know mostly it doesn't last for too long unless you get the odd one who are out at sun-up and in at dusk with screaming children and loud music. I just either go out or put my headphones on if I sit out in the garden.
All the winter and Spring its quiet, Summer through the week its heaven, but come sunny weekends and school holidays it can be loud. I love listening to MY music through my headphones, not Others music blasting out. I'm mostly at peace now but I truly sympathise with those still suffering from it.
Our last place where we had the evil neighbours was a big Victorian Terrace and we were in the middle of it! You'd think the walls would have been thick, but even when I sneezed you could hear the them mimic me!
Ill never understand why they though I deserved being treat like that, or even how anyone could be that vicious towards another human being. I always give people the benefit of the doubt and look for good in people, but they must have had an awful life themselves to want to torment me.
I'm sitting here and can't hear a pin drop so I know how lucky I am to be away from my tormentors at least.

Glad your OH was inventive enough to add soundproofing which helped, mines not so handy I'm afraid :]

Thank you for your response, we are in the UK and I used the word yard because it is literally a yard, no grass, no trees, flowers etc, just toys. I also forgot to mention innumerable footballs that end up in our garden.......... This family are very popular with lots of friends and family, hence a huge number of garden parties, to be honest, I am really apprehensive about starting something with them in case it backfires with their 'crowd'. I did buy a box of chocolates to take round as a peace offering as I was going to talk to them about it, but they were out when I got there, so DH ate them!!!

I live in a detached house and one set of next door neighbours do have noisy parties, including in the garden in the summer. Wife has a particularly noisy 'cackling' laugh. However in every other way they are great neighbours so I've learnt to ignore it and just turn the TV up. If it happened day in, day out it would be a different matter.
I once lived in a flat in a small town near an RAF base where much of the housing was forces families. My downstairs neighbour used to come in after the pub closed and turn the TV on loud keeping me awake 'til 3 am. It happened one night and the next morning the air base had an exercise starting at 6 am where air raid sirens sounded and there were loud-hailers in the roads waking everyone. Needless to say I was in a pretty bad way getting to work that day after little sleep followed by a 20 mile commute. When I got home I put a note through the door asking the neighbour to keep the noise down, as he was never there 'til late at night and I'd never met him. He came home as usual late that night. I heard his car, music blaring, then he went inside. I waited for the onslaught of noise - but nothing. I never heard him again. Clearly my polite note had made him realise how loud he had been. I never heard him again and never did actually see him! From some of the posts on here I guess I was lucky it was just thoughtlessness on his part and not a totally inconsiderate neighbour.
I feel so sorry for those of you suffering really inconsiderate neighbours and grateful that most of the time mine are lovely.

Some people have made the point that the summer and hot weather won't last much longer, but that isn't the point.
People want to be out in their gardens, because it is lovely and warm, and absolutely should not be prevented from doing so by some selfish individuals who insist on inflicting their 'music' on everyone else.

It's incredibly selfish behaviour, and I don' accept for one minute that those responsible aren't aware that the noise can be heard by all the neighbours.

Noise is the bane of so many poor souls lives these days.

Heya, no worries. Its common to find mad teens in your neighbourhood, my gandpa had same problem, I installed sound absorbing panels . They work great and is relaxing, enjoy