Noisy Neighbours

I do wish we could have Ruhezeit (quiet hours) that Germany have. At least then you knew you could sit in your garden in peace for 2 hours every afternoon.

Count your blessings, that's all they do

Any empty flats there Felice ?

The above was to the OP.

Unfortunately, that is another DIY category which can get on your wick.
There are designated times for the use of appliances such as are used by your local highways services or building sites and next-door neighbours doing DIY and playing music.
Your complaint won't be met with much sympathy I'm afraid as individuals are allowed to use strimmers and the like at reasonable times.
The only exception is bonfires.

The one thing that constitutes noisy neighbours while we are enjoying our garden is thumping music---can't get away from it, and difficult to tell exactly which part of which terraced house it is coming from

Yes, you ARE being unreasonable. You're lucky that's the only noise your neighbours make. Things could be so much worse, and you're not special...........

We would gladly swap your neighbours for ours. I called 999 on Sunday evening because he was firing his crossbow at a target in ‘his’ garden towards the street. The police did attend and spoke to him from the front garden - he was upstairs with his friend who comes round every day (never mind lockdown). He denied having a bow but admitted to having a spear. The police said this was allowed so long as it didn’t go onto anyone else’s land. He said that wouldn’t happen and the police thanked him for his time! This morning at about 5am we heard him shouting and screaming and the sound of furniture crashing - not unusual. This evening at 5pm he was firing off the bow again.

My neighbours have a new organ in their cabin and they practice on loud volume! Why not use earphones?! They keep playing the same notes too. All the neighbours round about are mostly quiet apart from these. He's nice but has a loud voice, the teenager is always playing music, oh, and they have hunting dog with a loud bark, which they sometimes encourage. No thought for anyone else.

Our neighbours are lovely but they seem to talk so loudly in the garden . Also the children scream often never checked. I remember our neighbours saying we didn’t know children lived next door! But the days of respect have gone it seems!

Thank you all for your comments and was so sorry to hear what some of you have to put up with. I usually work Fridays but was on holiday for the bank holiday. To me it is a special day. We knew we were getting a nice Saturday and Sunday to follow I thought they would have done it then seeing as though we cannot go anywhere.

Yes, YABU.

HTH

Whilst it can be annoying while you are relaxing in the garden there is nothing you can do about it. I cut my lawns on BH Friday mainly because after being a front line worker and doing a succession of 16 days in a row it was the only time I had to do it. Think your being a little petty on this one

We live in a small close of 6 houses. It is rather comforting to hear other people mowing their lawn or the children playing and laughing. What does irritate me is why people feel the need to light up their houses like Christmas trees! The people who back on to us have installed lighting down both sides of their garden and also have a spotlight that comes on when there is movement i.e. wind. The neighbours opposite (who are lovely) have got 6 outside lights on the outside of their house and something that resembles the second sun in their porch! Wind chimes annoy me too. I don't want to hear other peoples wind chimes I'm afraid.

I’ll swap you my neighbours drug addicts who shout and argue - take no notice of their children and smoke weed in the garden. The other side has people over all the time partying the night away.
I’ve a newborn and two older children who play quietly and only after the set school work and the extra I set them. Any time they are in the garden I am or my partner is to ensure the volume is kept to a minimum. Children need to play out in the fresh air and if I didn’t mow my lawn it would be something to complain about.

Mowing the lawn,can't see a problem with that, unless it's very early in the morning

We had a charming gent next door to us.

Once a week, during summertime, he'd have his mower going at 6am

Not ideal!

We didn't complain though because he was such a sweet gentleman and I didn't want to upset him.

* For example what does AIBU mean?*

Am I Being Unreasonable

Which I think the answer is yes Caramel's problem

Mowing the lawn is hardly nuisance neighbour material!

Mowing the lawn,can't see a problem with that, unless it's very early in the morning or late at night.

Definitely a wind up. No one could be so silly.

I have extremely loud banging or screaming machinery almost every weekend around 7 a.m. and barbecues in the evening, which they light next to the fence near my patio doors. They have every machine imaginable and some which disturb people in houses a long way from mine. These are the same people who tried to pull up established shrubs in my border by leaning over the fence - shrubs not higher than or growing into the fence which is mine. Now they have planted many leylandii against the fence which are already about 9ft high, way higher than the 6ft fence panel and growing so fast they are pushing into the fence bending it already. I cannot imagine taking them on about it though, since the woman is aggressive and threatening. I just ignore her.

I have lovely neighbours on the other side, approx same age as the unreasonable ones. Naturally they cut their grass too and sometimes saw up old trees at weekend but they have always said they hope it doesn't disturb me and they do it when we are all up and about, not 7a.m. or 9p.m.!

I would ignore your neighbours for cutting the lawn during the day, since they have to do it sometime and the weekend is probably the only free time they have. If they regularly do things needing loud repetitive banging or use very loud machines which are not the average garden type most people have, or if they make a noise at unsociable hours when people are in bed, that is different. You may even have some other neighbours who are disturbed by it to back you up.

What a petty thread this is.. I wish all I had to worry about right now was having to put up with my neighbours lawnmower..

Well unless the neighbours have several acres of grass at least the mowing and strimming wouldn’t go on all afternoon. There are worse things like the noise my daughter’s boys make playing. The neighbour one side says she loves to hear the children enjoying themselves and on the other side the elderly neighbour tells my daughter to reduce their sugar intake as they’re too boisterous.

Jeezo , get a life!! We’re the bees buzzing too loudly as well ?

I like the sound of mowers, strimmer , garden chores. That’s nothing compared to the little thug living near us who kicks his ball at their fence so loud every day, all day long. The father has even floodlit the garden so he can do it at night. This is a lovely area with lots of elderly spoilt by one scummy family. Needless to say they’re not the type who’d welcome any complaints. Grass mowing is nothing by comparison. We are all hoping they’ll move soon.

As an American I am unfamiliar with British acronyms. For example what does AIBU mean?