Noisy Neighbours

My neighbours continue to have extended family & their friends in their back garden. Smoking (can get high on the fumes sometimes), BBQ, drinking, shouting, very loud music hence the shouting, dogs barking, children shouting & screaming. Just an ordinary day here now. No way I can escape & cannot complain being old, disabled & alone. So turn my music up & deafen my poor cat. Karma will get them one day, I hope! Batteries run out? BBQ dies. Never mind it will be winter again soon ?

They can’t have been mowing all day, is the garden the size of a park? It’s a little normal every day noise for a limited time. If it was a dog barking all day, exceptionally loud music every day etc. that’s a different thing. We all have to get along or at least try to. Maybe you were just feeling exceptionally sensitive during these difficult times...try and just forget about it.

I think the issue here is nobody has any respect for people’s space and lives. I unfortunately live next to a screaming loud pain in the butt who has been partying every night since the lock down high and drugs and the more he drinks he thinks he is on the very loud version of Britain’s got talent with his mates joining in sounding like a pack of wolves with a sound bar in the garden to add it turned up full blast!!! I think it’s gone to the point that anything he does now irritates me although it’s annoying for you I wish it was only the grass he was cutting oh and to top it all off his kid try’s to scream a conversation over the loud music and talking oh and least we forget the attempted singing!!!

Your very lucky to have a garden to sit in. There are thousands who will swap with you, regardless of the mowing and strimming, it puzzles me how self absorbed people are. Mowing the lawn is perfectly acceptable, Life's about choice, move if you don't like it! Some don't have the option.

Only want to say that I agree with others on here and that Yes, YABU. Maybe you weren't feeling very well when you made your post caramel and feel better now. Hope so!
Personally, I love the sound of a mower and you can't beat the gorgeous smell of newly mown grass.

Of course they didnt do this to annoy you.
Im blaming this on the lock down ,we are all more sensitive at the moment .
Chill.

I don't understand what the problem is. People need to now their lawns and strim them. You cant now a lawn when it's wet or damp so obviously people will do that in sunny day weather. I do think you are moaning about nothing.

Really?
Can't believe that you even bothered to post this tbh - unless you were hoping that maybe a lot of people would agree with you!
Sorry, but I can see no problem with neighbours mowing lawns etc on a Bank Holiday. It's annoying if you are sitting outside to some extent but unless you know that they were deliberately doing it to annoy, you really can't complain.
Try living between a family of 4 smokers that don't smoke inside the house and can light up at any time of the day or even night (yes really) and someone that once it gets past 8.30 am , seems to have a compulsion to use a circular saw, drill, sander etc seven days a week - now that's annoying!

Wow you think thats bad try having students next door it has got so bad at times that I ended up with health problems and the land lady just says she doen't care
More lawsare needed to protect residents from people turning good houses into student lets'

Better they keep their garden nice than let it get overgrown and untidy.

I think many people would say that is a bit selfish of you.

It's not unreasonable to feel annoyed if you wanted peace and got noise. It must have been very disappointing as you didn't get what you were looking forward to - life is a bummer and all that... But then I am sorry to say neither was it unreasonable of your neighbor to have planned to mow the lawn at that exact time too. Presumably they had no advance notice that you'd be in your quiet outdoor time and didn't know till they'd already planned their mowing session. I am afraid this is the sort of conflict inherent in living close to neighbors.

We have a next door neighbour who thinks it is fine to open her back door and back windows (the design of the houses means her back door and windows very close to ours) and to then embark on very loud phone conversations and to play music so loud that even if we close our back door and windows we cannot hear our radio or television. Sometimes she goes into her garden (the gardens are small) and more very loud phone conversations and very loud music. To request she is quieter would only meet with shouting and aggression. Added to this there is a house in a parallel street which regularly has parties that begin on a Saturday afternoon and go on until Sunday morning and the music, shouting, etc which goes on is so loud it can be heard in neighbouring streets. Lockdown meant this didn't happen for a few weekends but has started up again the past two weekends. We go out of our way to be quiet neighbours, as do all our other neighbours, but our next door neighbour really is a nightmare because of the noise and her overall attitude. On one occasion my husband was unable to trim the top of our front garden hedge because of a shoulder injury and she put a note in the door threatening to report us to the council (it's not a council property) or to come into our garden to rip up the hedge and dump it on our doorstep. We paid someone to come and cut in back but would have done so as soon as my husband's shoulder recovered anyway. Her own front garden is a complete tip ! We think about moving.....

I suppose that there's far more potential for neighbours to get on each other's nerves - with lockdown.

Here, it's constant DIY, building work, new garage and drive installation - and lots of screaming kids.

I wouldn't complain about gardening, and it wouldn't occur to me to delay lawn mowing, just because the people next door are sitting outside.

Reading the different comments, I am so pleased I live where I do, with nice neighbours either side and opposite.

Sorry if this sounds smug. Just makes me thankful really.

Yes I think you are being unreasonable,Caramel.
Do you expect your neighbours to let you know when they are cutting their lawn in case you want to sit in your garden?
Do you let your neighbours know if you are going to cut your lawn?
Why should it upset you anyway?

Did you actually expect your neighbours to ask your permission before they did some gardening? Good job you don’t live on road, we live and let live,

Good job you don’t live on our road, was what I meant to write, I don’t understand why you would be very upset,

Think yourself lucky, the same day we had builders with a pneumatic drill going at it from 7:45 in the morning until 16:00 hrs non stop working on a building extension at the bottom of our garden, the owners had gone abroad whilst the building work was being completed. This was after we asked them previously to turn the radio down as it was like a disco and had to resort to phoning the owners to ask them politely to ensure the noise was at an acceptable level. This was obviously compounded by the fact that we were in lock down and we were having to stay indoors and shut the doors to get some peace. We couldn't even enjoy our garden whilst self isolating. Some people have absolutely no regard for others whatsoever.

Sorry Caramel but I would hate to live next door to you!!! Mowing and strimming are perfectly normal activities for a sunny bank holiday , do you always check with everyone in your neighbourhood before you mow or strim!?

We had a months-long deafening power tool noise every afternoon just as we were going outside for a bit of peace and quiet.

When my DH finally went around to see what was happening, the wife of the household said her husband was power planing every door in the house and had just finished the last one.

We sighed with relief.

Then the next door neighbour came out to wash her car and put loud rock music on.

OMG you have to be kidding me right! This kind of statement gives me excuse the language but pisses me off! I’m so glad I don’t have a neighbour like you. Living in suburbia is just that. It’s having neighbours close by that have to do things on the days that they don’t work. Mowing lawns and edging takes the average person in the UK about an hour. We are on a property in Australia (UK born and bred) both we and our neighbours take a couple of hours on ride on mowers to mow lawns and edge. It’s about life and living. Gardens need maintenance if you don’t like it go and live in the wilderness somewhere away from other people.

I got a message from a friend on the same subject! She was very annoyed with her neighbours as they decided to mow the grass on Sunday evening, & she wanted to watch TV in peace and have a relaxing evening after being outside all day! Eh?!!
These neighbours only have a smallish grassed area. Despite these same neighbours doing their Covid shopping for them!
I didn't like to get into an argument online by mentioning that when I lived by them they lit a stinking bonfire first thing in the morning on the first sunny warm day in ages, and keeping it stoked all day well into the evening! So Windows closed & washing brought back in again, they seemed to think this was quite amusing!! So PAYBACK IS GREAT!! I certainly didn't rise to the bait & side with her, her time was wasted on me!!!?

O.M.G. Caramel ! Thats just normal essential garden upkeep isnt it? I can hear some going on now as the housing association do the rural areas around houses here regularly- and of course neighbours do their own too- i dont always like it, but do put up with it as it cant be helped..id rather they do it later rather than early morning but still it has to be done.Some of the others on here have genuine neighbour grievances!! Suck it up & go inside for half an hour for tea.

I barely know what day it is.
Every day feels like a Sunday. I guess I think you're being a little unreasonable.