AIBU. Noise from neighbors music.

enviromental health will be a good place to start .look on your local council website and go through the anti socials behaviour programme .keep a diary and a recording too.........that would drive me crackers .!!! my neighbours slam doors day and esp early mornings 1-2 am. and talk at the top of their voices .i am in the process of getting liason team to investigate... my sleep is disrupted every evening....

I moved to North Stainmore Cumbria to get away from traffic and interfering gossipy neighbours. David Bellamy described it as the last wilderness in England Problem was a neighbour about a 1/4 mile away thought I might like to enjoy his music. So wherever you go you have inconsiderate people! Fortunately for us he was sent down for something else and isn't likely to come back. Now I just enjoy the gentle bleating of lambs and the owls hooting at night. Bliss. Good luck to you. If you fined a desert island with mod cons let me know.

Years ago we lived in a semi detached house with neighbours who played their tele very loud until 1 am. It made me seriously stressed until I took to putting my clock radio on for 59 mins sleep time as soon as they went to bed. I put it against their bedroom wall and they got the message and turned to the tele down

Nonogran Well thank you - now I know, thanks to NannyC1's checking with the Urban Dictionary that "Monkey Music" means 'Music or noises made by black people which offends the sensibilities of decent and civilised white folk'. Dear lord, how offensively and disgustingly racist can you be?

SunnySusie I’m sure using a pneumatic drill on a path is against some kind of law. That can’t be right surely?

paperbackwriter
According to the Urban Dictionary
Music or noises made by black people which offends the sensibilities of decent and civilised white folk.
Can also refer to music or noises made by unsophisticated white people who are aping the traditions, rhythms, or performance style of black people.

I'm still not sure I am very fond of the term. X

I honestly think outdoor speakers in the garden is a bit much. We had horrendous noise issues from our neighbours a few years back and it made me ill. I felt completely helpless and out of control in my own home, so I know how stressful it can be. As you are on good terms with your neighbours I would go down the route of inviting them round to hear the noise from your side of the fence. We fell out with our neighbours over the noise, but it wasnt a good idea. The worst noise stopped, but they now indulge in low level irritation at every available opportunity. Moved their bins under our windows and take pleasure in stamping vigorously on beer cans for the recycling in the early hours. Strimming the other side of the fence next to our patio if they hear us outside. Barbie on the fence line. Balls thrown at the fence for the dog to catch, driving it into a frenzy of barking. Taking all their mobile calls on the patio. I could go on. I only really use my garden now in the early morning because luckily they are not early risers. I wish now we hadnt fallen out with them, but at the time I blew my top after party noise went on until 3am and then they started digging up their front concrete drive with a pneumatic drill at 6am on Easter Sunday. Went round in my dressing gown and complained fairly politely only to receive unbelievable levels of verbal abuse.

I really don't think the impact constant loud noise can have mentally and psychologically on unwilling listeners is taken seriously enough. Are there other neighbours who can share in the complaining? If other residents other than yourselves complain it may have mor impact. If not could you come to some arrangement whereby they agree to only play the music at certain times of the day. There is far too much "we can do what we want because we want and you can't stop us" attitude. And people who complain should most definitely not be treated as boring nasty old moaners. People who like the quiet have as much right to do so as those who like to make a noise

I think I would be inclined to ask them around to yours so that they can listen to exactly what you and OH are hearing. They genuinely may have no notion just how the base on their music centre is troubling you.

Say it all very nicely, explain that you have asked them to turn it down and they have complied and you're grateful for that but I actually think they don't realise how bad this is for you.

Naturally, moving would be costly and disruptive and you sound like you're otherwise happy and settled where you are. The son and his mum might horrified if they hear the base from your property and it might all turn out well.

Give it a try, you have nothing to lose.

I sympathise JOJO60, we have had noise problems with our neighbours for over 6 months now, since they moved in. They blast nearly every day and even worse in the evening and during the night!!! We are often woken up during the night or very early in the morning and unfortunately we have had to go down the environmental health route. It causes great distress to my disabled husband. Her music is all thump, thump thump, which makes it worse. She plays it in her Kitchen, which backs on to our Bedroom.

Ask the parens to come in when their son is playing music.

Unless they hear it for themselves, most people just don't understand what we mean when we say it is tiring to listen to.

I hope you manage to get this sorted out without it becoming the kind of thing that causes trouble with neighbours.

Check with the police whether you are entitled to insist that the neighbours keep their windows shut when playing music.

We have someone in one of the houses that back on to our house.( can't see which house it is coming from as most of the houses have either high fences, or bushes) who during the hot weather is in the garden playing a saxophone. Well they only know one or two notes. Drivers me mad, as sometimes it goes on for hours.. I end up going indoors.

Nannogran see my post further up not a very nice remark imo.

Poor you - this can drive you nuts - it would me. My daughter has had to recently sell her flat for the same reason. Very tricky - we have a barking dog next door who seems to be noise activated so anything sets him off. Good luck, I feel for you!

Sorry, but when all else fails it's time to call Environmental Health. Speakers in the garden is unacceptable.

Nonnogran
Sorry what do you mean by 'Monkey music'

We had that last Saturday night as one of our near neighbours decided that it was party time and they had over 100 people crammed into their small garden. Needless to say the police arrived (not called by me) and the crowd was dispersed but it was 1am!!!!! I was so tired the next day as they seemed to sleep until Monday! I hate selfish people.

How awful - I’m really not good with other people’s noise, especially that music with heavy base constantly. We had awful neighbours with a dog that barked all day. We did complain as did others. Eventually they moved but they were horrid people who you couldn’t speak to. More recently a dog in the road behind us has barked incessantly - goodness knows what it was like next door - we have two garden lengths between us and that was bad. Full in a form and contact your council. People should be more considerate - we all make noise occasionally, the one off party, build work etc but not every day - that’s unacceptable.

Paperbackwriter I am afraid it is a term which shouldn't really be used to describe music it could in some ways be thought of as racist which I'm sure was not intended.

You want to have my neighbours. They are well away from our home a farm. But recently (last few years) they have started renting out barns, fields ect. You name it they will rent it out. We now have great big tractors (I don't mean the little ones) thundering past our home at all hours of the day and night sometimes all night long. Boy racers (farm workers with clapped out vehicles that need new exhaust pipes thinking the quiet country lane is a race track to the farm and they are really racing drivers. Heavy plant moving equipment.
One side of our garden is very close to their lane and this noise is a couple of feet from our bedroom. Now that is noise.
We bought a house 10 years ago down a nice country lane for our retirement.

Nonogran - what is "monkey music"? Is it a genre I haven't yet heard of but should know about if I want to Keep Up?

We too have newish neighbours. The same thing, disregarding limiting numbers of people visiting during lockdown, loud laughter and music from their back garden. Drives us crazy but we are hoping someone younger will complain as we feel too old to get involved in neighbour conflicts. As it was so hot yesterday and we had our doors and windows open we blanked out their noise by playing Hauser . It did blank out their noise but they carried on playing their music. This is not a situation we want to have to be involved in. We are very quiet gardening loving types.

Totally empathise as neighbours, or workmen who think it's fine to inflict their choice of music on you is one of my pet hates and I mean hate! Whether you can hear the actually music or just the bases it's equally annoying as is a radio played at volume where there is unintelligible speaking between music tracks! As you can tell this is something that irritates me hugely, although for some reason a bit of 'live' music doesn't inflame me the same way: ie someone nearby played the Last Post briefly on the VE 75th anniversary day.
One would hope that a quiet word would do the trick but if they are that inconsiderate in the first place. Not sure how much councils are willing to intervene. I rather think that you have to provide a record of the noise to show that it is a persistent nuisance.

I had this problem when new neighbours had builders in to decorate before moving in. The blast of the continual bass could be heard and felt when we were sat in the other side of the house with two brick walls. I did retaliate and blasted them with Michael Buble when it was quiet, presumably their breaks and lunch time!

Hi JOJO60, I used to have neighbours with teenage kids who played their music loud. I invited the Mum round for coffee and left all the internal doors open so she could hear the sound. She was astounded but it worked. In all other respects she was a wonderful neighbour.