Talking about noisy neighbours

Oh yes, had similar. Drove me bonkers, building noise and radio blaring away. House at the back of us had extensive work done - the whole back was taken out and they had double extensions done at the back and side. Then they had their garden redone. Took months, over a year I think. Then when they finished the house next door to them started! Kitchen renovations and garden work by the look of it. There’s still banging being heard. I sat inside last year mostly to get away from it.

That sounds dreadful. I suppose this is modern living.

Sounds awful for you

You’re right it’s not the building work it’s the radio noise.
I will try your suggestion Trigger. Thanks.

I love music ... just dont want it rammed down my throat every day. This lot turn up at 7 most mornings but They have the ‘courtesy’ to leave music at 8am.
My earphones have been ordered ?

I don't think Cava is complaining about the building works, it's the radio which can be excessive. These days there is no need to have a radio blaring, blue tooth ear phones are very good when they can ruin their own hearing and not everyone elses. Why not take them round a cold drink and some biscuits and ask if they can do reduce the volume, it worked for me.

Both my next door and back neighbours are retired do it yourself addicts. Banging, sawing and drilling all hours of the day all day. Their wives don’t sit in the garden.
One warm sunny Sunday afternoon a lot of pink dust was coming over my garden. Phoned his wife. He was cutting up bricks!

I sympathise with you but be thankful they are not living above you. I moved to a flat last year and I get woken up at 6am every morning. My. neighbour just walking across the floor is so loud it wakens me out of a deep sleep. When he isnt there I sleep till at least 8am.

We have builders over the road at the moment , so I feel your pain! They play the radio all day ( and it’s never Classic FM!) Park so close to our drive that it’s difficult to get our big car out, and on occasion park across it. It makes my dogs bark too. I find myself praying for rain as they don’t come then! I know they have a job to do, but do they have to be so ignorant

As soon as the sun comes out so does next doors loud music, and i mean LOUD it is deafening,i have had to ask them more than once to turn it down
I get on well with them in general, but they have very young children so i can't understand it
Neighbours across the back tend to have very loud music on some nights ,whether winter or summer if having a party
I could hear it when i went to bed with windows closed, had a word and they apologised, didn't realise it carried so far

Our neighbour has Capitol radio on very loudly whenever he is in the garden, the drum beat is incessant and started to drive us both crazy, he did turn it down for a time buts it’s crept back up.

We’ve resorted to noise cancelling earphones., I must say they’re very comfortable to wear and you can listen to your own thing.

Oh you have my sympathies Cava - we had this for a year and it almost drove me crazy. Loud talking and shouting, bonfires, (until neighbour other side ranted as she had got home and thought her kitchen was on fire thanks to smoke!) Rumbling cement mixers, shrieking of cutters, rubbish left our side of the fence, fence smashed down and ruined one day when we were out, a portaloo (I won't elaborate but that was by far the very worst of the annoyances!!) and at least one radio churning out the 'boom ba boom boom boom' rythm without which it seems no builder can function. Then suddenly, magically, they went. The Portaloo ended up outside the sitting room windows of the new owner for about three weeks (what a shame) and peace returned. There is a large area of land between us and next door - had we been in a semi I might have needed a straight jacket. Keep calm as it will end eventually.

Moggycuddler you are totally right: constant noise is hugely detrimental to mental health. Perhaps we need a new definition of what constitutes noise as it certainly doesn't have to be very loud to be intrusive. Maybe it's the inability to escape from it, even in the sanctuary of one's own home and garden, that is so damaging. Nobody should be subjected to noise, even at a fairly low level, for 10 hours a day. If I were in your place, Cava, I would definitely say to the builders that you are not comfortable with it and ask for a solution.
For those people who play music in the garden, I would point out that one person's music is another person's noise. Headphones are the answer if you want to enjoy music in the garden.

My sympathies too. We had very noisy builders next door for 7 months. One radio blasting out radio 1/2 and another in the annex at the end of the garden with radio 4. Plus one of the builders had a very limited vocabulary - every other word was f***. We would occasionally ask them to turn it down, which they did and then 10 minutes later turn it up even louder. Then there was the uncovered skip withrubbish blowing over the street. We should have complained to the owners but never did. Rant over!

Anyone seen the advice in the media lately about the best ways to set up your home cinema in your garden? I read an article this morning that blithely advised how to get the best effect. Apparently, it's important to wait until it's properly dark! In June that will be around 11pm. Good luck to neighbours hoping to sleep with their windows open on a sultry night. The home cinema goers may even be watching from their hot tub.

We had windows fitted by a well known company a few years ago. Initial fitters were great, no noise and pleasant. The second lot of fitters, one brought a ghetto blaster to the front of the house and switched it on, loudly. I told him neighbour next door was asleep as working nights. What did he do, brought it inside the house, no permission given and then he complained about me to the company when I told him to switch it off. Funnily enough, he no longer works for that company - I wonder why!

I live on the edge of Sidmouth in a quiet road. I like to sit on my patio and read while having a cup of coffee. Yet every day somebody nearby is using hedge cutters, mowers, power tools, etc. Every day. All summer long. I go out to
check and if it seems quiet I make some coffee and get my book. By the time I get out you can bet that somebody has thought they would like to mow their lawn. My nearest neighbour is now having several trees cut down... All the neighbours are nice people and I just don't want to complain. Of course everybody has a perfect right to do what they want to their properties, and they would probably think I was just a grumpy old woman, which I am.

They don't cut their grass or hedges?!

My daughter always has the sonus on playing an 80s radio station which I can’t stand ?. Earlier this year we had the builders to n to do work to the kitchen/ dining room and the first thing they did every day was to plug in their radio and play 60s/70s music which I love . They were only here fo 3 weeks but what a great 3 weeks it was

We used to live in a semi-detached house where our next door neighbour and his son both played the piano. They both played beautifully and the quiet background music was never unpleasant.
My in-laws however were in the same situation and lived next door to a pianist who played some something like Les Dawson in his comedy act. Every time he hit a wrong note he woukd go back and start again often going wrong in exactly the same place. The only answer was earplugs!

My younger son lives in a caravan in our drive and unfortunately suffers from mental health problems.They are building a new housing estate just to the side of us,which used to be a really quiet village location.They start work at eight o'clock and then the beeping starts and the thumping and the shouting.It certainly isn't helping his mental health.It was wonderful when they were furloughed!

The one thing about tradesmen, any tradesmen, it their appalling choice in radio, and loudness of said radio!
Personally, it does irritate me, but only a little, but l totally understand the annoyance you must feel.
Just tell yourself that it will be finite: at some point it will be over, and peace will return.
Meanwhile, purchase a good quality pair of sound cancelling ear defenders, and enjoy you book in the garden.

It seems to be a fact of life with builders. The first thing they do is turn it up loud. My regular builder has a habit of turning his music on and then disappearing for an hour or so - going for coffee or supplies or breakfast.

Cava I have every sympathy for you. We have just had houses and flats built to the rear of us. It took twelve months to complete and we had constant noise and heavy vehicles passing the front of the house with dirt and muck (this was during the very wet January and February) being the norm. Four houses were directly affected, including mine, and we got together to campaign against the constant noise and affects the building work was having on us. We had residents' meetings involving the builders and council and are now waiting for compensation (yes, it was that bad!) but, of course, the builders are now blaming lockdown for not paying up! I hadn't realised I was a campaigner before all this happened but I know I would have been there with the suffragettes!

I completely agree. We had new indoor doors fitted and the joiners lugged a huge dusty radio blaring pop music from room to room. I honestly don’t know who these people think they are. I wouldn’t mind if they had even asked but the didn’t! I complained to the company and they stopped. Unbelievable rudeness.