Am I the only one who thinks peple should show more consideration for their neighbours?

Question

I live in a terraced house, and I have to put up with one side banging and hammering until sometimes gone 10.30pm which I think is too late, and on the other side are constanting screaming matches.

There are also some awful people up the road up sit oiut the front and have their music blasting that loud that I can hear it with all my windows and doors shut, so god knows what it must be like for their neighbours.

There are people constantly screaming and shouting and swearing, and I think that although people shouldnt have to be quiet, they should think about other people living in the houses nearby and not make so much noise. I dont have my music on loud, not do I shout and scream out the back or make a ton of noise.... maybe I shouldnt care like everyone else and just make as much noise as I want. Am I being too stuck up for thinking this?

Answer 1

Speak to your Environmental Health department at the local council, most councils come down hard on noisy and bad neighbours now. They will tell you what you can do within the law, you will probably need to begin with keeping a diary

Answer 2

Sounds like you live in Wood End in Coventry. Best thing to do is move if you can. Other than that get the local enviormental health officers involved and notify the Police. Laws state in the UK that music played in a house should not be heard from outside the property. Also noise such as DIY should not commence before 8.am in the morning and should not continue after 11.00pm.

But if you had decent neighbours you would not be here asking for advice would you? but I'm afraid other people don't respect other peoples right to have some peace.

Answer 3

No, you're not being stuck up, you're being harrassed. I lived in a street which sound like yours - the neighbours (who didn't work) across the road from me would stand outside and have a party in the street till gone midnight during the week. Being the type that needs 8 hours sleep to function, and having a demanding job to go to the next day, it was a nightmare. They were also very agressive and would shout abuse at me when I closed my windows to stop the noise! The solution? I moved house in the end because I couldn't stand it. Good luck!

Answer 4

No. You are not being stuck up. In fact, the people making the noise are being rude. About 2 weeks ago, this Haitian family next door to me in a separate building had a party and they were playing their island music so loud that it rattled my walls. I can only imagine what happened to the party goers' hearing because all of the windows were up and the doors were shut. At 3:00am, I had enough and called the police. They came out and shut the entire party down. THANK GOODNESS! My neighbor across the street came over to the police officer, confirmed my story, and thanked me in so many words for shutting them up.

And what makes it even worse, the behavior of my neighbor has changed. She no longer talks to me or is kind because I broke up her party. Well, I guess she had no idea that she was keeping up at least 3 families including my own.

It is like you are a prisoner in your own home and it is not right. You have to stick up for yourself, otherwise; these people will continue to take advantage of you.

Answer 5

No, you are not the only one. I have a problem with some neighbors too. I just wish I had more land so I can buffer myself from some of them. We also have the neighbor who likes to use yard machinery - chainsaw, lawn mower, leaf blower usually in the evening and on Friday nights especially (which is when I like to sit out on my deck and wind down from a hard week at work). Not much you can do. Then, there are the people in the neighborhood who walk their dogs and have their dogs poop on my property and not pick it up. My husband was able to control the last problem by putting peanut butter on the existing poops outside and the dog owners would come by the next day and their dogs started eating their own poops! We also tried powdered chilli pepper on the puppy pyramids too! Revenge isn't it sweet!

Answer 6

I agree -- I'm in a small town, upper middle class neighborhood where 1/2 of the people have been here 30 yrs, and the "new" section has people here 7 yrs or less. Nobody in the "old" section will wave or speak even when I'm smiling and being friendly, but maybe 5-7 of the new side will. All in all, people are no longer friendly or kind. When my husband died, only my Avon lady's husband came to the funeral home, and she brought over a cake later that day. Otherwise, it was a total no-show...and he was the darling of this down for 3 decades - beloved at the country club as a teenaged caddy, star athlete in H.S., local pharmacist in the drug store, etc. The worst here is the HUGE number of HUGE dogs leaving HUGS piles of poo in my yard. ICK!

Answer 7

oh you poor thing, if the noise is a constant battle, you could try contacting your local councils noise department, who do have a process in place for stopping the noise, we did this as a near neighbours daughter was blasting her music out of her bedroom window till two in the morning one summer and was intolerable, her parents room was at the other end of the house and they heard nothing. our local council actually took her stereo away and she was banned from playing loud music for two years and was fined for disturbing the peace. had the family of moved away, the order would have stayed in place. you should care and people should be more considerate, if it helps, get together with your nice neighbours and make a joint complaint, if enough of you shout, then hopefully things will get sorted. lots of luck

Answer 8

Definately not!!I'm 25 and I think it's common courtesy to ensure that you don't inflict on other people.I go mad at my other half when he plays his music loud, we live in a detatched house!!

I have neighbours that have dogs barking ALL day and it's so annoying I can't even sit out in my own garden on these hot summer days, why they just don't tell the bloody things to shut up I'll never know.

I also have neighbours that used to let their kids have a rock band practice in a shed not 1.5 m from my back patio, I did however put pay to his after asking them to keep it down a million times, I snapped and went MAD at them and threatened them with the council.No more band practice - thank god.

I'm with you all the way.

Answer 9

No, not at all. I have a similar problem and much as I can escape it by going to work it regularly ruins my evenings in. I'm a semi-professional musician so need to practice but always keep it acoustic, and away from the party walls so as not to upset them.

They have no consideration and it's unfortunately a sign of the decline of people's basic level of respect for other human beings. You're right to be angry and should stand up for the right to be a quiet, considerate neighbour and for your right to quiet enjoyment of your home.

Answer 10

No, you're not stuck up! We live in a sh*ty ground floor flat and it is a nightmare. Sometimes we have to sleep in the living room because our neighbour upstairs thinks that it is OK to moan and groan at the top of her voice, when she's sh*gging her bf.
Nobody knows how to shut a door without slamming it.
The people around us listen to music at full blast whenever it suits them.
We don't slam doors and we wear headphones to listen to music / watch films.
Your not alone in wondering what is wrong with people