Noise, Noise And MORE Noise!

The streets are shorter here I would think but I reckon there are about 40 houses down this little street, something like that. They are very old too, at least 100 years old. The walls are very thin, which doesn't help. At Mum's she has an extension where my other hi-fi resides. I can blast that quite loud because - not only does it have breeze blocks from her extension but the one next door as well (it's the same size) with bricks inbetween those. Still didn't party all night though like these clowns next door to me now. God, I wish we could adopt your cops. I'd love it if they all got hauled off to the cells in handcuffs.

Yes, it does have its advantages being "out of Town" as you put it. I prefer animals to people anyway. I'm sure if we had animals as neighbours they'd be fine! It's quiet next door at the moment but I'm dreading it later on tonight. Oh, well, there's always Environmental Health to ring on Monday. I reckon they are the only people that can help me out with this problem. The houses around here are terraced so you get a row of them without any spaces inbetween, unlike semi-detached, which is the type of house we would go for if Impact Housing paid us to leave lol.

I guess I'm going to have to make it to the UK sometime and check this out for myself. When you say "terraced", is that kind of like the "row" houses we have back east in the U.S....just house and house and house, but no room between them (zero property line)? And in the U.S., Environmental has nothing to do with loud neighbors. We call the police and they get them to quiet them down or haul them off to jail or something. In town (Las Cruces, NM), they have noise ordinances and you can be ticketed (pay a fine) or whatever for non-compliance. Out in the county where I live, I'm not sure we even have a noise ordinance? But then my neighbors are so far away, I can turn my music up loud and no one would notice, but my dogs (they hate loud anything), the coyotes, the bob cats, skunks, deer.... We already chased away the cattle that use to craze here... When I lived in town, the police did come one night. I had the juke box and all the speakers on in the house/patio and was rockin away to something. The police told me to hold it down...they could hear my music a mile away. At least I know the juke box and all the speakers in the house worked. I don't get that "wild" anymore. But I have triple the speakers in this house (and I still have the juke box) to blast for miles! I just don't...

People like that are just a PITA! I like music well enough, but rap and tajano music played at window rattling volumes is too much. Heck, even good old rock and roll, at the wrong times and too loud can be beyond annoying!

You will have to explain to me what a PITA is because I haven't got a clue! I agree, even my music at loud volumes at silly times, would be unbearable, which is why I don't play it at all hours. I am considerate towards my neighbours. If Impact DID buy this house (which would be wonderful but is never gonna happen) the two on either side could compete with the new ones in the middle.

Well, she's had time to read my letter and it's quiet now..but she's quiet during the day anyway. It's the night-time when we have problems. Hubby said to his Dad on the telephone that if Impact Housing gave us £120,00 (which is what we would need to move somewhere better) he said we'd move "tomorrow." As it is, we're stuck here, next to neighbours who don't give a t*ss really. Their taste in "music" really is crap as well. I like music, always have done but I don't play it at the silly times they do.

There is a digital radio station called Birdsong and it plays..er..birdsong all day, every day. I'm not sure if it's around now but it used to be. Unfortunately, our digital radio is downstairs (and it isn't portable) but, since the letter has been delivered, she's been the perfect neighbour and it was a master-stroke of mine sending a copy to Impact Housing as well. I wasn't in the slightest bit abusive so it's not as though Impact can have a go at me for being heavy-handed in my choice of words.

I know what you mean about "noises from the bedroom." There was one tenant a few years ago who decided to have the front bedroom window WIDE OPEN and had - well, you know - with her boyfriend..which is fine but it was SO LOUD and guys were bringing their little kids past the house from the soccer match that had just finished. I'll never forget watching this guy hurriedly walking past with his little boy as he was probably terrified he would ask questions. I mean, it sounded like she was in pain, you know what I'm saying? Anyway, with this new woman the letter seems to have worked as I did send a copy to Impact Housing as well, threatening legal action lol. That always gets the ball rolling!

We had a visit from a couple of Impact Housing bods today and it was interesting because the neighbours on the other side of the tenant have complained about the noise as well. This increases the likelihood of the tenant being evicted if she misbehaves on a regular basis for the next 28 days. After that time, Impact will visit everyone concerned again. Since I posted the letter it's miles quieter but there again, it's the weekend where we have problems. I'll keep you posted!

No, I'm not boring because I like loud music myself but not at the time they were playing it, which is illegal in this country anyway. She has an obligation under her tenency agreement to behave herself, if she doesn't, she may be evicted. That's nothing to do with me being boring, it's just a fact.

Loud neighbors can make your life miserable, especially if it is keeping you from getting good sleep. Why does the housing authority not do anything about your complaints?

well i have never lived a noisy, indifferent, shameless, contemptible neighbors! and never will i care about that tenency agreement if i do.. am going to evict them myself! tsk.. tsk..