Noisy neighbours on the floor above!

[frisky]

I found myself at 7.15am banging on the door of the flat upstairs. They were playing loud music in their bedroom from 7.00 onwards.

Now I was up at 7.00 anyway but really, loud music in modern build flats at 7? Am I overreacting but it was too much!

They didn't answer the door but they switched off the music.

Sorry just had to rant. *shambles off*

[nobrains]

Question - should people be forced to listen to your music just because you like it?

If the answer is No then it would be the right reaction to to have. Be thankful they knew they were wrong and respected your wishes.

[Admin]

I have noisy neighbors.
Only it's not music but building things, they hammer and drill at all hours of day and night.

I did try speaking to them nicley about the noise, but I just got cheek back and they are not young either

So I told them if they didn't quit I would ring the police, mind it has only stopped them from making a lot of building noise at 5am.

[Harvestgoddess]

I have the same problem at DT my neighbours are building some kind of granny flat at the end of their garden i cant understand how they are even allowed to do this as its housing assosiaton im not even allowed to put a fence up but theyve been hammering non stop for weeks starting as early as 7 am and to top it all off they seem to have all their relatives over every single day and all their young children who to top it off wind my own children up
The other day my neighbours mother started talking to me and said , you dont go on holiday much do you whys that ? and im like well maybe because i am skint not all of us have a partner who can afford to take us away for 3 weeks
Talk about being insensitive and rubbing it in
Btw op your totally in the right why should you be forced to listen to their music especially so early

[frisky]

Thank you all for your replies!

And for your kind support.

Sorry to hear about your stories. Why are people so bloody thoughtless!

[6alives]

My mother taught us a motto to live by and that is to treat other people as you would expect others to treat you. If everyone lived by this simple "mantra" there would be far fewer problems in this great world of ours!!

[dal1966]

I have noisy neighbours in the flat above me. All i get is agresive abuse from them if i complain. So now i just complain to my council about them, i have even had noise inspectors out to get them to turn there music down, but the problem is still the same.
Does anybody know what my next step of action should be ?

[silenthill]

dal1966 said:

I have noisy neighbours in the flat above me. All i get is agresive abuse from them if i complain. So now i just complain to my council about them, i have even had noise inspectors out to get them to turn there music down, but the problem is still the same.
Does anybody know what my next step of action should be ?

What did the council say about the noise levels?

[odm]

Hi all, actually the story I want to tell is quite sad but at the end of the day it shows that noisy neighbours are really quite a serious problem and should be treated that way too.

A lady I loved very much and was a relative by marriage had lived in the same house for 40 years. Originally her and her husband used to live in a pre-fab but then when the housing situation grew better back in the 50'60's she was offered a lovely 'steel 'house from the council. It was in a lovely road and it was down a bank with a front garden and an enormous back garden. Both her and her husband were very keen gardeners and would grow their annuals and have their strawberry patch as well as their tomatoes and cucumbers in their greenhouse. Together they brought up their boys and saw what must have been a mini lifetime in that house as their children moved out and had their own children... Eventually the husband died and the lady was left on her own..the garden was not so cared for as it was quite large and she was growing a little older. She kept up the strawberries and the sweet peas and even the odd cucumbers and I would have some given to me which always made me smile. I am a great lover of gardens myself so we had this nature thing in common between us. Well eventually as time passed she began to tell me about the NEW neighbours. How they were a young couple and how they would fight and put disco music on from 6 and 7 am in the morning..she could hear the swearing, shouting and doors banging and the threatening behaviour between this couple and the children screaming...eventually, the couple would leave things all over the bank at the front of the house.. then their dog would come over the garden through the conifers and start dumping in this ladys garden. Then the kids would start taking liberties and try to get in. The list of things grew and a few words were spoken. My friend of course ended up getting upset. She was in her seventies and this young couple late twenties with too much booze under their belt and not much interest in the kids...Everytime I saw my friend she would get more and more upset about the people NEXT door. In fact the people next door began to run her life...her whole day was run by them, her whole evening was run by them, and in the end, her entire conversations were only about the people next door.

She was not very well my friend. She had diabetes. I really loved her you know.. I still do, very much. Well in 2004, she died. I still grow sweet peas and I still think of her with so much respect and love. Gardens, her and me, all went together, she was my ex mother in law and I loved her so much. But, I remember sitting with her trying to ease her mind about these dratted people next door. I remember telling her I would ring the council, and she knew I would, but she did,nt give me the permission to do so...so i respected that. Her whole world in her street had changed. It was not full of the people she knew when she moved there. It was full of strangers, as she had grown older, all the people she knew had died, all but one that is. The one friend who was a kindly soul still lives there a few doors away. She has lost her husband now too. She is all alone now. She was one of those people who were capable of moving on and going with the flow with all the new people and couples etc. however, the noisy neighbours destroyed the quality of my ex mother in laws life. It became the focus of her day..and it used to frighten her too as she was sure violence was going to break out with the noisy couple who lived there ignorantly refusing to accept the fact that they were upsetting this lovely older lady.

Do we get mad at stuff like this..did I? was I cross to know that this lady who had lived all these years in her house happily ended up spending the last three in sheer hell of her neighbours and NOTHING WAS DONE?? well yes..i get mad, because I know they still live there creating all that noise and the lady I loved so much has died and probably glad to have that release as she was in the end quite a recluse poor soul.

Noisy Neighbours should be evicted if they are in council houses when they have breached on a third warning. Older people should be respected which they often are not. Older and younger people should not be housed together or as neighbours in my opinion anyway and its time the council sorted that out. There should definately be tighter rules and regulations on Noisy Neighbours. In the case of my ex mother in law, they ruled the last three years of her existance and became her existance which is such a terrible shame....

I really do want to go out in this world and champion peoples rights...its stuff like this that makes me feel like I want to change a few things in this world....

[silenthill]

I agree with you on one point ODM, that noisy neighbours should be evicted after a few warnings, I know some of them can be nightmares, but not all young people cause a lot of noise and trouble for the older generation.

I for one am very considerate of my neighbours and wouldn't dream of upsetting any of them, I am in a block of 4 flats and 2 of them are occupied by elderly people, if they ever needed anything or any help I would do what I could to help them out, the same goes for any of the elderly people in the other flats around here, I'm always polite to them as they are to me.