How am I supposed to work from home when

I agree, I couldn't work with music or speech on. Funnily enough I don't mind outside sounds like birds, wind, rain, traffic etc. As @BarnsleyReds says, we're weird!

 

Same here. I think one of the reasons I'm struggling so much is because we're on a flight path so planes going over normally drowns him out, as do cars going past but there's hardly any of them now either.

 

Once again I sincerely hope you can get some positive reaction from him next door. These are very difficult times and we all have to give a bit and make compromises. I hope he sees it that way too. Good luck!

 

Far too civilised for my liking.

#bemoregoat

 

Well, I felt like the worst neighbour in the world this morning. We've been leaving the post a day or two before picking it up since lockdown and when we picked it up this morning we found a handmade card from the little boy who'd moved in last week and two packets of love heart sweets. In the card he'd written about his mum looking after sick people at work and invited us to clap at 8pm - last night - that we saw this morning. We quickly made a thank you card, bobbed some chocolate in it, and as we'd discovered it was aunty's birthday today we left a small bottle of wine (all we had in, we don't really drink so never get big bottles as we wouldn't finish it) on the doorstep. I guess I'll ignore their tv today then (and the fact that their dog h as been barking from around 6am non-stop until they get up at 7:30am for the last 3 nights).

 

Aw!

 

Many years ago when I had problems with the neighbours I played them at their own game... and solved the problem within 8hrs... actually I think to be honest they got the message within minutes..
We got new neighbours who were in their early twenties I was about 42 at the time.. Within days of moving in their music was so loud it drowned out our TV... I thought well that and the rest of the noise they are making is all part of getting their house sorted, so I put up with it... I even put up with the drilling and banging of hammers slamming doors shouting over the music etc even up to 10 pm every night for 2weeks solid.. I drew the line when one evening some 3 weeks later I was woken by the sound of drilling at 2.30 am... Later that day and not having to be at my day job I politely knocked on their door and requested they ought to recognise some off us at times have to be up for work and drilling isn't acceptable at that time of morning and to be honest it wasn't a neighbourly thing to do ... The young girl never said a word just turned and shut the door in my face...
Durring the day the music seemed to get louder... That evening I was on my way out to do a gig ( I was working the clubs at the time too ) when I see her partner / husband and I politely mentioned and requested to him that they might just have some thought for their neighbours either side of them regarding the noise they were making...
To my surprise I was told to get a life that I was an old fart and they owned the house and would make as much noise as and when they wanted..no matter the time and . If I didn't like it I should ******* move.....
My partner at the time couldn't belive how calm I remained.. In fact she was gob smacked when I turned around and said nothing in return then just Kissed her good night and left for my gig... The following day I spoke with the neighbours who lived the other side of the couple.. who informed me that she too had had a massive slanging match with them and had received the same abusive response from them both as I had had... She also informed me that later in the week she would be going and staying at her daughters for the night baby sitting... Which then allowed me to do what I did...
later in the week I set up my amp my speakers and music deck that I used in the working men's club when doing my act.. I set them up facing the adjoining wall between us.. I then put meatloafs Bat out of hell on play repeat... ramped up the volume to the level needed for the clubs and we went out for the next 8hrs... Surprising to say the change in their attitude was unbelievable they never said a word about it... their noise level dropped dramatically to a whisper and 6months to the day from when they moved in they sold up...

 

Meat loaf??? 8 hours???...I know there’s been some terrible crimes in our history but that’s got to be up there as one of the worst

 

I would have done anything to quieten the neighbours, but I wouldn't have done that.

 

You took the words right out of my mouth

 

Considering the length of meatloaf songs that was probably only bat out of hell repeated three times

 

I had a similar problem in the early 90s and I was going to do something like what you did except that I was going to play my guitar with the amp up against the dividing wall. The guy had mounted his speakers on the joining wall so the bass was almost impossible to drown out. Unfortunately my then wife was having none of it for fear of it escalating and in the end we traded the house in with Barretts for a new detached house.

 

I keep trying to get my husband to do that (especially as he can’t play well at all) but he’s convinced it will escalate and that I’d lose as I’m way more sensitive to noise than they seem to be. He’s probably right to be fair. I can see us going detached one day but I like this house and location (other than them) too much atm.

 

Go round and confront em, 90 per cent of people tend to respect neighbours. Unless of course you've got one of them little big man syndromer's, and then gud luk. Sometimes we av to do wot we dunt like doing to get things done. [ baseball bat the lovely person ]

 

I sometimes think that if you're a bit on the quiet side, it's possible for neighbours to jump to false conclusions, i.e. if they can't hear you, then you can't hear them. A bit of noise back, not in an aggressive way, but just to let them know you're there, might help.

Of course, some people are just knobs, in which case, pump up the jam!

 

I'm sorry you ad to move, it proper boils my p iss when people just wanting to get on av to take such measures. Ive said it before and ill probably say it again the Countrys foooooked.

 

I'd be the first to admit that I can't play very well but I can play LOUD. I think they would have given in first particularly as the bloke worked permanent nights. They were a young couple no kids, they got the house when the previous owners split up and it was repossessed. They had 5 kids from 18 months to 16 years and we never heard a sound from them.

On thursday night at 8pm I got my amp outside the front door but rather than embarrass myself with the guitar, I played a couple of appropriate songs off youtube (Thank You Very Much and Staying Alive) at full blast for the NHS and key workers.....

 

If it's still going on after lockdown ends, I'll bring my gear round, 2 badly played guitars are better than one.....

 

Never mind your guitars lol trust me... stick bat out of hell on belting out for 8hrs on repeat works fine..