Noisy Neighbours

im a terrible sleeper and always have been but now that my week revolves around three midweek days that start at 7 and finish at 10pm shit has gotten v v real, up til a few weeks ago i'd have been quite delighted that we were all bumping around our own lil life cubicles at whatever times made us happy tbh

Spanish prosecutors are seeking a 20-month prison sentence for a professional pianist whose former neighbour is suing over alleged noise pollution.

Musician Laia Martin is on trial in Girona after her family's downstairs neighbour, Sonia Bosom, accused her of causing psychological harm.

Prosecutors are also demanding that the 27-year-old be banned from professional piano playing for six months.

A verdict is expected within two weeks.

is yr golem with the washing machine still being a shithead?

someone just needs to invent something that gets rid of sound from between walls. i've seen something that apparently you can stick to a window that uses noise-cancellation technology and blocks out sound from outside. whoever manages to do this for wall-to-wall will be a zillionaire.

all you moaners should just get an air tight balaclava and put it on 24/7 and I don't mean air tight around the earholes

yes but if deems did that we wouldn't have got the deems hallway/whisky tale which is a recent highpoint of a fallow season for ilx

He showers after getting up so the water pump can be noisy enough but nothing else

Some alchemy or other in the logic centre ive been lumbered with accepts showering as reasonable and washing machine as not and ive been sleeping through- tho the noise is prob not significantly less, idk.

god you're right ilx has gone down the dumper and I mean RIGHT down

Nextdoor dishthrowers have been gone for weeks, whether moved or extended trip to homeland idk

Allied to long hours and conscious improvement n ilx etc hours its been a period of sleep stability ive prob not experienced the like of in my life

Havent turned into superdeems as yet, what a crock imo

you said it mate

you said it

Its the water pump, goes for an hour (intermittently) after he showers. What a stupid fuckin device, imo, atm.

Can't/won't ask the lad not to shower in the mornin before work ffs, now what?

Lol what got up conrads tits itt didnt notice til now

earplugs?

finished noise log will submit tomorrow morning I think. its a good piece imo but will see what suggestions the mgmt co have ito style, brevity etc.

moving in Saturday to a house with brick walls and nobody upstairs, will do well to not have an episode til then but I'm calm and accepting of what will come xxxxxx

important update I can't hear the neighbours anymore and the worlds a beautiful place

yay :)

and no more broken windows?

nah not so far I'm kinda waiting for the other shoe to drop but for now I'm nearly happy by god

glad to hear it, 'nearly happy' is the most mortals can hope for

(that sounds so depressing which is not what i intended)

well I was gonna leave it at that cos tbh ive a fair chance of only kicking on from here and didnt wanna sound smug

<3

Wanna show my appreciation for conrad itt

I never get a read on that guy.

It took us an entire year to get our noisy neighbor thrown out, which is amazing, considering that he was a squatter.

Can you sue local government if they won't evict a squatter who is making your life hell? Shouldn't the county evict him if he doesn't belong on a vacant property? Can we sue the owner for aiding and abetting a nuisance?

Yelling outside now

"I don't wanna walk in the rain, Harry Fuckin Heroin!"
"I wanna cigarette!"
"You only care about yourself, fuck off and die!"

there is a particularly violent in-law, who when he visits my neighbours they manage to keep him outside the house. But the loud chatter always continues into the early hours - no matter how cold the outdoor conditions are. And they seem powerless to ban him, because he keeps returning and he is abysmal. I'm not a curtain twitching type, but my bedroom window is almost adjacent with their back door because of the hill our house was built on, and this show never seems to end:(

My neighbors aren't noisy but they leave a black and white pit mix outside 24/7 that can be. She's also started breaking out from the lack of attention into my backyard or into the front yards and tearing up my trash.

Talking to them has been pointless and it seemingly never happens when I can call animal control, so I've started just throwing the trash in their yard.

Figured the revive was for this:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/84-year-old-norcal-woman-accused-of-shooting-at-noisy-children/ar-BBJ0RBQ?li=BBnbcA1

moved again since, note taken thus far tonight:

night sun 29th July

door being slammed in what can only be described as intentionally violent manner such that sound carried loudly through to other apartments loudly enough to prevent any chance of sleep.

repeated at intervals of c.5 mins from approx 23.50 through 01.00

i can only surmise intentional and vexatious due to frequency, the regular intervals between and the violence of the slamming (you could literally hear the run-up on each occasion).

unsure whether they were seeking to aggravate or provoke an adjacent neighbour, ourselves or genuinely undergoing a traumatic personal event (no noise of conversation or of any other kind throughout period save for the doors, no signs of others in apt, etc)

like im not sleeping at this stage because i have an uneasy feeling this guy is out to murder someone tonight tbh

hmmm

that was a whole seven hours ago and conrad hasnt shown up to be a creepy cunt yet

can someone check on him

you got an non emergency police dmac

i would call them

definitely had domestic abuse cases in my building and yeah the non emergency sorted it out, was worried they would kill each other

thing is im sure he was alone

Upstairs has a plumbing problem. Everyone she flushes the toilet the pipes make a sound like the horns of Jericho for as long as the cistern takes to fill up, a couple of minutes. She must know this and yet still flushes every single time, even at 10 to midnight, 3am, whatever.

i don't care about noise so much because there is so much of it you have to learn to live with it. But this morning I got up and the arseholes next door had thrown loads of bottle tops, cigarette butts over the wall. They'd launched a plant pot at my bird table, breaking a corner off it whilst probably coked out of their heads at 2am. I went into shouty red mist mode and banged on the door this morning and dumped all the rubbish onto their doorstep when they didn't answer. Then totally lost the moral high ground by threatening to beat the shit out of the little twat that finally came out of the house. I know this type of behaviour isn't big and clever and often has very unsatisfactory outcomes. But it is a part of council estate life that usually ruins my mood for the day and is sadly necessary at times. But I hate turning into fucking Travis Bicke over stupid little thoughtless thugs. what a shit life it can be at times, and I'm not a strong enough person to rise above it all:(

conversely: no you are a hero

it didn't feel like that tbh. I got that horrible feeling when you know you aren't being good and could do much better and you feel like you are adding to shittiness of your own world. But on the other hand fuck these arseholes!

Some cunt threatened me from a flat window the other week and I just calmly took my glasses off as they came running down for me, and then they totally shit out and backed off when they got near me. I think I'm a developing a misguided sense of badassness from that, that will probably be the end of me tbh :p

no look i spend most of my time in these interactions furiously imagining what im definitely gonna do to the cunts next time definitely and too much of that gets into your gut too.

think its riskier but maybe better to step up every now and again unless you do actually get killed which obv isnt an ideal outcome

next door has got themselves a drum kit. by god i hope they get bored soon.

thread title is a good name for a garage pop band

Upstairs' noisy toilet seems to be in that state where it's emptying faster than it fills. Horn noise has been going for 15 minutes now. Put a fucking sock in it.

And now things are resonating along with it.

My neighbour's dogs are destroying me at the moment. He has 3 shih tzus, the little yappy shitwits. Because of work restrictions, I'm up later in the mornings and generally home a bit earlier at the moment. He works 12 hours a day, 5 days a week, and they start when he leaves the house (6.30am) and pretty much bark until he returns (6pm). He's very hard to engage with, and, because they are silent when he's around, he doesn't - or can't/won't - compute what they're like when he's out of the house. In the summer, he often left them in the garden and they would bark all day. Someone must have complained because they're entirely confined to the house now. Other neighbours have been in and they shit inside. He leaves giant nappies around the house - I've seen him disposing of them when he gets in. It used to be his mum's house; when we first moved in here they had an entirely unhinged alsatian that we could hear literally climbing the walls.

I've considered being a good neighbour and asking if I could/should walk them but I've been friendly to one in the past and got nipped for my troubles, so no thanks. The RSPCA aren't interested and I've spoken to the council but seriously, the complaint system involves us keeping a six-week diary of the disturbance and the whole process makes me feel like a cunt. I don't really know what to do.

I've not even mentioned that my wife works shifts (12 hour night shifts, at a busy maternity unit) and the little pricks often wake her during the day. I know it's not the dogs' fault but I'm currently considering a nice piece of steak au warfarin.

my neighbour has a dog that he keeps in a cage (I know because the box marked "acme portable dog-cage" blew into my garden from his yard when it was windy). It has a daily anguished howling and crying routine, where the noise doesn't bother me because I just blast out loud music. But it does sadden me that this piece of shit neighbour called the police on us when my son was having an autistic meltdown and it's so miserable to hear such an unhappy dog. He once had the gall to shout threats at my missus who is five foot tall and spare change and has MS. My paper tiger counter-threat to break his legs with my lump hammer seems to have done the trick because I've not heard anything since, but still the poor suffering dog howls in the medieval torture cage every day.

first warm bank holiday of the year and the neighbors are sat out on their roof balcony thing, which is about 10 ft from where I'm trying to sleep.

upstairs neighbor, who would be even closer, has rearranged her entire flat and now sleeps out the front because of this.

because I live on a steep inline my upstairs bedroom window is almost level with my neighbours side garden. I mostly get on with her fine but she has some dodgy family and friends. When they have summer parties it invariably turns into a brawl with various braying drunken loudmouths shouting loud death threats at each other until 4am and it sounds like they are right next to our bed. And then when I get up next morning I go into a rage myself and sweep up all the broken glass and cigarette butts that have been thrown over the wall and unceremoniously dump them on her front path from the dust pan and then she apologises to me and then I'm struck with the feeling that we are all bad and should all feel bad!