Advice re loud music from neighbours during the day

lyverbird1

I would appreciate advice on how to approach some neighbours on my road who are more and more frequently playing very loud (and, not helpfully, very bad!) music during the day whilst sitting on their driveway with the car doors open. The quality and the volume of the tunes is bad enough but it's getting to be a nearly daily thing and even with all the doors and windows closed in my house and the fact that we live a few doors away, we can still hear that bass beat of the Eastern European disco in every room of our house. It also doesn't help that both of us work shifts and really need the peace and quiet during the day when we get home.I'd like to approach them in a friendly and non-confrontational manner and ask them to just keep the volume down but figure I only get one chance to ask properly without sounding like a nag or a really grumpy biddy or before I lose the rag. Anyone got any ideas on a good line that will sound friendly yet get the message across that what they are doing is not exactly neighbourly and to please stop?! It's a conversation I'd prefer to just have once so want to be clear enough without being overly confrontational.Thanks in advance...

DrumSteve

stop playing loud music, you *****.

Dublinstiofán

DrumSteve wrote: »

stop playing loud music, you *****.

I'm gonna go with DrumSteve on this one. I'd say he has heard the above sentence a lot and it seemed to make an impression on him!

Doc

In work get 20 different people to write in their own words "your music is awful please turn it down!" on some post it notes bits of paper card anything really so long as its all on different things then wait till their out post them all through their letterbox or stick them to their door.

The reason for getting other people to write it is so that the handwriting is all different and it looks like the entire neighborhood wants them to turn it down not just you.

Don’t know if it will work but it might...

senordingdong

Burn their house down.

Agent Smith

I'd Burn them out, and Sell their first born into slavery, But maybe i'm Slightly too Harsh...

Agent Smith

senordingdong wrote: »

Burn their house down.

Agent Smith wrote: »

I'd Burn them out, and Sell their first born into slavery, But maybe i'm Slightly too Harsh...

Great Minds dingdong... great minds....

senordingdong

Agent Smith wrote: »

Great Minds dingdong... great minds....

Some day Smith.
Some day.

Blazer

lyverbird1 wrote: »

we can still hear that bass beat of the Eastern European disco in every room of our house. .

Smithers...release the swans.

CorkMan

ring the gardai?

mikemac

Employ a skanger to hang around their car with a screwdriver

stovelid

this...

starbelgrade

CorkMan wrote: »

ring the gardai?

It's nothing to do with the Gardai. If there is a problem with noise pollution, it is up to the individual to report it to their local council.

Sykk

I can't believe "Blast him with piss" hasn't mean mentioned yet!

The Agogo

..,Or just drown them out with some Beethoven.

senordingdong

feelingstressed wrote: »

Employ a skanger to hang around their car with a screwdriver

Or employ a few scangers to have a rave in their garden.
That'll make them buy earphones.

Amalgam

Dress like Alan Partridge and get down with the yoof, start shimmying (plenty of nervous hip work) and throwing shapes around him and the car, he'll want to go inside..

ILA

If the noise is affecting your quality of life, you have a right to complain under Section 108 of the Environmental Protection Act 1992 and S.I No. 179 of 1994.

You should approach the person or business causing the noise and explain that it is a nuisance and try to come to a mutually acceptable solution. If this does not work, your local authority has the same power as individuals to bring noise complaints to the District Court.

If you can't reach a mutual agreement after speaking to them, and the Local Authority: Get your Solicitor to form a noise complaint (Exact Format) for the District Court and contact the Court Clerk who can assist you.

The District Court will call both parties together and listens to both sides of the case. If the court finds in your favour, it can order the person or body to limit the noise, reduce the level of noise or stop the noise completely. Any Orders made by the court must be complied with.

senordingdong

ILA wrote: »

If the noise is affecting your quality of life, you have a right to complain under Section 108 of the Environmental Protection Act 1992 and S.I No. 179 of 1994.

You should approach the person or business causing the noise and explain that it is a nuisance and try to come to a mutually acceptable solution. If this does not work, your local authority has the same power as individuals to bring noise complaints to the District Court.

If you can't reach a mutual agreement after speaking to them, and the Local Authority: Get your Solicitor to form a noise complaint (Exact Format) for the District Court and contact the Court Clerk who can assist you.

The District Court will call both parties together and listens to both sides of the case. If the court finds in your favour, it can order the person or body to limit the noise, reduce the level of noise or stop the noise completely. Any Orders made by the court must be complied with.

I'm assuming the OP wants this sorted before xmas 2011.
And without incurring any unjust costs.

jackiebaron

lyverbird1 wrote: »

I would appreciate advice on how to approach some neighbours on my road who are more and more frequently playing very loud (and, not helpfully, very bad!) music during the day whilst sitting on their driveway with the car doors open. The quality and the volume of the tunes is bad enough but it's getting to be a nearly daily thing and even with all the doors and windows closed in my house and the fact that we live a few doors away, we can still hear that bass beat of the Eastern European disco in every room of our house. It also doesn't help that both of us work shifts and really need the peace and quiet during the day when we get home.I'd like to approach them in a friendly and non-confrontational manner and ask them to just keep the volume down but figure I only get one chance to ask properly without sounding like a nag or a really grumpy biddy or before I lose the rag. Anyone got any ideas on a good line that will sound friendly yet get the message across that what they are doing is not exactly neighbourly and to please stop?! It's a conversation I'd prefer to just have once so want to be clear enough without being overly confrontational.Thanks in advance...

Just go up to them and say to them to keep the noise down. Tell them that you are not the only one but there are new-born babies in the neighbourhood whose mothers are trying to get them to sleep during the day and that his infernal goddamn din is fücking up the program.
Failing that, make a 50 quid donation to the local druglord and inform him of the problem.

biko

Pay some Russian Mafia guys to go over and sort them out.

cosmic

Are they renting? Contact their landlord (the neighbour on either side of the house should have their number) and complain. If it happens again complain again. And so on until they get evicted. Done!

chin_grin

This.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e3TYKOVCM0

Or join/say something to the residents association (if you have one). That's what they're there for, to annoy.

ILA

senordingdong wrote: »

I'm assuming the OP wants this sorted before xmas 2011.
And without incurring any unjust costs.

Then the OP must communicate with the other party. Otherwise just phone the Guards like any Joe Soap would and get them to give out the the Poles.

Most foreigners have a strange dislike of any attention from the authorities in this State, apart from the Social Welfare office.

fonecrusher1

lyverbird1 wrote: »

I would appreciate advice on how to approach some neighbours on my road who are more and more frequently playing very loud (and, not helpfully, very bad!) music during the day whilst sitting on their driveway with the car doors open. The quality and the volume of the tunes is bad enough but it's getting to be a nearly daily thing and even with all the doors and windows closed in my house and the fact that we live a few doors away, we can still hear that bass beat of the Eastern European disco in every room of our house. It also doesn't help that both of us work shifts and really need the peace and quiet during the day when we get home.I'd like to approach them in a friendly and non-confrontational manner and ask them to just keep the volume down but figure I only get one chance to ask properly without sounding like a nag or a really grumpy biddy or before I lose the rag. Anyone got any ideas on a good line that will sound friendly yet get the message across that what they are doing is not exactly neighbourly and to please stop?! It's a conversation I'd prefer to just have once so want to be clear enough without being overly confrontational.Thanks in advance...

.......getting a headache reading this solid block of text^

Ever heard of the concept of paragraphs?

chin_grin

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

.......getting a headache reading this solid block of text^

Ever heard of the concept of paragraphs?

Select all of the OPs post, press ctrl+c. Open Notepad on your own PC, ctrl+v. Press enter after a few lines and read.

I didn't find it hard to read at all seeing that there was correct punctuation.

fonecrusher1

chin_grin wrote: »

Select all of the OPs post, press ctrl+c. Open Notepad on your own PC, ctrl+v. Press enter after a few lines and read.

Nope.

Just use paragraphs. Its not difficult.

ILA

chin_grin wrote: »

Select all of the OPs post, press ctrl+c. Open Notepad on your own PC, ctrl+v. Press enter after a few lines and read.

I didn't find it hard to read at all seeing that there was correct punctuation.

Are you ****ing serious? That would require a phenominal amount of effort!

chin_grin

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Nope.

Just use paragraphs. Its not difficult.

ILA wrote: »

Are you ****ing serious? That would require a phenominal amount of effort!

I can do it in less than a second using windows shortcuts.

Now you've both posted meaningless off topic jibes at the FORMAT of the OPs post without actually having anything to add.

Well, do you?

stimpson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note

fonecrusher1

chin_grin wrote: »

I can do it in less than a second using windows shortcuts.

Now you've both posted meaningless off topic jibes at the FORMAT of the OPs post without actually having anything to add.

Well, do you?

Give over. I found myself reading certain sentences 2 or 3 times due to the ill constructed manner of the post. Im not an expert in written english but i know the post needs to be broken up a little bit. Thats called paragraphing.

OP, you're right to be annoyed. Get a hifi, place it against adjoining wall, play loud bass music for an hour or two each day. It might inconvenience you for a while but they will get the point eventually.

If they come knocking on your door looking for the volume to be turned down then you can expect them to be equally considerate when you ask them to keep the noise down a bit.:)

jackiebaron

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

.......getting a headache reading this solid block of text^

Ever heard of the concept of paragraphs?

This block of text is miniscule in comparison to many paragraphs in books or newspaper articles. Your attention span must be awfully compromised, god love you.

mikemac

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

OP, you're right to be annoyed. Get a hifi, place it against adjoining wall, play loud bass music for an hour or two each day.

The house is a few doors down.
Doing this will just turn your next door neighbours into enemies, they did nothing wrong

Here is the OP

lyverbird1 wrote: »

I would appreciate advice on how to approach some neighbours on my road ...... and the fact that we live a few doors away,

jackiebaron

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Give over. I found myself reading certain sentences 2 or 3 times due to the ill constructed manner of the post. Im not an expert in written english but i know the post needs to be broken up a little bit. Thats called paragraphing.

OP, you're right to be annoyed. Get a hifi, place it against adjoining wall, play loud bass music for an hour or two each day. It might inconvenience you for a while but they will get the point eventually.

If they come knocking on your door looking for the volume to be turned down then you can expect them to be equally considerate when you ask them to keep the noise down a bit.:)

And if you had properly read the OP's post instead of skimming it then complaining about the format you would have observed that the OP doesn't live next door to the noise miscreants. That attention span again.

TouchingVirus

jackiebaron wrote: »

And if you had properly read the OP's post instead of skimming it then complaining about the format you would have observed that the OP doesn't live next door to the noise miscreants. That attention span again.

I'm sure this is what fonecrusher meant:

I would appreciate advice on how to approach some neighbours on my road who are more and more frequently playing very loud (and, not helpfully, very bad!) music during the day whilst sitting on their driveway with the car doors open. The quality and the volume of the tunes is bad enough but it's getting to be a nearly daily thing and even with all the doors and windows closed in my house and the fact that we live a few doors away, we can still hear that bass beat of the Eastern European disco in every room of our house. It also doesn't help that both of us work shifts and really need the peace and quiet during the day when we get home.

<enter key ftw>

I'd like to approach them in a friendly and non-confrontational manner and ask them to just keep the volume down but figure I only get one chance to ask properly without sounding like a nag or a really grumpy biddy or before I lose the rag. Anyone got any ideas on a good line that will sound friendly yet get the message across that what they are doing is not exactly neighbourly and to please stop?! It's a conversation I'd prefer to just have once so want to be clear enough without being overly confrontational.Thanks in advance...

So what's with all the handbags? :rolleyes: It's offtopic and getting silly.

Speaking of silly...

cosmic wrote: »

Are they renting? Contact their landlord (the neighbour on either side of the house should have their number) and complain. If it happens again complain again. And so on until they get evicted. Done!

What a retarded idea. Surely the first port of call is with the people themselves. Do you call Tesco head office when you find you've been overcharged for a product? This kind of shít bothers me, if you have a problem with somebody just up and say it to them. If they ignore you, then go further (wherever that may be). Grow a spine ffs :mad:

fonecrusher1

lyverbird1 wrote: »

I would appreciate advice on how to approach some neighbours on my road who are more and more frequently playing very loud (and, not helpfully, very bad!) music during the day whilst sitting on their driveway with the car doors open. The quality and the volume of the tunes is bad enough but it's getting to be a nearly daily thing and even with all the doors and windows closed in my house and the fact that we live a few doors away, we can still hear that bass beat of the Eastern European disco in every room of our house. It also doesn't help that both of us work shifts and really need the peace and quiet during the day when we get home.I'd like to approach them in a friendly and non-confrontational manner and ask them to just keep the volume down but figure I only get one chance to ask properly without sounding like a nag or a really grumpy biddy or before I lose the rag. Anyone got any ideas on a good line that will sound friendly yet get the message across that what they are doing is not exactly neighbourly and to please stop?! It's a conversation I'd prefer to just have once so want to be clear enough without being overly confrontational.Thanks in advance...

:eek:^

ILA wrote: »

If the noise is affecting your quality of life, you have a right to complain under Section 108 of the Environmental Protection Act 1992 and S.I No. 179 of 1994.

You should approach the person or business causing the noise and explain that it is a nuisance and try to come to a mutually acceptable solution. If this does not work, your local authority has the same power as individuals to bring noise complaints to the District Court.

If you can't reach a mutual agreement after speaking to them, and the Local Authority: Get your Solicitor to form a noise complaint (Exact Format) for the District Court and contact the Court Clerk who can assist you.

The District Court will call both parties together and listens to both sides of the case. If the court finds in your favour, it can order the person or body to limit the noise, reduce the level of noise or stop the noise completely. Any Orders made by the court must be complied with.

:cool:^

Star Bingo

lyverbird1 wrote: »

we can still hear that bass beat of the Eastern European disco in every room of our house.

more polak ravers, per chance? bad combination. if they groove, kill em

Daroxtar

Cripple them with kindness. Next time they are banging out the tunes call over with a few beers, sit and chill with them for a while and then ask if they can turn the bass down as its making your head vibrate a bit. Tell them you don't mind them listening to the music , just keep it down a bit.

If that fails shoot them.

aligator_am

Sure it's coming up to Halloween, get a few half sticks of dynamite and tape them to their car windows, blast the fook out of 'em, actually, tape them to their ****in' house windows at about 4am and detonate, they can go fúck themselves with a rusty hammer sideways, cúnts.

lyverbird1

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

.......getting a headache reading this solid block of text^

Ever heard of the concept of paragraphs?

Thanks to most people here for their helpful contributions and to fonecrusher for the patronising paragraph remarks.

This was typed with paragraphs (yes, thanks, I am aware of their existence :rolleyes:) but didn't post as such, was done on a work computer that only loads 'with error on page'. May I suggest in future that you stop reading text the moment you feel a headache coming on, thereby negating the necessity to moan?

ringadingding

Someone moans about music, someone moans about paragraphs, original moaner moans about moaning.

lyverbird1

ringadingding wrote: »

Someone moans about music, someone moans about paragraphs, original moaner moans about moaning.

I propose that I was being helpful and polite - I wish only for the individual I replied to to avoid headaches, hence my wonderfully useful advice! I may have been stating the obvious but most people do need a helping hand from time to time... :P

fonecrusher1

ringadingding wrote: »

Someone moans about music, someone moans about paragraphs, original moaner moans about moaning.

Quit your moaning.

fonecrusher1

lyverbird1 wrote: »

I propose that I was being helpful and polite - I wish only for the individual I replied to to avoid headaches, hence my wonderfully useful advice! I may have been stating the obvious but most people do need a helping hand from time to time... :P

Heres my helpful advice.

ringadingding

Moaning is good for the soul, as is polish MTV at full whack all day ;-)

lyverbird1

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Heres my helpful advice.

Perhaps I shall use that optio should the flamethrower one fail!

JONJO THE MISER

Easy solution, get 2 swans and leave them walk past there house, while there busy chasing them for dinner you go and steal there stereo or whatever they have.

jugger0

Write them a letter "Turn down your music please" tie it to a brick and throw it through their sitting room window in the middle of the night.


PROBLEM IS SOLVED

KingLoser

how has nobody else in the neighbourhood gone batsh*t crazy at them yet?

mecanoman

Had something similar a while ago, new neighbour liked nothing better

than fixing he's car with thumping tunes blasting out of he's piece

of crap(don't know if this help with he's mechanical skills).

Walked over and asked him kindly could he turn it down.

Actually worked

Hope you can get it resolved. Some people are just big assholes.

cosmic

TouchingVirus wrote: »

What a retarded idea. Surely the first port of call is with the people themselves. Do you call Tesco head office when you find you've been overcharged for a product?

Wow, charming.

I only suggested this because the OP specifically said they didn't want to have to have it out with the neighbours.

Get over yourself.