Advice re loud music from neighbours during the day

lyverbird1 · 28-09-2010 07:49AM #1

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 · 28-09-2010 07:54AM

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

Dublinstiofán · 28-09-2010 07:57AM

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 · 28-09-2010 07:58AM

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 · 28-09-2010 08:05AM

Burn their house down.

Agent Smith · 28-09-2010 08:05AM

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

Agent Smith · 28-09-2010 08:06AM

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 · 28-09-2010 08:12AM

Agent Smith wrote: »

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

Some day Smith.
Some day.

Blazer · 28-09-2010 08:14AM

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 · 28-09-2010 09:38AM

ring the gardai?

mikemac · 28-09-2010 09:46AM

Employ a skanger to hang around their car with a screwdriver

stovelid · 28-09-2010 09:48AM

this...

starbelgrade · 28-09-2010 09:49AM

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 · 28-09-2010 09:49AM

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

The Agogo · 28-09-2010 09:50AM

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

senordingdong · 28-09-2010 09:56AM

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 · 28-09-2010 10:02AM

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 · 28-09-2010 10:13AM

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 · 28-09-2010 10:30AM

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 · 28-09-2010 10:37AM

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 · 28-09-2010 10:39AM

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

cosmic · 28-09-2010 10:42AM

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 · 28-09-2010 10:52AM

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 · 28-09-2010 12:07PM

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 · 28-09-2010 12:16PM

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 · 28-09-2010 12:19PM

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 · 28-09-2010 12:23PM

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 · 28-09-2010 12:26PM

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 · 28-09-2010 12:29PM

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 · 28-09-2010 12:30PM

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

fonecrusher1 · 28-09-2010 12:48PM

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.:)

Advice re loud music from neighbours during the day

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