Our neighbour - who's out all day and sleeps at night with every window closed - and is a real ar**hole - - put up windchimes 2 years ago
The noise drove us out of the garden in summer
We asked him nicely - to take them down - he refused
We asked again - he refused and swore at us - (we have a right of way for our car over his front garden and he keeps blocking us in and is sooo vile and nasty at moving it when we ask)
His wife then said she was surpirsed we hadn't got used to the sound - they all had and never heard them!
Its driving us mad
The environmental health came round and said the noise was below their threshold for taking action
But it keeps us awake at night and stops us using the garden
Any suggestions? Can't afford to move
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Would rather train a Big Cat to hunt him
He doesn't pay tax...'employ's' 2 people on the dole to help him...only accepts cash for his work ... has recently 'bought' a conservatory / a Land Rover 4x4 car thingy .... a caravan...and is now extending his house...and threatens anyone who stands up to him..... grrrr
Don't worry if he gets annoyed when you ask him to move him car, just keep your cool and treat it as an ordinary day action. Perhaps the more he gets annoyed, then the more you should do it! Popping out for a few minutes every time you see his car blocking yours.
He refused to move his car once - jumped in his other one and drove off!
It's a horrible situation - he's in with all the 'underworld' in the area - understandable as he pays them all cash in hand for everything - an absolute nutter
If you have a right of way over his land and he is not allowing it then contact Citizen's Advice. Even going out without ensuring you right of way, I think would be a breach of this right of way.
Have you tried creeping in the garden when he isn't there and dislodging them from their resting place? If he asks about why they fell off, feign ignorance.
Or get someone to steal them.
My neighbours kept using my dustbin without asking me, even though I painted a large number 2 on it (my house number). Eventually, they seemed to get the message because I put all their rubbish back in their bin and hid my bin! Bloody neighbours!
Where do you live anyway?
Whatever possesses people to have wind chimes anyway. They'd drive me mad.
SS - I really doubt you are gonna get anywhere with this guy. He sounds nasty.
I think you'll just have to try to ignore the noise and TRY and let it not get to you.
Or move
Thought of the Inland Revenue - but worried about retaliation - he's driven his landrover straight at me when I've been out jogging - swerving at the last minute laughing all over his face - and we've got MiniSS - whom he just stares at... weirdly - I hate living here because of him - but whose to say we wouldn't be next to someone worse?
Going to get a Big Dog soon - maybe if it barks and he complains we'll tell him the dog doesn't like the wind chimes!
There's only two 'family' houses on our estate - ours and his... everything else is old people's bungalows and they are all deaf so don't 'hear' the problem.
or better still get a bigger better set, preferably in a different key saw one at the garden centre today that was just a giant gong with bangy bit.
i'd definitely do the inland revenue thing though
If his car is blocking your's in overnight, get up at 5 and politely ask him to move it.
Slightly less 'polite', note when he is out and his wife is in. Every time this happens, get a different female friend to ring up and hope that the wife answers. Get your friend to ask to speak to the husband.
A nephew of mine made a minor coplaint to a neighbour. The next thing he Knew his car had been paint strippered. He's a lad with a bit of a short fuse but for once gave it some thought. He didn't have the car resprayed or claim on his insurance, he said nothing about the incident to anyone. He put the house on the market straight away, no board and moved away.
I think he has been back since though.
The phone calls would be really funny though.:o)
Why is it that honest people get nowhere and others do really well for themselves...
Then ring the IR. Hopefully he won't suspect you.
Get some earplugs meanwhile!
He'll trip himself up eventually, and when he does, you can innocently watch as they come to take him away. That new-millionaire from somewhere south of me was causing stress to neighbours with loud parties and racing cars around his garden. He recently got done for possession of drugs. See? What goes around, comes around!
Believe in fate, my son!
I'm not being unsympathetic - far from it. But I've had similar problems in the past and I couldn't stand it again. Ultimately, either your mental health or your finances are going to have to suffer I'm afraid. I'd get out, and offset the financial cost against the peace of mind I'd regained.
In the end I got so fed up with them I stopped trying to keep the kids quite and brought them a swing ball to play with in the garden. When the sisters moaned about the noise of the bat and ball pinging around I told them to keep out of it, the ball was not in their garden, and Kids will be kids and I was not going to keep them quiet. We moved shortly afterwards due to husbands job. The estate agent sold our house quickly and did not put the board out so they did not know until the day we moved out what was happening!