Please help me....

[ThinAir]

I'd advise against the revenge route...for the obvious reasons... As for deflating tyres, it would actually come under the offence of criminal damage (yes,I know you'd only be letting the air out, but if they an prove it has caused them inconvenience then that is enough, and they seem like the kind of folk who would involve the Police just to get one over one you).

The advice re the councils noise policy is sound (no pun intended), but they are likely to ask you call the Police to generate log numbers, and will also ask that you keep a diary - so write down what you can remember, with dates and times and then write down everything else that happens in the future. If you do involve the police, or council, the they may be able to solve the problem quite quickly, or get you intimidation, if this is something that you are prepared to do.

There's not really an excuse for it.... I produce house music, and also DJ, and live in a mid terrace in a quiet area.... Don't have any issues (apart from the one time when I was drunk many moons ago and didn't realise it 3.30am!)

This may help, but I do apologise for it being very wordy, even then, this is a watered down version;

http://archive.defra.gov.uk/environment/quality/noise/guidance/documents/noise-act-guidance.pdf

All of the offences contained within this are civil, unless a lawyer with experience in this can point me in another direction. Hope this helps, any further q's feel free to PM me.

 

[TheDoctor]

Do you know how to make thermite?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Do you know how to make thermite?

Or Napalm.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

@alicat: I feel for you. I've been renting for some years now, and my last 3 rentals were unpleasant, thanks to noisy neighbours. The first 2 of these 3 I actually terminated before the lease ended, even though it cost me financially, because I simply had to move away. Fortunately, I'm at a quiet location now, and have been here for 1.5 years. It took me months after moving in, before I could finally relax and had realised I wasn't going to be kept up by loud music or other noises. It can be very stressful and upsetting, but unfortunately some people just don't care about their neighbours.

 

[Arch]

Next thing the mother comes out, puts her face in mine and starts shouting that next time I had some complaining to do I should speak to her since she was the one who paid the bills and controlled her kids.

There's your answer.

Every single time. See how long before she manages to actually exert that famous control.

 

[fossyant]

#bloodycyclists

 

[AndyRM]

Respond in kind.

I have a curiously warped taste in music, so if you'd like to contact me for a truly brutal and horrifying selection of black metal feel free. If you can't tolerate that, I also have a broad range of classic gangsta rap.

At volume, either genre is enough to drive most people utterly mental.

 

[vernon]

Do you know how to make thermite?

I do!

 

[vernon]

Or Napalm.

I can make that too!

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

My upstairs neighbours have bare boards in the flat and I swear there's a troop of baby elephants living up there going by the bloody racket that they make all the time. It's in the terms of my lease that I'm not allowed to have bare floors and I presume that him upstairs is also bound by the same rules so I need to speak to the landlord about it. He generally doesn't cause a lot of bother but he owns two staffies that never go past the end of the path, doesn't work as far as I know and spends a lot of the time smoking skunk and throwing the fag ends into my garden. The smell of his dogs and weed filters through the hall cupboard into my flat and it's effing disgusting. I'm absolutely convinced that he's a drug dealer or some sort of ne'er do well but of couse I'm not able to prove anything.

 

[ThinAir]

@AnythingButVanilla ; Your landlord has an obligation under the housing act, as does your neighbours, to ensure that you are free to enjoy living in the property in which you reside.

Do you live alone? If you can say that this males anti social behaviour is having an effect on two or more people who don't live within the same household (as him) then your landlord needs to do something.

EDIT: At the very least, if his tenancy, like your stipulates that he is not to have bare floor boards, he is breaching his agreement, perhaps there is a clause in there about pets too?

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

I live with my partner and I'm not sure about the pet clause but I hope not because I have a cat. The dogs are fine and not barky apart from the odd growl but the noise of them constantly moving around is getting right on my nips and yesterday was particularly bad as a crying child was thrown into the mix for most of the afternoon. I own the basement flat and he rents the flat upstairs which is on two levels and we share the same landlord if that makes any difference?

When we moved in in February and I first spoke to him he apologised for the noise and said that he was having carpets laid within a few weeks but that was probably rubbish and just to make him sound like a good neighbour.

 

[ThinAir]

It shouldn't make any difference if you share the same landlord, I would in fact say that it helps; the last thing a landlord wants is an unhappy tenant who is going to make them have to do anymore work than they have to.... The whole point of being a landlord ( I assume) is to make money sitting on your ass.... Hence why a lot of them tend to use letting agents, even less work for them.

Might be worth, in the first instance, putting a quick call into the landlord, just under the pretence of a ' just wanted to give you the heads up' kind of thing. Have a look a document I linked the OP to earlier as well, it contains a lot of useful advice and little points of (civil) law and check your tenancy before you bring up the matter of the dogs (the last thing I would want is your cat to be kicked out, or you to penalised for having a him/her).

If your landlord deals with a letting agent, the this could be even better, as they will want it sorted sooner rather than later as they won't want the risk of losing a tenant if they can help it.

As always in these situations, I'd recommend keeping a diary if its annoying you that much. Just remember that some things would come under the umbrella of "going about daily business" I.e. the footsteps you can hear etc, but the smoking of the cannabis, the littering and smell, definitely not day-to-day living.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

How about spraying their house with cow dung like the French do with their town halls when they're a bit miffed over croissant tax, not being allowed calvados for breakfast or smelling of garlic, whatever it is they're getting upset over at the time.

 

[Globalti]

@alicat: I feel for you. I've been renting for some years now, and my last 3 rentals were unpleasant, thanks to noisy neighbours. The first 2 of these 3 I actually terminated before the lease ended, even though it cost me financially, because I simply had to move away. Fortunately, I'm at a quiet location now, and have been here for 1.5 years. It took me months after moving in, before I could finally relax and had realised I wasn't going to be kept up by loud music or other noises. It can be very stressful and upsetting, but unfortunately some people just don't care about their neighbours.

Snap. We actually sold our house when violent drug dealers moved in next door with dogs that barked and whined all night, drug deals going on, bonfires in the garden when they burned packaging, Police raids, all night boom-boom parties. We sold for much less than the house was worth and on the night the new buyer was supposed to move in, the druggies threw the motner of all welcome parties with a stereo set up at a window and some kind of trance music playing all night on repeat. Luckily for our buyer the deal had been postponed until the following Monday and we were still there. Our house was re-sold four times in the following six years. My wife and I were taking beta-blockers and even now, ten years later, we get tense if we hear music or neighbour noise.