AIBU to hammer on the walls when neighbours are noisy?

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I have neighbours who think nothing of putting on a washing load at midnight, and generally behaving utterly selfishly with regards to noise.

I have asked politely if they could be mindful. Their response was to let me know when they are going to do noisy activities, as though that makes it ok.

AIBU to take to hammering on the walls each and every time they annoy me? I have been doing this for a few days now.

The first few times, they knocked on my door to say that they were disturbed by my hammering to which I replied that they had disturbed me with their noise so I decided to do my own diy to co-ordinate with their noise.

This afternoon, they were playing loud music and so I started hammering. They knocked on my door but I ignored them.

AIBU?

Oh god. I sympathise with the "fan" neighbour, because my neighbours also have one. It's like listening to one of those refrigerated lorries parked and idling on top of my ceiling all night. It's beyond annoying. I don't think you're being unreasonable, but that's maybe because both sets of neighbours make noise here, above me and below. So I know that sense of sick dread when you hear it start up...

You need to chill the F out. Get some earplugs etc.

I live in a detached house. No neighbour noise. I would suggest you do this, or accept some noise.

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MN bingo!

I pity the 14 yo you work with if that is the level of critical thinking you provide 😔

Go to bed OP.

She's not wrong, btw.

You are wrong.

And the hammering too, Mc hammer time,

Making noise early morning or late at night when you have shared walls is inconsiderate.

Maybe you need to break it down for them?🤨

Did the neighbours put the washing machine on at midnight last night OP?

We got Rockwall insulation installed. 5 inches on the four walls adjoining the neighbours. Extremely little noise, and the insulation reduced the heating bills.
It cost £2000 and a wee bit of disruption whilst being done. Well worth it.

I think she's already trying to break the walls down, so perhaps not encourage her ? 🙂

As a more general point, if you live in a terraced, semi house or in a flat, then you should have some consideration for your neighbours.

Why bother posting this?

My post was a bit too obscure...

"You can't touch this
(Woah, woah, woah, woah)
You can't touch this
(Woah, woah, woah, woah)
You can't touch this
Break it down"

U Can't Touch This/MC Hammer

I thought I was being clever. 😂🤷‍♀️
Failed. 🤦‍♀️

YANBU at all OP.

Much like bullies sometimes you have to meet like with like to get any resolution.

When I was renting a flat a downstairs neighbour incessantly played music loud with the bass turned up to the max. Stuff on my shelves was jumping FFS.

I spoke to him several times and he'd turn it down for a short while then back up another day.

I had enough so played classical music loud with the speakers pointing down so right through his ceiling. Ignored his knocking seconds later. Let it play for an hour.

No more heard from his place at all.

The funny thing is when he first moved in he came up, knocked and introduced himself, and asked me to tell him if he was too noisy..........I suspect he had issues wherever he went.

Wanker.

Keep going till they finally get the idea that if they want to be inconsiderate then so can you!

There are better ways to get revenge that appear more innocent.

My friend had a neighbour who did yoga in the garden with lots of music at dawn every day.

Another friend had a neighbour who blasted out the call to prayer twice a day (he was at least Muslim but it was bloody annoying).

I would put your TV against the shared wall and turn on a loud pumping Zumba workout video whenever they run their washing machine at an anti social time.

I'm glad you're not my neighbour. You need to coexist, not dictate how you feel they should live, in their home! This is the first step to being at war, and they'll probably escalate the noise now.