Noisy neighbours

Bailo · September 29, 2009

Might seem a little trifling, but wondered if anyone had any advice - we bought a place about 6 months ago now, semi-detached next to a rental property, 5 beds probably students living there. The students living there at the time were fine, apart from the fire doors in their property being on very high tension springs, meaning they creaked and the doors slammed a lot. We asked them to be a bit more careful shutting them and generally they were fine.

Just had a new lot move in in the last 2 weeks. Students from hell unfortunately. Out every night of Fresher's week, nosiy before going out with music, shouting and constantly slamming doors, then we get a period of quiet from 10ish when they go out, until 2-3am when they come back and spend an hour screaming, running around the house, slamming doors and playing music loudly. I went round on Friday and spoke to one of them, explained we realise they're going to be on a slightly different schedule to us but could they please be more considerate, particularly when coming back in the early morning. Guy I spoke to said he'd pass the message on. Reasonably quiet over the weekend, until last night, when they made a racket (with invited friends we think) up until about 10.15, then quiet, than an hour of unbelieveable noise from 2.30 onwards. I ended up going round and telling them in no uncertain terms to shut up, which a different guy apologised for and said he'd sort it out.

What can we do more than that? We have the landlords number, but it's not in his interest to sort them out is it? Can we make him change the fire doors to ones that don't slam shut? We've considering writing them a letter but if they're not responding to us going round, what good is a letter other than maybe all of them read it? It's getting to be really stressful, particularly for the missus as she has Law exams in November and is trying to revise every night.

theredfella · September 29, 2009

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