Can hear stereo from neighbor in single family home

[ann]

I live in a community with only single family homes. All of my windows
are closed, yet I can still hear my next door neighbor's stereo. It's
more the bass than the volume. When I go outside, I can hear their
windows shaking. It must be obscenely loud. I thought only apartment
dwellers or townhouse owners had to worry about this.

[kster...@yahoo.com]

Welcome to the world of neighbors.

[Dottie]

I only have problem with neighbor noise in early spring when the
windows are open. What I can hear very often is the bass playing on
the radio in cars passing down the street. When I am in the back of my
house I can hear cars on the street behind me, lots of speed bumps so
the cars go slow. The radio is real loud but can only hear the bass.

[WDS]

There's never a good solution to this but the best for you is to start
with your local municipality. Call and ask about noise ordinances. If
there are some then call the police (non-911 number) and complain.

[kster...@yahoo.com]

And don't forget the basic first step of asking them to please turn the
music down.

[ann]

kster...@yahoo.com wrote:
>WDS wrote:
>
>>
>>There's never a good solution to this but the best for you is to start
>>with your local municipality. Call and ask about noise ordinances. If
>>there are some then call the police (non-911 number) and complain.

I will keep that in mind.

>And don't forget the basic first step of asking them to please turn the
>music down.

It's the teenage kid who blasts the stereo. He and his friends also like
to shoot BB guns in the backyard. I don't want to piss him off.

[Donna]

"ann" <a...@y.hmm> wrote in message
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> kster...@yahoo.com wrote:

>>And don't forget the basic first step of asking them to please turn the
>>music down.
>
> It's the teenage kid who blasts the stereo. He and his friends also like
> to shoot BB guns in the backyard. I don't want to piss him off.

Can you speak with the parents about this?

And I would be very surprised if there isn't an ordinance prohibiting the BB
guns, unless you live in a VERY rural area. Check with the town.

Donna

[Banty]

In article <xn0etp0gp...@newsgroups.comcast.net>, ann says...

Nonetheless - talk to your neighbors. If you need to report this to your
municipality, their first question to you will regard whether or not you've
taken this simple step. If they do anything with the BB guns (and shooting them
in the backyard in inself may be a violation), report *that*.

Banty

[Jeanne]

We had a similar problem when we lived in our townhouse. The teenage
son would turn up the volume, shake the house. My daughter and I would
walk over and very politely ask that he turn it down. Surprisingly, the
boy was very polite and always apologized and turned the volume down.
Unfortunately, we had to do it every single day he lived there.

Amazingly enough, I talked to the (usually absent) mother a couple of
times and she, in her own polite and charming way, dismissed the volume
thing as "what teens will do - isn't it annoying?" GRRR... I was much
angrier at the mother than the son.

In our jurisdiction, if the police can hear the noise OUTSIDE the house
before they knock on the door, it's automatically a noise nuisance. But
otherwise there really isn't anything they can do.

Just wait for the beer blasts on weekends.

[Mortimer Schnerd, RN]

Jeanne wrote:
> We had a similar problem when we lived in our townhouse. The teenage
> son would turn up the volume, shake the house. My daughter and I would
> walk over and very politely ask that he turn it down. Surprisingly, the
> boy was very polite and always apologized and turned the volume down.
> Unfortunately, we had to do it every single day he lived there.
>
> Amazingly enough, I talked to the (usually absent) mother a couple of
> times and she, in her own polite and charming way, dismissed the volume
> thing as "what teens will do - isn't it annoying?" GRRR... I was much
> angrier at the mother than the son.
>
> In our jurisdiction, if the police can hear the noise OUTSIDE the house
> before they knock on the door, it's automatically a noise nuisance. But
> otherwise there really isn't anything they can do.

So call the cops. If you can hear it, so can your other neighbors. Just make
sure you're not the only one home when you call the cops. The cops aren't going
to say who complained or even if *anyone* complained. They could have just been
patrolling and heard the noise.

Believe me, after Mom gets through paying several tickets for noise violations,
she and young Studley will come to a new arrangement.... like maybe *he* can pay
the tickets. Once it's coming out of his pockets, I doubt you'll be hearing
from him any more.

BTW: my own parents avoided this problem totally by not allowing me to buy
speakers with my first stereo. I got headphones instead. At least I'm the only
one partially deafened in my family.

HUH?

--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

[justa...@gmail.com]

I had a similar problem years ago with a neighbor. I had a friend in
the Hi-Fi business who offered a solution that worked very well.

He recorded the "heartbeat" beginning form Pink Floyd's Dark Side of
the Moon and looped it on a CD. He brought home a Hartley 24" subwoofer
and a Phase Linear 700 amp. We waited till about 1AM and started the
CD. You couldn't really hear the music as the Hartley 24" woofer didn't
go up very high BUT it did a really nice job down around 25Hz. We let
it play all night.

Never heard loud music from the neighbor again, but the next day out in
the yard I got a respectfull "nod" from him.